I know this is not really a pure Linux type question, but could an open source office file format help the computing community in general. MS Word's .doc is the de facto standard right now and it ...

The Galaxy have been out of the postseason so long the playoff format has completely changed since their last visit. That statement is totally true. But it’s also a bit unfair since the one constant ...

First, the new format is (as so many things on the Windows server 2008 platform) based on XML. If you haven’t boned up on XML yet, now would be a good time to do so, because it crops up all over the ...

As those of us who worked in the consumer software world back when physical media was king can attest, when a master disc has been sent for duplication and distribution there is no turning back from ...

Talks between Japan's Sony and Toshiba to unify next-generation DVD formats are leaning toward a disc structure supported by Sony, a source close to the matter said Tuesday. Sony and Toshiba, heading ...

media files dont compress well enough with zip/rars etc to be worth doing. divx is already a compressed video format anyway. you wont get lower bitrate audio/video from using a lossless compression ...