Neowin News Feed for: Document

Harvard unknowingly paid just over $27 for a real "Magna Carta" from centuries ago

Sayan Sen — Mon, 19 May 2025 22:16:01 +0000

Harvard Law School has revealed how it determined that the Magna Carta, which it had paid under $28 for, was the real deal. Read more...

Square Enix: We want Hitman to carry on

Usama Jawad — Tue, 30 May 2017 04:36:01 +0000

A briefing document outlining Square Enix' financial results reveals that it is negotiating with prospective investors to ensure that Hitman carries on, even after parting ways with IO Interactive. Read more...

AT&T leaked document bashes the Palm Pre

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:21:46 +0000

A leaked document, supposedly from AT&T's internal network, has been making its rounds around the internet. The document compares the features of the Palm Pre and Apple's iPhone in such a way, that it would... Read more...

Leaked Sprint document reveals Palm Pre launching May 16th

Sean Bradford — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:02:59 +0000

Earlier this year while we were at CES 2009, mobile phone fanatics around the world were introduced to the Palm Pre (See our post with the specs, screenshots, and video). Over the past few months... Read more...

The Open Document Foundation (ODF) is dead

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:50:37 +0000

The OpenDocument Foundation — a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format (ODF), but which ended up backing a different document format instead — has... Read more...

Microsoft Supports Rival Office Document Format

Tom Warren — Thu, 17 May 2007 20:29:48 +0000

Microsoft is supporting a chief rival to its Office suite for approval to a national standards board. The company announced yesterday that it voted to add the Open Document Format (ODF) 1.0 to the American... Read more...

IBM Sits out Office Document Standards Effort

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:25:42 +0000

IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardizing Microsoft Office document formats, an IBM company executive said on Tuesday. As a member of the Geneva,... Read more...

Document reveals iPod with wireless capabilities

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:11:39 +0000

Analysts don't foresee an Apple iPod with wireless capabilities emerging anytime soon, but a newly obtained document provides incontrovertible evidence that the company has been experimenting with wireless iPods for nearly two years. A patent... Read more...

Microsoft Word Document Parsing Buffer Overflow

Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:12:57 +0000

HexView has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to an... Read more...

Probe Finds IBM Altered Document

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:09:05 +0000

IBM lobbyists, possibly with the aid of Treasury Department officials, illegally altered an internal Treasury document during a debate on pension policy last fall, the Treasury's acting inspector general has concluded. Dennis... Read more...

Document shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 23:03:57 +0000

The SCO Group filed lawsuits this week against DaimlerChrysler and AutoZone, but the Unix seller's attorneys also had prepared a complaint against Bank of America, according to a document. A Microsoft Word... Read more...

Xerox to license document software

Sat, 21 Feb 2004 00:42:35 +0000

Xerox is expected to announce new document processing software next week that could improve the efficiency of content management systems. According to a statement from the company, scientists from Xerox Research Center Europe... Read more...

Rambus Denies Document Destroying Charges

Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:19:21 +0000

Beleaguered, litigious Rambus is vigorously denying it destroyed internal documents in "bad-faith" and is attempting to block a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) motion to declare a summary judgment against the Los Altos, Calif.-based semiconductor chip... Read more...

Microsoft: Halloween VIII document leaked

Sun, 05 Jan 2003 00:43:35 +0000

Another ludicrous marketing memorandum has been leaked from the sieve that is apparently Redmond, just recently. Eric Raymond's printed it, albeit with his unnecessary commentary interspersed in the text. It's actually a fairly typical internal... Read more...

Document Showdown. Microsoft vs Adobe

Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:17:38 +0000

Adobe Systems' Acrobat Reader software has become one of those rare birds in personal computing: a de facto standard that has nothing to do with industry giant Microsoft. And Adobe, with... Read more...

DirectX 9.0 API Specification document

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:44:04 +0000

We [Betaplace] have released the latest version of the DirectX D3D API to compliment the Beta 2 documentation. We recommend you review both the SDK documentation and this specification to assist development using Beta... Read more...

Microsoft files defense document in antitrust case

Tue, 11 Jun 2002 04:33:46 +0000

Microsoft on Monday laid out its defense in the antitrust case pursued by nine states, arguing that the states are entitled to no penalties stricter than those the company agreed to in its settlement with... Read more...

Excel or PowerPoint Document Can Bypass Macro Security

Steven Parker — Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:36:57 +0000

Thanks to NTCompatible for this one. Excel and PowerPoint have a macro security framework that controls the execution of macros and prevents macros from running automatically. Under this framework, any time a user opens a... Read more...