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Gizmo Adds Business Enhancements and More IM Networks
Blog Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio...
ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
News The ISO committee handling OOXML braved open-source protests to meet in Oslo last week and work out how to ensure interoperability with ODF
[April 14, 2008, 13:15 by David Meyer]
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
[May 2, 2008, 15:47 by Peter Judge]
Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update
News Mozilla's John Lilly has compared Apple's inclusion of Safari as a default add-on installation in the latest iTunes update to the way malware is distributed
[March 25, 2008, 8:16 by Marcus Browne]
PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
News Manufacturers such as Dell and HP will continue to offer Windows XP on new machines past Microsoft's 30 June deadline, but customers will still get Vista as part of the deal
[April 28, 2008, 14:04 by Ina Fried]
Vista gets the rock'n'roll treatment
Blog It's great to see Microsoft Vista entering the highly regarded field of corporate musical nonsense - this Springsteen-influenced number is a classic. My erstwhile colleage
Websites claim to host leaked OOXML results
News Ahead of Wednesday's official announcement, documents posted online appear to suggest Microsoft's document format is set to become an official standard, despite claims of voting irregularities
[April 1, 2008, 16:44 by David Meyer]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News Now that Office Open XML is on its way to becoming an international standard, it could be leaving Microsoft behind
[April 21, 2008, 8:55 by Peter Judge]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the BSI to approve Microsoft's nascent document format
[May 1, 2008, 16:34 by David Meyer]
One of the scariest things I've seen
Blog Not much to say here - just watch this DARPA-funded robot pack-dog in action (particularly the near-slippage in the middle of the video) and think forward a couple decades. We're doomed, I tells...
HP unveils aluminium-clad Eee rival
Photo The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC is being promoted as ideal for schools, although its pricing and features are targeting the same market as Asus's iconic Eee PC
[April 8, 2008, 17:15 by David Meyer]
Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting
News At last month's OOXML ballot resolution meeting, 81 percent of the technical issues around the format were apparently resolved without being properly addressed
[March 28, 2008, 16:56 by Peter Judge]
Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC
Comment The iPhone is inching towards the enterprise. So why has Apple limited it so badly?
[March 27, 2008, 8:39 by Rupert Goodwins]
Vista SP1 - No Go for Me at the Moment
Blog I have been waiting anxiously for the public release of Vista SP1. I had reloaded the Vista disk for my Lifebook S6510 a week or so ago, so that I would have a fresh load ready for update. Today...
Apple Crumble Grumble
Blog OK I know; Apple doesn't get a whole lot wrong does it? (Although I drafted this blog before seeing the lead story “Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update” on ZDNET this morning.) So it's...
IPv6 hype suggests real problems
Blog IPv6 is getting the kind of support that, in my experience, usually goes with a failed standard. ICANN is trying to scare us into adopting it,
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog Donald Knuth (yes, that Donald Knuth) has given a long and interesting
OOXML clears ISO voting
Blog That's it. An official announcement is awaited, but it seems certain now that Microsoft's OOXML specification has made its way through the ISO fasttrack process, albeit with
LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE (DRAG THEM TO COURT)
Blog There is a lot of shouting and stamping of feet on the Skype Forum of late "LET US UNITE AND SUE SKYPE...
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Being green is all well and good but how long will companies continue to worry about the environment if the financial downturn affecting the US bites harder and really impacts the UK? That was...
Upload your own avatars to ZDNet Community
Blog OK, its a pretty small piece of functionality, but we've just added a feature to allow you to upload your own avatars to ZDNet. When you're logged in and go to you profile page you'll see a 'change...
