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Yearly Archives: 2010

File Formats: Revisions to PDF Archival Format: PDF/A-2

By Dick Weisinger

If you are worried about how best to preserve electronic files, documents and records for long periods of time, PDF/A is a standard that you should know about. PDF/A, or PDF was designed for long-term archival and electronic data.  As

Cloud Computing: Novell Says the Analysts are Wrong

By Dick Weisinger

OK.  We’ve seen it in report after report.  Cloud computing adoption is taking the world of IT by storm.  But a new report by Novell says previous research about cloud computing has been off the mark.  The report comes to

Social Media: Google Ranks as Most Social Company

By Dick Weisinger

Oxford Communications has has a great infographic report on social networks and their use across US industries.  The company created an index that they’re calling NPSI, the NetProspex Social Index, and using that, have sliced and diced the social usage

PLM: Experiencing Strong Growth Despite Challenges

By Dick Weisinger

PLM has been one area that has been able to bounce back from the effects of the recession.  There was a strong rebound in PLM sales during the first two quarters of 2010, as reported by the ARC Advisory Group.

File Format: A Replacement for JPEG?

By Dick Weisinger

Roughly two-thirds of all bandwidth on the Internet today are photos and images, and JPEG lossy-compressed images make up the bulk of that.  Google now has a open-source candidate replacement for JPEG, and they are calling it WebP (pronounced weppy).