Let's cut to the chase in the Massachusetts-Microsoft brouhaha over office document formats. One... Beyond office document brou

Let's cut to the chase in the Massachusetts-Microsoft brouhaha over office document formats. One possible outcome is that Microsoft Office gains support for the OASIS OpenDocument format, either from Microsoft or from the open source community. Another scenario is that Microsoft tweaks its Office XML licensing to conform to the definition of openness that governments are rightly insisting on.<...

Christina Aguilera has found out what a girl wants, and now she's married him. The 24-year-old p... Aguilera Reportedly Marries

Christina Aguilera has found out what a girl wants, and now she's married him. The 24-year-old pop singer tied the knot with music executive Jordan Bratman in a Saturday evening ceremony at Staglin Family Vineyard in northern California's Napa Valley, Us Weekly reported on its Web site.

Sources told the magazine that Aguilera, her hair decorated in jewels and pulled back in a bun topped...

Microsoft is accelerating its business IP telephony plans with the acquisition of software firm m... Microsoft roars into VoIP

Microsoft is accelerating its business IP telephony plans with the acquisition of software firm media-streams.com.

The move follows similar acquisitions by Microsoft and its competitors in the consumer market and bolsters a major strategic shift by Microsoft into online services — the so-called "Live Software" programme introduced recently.

Microsoft and several other large IT...

TOKYO: A Japanese space probe on a mission to bring back the world's first rock samples from an ... Japanese mission to bring s

TOKYO: A Japanese space probe on a mission to bring back the world's first rock samples from an asteroid failed to touch down on Sunday on its target nearly 300 million km from earth.

But scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) were trying to pinpoint the location of the probe and considering a second attempt at landing.

The unmanned Hayabusa (Japanese...

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at 6:30 p.m. by the SCORE Monmouth County chapter. To register, call (732) 431-7242.

at 8 a.m. at Care One, Holmdel. The meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of each month and include breakfast and a speaker. The cost is $15. For information, call Arlene Saltz at (732) 544-1771 or visit the Web site at www.powerfulyou.com .

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Gasoline does not freeze in Georgia. For this to happen, temperatures would need to drop to minus... It&#39;s water vapor, not

Gasoline does not freeze in Georgia. For this to happen, temperatures would need to drop to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit ... and yet, auto parts stores offer a large variety of fuel additives to prevent freeze-ups.

What freezes isn't actually the gasoline. It's water. Even with today's closed-system cars, atmospheric air still will get into the tank and import its content of water vapor...

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It is hard at first sight to see what the fuss is all about over the rival next-generation office formats . The Office 12 and Open Document formats are both based on XML, which uses a simple (in principle) tagging system to describe the layout and content of office documents.

You can create your own set of ...

March 7 issue - The name-Cambridge School of Languages-conjures images of spires and Anglo-Saxon ... Not the Queen&#39;s Englis

March 7 issue - The name-Cambridge School of Languages-conjures images of spires and Anglo-Saxon aristocrats conversing in the Queen's English. But this Cambridge is composed of a few dank rooms with rickety chairs at the edge of a congested Delhi suburb. Its rival is not stately Oxford but the nearby Euro Languages School, where a three-month English course costs $16. "We tell students you ne...

WASHINGTON - President Bush's efforts to paint Democrats as hypocrites for criticizing the Iraq ... Bush Risks Alienating GOP O

WASHINGTON - President Bush's efforts to paint Democrats as hypocrites for criticizing the Iraq war after they once warned that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat could backfire on Republicans.

Polls show marked declines in support for the war, notably among moderate Republicans, especially Republican women, and independents _ voting blocs that the GOP needs to woo or keep in their camp.<...

Deutsche Bahn to Buy Brink&#39;s BAX for $1.1 Billion (Update1) Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Deut... Deutsche Bahn to Buy Brink&#39;s

Deutsche Bahn to Buy Brink's BAX for $1.1 Billion (Update1)

Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Deutsche Bahn AG, Germany's state- owned railroad, agreed to buy Brink's Co.'s BAX Global Inc. U.S. freight-delivery division for $1.1 billion as the German company expands its logistics business abroad.

Deutsche Bahn is acquiring a company with about $2.4 billion in annual sales that ...