Content-conscious organizations have a new tool at their disposal to speed often-daunting content conversion, as electronic publishing solutions provider Quadralay Corporation has unveiled WebWorks OnTime, an online ePublishing service that converts companies’ Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker source file documents of any size to another format or multiple formats. WebWorks OnTime enables users to convert their Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker content into different formats without additional in-house hardware or software. WebWorks OnTime converts Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker and XML content into other electronic formats, including Dynamic HTML, Simple HTML and XML with XSL.

What does it take to put yourself on a successful IT career path? Matthew Moran, author of the new book "The IT Career Builder’s Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Building Your Information Technology Career in Any Economy," offers some advice. Moran has served as a CIO, project manager and technology consultant. His background is in programming, network integration and automation and project development and management.

Once a minor annoyance, noise from PCs has become a growing concern as ever-more powerful computers require stronger and often noisier cooling systems–especially with PCs moving out of the office into living rooms and bedrooms. The quest for quiet computing has inspired a cottage industry of specialist manufacturers, growing attention from major PC companies and a small underground of acoustic cultists who’ll go to any extreme to eliminate another decibel of PC din.

A senior Microsoft executive, speaking exclusively to vnunet.com, has dismissed Linux’s reputation as a secure platform as a "myth", claiming that the open source development process creates fundamental security problems. Nick McGrath, head of platform strategy for Microsoft in the UK, said that the myths surrounding the open source operating system are rapidly being exploded, and that customers are dismissing Linux as too immature to cope with mission-critical computing.

A Russian security company claims it found a way to beat a security measure in Microsoft’s Windows XP Service Pack 2, a major update aimed at securing customers’ PCs. The SP2 measure, known as Data Execution Protection, is intended to prevent would-be attackers from inserting rogue code into a PC’s memory and tricking Windows into running the program. However, in a paper published Friday, Moscow-based Positive Technologies said two minor mistakes in the implementation of the technology allow a knowledgeable programmer to sidestep the protection.