Google's over-the-Internet software for editing, uploading and sharing office documents, known as Google Docs, can now be used offline, Google software engineer, Philip Tucker said on a blog yesterday.
- By Wyatt Kash
- April 01, 2008
A new scam to steal personal and financial information through a combination of e-mail and phone calls surfaced last week, masquerading as an urgent message from the IRS about a tax refund.
- By William Jackson
- April 01, 2008
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format was approved as an international standard.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2008
Microsoft unveiled three additions to its mobile product lines at the CTIA Wireless 2008 event today, with much of the emphasis being placed on enabling custom mobile solutions for the enterprise.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2008
Federal agencies' adoption of online applications from Internet powerhouse Google Enterprise could usher in an era of rising productivity and improved security, said David Girourard, the company's vice president and general manager.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- April 01, 2008
The Kerberos Consortium on Monday added Microsoft to the ranks of its industry supporters.
- By David Nagel
- March 31, 2008
The International Organization for Standardization plans to announce vote results on the decision to ratify or reject Microsoft's Office Open XML document format on Wednesday, April 2, 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 31, 2008
IBM has released Lotus Quickr 8.1, an update to the company's collaborative learning tool. The new version adds Microsoft Outlook support and integration with Lotus Connections, among other enhancements.
- By David Nagel
- March 31, 2008
Microsoft yesterday published a trial version of its latest desktop search engine called Windows Search 4.0 Preview.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 28, 2008
Microsoft appears to be working on a secret project called Albany, and while no one knows for sure exactly what it is yet, clues indicate that the company is looking to develop a stronger competitor to Google's free, online-hosted Google Docs service.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 27, 2008
Microsoft yesterday disclosed some collaborative efforts that will help Java applications read Microsoft Office file formats.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2008
Yahoo announced Tuesday that it's joined forces with Google and MySpace to back OpenSocial, a group that aims to define a common API to allow social applications across multiple sites.
- By David Nagel
- March 26, 2008
Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif.
- By John K. Waters
- March 26, 2008
Like the z9 EC and z9 BC systems that preceded it, IBM's System z10 drastically alters the rules of the mainframe game.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 25, 2008
Network researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have unveiled a method that federal systems administrators can use to protect their systems from increasingly complex attacks launched via the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet and private IP networks.
- By Dan Campbell
- March 25, 2008
Vertical business networks will play a significant part in the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) by consolidating multiple SaaS solutions into more convenient packages, said Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS at Progress Software, in an interview this month.
- By Will Kraft
- March 25, 2008
Like much of the rest of the city, New Orleans' information technology department was nearly crippled by Hurricane Katrina. But as the city continues to put itself back together, the IT department has been able to rebuild -- and even improve some operations. The automation of its business processes has been among the improvements.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 24, 2008
Microsoft is on a buying spree, and its latest acquisition is rootkit security vendor Komoku.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 21, 2008
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built working electronic devices using a thin layer of organic molecules on a traditional silicon platform, setting the stage for the next step toward practical molecular electronics.
- By William Jackson
- March 20, 2008
Microsoft presented its latest customer relationship management (CRM) product, Dynamics CRM 4.0, this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2008