formats in comment and analysis
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's new allies
Comment And all this comes just at the time when a fresh battle over Office file formats is brewing. The coming version will use XML, and there have been attempts to persuade the ignorant that this is, in itself, a standardisation of the file formats. [15 Nov 2005]
Interview: Mike Lynch, founder of Autonomy
Comment Lynch claims 80 per cent of information within the enterprise is unstructured and with the sheer volume of information ballooning, on the back of a move towards greater compliance and new data formats such as multimedia files, the need is greater... [19 Sep 2005]
Will's Web Watch: Introducing the new look silicon.com
Comment We're still several steps ahead of the paper-based titles producing yesterday's news next week and we also believe strongly that we present news in one of the most compelling formats online - not just in our sector. [04 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft's foolish patent policy
Comment Microsoft's XML-related patents seek to convince the public it believes in open formats while requiring them to pay for access to their data. The solution, says Martin Brampton, lies with the user. Is it really true that Microsoft has patented the... [07 Jun 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Keep it simple, stupid
Comment The iPod is arguably not the cutest design and the proprietary approach to audio formats is a bone of contention for many but it delivers music in a simple way, with clear controls that can be understood without reference to a manual. [20 May 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 15.04.05
Round-Up Speaking of matters musical - those British purveyors of middle-of-the-road geography teacher-pop Coldplay have announced their forthcoming single will come out as a mobile phone ringtone before more conventional formats are available. [15 Apr 2005]
Leader: Apple work with Microsoft? Let the people decide
Leader Despite some attempts and overtures made by other tech firms to get Apple to open up its file formats, those self-same rivals are the first to say they'd rather the door to the iPod was opened voluntarily than kicked down. [07 Apr 2005]
Leader: The iTunes fight-back starts here
Leader While the move might be the last gasp for physical formats, the 'no frills' CD will retail at less than the average price of a CD on iTunes et al - and for teenagers on a pocket-money budget, as well as the two-thirds of internet users who don't... [05 Jul 2004]
Analysis: Google goes for desktop search
Comment According to a report in The New York Times, Google will try to fulfill an unmet need among PC users for tools to easily find information across multiple applications on the hard drive - searching through email, text documents in various formats... [24 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Trojan horses, legacy systems and IBM's new clients
Comment They are also able to process nine different database schemas and file formats. The actual level of such activity is unknown and probably very high if the level of identity theft is anything to go by. [17 May 2004]
Analysis: Can the iPod survive?
Comment Real also uses proprietary DRM, but it's made little headway in the marketplace compared with FairPlay and Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) formats. Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the... [16 Apr 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Frog kissing, relationship banking and the decline of TVs and papers
Comment All together this combination makes the Java Desktop System a viable Microsoft Windows alternative, with read and write compatibility to Microsoft file formats. After kissing a few frogs with some heavyweight laptops that didn't quite transform... [01 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Freeing up software
Comment He further proposes that information such as file formats be made public, citing Microsoft Word as an example. One effective way to stimulate rivals would be to publish a good deal of information on such things as file formats. [12 Jan 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile ringtones, power blackouts and corporate governance
Comment They also provide a portable personal purchasing point, with a rapidly growing market for downloadable content of all formats. Mobile phones, once the business tool of only yuppies, are now the most carried item of technology as a lifestyle accessory. [01 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Home wireless networks, teleworking and getting an EDGE
Comment This enables support for the main picture formats, gif, jpeg, tiff, png and windows bitmap, and the power to decode digital music files. The last time I counted I had six wireless networks in my home: Wi-Fi/802.11b for the wireless LAN, DECT for... [04 Aug 2003]
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