Rob Weir's Doubt: MS Office 2007 ODF Compatibility?
May 06, 2009A recent test shows that the promised Open Document Format (ODF) compatibility of Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is far from it. At least table calculations in Excel SP2 demonstrate big problems when converting ODF values.
more »OpenOffice Impress Design Proposals in Final Lap
May 01, 2009Project Renaissance of OpenOffice.org opened up proposals for "Access Functionality" design changes for its office suite on April 20, 2009. The Impress presentation application was chosen as the Guinea pig. Deadline for submissions is just around the corner: May 4, 2009.
more »Fsniper Distributing files with Fsniper
Apr 30, 2009Every day, computers are inundated with hundreds of files. Fsniper welcomes the new arrivals and processes them according to rules that you define.
more »Workspace: Chandler Collecting and processing information with Chandler
Apr 30, 2009We'll help you organize your data with Chandler, an application that lets you gather information and then decide how to use it.
more »OpenOffice: Future Uncertain
Apr 22, 2009Florian Effenberger is co-lead of the international OpenOffice.org marketing project. Our sister publication Linux-Community asked him how the deal between Sun and Oracle would affect OpenOffice.
more »Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux
Mar 27, 2009The new version 9.1 of Adobe Reader brings some improvements regarding the command line interface and printing features.
more »TECH TOOLS
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French Gendarmes Rely on Ubuntu
Mar 10, 2009The French Gendarmerie intends to save $50 million in switching from Windows to Ubuntu.
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Old Vulnerabilities Are Kept Alive Through Bad Configuration
HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
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Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
But what do the big numbers really mean?
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Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
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New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
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Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
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Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
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Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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TGXf Project Warns of File Transfer through Screen Pixels
Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.