PreviousPlundering the Public Sector review
Review If you want to know how the public sector works, or why and how large projects fail, this book is for you, although the sections on the evils of management consultancy essentially rehash last year's Rip-Off!.
7.5 Editors' Rating
The Man Behind the Microchip review
Review This is a highly detailed, densely packed portrait not only of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, but also of the science and technology he helped create. A great read.
8.0 Editors' Rating
Zoho Writer beta review
Review If you have stable Internet access, Zoho Writer beta offers intuitive controls and can replace Microsoft Word for basic editing and formatting -- so long as you can tolerate its beta glitches.
6.6 Editors' Rating
FileMaker 8.5: a first look
Preview FileMaker 8.5 lets you drop Web pages into database layouts, so you can map contacts' addresses, track FedEx packages, display encyclopaedia entries, or whatever else you imagine without leaving the application.
Women and Information Technology review
Review This book draws together research on why women are underrepresented in IT. The findings reveal few surprises beyond the fact that little has changed since the first similar exercise in 1998.
7.5 Editors' Rating
Spychips review
Review Are RFID chips just 'improved barcodes', or potentially sinister instruments of interference in our daily lives? This campaigning book takes the latter view, and urges us to take action.
8.0 Editors' Rating
Google Desktop 4 beta review
Review Google Desktop 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor, and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.
7.0 Editors' Rating
Writely beta review
Review Can Writely replace Microsoft Word? Yes, if you have stable Internet access and don't need a lot of editing and formatting features.
7.7 Editors' Rating
Opera 9 review
Review We really like Opera 9 -- but we like it more as the cool, arty browser that it is and not as our everyday Internet workhorse.
7.4 Editors' Rating
Google Spreadsheets: a first look
Preview Following its purchase of Writely, Google has made another move into Web-based office productivity tools. Here are our first impressions.
MindManager X5 Pro review
Review MindManager X5 Pro combines brainstorming, project management and presentation functionality into an extremely useful business tool that's especially well suited to the Tablet PC platform.
7.3 Editors' Rating
Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2
Preview The latest beta version of Microsoft Office 2007 reveals the ongoing renovations in the pipeline for Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Inside PowerPoint 2007 beta 2
Photos This slide show application is bringing more tools to the surface for polishing presentations with templates, information graphics and animation.
Inside Excel 2007 beta 2
Photos The beta 2 preview of Microsoft Excel 2007 reveals the program's new approach to visualising, analysing and protecting your spreadsheet data.
Inside Outlook 2007 beta 2
Photos Microsoft Outlook 2007 beta 2 puts more email and search functions at your fingertips, while integrating tasks and calendars, and adding colour labels.
