QuickOffice Connect for iPad gets PowerPoint editing ability
The iPad has taken yet another step toward becoming a full-fledged laptop replacement for business users with Quickoffice's release of a free update for its Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad. The 2.0.0 version of the suite adds extensive text formatting and graphical editing abilities for PowerPoint 2003 files as well as viewing and presenting capabilities for PowerPoint 2007 files.
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The top 10 tech stories of 2010
It would be foolhardy to proclaim the death of the PC in a year in which Windows 7 was key to record quarterly sales for Microsoft. The top stories of 2010, however, show that the PC for many people around the world has already become just one of several devices used to tap the Internet and a world of applications for entertainment and business -- and that increasingly, the main Internet access device is not a PC. The billions of devices connected to the Internet globally are also giving rise to data and security issues for the wired and mobile worlds alike.
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InfoWorld news quiz: Year in review
And what a year it was. The Google phone, the Apple iPad, the Facebook movie, the WikiLeaks cables -- all had their moment in the digital sun this year. From the significant and serious to the silly and sublime, we culled the best of the 500-plus quiz questions for our year-end brain buster. Have you been paying close attention? Prove it by acing the next 20 questions. Now get started. 1. Google debuted its first-ever Super Bowl ad this year. What was its title?
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Microsoft offers holiday-themed HTML5 demos
Microsoft is offering Christmas-themed HTML5 "experiences" for users to run in their browser, focused on hardware-accelerated HTML5. Demonstrations are entitled Santa Workshop and HTML5 Blizzard.
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Android app purchases now chargeable to your cell bill
Users of Android smartphones on AT&T's network will now be able to charge their Android Market purchases to their monthly phone bills. Instead of using credit cards to buy apps from the Android Market, users can have their purchases incorporated in their monthly smartphone contract bill.
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SAP beefs up legal team after Oracle lawsuit verdict
SAP has tapped the services of several additional lawyers following a jury's decision last month to award Oracle $1.3 billion in its corporate-theft lawsuit against SAP, indicating it may appeal the judgment. Four attorneys from the San Francisco firm of Durie Tangri LLP have been added to SAP's roster, according to court filings in the past week.
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Microsoft confirms critical IE bug, works on fix
Microsoft late Wednesday confirmed that all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) contain a critical vulnerability that attackers can exploit by persuading users to visit a rigged Web site. Although the company said it would patch the problem, it is not planning to rush out an emergency update.
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Outercurve Foundation adds collaboration project
The Outercurve Foundation, an open source projects venue initially begun by Microsoft, has accepted into its domain the ConferenceXP project, which features an extensible e-learning and collaboration platform, the foundation said on Wednesday.
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Opera boosts standard widgets for Android
Opera Software introduced on Wednesday a widget runtime platform for the Google Android operating system, leveraging the WAC (Wholesale Applications Community) technology. The runtime will support the WAC 1.0 specification, Opera said. WAC 1.0 is the first draft of the organization's standard enabling mobile applications to target functionality on the device itself, Opera said.
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 flips Windows Automatic Update settings
Microsoft released version 2.0 of Microsoft Security Essentials last week.
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OpenBSD chief believes contractor tried to write back doors
The lead developer of the OpenBSD operating system says that he believes that a government contracting firm that contributed code to his project "was probably contracted to write back doors," which would grant secret access to encrypted communications. Posting to an OpenBSD discussion list Tuesday, Theo de Raadt said that while he now believes that a company called Netsec may have been involved in back doors, he doesn't think that any of this software made it into the OpenBSD code base.
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