Vendor warns over Skype eavesdropping

Skype seems to have loads on its plate right now - so here's another kick in the teeth.

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Microsoft Office Open XML standard faces ratification set back

The US organisation that is a delegate to the ISO international standards body likely will vote against approving Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard next month, after the proposal failed to get enough support from members of the group's board.

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Windows update killed Skype's VoIP service

The widespread failure of Skype's Internet telephony service last week happened when millions of Windows users tried to log in to the system at the same time, after downloading a software update from Microsoft and rebooting their machines, Skype said Monday.

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Microsoft Office Open XML standard faces ratification set back

The US organisation that is a delegate to the ISO international standards body likely will vote against approving Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard next month, after the proposal failed to get enough support from members of the group's board.

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Citrix-XenSource deal could upset open-source developers

Citrix Systems' £250m acquisition of XenSource, last week along with VMware's massively successful IPO earlier this week, has further legitimatised the hot virtualisation space, but it may also be causing some disillusionment among the open-source community.

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Infected job search sites deliver 46,000 IDs to hackers

Notorious Prg Trojan strikes again...

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Police radio system coverage "can be enhanced", say authorities

Police forces can buy “special coverage enhancements” to make up for the fact that the national contract for the Airwave digital radio system does not include coverage inside buildings....

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