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Oasis forms ODF committee
News The body that maintains the OpenDocument Format has formed a committee to promote interoperability. Representatives include IBM, Oracle and Google.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Office suites, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, software, ISO
Yahoo climbs; other stocks lose steam
News Although most stocks sputtered Thursday, Yahoo pushed higher on the strength of Wednesday's stellar earnings report.
Net stocks rise on Yahoo's momentum
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OOXML expert: ODF flaws remain
News The Open Document Format community has defended its standard, but major contributor to rival OOXML standard Alex Brown says his criticisms remain unresolved.
Tags: Software, Standards, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Open Source, Alex Brown, Flaw
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, consortium, intellectual property, Microsoft Office 2007, marketing
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover.
Tags: Business applications, XML, OpenDocument Format, India, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, Microsoft Office, blog, technical committee, ISO
Net analyst joins start-up
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TeleCorp PCS prices public offering
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Motorola VP resigns amid cell phone decline
News The head of Motorola's cell phone division resigned Thursday, one day after the company released an earnings warning.
Business 2.0 develops S.F. Bay area TV show
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DoCoMo on track to begin new cellphone services
News NTT DoCoMo Inc, the world's second largest mobile phone company, is on schedule to begin a new generation of services in May, Chairman Kouji Ohboshi said.
Ad sales from ".coms" help newspaper revenues
News U.S. newspaper publishers are benefiting from robust national advertising sales, aided by new Internet companies, and the group will report average fourth-quarter earnings growth of 15 percent, an analyst said.
Business 2.0 goes biweekly on consumer demand
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Business 2.0 to go biweekly on consumer demand
News After only a little more than a year on the racks, Business 2.0, the popular monthly Net-business magazine, will publish twice a month beginning in May 2000.
Intuit gains on bullish comments
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