The first Google Doodle was a reference to the Burning Man Festival of 1999. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Subsequent Google Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000. Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since.
Clicking on a Google Doodle links to a string of Google search results about the topic, which can drive a lot …

Windows 7 (formerly known as Blackcomb and Vienna) is the working name for the next major version of Microsoft Windows as the successor of Windows Vista. Microsoft has announced that it is “scoping Windows 7 development to a three-year timeframe”, and that “the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar.”Windows 7 is expected to be released sometime in 2010. The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.A server variant, codenamed Windows Server 7, is also under development.
Microsoft is maintaining …

Microsoft’s embattled Office Open XML (OOXML) document format received ISO fast-track approval today after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in the vote.
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March 31, 1998 is the date that Mozilla was officially launched. It’s the date the first Mozilla code became publicly available under the terms of an official open source license and a governing body for the project — the Mozilla Organization — began its public work. It’s always been known in Mozilla parlance as “3/31.” We’ll be celebrating Mozilla’s 10 year anniversary throughout 2008. Today I want to look at our first ten years, and a bit at the next ten years.
Ten years ago a radical idea took shape. The …

Putrajaya, 19th March 2008 - The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management
Planning Unit (MAMPU), today officially adopts a policy to migrate to the OpenOffice.org
open source productivity suite. This is in line with the Malaysian Public Sector Open
Source Master Plan, which calls for government agencies to reduce costs, increase freedom
of choice and interoperability.
From April 1st, MAMPU will start adopting the OpenDocument Format (ODF), standard for all
new documents created. ODF the ISO open standard for electronic documents is also the
default format for OpenOffice.org. The agency …

Announce Availability of Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
SANTA CLARA, CA REDMOND, WA March 10, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced two new milestones in their ongoing alliance - the official opening of the Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft’s Redmond campus for optimizing Microsoft applications on Sun Fire x64 server systems and storage, and the availability of the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007. More information on the Sun Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is available …

Wubi is an official Windows-based free software installer for Ubuntu, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Wubi was born as an independent project, as such 7.04 and 7.10 are unoffical releases. But since 8.04 the code has been merged within Ubuntu and since 8.04-alpha5, Wubi can also be found in the Ubuntu Live CD. Wubi has been included on the new Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon distribution.
The goal of the project is to assist a Windows user unacquainted with Linux in trying Ubuntu without risking any loss of information due …

BEIJING, February 5, 2008 — In addition to designing the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch that will travel the world on its way to herald the arrival of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Lenovo has designed new torch relay components including the Lantern and Local City Cauldrons. The lantern houses the Olympic flame once it is lit in Olympia, Greece and safely carries the “mother flame” from city to city for the duration of the relay while the Olympic cauldron will be lit by the day’s last torchbearer at each end-of-day …

Maybank today officially opened its AEON Bukit Tinggi branch, the first branch at AEON Bukit Tinggi Shopping Centre and simultaneously launched the country’s first instant redemption facility Treatspoints for Jusco shopping vouchers at the branch. The Treatspoints redemption will be available from March 15, 2008.
AEON Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia’s largest AEON Shopping Centre, also houses the largest Jusco store in South East Asia.
Maybank AEON Bukit Tinggi branch is Maybank’s fifth branch located in a shopping complex offering a complete range of services and facilities to cater to customers of the …

HylaFAX is the leading fax server for Unix-like computer systems. It uses a client-server design and supports the sending and receiving of faxes as well as text pages, on any scale from low to very high volumes, if necessary making use of large numbers of modems. It is free software and can be used commercially without charge.
History
Sam Leffler, while working at Silicon Graphics (SGI), wrote a fax server for SGI’s IRIX servers called FlexFAX and released it to the public in June of 1991. Leffler and others worked for several …