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Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is to be the standard format for exchanging documents within the Belgian government. From September 2008 onwards, all document exchanges within the services of the Belgian Government will have to be in an open...
[June 23, 2006, 11:40]
Beleaguered EDS signs Belgian deal
News Electronic Data Systems, a computer services company battered by bad news in recent months, announced on Friday it and a Belgian partner have signed a $500m (£302.92m) deal with the Flemish government.
[June 30, 2003, 9:12]
Gates hit by Belgian phantom flanners
News Gates was in the Belgian capital as part of an informal tour of world leaders. Showing unerring accuracy, the phantom flanner struck a direct blow on the Microsoft chief, leaving his suit and face liberally covered.
[February 5, 1998, 11:01]
Leading Belgian Telco Provider Tackles Performance Problems and Enhances Customer Satisfaction With Symantec
White Papers The leading Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom was challenged with patchy performance from its Oracle database. Valuable time was lost while attempts were made to identify the problem. Step forward VERITAS i3 for Oracle.
[August 29, 2006, 0:00]
Google objects to posting Belgian ruling
Talkback I actualy support Google on this one. How on earth these newspapers could object to frre advertising I don't know. Google only publishes a few lines from these articles and invites the reader to visit the writers own web page for more.
[September 22, 2006, 14:18]
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
Talkback If MS really supports XML, it could easily choose to support OpenDocument. One of the marketing claims has been that MS Office can support arbitrary XML schemas. If that claim is true then MS Office more or less already supports OpenDocument.
[June 24, 2006, 13:47]
Google suffers blow in Belgian copyright case
News Late last year, Google settled with Belgian journalists and photographers, but not with the organisation Copiepresse, which represents the newspaper publishers. A Belgian court on Tuesday ordered the search giant to refrain from showing excerpts of...
[February 14, 2007, 7:48]
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
Talkback This isn't a blow to Microsoft since all that's required from Microsoft is that it listens to its customers. Surely every vendor in every industry would want to do exactly that. And given Microsoft's enormous innovative powers and R&D budget it...
[June 23, 2006, 21:48]
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
Talkback I am glad to hear of the support for the OpenDocument format. Over the years many different file formats have come and gone, so (personally) I try to use a standard or open file format rather than a proprietry one, prehaps the only exception being...
[June 26, 2006, 19:56]
Belgian Manufacturer Improves Planning and Data Processing With New Software Solution
White Papers Belgium-based Windowmakers is a medium-sized business that makes windows and doors. It needed a new software system to optimize manufacturing and planning processes and support future development. The existing software at Windowmakers was outdated...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding that Google pay it up to €49m — some £40m — in damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached their news stories in violation of copyright law.
[May 28, 2008, 8:31]
Football Fans Community With Advanced SMS Data Exchange Infrastructure
White Papers Openweb, Belgian Internet Solution Provider, wanted to build infrastructure that would enable end-clients to collect scores of football, resell them in the form of SMS to fans and display on a website.
[May 3, 2007, 1:00]
Hacker targets Sophos mouthpiece
News A row has once again broken out between two of the virus world's best known characters -- Sophos senior technology consultant and mouthpiece Graham Cluley, and Gigabyte, a female Belgian hacker. Cluley admitted Gigabyte, who is known to be a...
[July 17, 2003, 13:05]
Police raid Napster users
News Belgian police have been raiding the homes of suspected Napster users since December 2000, the Belgian authorities admit Friday. ZDNet Belgium reported Thursday that the Belgian arm of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI...
[February 16, 2001, 10:10]
ISPs stand firm after P2P ruling
News Speaking on Wednesday in the wake of a controversial ruling in a Belgian court and comments made by the Conservative leader David Cameron, a spokesperson for ISPA maintained that ISPs should not be "set up to play judge and jury" over alleged...
[July 11, 2007, 12:13]
Open to the public
Leader The Belgian government's decision to use only open formats for exchanging documents is pure common sense. While the proposal before the Belgian government is to use an open standard, in practise that boils down to a single choice: OpenDocument.
[June 23, 2006, 15:40]
Cash crunch threatens KPNQwest
News Unless they get the money required to keep the network running for the next two weeks, they will withdraw their support from the network at midday Belgian time (11:00 a.m. Money to pay the Ebone team has apparently already been paid to the Belgian...
[June 18, 2002, 17:42]
Microsoft site hacking mystery
News The domain is only used to redirect visitors to the French and Dutch version of the Belgian site and isn't part of the Microsoft network. The domain is hosted by the Belgian company Guidance. The site of Microsoft Belgium has been hacked.
[April 20, 2001, 13:04]
News Roundup: Music industry cracks down on Napster
News IFPI's Belgian arm has already sent the details of 100 Napster users to the police, and are insisting that those accused face having their homes raided and their computers removed. Belgian sources claimed Friday that police raids were already...
[February 19, 2001, 16:31]
KPNQwest's Ebone operators are ready to go it alone
News No details have emerged about the two consortia reportedly bidding for the network, although workers at the Belgian network centre have spoken to them. When KPNQwest bought Ebone, it laid off many staff from the KPNQWest network centre in the Hague...
[June 17, 2002, 16:34]
