Microsoft tools build bridge between OpenXML, other formats
3 Dec 2008 5:31pm GMT Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a free plug-in for Firefox to translate Open XML documents, an update to its document translator, and a toolkit for Java developers that was built under the umbrella of its Document Interoperability Initiative.The group released the OpenXML Document Viewer as an open source project on its Codeplex Web site. The viewer translates documents in the Open XML format, which became an ISO standard in April after much contentious debate , to HTML so they can be viewed on...
Scotland is hotbed for green datacenters
3 Dec 2008 4:43pm GMT Scotland is to host two pioneering datacenters, with plans being announced to build an eco-friendly cloud centre in Inverness, and the world's largest computing facility in Lockerbie.A new business park, a "sustainable village" with hundreds of homes and what is claimed to be the world's largest datacenter, are to be built in the south-west of Scotland under an ambitious £800 million development plan.[ Find out more on being environmentally responsible while saving money....
VMware updates its virtual data infrastructure
3 Dec 2008 4:12pm GMT VMware has introduced View 3, the updated version of its virtual data infrastructure (VDI) offering. The company claimed that the new product would reduce desktop storage demands by as much as 70 percent.In addition, the company said that it could "decouple" a desktop from specific locations to create a personalized view of that desktop, accessible from any other device -- so that a desktop could now be visible from a laptop in another office.[ Read about VMware's VDI Storage...
Recycle datacenters, preaches Dell
3 Dec 2008 3:45pm GMT Dell believes that customers do not necessarily need to build new datacenters, and is now offering to show customers how to optimize their existing ones to extend their life span.Dell says that its expertise in this area came about two years ago, when it discovered it had reached the capacity limits of its two datacenters in Austin Texas. Rather than going to the expense of simply building a new datacenter, the company instead looked at whether it was possible to squeeze more life out of its...
Registrations open for new .tel domain
3 Dec 2008 3:16pm GMT The first round of registrations for the new TLD (top-level domain) ".tel" will open Wednesday.The new TLD isn't a run-of-the-mill domain like ".com" or ".org," for example. It's not about Web content -- instead it will allow both individuals and companies to store all their contact information in the DNS without the need to build, host, or manage a Web site, according to Telnic, which is in charge of operating .tel.[ Related: "ICANN gives .tel...