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.Org domain to get new guardian
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is poring over 11 applications to decide who will take over the .org registry from VeriSign. VeriSign's Network Solutions division has had custody of .org since the US government...
[July 17, 2002, 15:05]
.Org front runner named
News The Internet's governing body has recommended that the Virginia-based Internet Society (ISOC) take over the .org domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) issued a report Monday recommending the nonprofit ISOC over 10...
[August 21, 2002, 9:51]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 - Stop Paying Microsoft for Bug Fixes!
Blog OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released on Monday, and the demand was so massive that it crashed their servers. The crash is not good news, of course, but the tremendous demand for the new release certainly is.
[October 15, 2008, 13:37]
OpenOffice.org
Downloads OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. Localizations of OpenOffice.org are available in 27 languages, with more being...
[August 31, 2009, 12:05]
OpenOffice.org 1.1 review
Reviews OpenOffice.org is today's newcomer in an established market. Sharing a code base with Sun's older StarOffice, OpenOffice.org -- known as OOo -- has been in development for three years, and the latest version of this office suite, 1.1, is now...
[October 20, 2003, 9:45]
VeriSign to lose control of .org
News VeriSign, the company that controls the database for the three big top level domain names, will lose control of the .org domain at the end of this year. In 1995, Network Solutions began charging $50 per domain name and today VeriSign receives a...
[March 1, 2001, 13:55]
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
Talkback Note: OpenOffice.org is NOT Java based. Without the Base application and Wizards OpenOffice.org can be run just fine. There is more to OpenOffice.org than most people realize. It's called OpenOffice .ORG because of licensing reasons.
[May 5, 2006, 21:23]
Portable version of OpenOffice.org unveiled
News The latest version of Portable OpenOffice.org, an edition of the open source office suite that fits on a USB stick, includes a number of updates such as full support for Windows 2000 and launchers for each OpenOffice.org application.
[January 6, 2006, 16:20]
Alcoholics Anonymous not awarded .org site
News Owners of the AlcoholicsAnonymous.org Web site have fended off a bid by the international organisation to snatch the domain name, saved in part by a wide-ranging disclaimer on the front page. Saying the site displayed an adequate warning "which...
[January 11, 2002, 11:27]
Drupal.org RSS Feed
Downloads Drupal.org RSS Feed reads the news feed for the Drupal site. Drupal is a free modular content management framework, content management system, and blogging engine which was originally written by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system.
[April 4, 2007, 15:28]
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 available
Blog OpenOffice.org release 3.0.1 is available for download. I have installed it, and based on the build number and the way the installation runs, I believe that this is in fact exactly the same as the RC2 download, so if you have already installed that...
[January 28, 2009, 8:10]
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
News The OpenOffice.org community released version 2.2 on Friday, including updates to OpenOffice's word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database software. OpenOffice.org claimed its free software package provides a "real alternative" to...
[April 3, 2007, 17:31]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Reviews OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the open-source version of Sun's StarOffice 8 desktop suite, which costs £47.36 (inc. At first glance, OpenOffice.org 2.0 and StarOffice 8 are identical. OpenOffice.org 2.0 supports the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open...
[December 7, 2005, 12:00]
Ole Miss Athletics Scores Big With SmartDraw Org Charts
White Papers Katherine wasn't having any luck trying to create an org chart in PowerPoint. Katherine Thornton works as a senior staff assistant at the University of Mississippi in the women's athletic department. Katherine is responsible for handling everything...
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Don't pirate MS-Office: use ours, says OpenOffice.org
News OpenOffice.org has launched a campaign to persuade companies worried about software compliance to move to its open source productivity application. The project has launched a Web site for the 'Get Legal -- get OpenOffice.org' campaign, and hopes to...
[May 4, 2006, 12:35]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Google.org awards disease-prevention grants
News Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, announced on Tuesday that it has issued grants of $14.8m (£9.03m) aimed at combating diseases in Southeast Asia and Africa, as part of its Predict and Prevent initiative.
[October 22, 2008, 12:18]
ICANN names .org successor
News A nonprofit group of computer professionals has cleared the final hurdle to become the next operator of the .org domain. The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 11-1 on Monday to endorse the...
[October 15, 2002, 9:29]
Start OpenOffice.org
Downloads "Start OpenOffice.org" is a double-clickable Mac OS X application that allows the user to easily open documents created by the "OpenOffice.org" productivity suite of applications. It also provides an easy way to just launch "OpenOffice.org".
[May 16, 2004, 8:00]
OpenOffice.org 2.3 released
News OpenOffice.org has released the latest version of its office productivity suite, promising enhanced security and access to more extensions. OpenOffice.org 2.3, which was made available for download on Monday, contains a fix for a security issue...
[September 19, 2007, 14:09]
