Archives: 2007 September

Adobe Systems steps up plans to offer online collaboration with Web word processor and file-sharing service. Adobe Systems has officially entered the “Web office” game. The company on Monday is expected to announce that it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a…

Coming soon: Beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing–but not editing–Office documents online. SEATTLE–In another clear sign that Microsoft sees the threat posed by its traditional business moving online, the company is readying a rival to Google’s Documents and Spreadsheets. …

Adobe Systems steps up plans to offer online collaboration with Web word processor and file-sharing service.

Coming soon: Beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing–but not editing–Office documents online.

Ten years ago, Prince William County set out on an ambitious plan to convert 1,500 acres of dairy farms into a life sciences and high-tech business hub. The Innovation at Prince William business park was expected to generate high-quality jobs and create a more urban feel to the bedroom community,…

In a darkened Algebra II classroom, all eyes were on an illuminated graphing calculator projected three feet high on the white board as students studied a series of graphs and talked about absolute value functions.

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — By the late summer of 2002, as the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington approached, an American victory in Afghanistan appeared all but assured. A pro-Western government had convened in Kabul. Reconstruction teams fanned out through …

I took an accidental walk down memory lane last week after finally signing up for a Facebook account.

BAGHDAD it began with a bang and “a huge white blast,” in the description of one witness who outlived that Saturday morning, March 29, 2003. At a U.S. Army checkpoint straddling Highway 9, just north of Najaf, four soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division, part of the initial invasion of Iraq, had…

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan — By the late summer of 2002, as the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington approached, an American victory in Afghanistan appeared all but assured.