Novell delivers Open XML translator for OpenOffice

06 March 2007

Novell delivers Open XML translator for OpenOfficeComputerworld, MA – Mar 5, 2007

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open-source application bundle.

The translator -- which works with both the Linux and Windows versions of OpenOffice.org -- lets users open and save Word 2007's native documents within the open-source suite's word processor application.

Novell makes ODF-OOXML translator availableZDNet – Mar 5, 2007

Novell has released for download an Open XML translator that allows users to open and save Microsoft Office Open XML-formatted word-processing documents in OpenOffice.

Novell officials said late last year that they planned to create a version of OpenOffice that would include Office Open XML (OOXML) file-format compatibility.

Cisco buys another social-networking firmInfoWorld, CA – Mar 5, 2007
Cisco Systems is continuing to buy its way into social networking, acquiring some assets of the company that operates Tribe.net while letting the site remain independent.
Cisco announced Monday it has bought selected assets of Utah Street Networks, a seven-person San Francisco company founded in 2003. It did not acquire Tribe.net, a social-networking site that has been overshadowed by the success of big names such as Friendster, Facebook, and News Corp.'s MySpace. Cisco did not reveal the terms of the deal, which has already been completed, in a statement Monday.

Cisco Buys 'Select' Utah Street AssetsForbes, NY – Mar 5, 2007
Cisco Systems Inc., the world's biggest networking equipment company, said Monday it bought "select assets" of Utah Street Networks Inc., the operator of the social networking site Tribe.net.

Panasonic Releases the Wi-Fi Phone for SkypeTMCnet – Mar 5, 2007
Panasonic has announced the availability of the Panasonic Wi-Fi phone for use with Skype (News - Alert). The KX-WP1050 is an easy to install and use Wi-Fi Panasonic product and is one in a series of planned products that are Skype Certified.

Microsoft's OneCare Finishes Last in Antivirus TestsPC Magazine – Mar 5, 2007
A well-regarded antivirus testing laboratory has released its latest quarterly results, and placed Microsoft's OneCare antivirus solution squarely at the bottom of the list
In each of three categories – viruses, macros, worms and scripts; backdoors, trojans, and other malware; and a third category, combining the results of the first two – OneCare received the worst score out of seventeen products tested, according to AV-Comparatives.org, a group of IT graduate students who have published formal analyses of antivirus tools since Feb. 2004. The effort is led by Andreas Clementi, the project tester and a graduate student at the University of Innsbruck.

Last place: Don't use Microsoft OneCare for antivirusiTWire, Australia - Mar 5, 2007
Microsoft says they’ve put security first in Vista and have even brought their own Internet Security and antivirus software to market. So why then in new tests by AV Comparatives has Microsoft come last?
When Microsoft launched their anti-virus and Internet Security product OneCare, rival companies were concerned that Microsoft was trying to muscle in on their market. But if the results of both a new test by research firm AV Comparatives and previous tests that ranked Windows Defender relatively lowly are anything to go by, rival security companies such as Symantec, McAfee, Trend, F-Secure, ZoneAlarm, Kaspersky and others have nothing to worry about – or at least, not yet.