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Microsoft: Developer interest fueling OOXML
News Software giant has ramped up efforts on building developer tools for the Office Open XML document format, says a senior company executive.
Tags: Standards, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Developer, software company, public sector, software, industry, development tool
Google welcomes Writely sign-ups
News The search giant's online word processor will compete with Microsoft's Office Live strategy, and a host of other players.
Tags: Office suites, Business applications
Company looks to capitalize on free XML tool
News Austria-based Altova hopes that a free authoring application will help it stand out in the booming Extensible Markup Language software market.
Tags: XML
Google Docs gets collaborative-drawing feature
News It's not going to dethrone Adobe Illustrator, but adding drawing tools to Google's online documents is useful. Included are tools for altering colors, shapes, and object order.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., Web Browser, Tool, Vector Markup Language, SVG, Cloud computing, blog, Google Docs, word-processing
Four reasons to validate your backup processes
Techguide Proper data backup design and periodic testing provide the most valuable information about backup process issues.
Tags: Security, Enterprise risk management, Data backup, disaster recovery, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery, Backup, Database, Storage, Tape, Backup Solution
Google gains on Microsoft with hosted security offering
News The search giant's latest Web-hosted offering, Web Security for Enterprise, gives it a leg up on Microsoft in a digital world increasingly turning to cloud computing, experts say.
Tags: App servers, Network security, Microsoft Corp., Security, Google Inc., software, software-as-a-service, desktop, word-processing, Postini Corp.
Google Health beta test begins
News Company's personal portal for storing medical records essentially creates a master database of an individual's health information.
Tags: Search, Data security, Google Inc., Beta, software, health insurance, U.S., health care, spokesman, Google Apps
Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?
News Cloud computing is ever more fashionable. The recent Google Apps outage shows that online applications and services aren't perfect, but the concept is growing up.
Tags: Utility computing, grid computing, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, SLA, software, Adobe Systems Inc., strategy, Google Apps, word-processing
Zimbra gives Yahoo Mail offline life
News Yahoo is trying to leapfrog Google's Gmail with its Zimbra Desktop software, which offers online documents and offline access.
Tags: E-mail clients, Microsoft Outlook, Zimbra, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Apple Mac OS, Internet Connection, remote access, Yahoo! Mail, e-mail
Adobe unveils Reader 9 with Flash
News The latest version of Adobe's free PDF-reading software, which plays movies and animation for the first time, is available.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Security, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Animation, Apple Macintosh, 3D, AES, Adobe Acrobat, Shockwave
Gates-Ballmer relationship mared by rifts
News The chairman and CEO have been close friends and business partners for nearly 30 years. But they sometimes clashed over sharing power, according to a Journal report.
Tags: Leadership, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, product development, software, Microsoft Office
Sun deal puts OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops
News Toshiba laptops with OpenSolaris 2008.11 will be available in the United States from 2009, but availability elsewhere has not yet been announced.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Notebooks and tablets, Web Browser, File System, operating system, Sun Microsystems Inc., Environment, Laptop Computer, high-performance
Privacy activist asks US regulators to halt Google apps
News Electronic Privacy Information Center wants Federal Trade Commission to pull the plug on Google cloud-computing services until government-mandated "safeguards are verifiably established."
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, FTC, EPIC, Privacy Activist, Regulator, Privacy Advocacy Group, Marc Rotenberg, Google Apps
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision
News A Microsoft patent application details a business model whereby the user gets a free or heavily subsidized PC but is charged for usage time, application and performance.
Tags: Patents, Personal Computers, Consumer Technology, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Performance Level, Graphics, Computer, performance, software
Corel spices up discount desktop programs
News New version of WordPerfect Office includes firewall, personal finance and multimedia programs.
Tags: Desktops, Business applications
