Chris Preimesberger

Emboldened by the state of Massachusetts decision last month to require the use of open-standard document formats in all state offices by Jan. 1, 2007, a group of open standards advocates Monday created a special interest group to promote the OpenDocument format. OpenDocument is an open-standards document format created by the Organization for the Advancement […]

Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to the software development community Monday, as part of a new program aimed at making Linux desktops a more comfortable fit for users. The company, based in Waltham, Mass., released the research […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—All branches of the U.S. military are well into the process of designing their future combat systems to connect every soldier and piece of mobile equipment into a mammoth network-centric system in order to enable better coordination of resources, a former Army general told a conference audience Friday. “About 360 companies and about […]

Security specialist Symantec Corp. Wednesday announced an agreement with the worlds largest cell phone maker, Nokia, to pre-load its Series 60-based smart phones with its Mobile Security software. The software is customized for the open-source Symbian mobile device operating system, which runs Nokias standard applications on the Series 60 phones. The announcement follows a partnership […]

EarthLink made IT history of sorts—and probably saved its own skin—Monday night when it was selected to build the nations first metropolitan-area Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) network to provide high-speed wireless Internet access across the city of Philadelphia. EarthLink Inc. was chosen by Wireless Philadelphia, a nonprofit group commissioned last year by Mayor John Street to […]

Analysts, and even Adobe officials, expressed some surprise over the Monday announcement that Microsoft will support Adobes PDF (Portable Document Format) after 12 years of all but denying that the file interchange standard existed. The timing of Microsofts action also raised some eyebrows. Less than two weeks ago, the state of Massachusetts said it will […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Despite all its new-fangled configurations, fancy ringtones, and creative games, the cell phone—and, by association, the greater wireless IT industry—is really about something much more old-fashioned: simply connecting people with other people, so they can do business, get to know each other, or enjoy entertainment together. Cell phones and all their trimmings are fast […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties ombudsman, has lashed back at a wireless IT industry standards groups announcement earlier this week that it intends to tighten vendor control over the use of cell phones. The TCG (Trusted Computing Group), a nonprofit industry consortium that promotes what it calls “open industry specifications” that […]

Apple Computer confirmed to eWEEK.com on Thursday that some Mac Minis currently being sold may indeed be faster and more powerful than labeled, with better processors and some improved peripheral features than is marked on the outside of the box. The Mac Mini is Apple Computer Inc.s low-end desktop computer; models range in price from […]

Cisco Systems Inc. Wednesday announced the availability of new hardware and software that aim to improve the control and monitoring of data centers and grid computing layouts in enterprise IT systems. The InfiniBand-based Server Fabric Switch (SFS) portfolio and new VFrame 3.0 data center virtualization software are the newest offerings in the companys Data Center […]