The ongoing file format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn lthis week, when a key ODF proponent announced that it intended to abandon the ISO-approved specification.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/02/2007
Google's attempt to grab moral high ground in the social networking development is a step in the right direction, according to industry analysts.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 11/02/2007
IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company.
- By The Associated Press
- 11/01/2007
Microsoft filed federal lawsuits against 20 companies allegedly distributing "counterfeit or infringing" software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 11/01/2007
Strategies for recruiting good programmers.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 11/01/2007
Flaws in VMware's products have been patched. Also, Apple WiFi hack gets published; inside reputation-based attacks.
Google Inc. is setting up a distribution network for social networking applications, adding a new twist in the Internet search leader's brewing rivalry with rapidly maturing startup Facebook Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2007
A federal judge extends timeframe for considering several states' arguments for five additional years of oversight of Microsoft's competitive practices.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2007
The United States is starting to look like a slowpoke on the Internet. Examples abound of countries that have faster and cheaper broadband connections, and more of their population connected to them.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/31/2007
Get info on our servers with SrvInfo; plus, those darn Vista shortcut arrows.
- By Zubair Alexander
- 10/30/2007
A bill to extend a moratorium on Internet access taxes for seven years was approved 402-0 by the House Tuesday, less than two days before it was set to expire.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2007
McAfee Inc., a leading maker of computer antivirus software, said Tuesday it is buying ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million, adding to its Internet security offerings a service intended to help consumers feel safer shopping online.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/30/2007
Tech industry lawyer Mark Bohannon frequently taps a group of searchable databases called Whois to figure out who may be behind a Web site that distributes pirated software or tricks visitors into revealing passwords.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
Microsoft Corp., seeking to expand in the medical sector, has agreed to acquire the assets of a privately held, Thailand-based health information system company, the software company said Monday.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
More free tools that Greggo loves, from our generous and sharing readers.
- By Greg Shields
- 10/29/2007
Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system is hitting store shelves as consumers are increasingly snapping up Macintosh computers to complement their iPods and iPhones.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard drives, said Monday it is shuttering one of two manufacturing facilities in Northern Ireland, resulting in a cut of 780 employees, about 1.5 percent of the company's global work force.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/29/2007
The software giant attributes strong first quarter to sales of Halo 3, Windows and Office.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/26/2007
BEA Systems said Thursday it is prepared to discuss a sale of the company to Oracle Corp. and other potential suitors at a price of $21 per share.
- By The Associated Press
- 10/25/2007
The management of services by IT departments is the subject of an August 2007 report by the Aberdeen Group. The report focuses on companies that use IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)-based approaches, which is a set of best practices for IT. The report specifically hones in on an ITIL discipline called IT Service Management (ITSM).