The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) that is India’s representative body at the International Standards Organization (ISO), has once again rejected Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as standard.
In a meeting of the BIS technical committee on Thursday last week, 13 members voted against the OOXML standard, while only five members, including some outsourcing [...]
If you’re tired of boring old data sets that lack the pizazz of Web 2.0ocity, then Google has the API for you.
Meet the Google Visualization API, which gives developers a chance to add a graphical edge to their applications and data. The company this week dished the API out to the public hoping to “make [...]
Apple has released the latest version of its Safari web browser.
A full release version of Safari, which has until now only been available for Mac, is now also shipping a Windows-friendly version.
This reflects the fact that Microsoft’s operating system runs on Intel Macs.
A beta version of Safari 3 for Windows was released in June last [...]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since [...]
One of the pair, known as GRA 06128, whose origin is unknown
A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own, a major space conference has been told. Studies of the extra-terrestrial rocks have revealed qualities that set them apart from any meteorites previously known to science.
Researchers are pondering where [...]
