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RSS authoring in newsEx-Yahoo! staffer to head Microsoft's Live Labs
News Ozzie has been the champion of Microsoft's live services push, authoring a widely circulated memo saying the company needs to do more in this area in order to remain relevant. Microsoft has named a former researcher from rival Yahoo! [26 Jan 2006]
SDL to speed up compliance for pharma firm
News The deal means GSK can submit products for review in 20 European languages at the same time, tracking changes made from the authoring stage - a key requirement for compliance regulations. Translation software and services provider SDL has won a... [09 Jan 2006]
Microsoft shows off new Vista features
News Monday's release also includes, for the first time: a "Network Center", that acts as a central spot for managing network connections, replacing the "My Network Places" and "Network Neighbourhood" from Windows XP tools for authoring and digitally... [18 Oct 2005]
Don't Spread Firefox: Hack attack strikes again
News TWiki is open source software for the collaborative authoring of online pages called "wikis". Spread Firefox, the marketing website for the open source Firefox web browser, has been hacked again and is expected to be offline until later this month. [05 Oct 2005]
Site validation tool swamped by demand
Many authoring tools don't produce standard HTML by default, and some are incapable of doing so. Users of the W3C Markup Validation Service, also known as the HTML Validator, have complained that the web-based tool has virtually ground to a halt... [15 Aug 2005]
Adobe's Macromedia deal to be probed
Specifically, officials have requested additional information on both companies' Web-authoring design and vector graphics illustration products, the companies said. US Federal antitrust regulators have requested additional information about Adobe's... [12 Jul 2005]
Is a 3D web more than just empty promises?
Last month, Media Machines said it had acquired, in an all-stock transaction, Cincinnati-based Virtock Technologies, which adds a Web 3D authoring tool to Media Machines' Flux 3D software development kit, publishing tool and player. [19 May 2005]
Adobe-Macromedia alliance takes fight to Microsoft
News From Adobe's perspective, the acquisition of Macromedia's tools for authoring multimedia content also bolsters its standing in the business market. To compete with Macromedia's high-end Dreamweaver web-authoring software, Adobe launched its ill... [19 Apr 2005]
Adobe and Macromedia: Making Microsoft sweat?
Macromedia sells 36 individual products, spanning authoring tools; server software; e-learning; and of course its payer software, which includes Flash. The news that Adobe is to buy Macromedia - subject to the usual provisos like shareholder and... [18 Apr 2005]
Adobe to buy Macromedia
By combining our powerful development, authoring and collaboration software - along with the complementary functionality of PDF and Flash - Adobe has the opportunity to bring this vision to life with an industry-defining technology platform," said... [18 Apr 2005]
Update: Adobe springs for Macromedia in $3.4bn deal
News Elop, who has been an executive with Macromedia since 1998, said the merger would allow the combined company to expand its reach into new areas of multimedia authoring, with a growing emphasis on bringing his company's Flash graphics presentation... [18 Apr 2005]
Opera tests vector graphics
The W3C promotes a combination of XHTML, SVG and MathML for authoring technical and scientific documents. Opera has released a beta of its browser, Opera 8 beta 3, with native support for Scalable Vector Graphics. [17 Mar 2005]
Apple leaps onto the Blu-ray bandwagon
Apple will lend its expertise in high-definition and DVD authoring to the development of the Blu-ray Disc specification, which is backward-compatible with DVDs and allows for the storage of up to 50GB of data. [11 Mar 2005]
Windows Forms to go open source?
In September, Microsoft made the code for FlexWiki -- collaborative Web authoring software -- freely available and available under an open source licence. Microsoft is considering the release of source code for a popular tool used to build Windows... [08 Feb 2005]
Microsoft considers source code release
News In September, Microsoft made the code for FlexWiki - collaborative Web authoring software - freely available and available under an open source licence. Microsoft is considering the release of source code for a popular tool used to build Windows... [08 Feb 2005]
