State-of-the-art technology meets impressive design. The Cintiq 24HD is the flagship product of the Cintiq range and has been designed for professional use. This interactive pen display from Wacom sets a new standard for everybody working in 3D design, animation, game development, industrial design and visual effects that is no longer willing to compromise when it comes to image quality, ergonomics and comfort.

Combining ultimate performance with a revolutionary new industrial design, the HP Z800 Workstation delivers the extreme speed and massive expandability that you demand to tackle your biggest challenges.

Designed for speed, inside and out, the new HP Z800 revolutionizes workstation industrial design. Featuring brushed aluminum side panels, integrated handles, visually cable-less engineering that maximizes airflow, modular component removal and reconnect and optional liquid cooling, among many other signature HP Workstation innovations, this is a system you’ll want everyone to see; minimize power and cooling costs with ENERGY STAR® qualified systems featuring 85% or 88% efficient power supplies and an HP-developed energy-saving feature that helps lower energy consumption in off mode.

Get massive, whole-system computational power from a workstation that optimizes the way the processor, memory, graphics, OS and software technology work together; process more tasks—in less time—with the massive computational horsepower of the new quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors 1 and Intel® QuickPath Technology architecture; customize your HP Z800 with faster and larger memory capacity and large-scale storage; choose from a breadth of operating system choices and new professional graphics options from ATI and NVIDIA.

Visit the HP website for more information.

Coming soon, the new HP TouchPad is designed to work like you. Letting you connect, play, surf, and share more easily1. No barriers. No complications. Just a seamless flow from one thing to the next.

Next-level multitasking: Get a simple, natural way to move from one thing to the next. Have related activities automatically grouped together into card stacks.

Just type: Simply start typing to search the web, update your status, or begin just about anything1. Think about what you want to do, not how you have to do it.

100% web: Browse the full web at blazing speed with support for the latest web technologies, including Adobe Flash1,4.

Face-to-face: You can receive text messages, answer phone calls8 and have video conferencing on the large screen2,3,5. Plus, with touch-to-share capabilities8 move a website onto your HP Pre³ by simply touching the devices together.

Wireless printing: You can print quickly and wirelessly to all compatible networked HP printers7, work with Microsoft® Office files and collaborate with your colleagues using Google Docs or Box.net1.

Amazing sound: Download movies and TV shows, play games, view photos, read magazines and listen to music the way the artist intended, with Beats Audio™ – amazing sound quality, only from HP6.

QuarkXPress 9 is built to help designers create content that can be published to digital devices — e-readers, smartphones, and tablets — with one tool, and without coding. Whether a designer needs to publish directly from QuarkXPress to the iPad, create content for an e-book, or reach an expansive audience through the Blio eReader, QuarkXPress 9 can help.

New Features: Export to ePUB, Design for the Blio eReader, Publishing to the iPad, Conditional Styles, Callouts, Story Editor, Cloner, Linkster, ShapeMaker, ImageGrid

Microsoft releases Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1.

This update fixes critical issues and also helps to improve security. It includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.

• Security is improved: this update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2011 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
• Stability is improved: this update fixes an issue that causes Office 2011 applications to close unexpectedly when you open or use Office 2011 applications.
• Alt Text authoring is included: this update enables the authoring of Alt Text for objects, such as shapes, pictures, tables, charts, SmartArt, and movies in Office 2011 applications.

Applies to: Office 2011, Office 2011 Home and Business Edition, Word 2011, Excel 2011, PowerPoint 2011, Outlook 2011, Communicator 2011, Office for Mac Standard 2011 Edition, Microsoft Office for Mac Home & Student 2011, and Microsoft Office for Mac Academic 2011

Visit the Microsoft website for more information.

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses of all sizes.

Office 365 provides anywhere access to email, documents, contacts, and calendars so you’re always up-to-date. From scheduling to interactive online meetings to sharing files,you’re uniting cloud-based services with the productivity tools people use every day.

Includes:

• Office Professional Plus
• Exchange Online
• SharePoint Online
• Lync Online

Visit the Microsoft website for more information.

Office for Mac 2011 coming October 26th.

What’s new:

• Excel: Smarter, sharper ways to visualize and present your data.
• Photo Editing: Give your projects more visual impact.
• Compatibility: You look more professional when you’re compatible.

Office for Mac 2011 delivers reliable compatibility between Mac- and Windows-based computers, ensuring that your work looks the way you intended . Shared tools and file formats between Office for Mac and Windows-based Office mean that your polished reports, presentations, and spreadsheets look and behave just as you designed them.

Qualifying customers can upgrade to Office 2011 with the purchase of Office 2008 between Aug. 1, 2010, and Nov. 30, 2010.

For  more information and pre order call Trams on 0845 330 1600.

Adobe Reader Protected Mode is a sandboxing technology based on Microsoft’s Practical Windows Sandboxing technique. It is similar to the Google Chrome sandbox and Microsoft Office 2010 Protected Viewing Mode.

The initial release of Adobe Reader Protected Mode will be the first phase in the implementation of the sandboxing technology. This first release will sandbox all “write” calls on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003. This will mitigate the risk of exploits seeking to install malware on the user’s computer or otherwise change the computer’s file system or registry. In future releases of Adobe Reader, we plan to extend the sandbox to include read-only activities to protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information on the user’s computer.

Visit the Adobe website for more information.

Microsoft Announces Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Packs Coming Later This Year

According to an article published in the Daily Tech, Microsoft announced that it was preparing to deliver Service Pack 1 for its new operating system, Windows 7, and its business-minded server operating system, Windows Server 2008 R2.

Among the highest profile updates expected for Windows 7 SP1 is the inclusion of USB 3.0 support.

For Windows Server 2008 R2, the big news is the inclusion of two important virtualization technologies: Dynamic Memory and Remote FX.  Dynamic Memory enhances Microsoft’s Hyper-V, allowing it to monitor the memory usage of all the virtual machines running on the host.  The Hyper-V pools all the physically available memory and then divvies it up as necessary.  This help to prevent memory shortages on busy virtual machines.

Visit the Daily Tech website for more information.

As of March 15, 2010 the XENA product line will be merged with the award winning KONA line, to supply both PC and Mac users with a single set of cross-platform solutions. XENA and KONA have long used the same industry-leading hardware with tailored software unique to each platform.

To add value they will packaging each KONA card with both Mac and PC software, so they can be used on either platform—or both. The hardware and software are the same–only the name and package have been changed to give you twice the software and ease-of-use on all platforms.

Visit the AJA website for more information.