The News Review:
- Confusion marks Starffice anniversary
- Comments on ‘pen ffice standards row heats up’
- groupSPARK Hosted Exchange 2007 Resellers Are First to Take Advantage…
- Samsung SGH-i617 Blackjack II Review
- IEEE 802.1X posts – Tech news blog – CNET News.com
- First look: ffice Live Workspace
Confusion marks Starffice anniversary
Register – Dec 19, 2007
ne enables Starffice to be used to prepare blogs one turns your PC into a fax machine and another compresses ludicrously large presentation files (including Microsoft’s Powerpoint format). The company also introduced a back-office… Starffice was acquired in 1998 and keenly touted as a rival to Microsoft ffice. Since then Sun has tried a number of strategies to make it competitive. The most successful was to release the source code and spawn the penffice open source project. While it still has some way to go to get close to Microsoft’s dominance penffice attracts as many as a million downloads a week. There are some minor differences between penffice and Starffice – such as some extra fonts and a clip art library – but they are fast disappearing.
Comments on ‘pen ffice standards row heats up’
Register – Dec 19, 2007
XML is DA By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 19th December 2007 17:51 GMTAuthorities will eventually require standards for which there are 2 or more complete and independent implementations. XML is too complex and riddled with patents to achieve such status. The complexity also makes it impossible to even verify whether MS own products are compliant. What IS eventually decide makes no difference. What about the supporting code? By Martin Gregorie Posted Wednesday 19th December 2007 17:58 GMT… r are we already there? Isn’t Vista the greatest S ever!Dances with office open chairs By Alistair Posted Friday 21st December 2007 13:03 GMT. In my guestimated outlook they are well past the powerpoint and now cannot excel at anything other than useless projects and rubbish windoze. Take my word for it soon we will exchange our framework for access to the internet explorer and reap the benefits of a greater dot net. Fear not the ex-open-language-for-modelling-offices and instead bask in the glory of.
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Samsung SGH-i617 Blackjack II Review
Mobile Burn – Dec 19, 2007
A non-GPS enabled version of Telenav’s mapping software can be downloaded for free but the version that works with the BlackJack II’s built-in GPS unit costs US$9. 99 per month and requires a call to AT&T customer service to activate. The BlackJack II ships with a trial of the excellent XM Radio service and like most AT&T 3G handsets it also comes equipped with links to AT&T’s Cellular Video service AT&T Mall and AT&T Music store. These sites all run on the built-in Pocket Internet Explorer web browser that is standard to Windows Mobile Devices. The browser is not all that impressive by current smartphone standards but it works well enough with sites formatted specifically for mobile phones. ther browsers are available for the WM6 platform and there are plenty of Java applications available in general that can be run on the phone without a hitch.
IEEE 802.1X posts – Tech news blog – CNET News.com
com.com – Dec 19, 2007
As this happens the next to fall in line will be the operating-system players. Apple Novell and Red Hat should be interested. Don’t be surprised if Microsoft is also willing to play. Don’t get me wrong. Microsoft won’t abandon its own 802. 1X supplicant but it will seek to make penSEA interoperable with. html” >Windows Server 2008 and all of its networking goodies… We come up with high falootin’ concepts write reports and columns and get quoted in the media but we don’t really “do” anything. Former executive vice president of marketing for EMC Bob Ano once put it to me this way: “If I make a bet on your latest ‘vision’ and you turn out to be wrong I lose my job and reputation. You simply change a few PowerPoint slides and move on. ” With this as background I am proud to say that I actually helped with the execution on one of my analyst ideas (albeit I played a supporting role at best). Last summer I was troubled by some industry activity that I believed might alter the progress of the IEEE 802. 1X networking standard. My fear was that businesses’ initiatives might actually impede the progress of 802.
First look: ffice Live Workspace
CI – Dec 19, 2007
‘s ffice Live Workspace just released into beta makes it easy for small businesses workgroups and organizations to collaborate online and share documents. Even individuals who want to track projects and access documents from more than one PC will find it useful. It’s a surprisingly sophisticated service and although there remain rough edges and puzzling oversights (which may or may not be addressed in the commercial release) it’s a very impressive piece of work especially considering its price tag — free for the moment… It’s a surprisingly sophisticated service and although there remain rough edges and puzzling oversights (which may or may not be addressed in the commercial release) it’s a very impressive piece of work especially considering its price tag — free for the moment. The service is not competing against online versions of office suites such as Google Docs or Zoho. It doesn’t offer online versions of Word Excel or PowerPoint. Rather it’s a way for departments small offices and individuals to share documents and collaborate online. ffice Live Workspace lets you store documents give other people access to those documents and collaborate with other people on the documents. To use it you’ll need a Windows Live ID. nce you sign up for the ID and service you get your own workspace on the Web which you can use to share documents and projects with others.