formats in news
RSS formats in newsWindows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News The company also said it will support a number of additional audio and video formats out of the box, including DivX, H.264 and unprotected AAC. Choice was the watchword in the Windows 7 discussion Wednesday, as Microsoft... [06 Nov 2008]
Microsoft Office 14 to get an airing at PDC
News One is on Office business applications, and the other deals with the software's Open XML file formats. Windows 7 and Windows Cloud may be the stars of Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC), but the next... [21 Oct 2008]
What's Firefox Mobile got up its sleeve?
News First, it must be able to run on standard non-touchscreen phones as well as touchscreen formats. Mozilla's release of the Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, will be available to users of the Nokia N810 and... [20 Oct 2008]
BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market
News The media player can handle various music and video formats and the included Media Sync software will also help you synchronise your iTunes files with your BlackBerry. On Tuesday night, RIM officially introduced the... [08 Oct 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News The schools' IT body had been concerned about interoperability between the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office 2007 formats. Becta, the government body in charge of IT in education, has welcomed... [17 Sep 2008]
Firefox 3.1 coming soon?
News The inclusion of the open-source formats accompanies support for HTML5 in the browser, which will mean Firefox 3.1 will work with audio and video HTML tags. Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to... [07 Aug 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News The report also found that processes for sharing public protection information across organisational boundaries are often absent - citing the lack of crossover between the UK Border Authority and the police; that several data... [17 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News Google uses thousands of data formats for networked messages, and XML is simply too cumbersome to use as an encoding method for it all, Google software engineer Kenton Varda explained in a separate blog post. [11 Jul 2008]
Oracle takes on SAP with retail apps
News The suite is based on systems dedicated to a number of different retail formats and processes that are predominantly supported by best of breed applications at the moment. Oracle has released the latest version of its... [18 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News While developing our support for ODF requires a substantial amount of work, changes to existing file formats are often more complex than developing new code and therefore more difficult to implement due to backwards... [23 May 2008]
Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft
News That feature was in Office 2004 but was pulled in the current version as Microsoft worked to add support for Intel processors and new file formats. For those still using the last release of Office, Lefebvre said that,... [13 May 2008]
OpenOffice 3.0 beta gets an airing
News The suite will be able to read files created with the Mac-specific version of Microsoft Office 2007 and 2008 and will also support existing read-write functions for other types of Microsoft Office formats. [09 May 2008]
Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback
News The survey used a sample of 17,000 shops across all formats, with collective sales of £131bn a year. The economic downturn is prompting a comeback for cash, as shoppers avoid the temptation of spending money they haven't... [21 Apr 2008]
Changes to retail bricks to match online clicks
News Retailers are planning to close stores or alter existing store formats to bring the in-store experience in line with the self service customer experience shaped by the rise in online shopping. More than two thirds (70... [09 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised. The European Commission said in January... [04 Apr 2008]
