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- Microsoft's OOXML viewers, translators, SDK to help interop with Firefox, OpenOffice?
- I must admit I'm more than a bit skeptical when any company, Microsoft in particular, goes out of its way to make rivals' software work better with its own, especially if it's a cash cow product. But here we are, nine months after Microsoft announced its document...
- Tags: Interoperability, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Office, SDK, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OpenXML Document Viewer, OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenOffice, Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
- Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed through a simple Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced. Microsoft on Wednesday announced several incremental enhancements to the compatibility of its Office Open XML document...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, OpenDocument Format, OOXML, standards, ISO, OpenDocument, Standard, OpenOffice, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk
- News items 2008-12-03
- Zoho's CloudSQL: a real step forward
- Zoho just can't stop churning out software. Today it is launching the Zoho CloudSQL. Put simply, this is the first step to providing a cloud based integration framework that allows developers to pass data between Zoho applications and their own. This is exciting stuff. For the...
- Tags: SQL, Cloud, Zoho, Smb/Sme, Databases, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Who gains from Microsoft's free Morro antivirus?
- Microsoft is dropping its subscription-based antivirus software in favor of a free package, code-named 'Morro'. ScanSafe Internet-security expert Mary Landesman investigates Microsoft's motives. Commentary--Microsoft is to replace its paid-for antivirus product with a free one, citing an altruistic desire to spread protection around the world. But many are less...
- Tags: Software, Brazil, China, India, Microsoft Corp., Infection Rate, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Morro, Microsoft, Mary Landesman, antivirus, free, OneCare, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK, Mary Landesman, ScanSafe, Special from ZDNet UK
- News items 2008-12-01
- Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management
- I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...
- Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Cassatt helps organizations implement in-house clouds
- A crew of folks from Cassatt presented Active Profiling Service, a new service offering, and Active Response 5.2, a product update for the company's orchestration and automation product. I was very interested in learning more because Cassatt has long been helping organizations discover and then make best use of their...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Data Center, Cassatt Active Profiling Service, Cassatt Active Response, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- The ultimate student handheld: something for Christmas?
- I've taken many months looking for the ultimate student device; something fairly cheap and not too expensive especially in this current credit climate, something that'll last for a while, something which which can be multi-purpose; none of this "buy a camera, a phone and a sat-nav" when you can have...
- Tags: Phone, Handheld, Video Call, Video, Camera, E61, E71, Multimedia Having Fun, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Google Chrome to be pre-installed on PCs in 2009?
- Google is reportedly thinking about cutting deals with PC makers to have its Chrome browser pre-installed on new computers, a move that could position the Internet giant to not only boost its presence in search but also put some of its branded apps - Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader and...
- Tags: Google Inc., PC, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Web Browsers, Internet, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Getting started with ADO.NET's Entity Framework
- The ADO.NET Entity Framework is a new way to build the data access layer of your Windows or web applications. It's an Object Relational Mapping ORM technology that makes it easy to tie together the data in your database with the objects in your applications, by abstracting the object model...
- Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Model, Packt Publishing, ADO.NET Entity Framework, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Download resources 2008-11-21
- Photos: Nokia, Navteq team up as traffic monitors
- Nokia and GPS mapping subsidiary Navteq are developing an application that uses GPS cell phones to collect data about real-time traffic patterns. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Team, Monitor, Nokia Corp., Photograph, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-19
- Enterprise mashups need complexity to create value
- Those who drink the Web 2.0 Kool-aid live in a idealistic world where we can mentally connect a great idea to a great implementation of that idea. We live on faith that the great implementation will come, since there are plenty of smart people out there who will eventually figure...
- Tags: LinkedIn, Mashup, Collaboration, Gil Yehuda
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Business "Much More Predictable" In Past Two Months, NetSuite Says
- Sales of its online business software froze in the last two days of September, NetSuite chief financial officer Jim McGeever told the UBS Global Technology and Services Conference Wednesday. But, in the last two months, the flow of deals for its "software as a service" suite has become "much more...
- Tags: NetSuite Inc., Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Management, Software, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Giddyap - Oracle Mid-market apps team with Wells Fargo
- A Treasury Solution to Save Money not cost more of it I got a briefing from Oracle's Tony Kender and Wells Fargo's Brad Stewart concerning their new joint plug-in adapter product for Oracle's E-Business Suite. Basically, this adapter allows users of Oracle's mid-market applications to directly...
- Tags: Team, Oracle Corp., Wells Fargo & Co., Adapter, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro' Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Mary Jo Foley, RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Office 2.0, Software As A Service (SaaS), Handhelds, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie 'Morro'
- Microsoft today announced plans to kill its Windows Live OneCare PC care and security suite and replace it with a free anti-malware utility. The new product, code-named "Morro," will be designed for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios...
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows Live, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Office 14 Web Applications
- A quick close-up look at the Office Web Applications which are set to be released along with Office 14, extending the office suite into an advanced version of Office Live Workspaces. by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Web Application, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker, Office 14, Microsoft, Office, Productivity, Cloud computing, Office Live
- Image galleries 2008-11-18
- Office 2.0: a digital revolution for students worldwide
- With hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people using Google Apps and Zoho, two of the main cloud office suites on the web, Microsoft once again sees an opportunity to slam it's iron fist onto the web in hope of crushing the same competitors as before. ...
- Tags: Office 2.0, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Central Desktop launches Enterprise SaaS suite
- When it comes to online collaboration, Central Desktop has been serving small and medium-sized businesses for some time with the tools they need to manage versions of files, emails related to a project and calendaring tools designed to keep team members in sync. Now, as rocky economic...
- Tags: Desktop, Software-as-a-service, Client-server, Tool, Productivity, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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