Previous DayOOXML officially an ISO standard!
Blog Well - it's as official as we're going to get it before ISO makes its public announcement tomorrow. According to a Microsoft press release, the standard won support from 75 percent of the P...
Memory Stick Lockdown Is Imminent
Blog Computers are liberating, but they can also extremely dangerous for a company in the wrong hands. And quite often the wrong hands belong to one of its employees. Give an employee an inch and they...
IDF Day Zero: Computers that feel - and squeeze the cheese
Blog Andrew Chein, director at Intel Research, has taken the stage at the International Press Day of the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and he's in full-on future mode. Computers, he says, are...
IDF Day Zero: Of Intel China, Carrying Small and Living Large
Blog It's Day Zero at the Intel Developer Forum: the increasingly first-day-like International Press Day. We're at the Shanghai International Conventional Centre, a huge maze-like building where the...
Didn't we have a lovely time, the day we went to Suzho
Blog The pre-IDF Shanghaifest continued on Monday, as we took part in the traditional Day Of Local Culture. “Be downstairs in the hotel lobby at 8am sharp for an 8:15 departure!” warned the PR, as he...
CodeGear cultivates developer intelligence
News The company has introduced a new approach to code generation into its IDE for Java based on Eclipse
Websites claim to host leaked OOXML results
News Ahead of Wednesday's official announcement, documents posted online appear to suggest Microsoft's document format is set to become an official standard, despite claims of voting irregularities
Is there open source on Mars?
Blog Anyone who's been to BA Terminal 5 will have shown enough fortitude and courage to earn a priority place on the open source Mars colony, announced today by Virgin and Google. The Virgle project...
Exposure good. Sneakiness bad
Talkback I am all for exposing users to more than just the browser that comes with their system but being sneaky about it whether there is an opt-out option or not is not the way. Firefox's efforts have...
Vendors tackle high telepresence costs
Analysis The top-five telepresence vendors are trying to encourage more companies to adopt the high-end videoconferencing technology, which so far has proved tricky to sell
Mobile-phone industry: Tumour study 'very selective'
News The GSM Association has hit back at a neurosurgeon's claims of a link between mobile usage and brain cancer, suggesting non-supportive studies were ignored
Borland updates tools for global development
News The company has updated its software change and configuration management toolset for greater use within globally distributed programming environments
Samsung SGH-i640V
Review With 3G but no Wi-Fi, the SGH-i640V will not have universal appeal. The defining features of this Windows Mobile smartphone (its rotating navigation wheel, touch buttons, large size and...
RE:Meanwhile, PDF is already an ISO document standard...
Blog Comment Peter, while I agree with you in principle about Acrobat Reader, and it is a long, long way from the top of my favorites list, perhaps I can give you a tip that will lessen the pain. I learned a...
RE:Meanwhile, PDF is already an ISO document standard...
Blog Comment The reason why Foxit and hundreds of other PDF software developers out there have been able to build such products is because the PDF specification has been public since the very early versions of...
UK Computer Museum faces closure
News The British Computer Museum is looking for a new home after learning it will shortly lose its premises at the University of Bath in Swindon
Meanwhile, PDF is already an ISO document standard...
Blog One surprise spin-off from covering the OOXML/ODF row - I've finally got an alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Last year, Adobe put PDF up to become an ISO standard, something I've been aware of in...
ICANN to shut down internet for one hour
News The internet administrator has announced the internet is to be temporarily switched off for 'Web-Off Hour' at noon, BST
Shell agrees $4bn IT outsourcing deal
News As part of the deal with AT&T, EDS and T-Systems to outsource the bulk of its technology infrastructure, the oil multinational willl transfer almost 3,000 IT staff
Nehalem sighted at IDF
Blog Hot off the press from our Shanghai correspondent at IDF — a picture of Nehalem, Intel's next-generation processor: Pressed into Rupert Goodwins' eager hands literally minutes ago, this chip...
KPMG inks five-year outsourcing deal with BT
News The £62m deal will see BT provide an IP-based telephone system and other improvements aimed at delivering operating-cost savings to KPMG businesses
Perfect fault free software: finally launched
Blog In a shock press release this morning I learn that Perfect Programming Inc. has launched version 1.0 of its “Superb Software Suite” (SSS). Finally, we can get our hands on a fault free piece of...
Neurosurgeon: Mobile phones 'worse than smoking'
News Growing evidence exists of a link between excessive long-term use of mobiles and certain types of brain tumours, claims neurosurgeon
Banks tighten their IT-spending belts
News The economic slowdown is leading banking and insurance organisations to redraft their investment plans, with IT spending expected to fall
Well, ok...
Talkback But OSI kind of withered on the vine because a bunch of people sort of gave up on it (if I remember correctly). Here I see it as a thing that: a) Should never have been put on the fast-track route...
