An anonymous reader writes that although many Linux users (and others) are at home with OpenOffice and LibreOffice, typical organizations are as addicted as ever to MS office formats. In 2011 13% of organizations had OpenOffice variants installed on some computers. Today that number has dipped to 5% according to Forrester Research. … The poll…

Volume purchase plan unveiled for corporate and education customers……

Wireless infrastructure provider will have the option of purchasing about 9,100 towers after an average lease term of 28 years…….

Reports: former BigPond boss called in……

Tablets may have received too much credit for reinventing computing. It’s quite possible that tablets are an interim device on the way to something new…….

An anonymous reader writes “Smart watches have arrived, and Google Glass is on its way. As early-adopters start to gain some experience with these devices, they’re learning some interesting lessons about how wearable computing affects our behavior differently from even smartphones and tablets. Vint Cerf says, ‘Our social conventions have not kept up with the…

Having plugged the iPhone 5C hard, Apple launches a new ad for the gold iPhone 5S during Sunday’s NFL broadcasts. It’s slightly familiar…….

McGruber writes “Over at Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul Ford explains that the debacle known as healthcare.gov makes clear that it is time for the government to change the way it ships code: namely, by embracing the open source approach to software development that has revolutionized the technology industry.” That seems like the only way to return…

Surface RT owners will have to blow……

BartlebyScrivener writes “I am a author, screenwriter, law prof, and a hobbyist programmer. I love MacVim and write almost everything in it: Exams, novels, even screenplays now that Fountain is available. I use LaTeX and WordPress and so on, but several years ago I discovered Markdown and the wonderful Pandoc. I searched Slashdot expecting to…