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Chrome's Shine Distracts from Privacy Glare?
Within hours of Google Chrome's entry into the Web browser arena, concerns about the browser's privacy and copyright claims within the terms of service echoed throughout blogs and news organizations around the world.
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PBwiki Gives US$25m in Web 2.0 Tools to Education
PBwiki, the world’s largest provider of business and educational hosted wikis, announced that two new programs have been created that will donate up to US$ 25 million of award-winning wiki-based collaboration software.PBwiki currently hosts well over 250,000 educational wikis, but that is going to soon change as the company
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OOXML Winning the ISO Standards War
Try as some might to stop it, it looks like Microsoft may soon be celebrating the official recognition of its OOXML document standard as an international standard by the ISO.The International Standards Organization has rejected several appeals challenging the ratification as OOXML as an international standard. The ISO approved the standard on April 2 subject to no
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SQL Server 2008 Released, Here's the Skinny
After months of waiting it has finally arrived on our doorstep. Microsoft was whispering sweet nothings about the next release of SQL Server since late September last year.
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Women: Under-Reported in IT?
About a year ago, CMSWire reported on the number of women resigning from information technology jobs in the UK. A new report now indicates that women in IT in the US are declining as well. In 2006, women made up only 26.
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MS Office to Support ODF Before OOXML
Microsoft may still be riding high from obtaining ISO certification for its OOXML specification in April, because they are now openly offering to support ODF in their Office 2007 productivity software. It's a ploy, some open source camps are whispering. It's about time, says others. Supporting Open XML Microsoft achieved ISO 29500
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GoogleReader Challenges Others like FriendFeed
Google has released an addition to their RSS aggregator, Google Reader. The addition, “Note in Reader”, acts like a bookmarking tool that is then transferred to your shared items in Google Reader. Unfortunately for Google, this has been done (with incredible success) by other companies already.
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Microsoft Has Officially Gotten FASTer!
It's now official, Microsoft has finalized it's tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer. They're pretty excited over at Microsoft these days knowing this deal is done. FAST will operate as a Microsoft subsidiary and will have a dedicated research and development center in Norway.
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The Google Sits At the Top Yet Again
Google's done it again, to the surprise of few, coming in as the top brand out of a list of 100 composed by research and consulting company Millward Brown.
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OOXML Format as an ISO Standard - The End of ODF?
Big news for Microsoft as they find themselves the proud parents of an ISO 29500 certified OOXML specification -- almost. The ISO -- International Organization for Standardization's approval of the Open Office XML specification was officially announced on April 2.
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Future of Open Source Survey Results Announced
InfoWorld's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) in San Francisco has released the results of the North Bridge Venture Partner's annual "Future of Open Source" survey.
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More Vendors Sign-up for Microsoft's Interop Vendor Alliance
Datawatch Corporation, an Enterprise Information Management heavyweight, has joined Microsoft and a number of industry leaders in the Interop Vendor Alliance (IVA). The IVA, formed in 2006, is a community of software and hardware vendors working together to improve interoperability with Microsoft systems. In joining the IVA, Datawatch is showing
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CMSWire's Unparalleled Predictions for 2008
In the spirit of handing out exceptional yet unsolicited advice, the gang here at CMSWire felt it was our duty to provide our loyal readers with some of our keen insights into the world of content management for 2008.
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User-Generated Info Considered Crucial to IT Purchasing Decisions
The above claim is gleaned from Wave II of the IT Social Media Index put together by, go figure, ITtoolbox (an IT-oriented social networking site) and PJA Advertising + Marketing. Read a quick synopsis of what they've got to say before calling BS.The study finds: * Social media information
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