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• APP OF THE DAY: My Writing Spot

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 23 August, 2011 09:52

  The best thing about My Writing Spot is that it syncs with your online account, which allows you to tap out a few phrases on your iPhone on the train, a couple of paragraphs in the coffee shop on your iPad over lunch, and then settle down and continue writing well into the night on your computer at home; all seamlessly, and with no need to email partial documents all over the place.

• NEWS FOCUS: Dealing with NGOs

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 January, 2011 10:01

  In the first part of this news feature, ARN investigated why corporate citizenship is considered a smart investment rather than just philanthropy. In part two we look at the pros and cons of working with non-government organisations (NGOs).

• Microsoft asks for rehearing in Word case

  By Nancy Gohring | 09 January, 2010 11:34

  Microsoft asked an appeals court for a rehearing in the patent case that requires the software giant to pay US$290 million in damages and prevents it from selling the current version of Word starting on Monday.

• Microsoft ships Office 2007 patch to meet court deadline

  By Gregg Keizer | 08 January, 2010 06:14

  Microsoft on Wednesday posted an update for Word 2007 that ditches the custom XML tagging technology a federal court banned the company from including in its software after Jan. 10.

• Microsoft, i4i square off in appeals hearing over Word

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 September, 2009 07:54

  A federal appeals court today heard arguments in a patent infringement case involving Word that required Microsoft to pay nearly US$300 million in damages and barred the company from selling the software starting Oct. 10.

• Court could restore Word injunction, says i4i

  By Gregg Keizer | 23 September, 2009 08:10

  Just a day before a crucial hearing in the patent infringement case between Canadian developer i4i and Microsoft, i4i's top executive said that the injunction that forbids Microsoft from selling Word could be reinstated.

• Microsoft stabbed i4i in the back with Word, developer claims

  By Gregg Keizer | 10 September, 2009 06:49

  Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers at the same time it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed yesterday with an appeals court.

• Appeals court grants Microsoft reprieve in Word case

  By Gregg Keizer | 04 September, 2009 12:16

  A US federal appeals court today granted Microsoft's request to suspend an injunction that would have barred the company from selling its Word software next month.

• Microsoft gets reprieve in Word case

  By Nancy Gohring | 04 September, 2009 10:01

  An appeals court has granted Microsoft's request to put off an injunction that could have forced it to stop selling its Microsoft Word software next month.

• Microsoft: Word patent ruling, injunction 'miscarriage of justice'

  By Gregg Keizer | 27 August, 2009 05:03

  Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers late yesterday said the verdict that awarded a Canadian developer nearly $300 million in damages and resulted in an impending ban on sales of the company's popular Word software was a "miscarriage of justice."

• Microsoft wins fast-track appeal of Word ban

  By Gregg Keizer | 27 August, 2009 06:59

  A panel of federal judges has granted Microsoft Corp.'s request for a fast-track appeal of the injunction that prohibits the company from selling its popular Word software after Oct. 10.

• Judge orders Microsoft to pay US$300M in Word patent case

  By Gregg Keizer | 13 August, 2009 09:20

  Microsoft must pay nearly US$300 million in damages and interest to Canadian company i4i because it infringed the latter's patent for a document system that relies on XML custom formatting, according to court documents filed yesterday.

• Injunction on Microsoft Word unlikely to halt sales

  By Nancy Gohring | 12 August, 2009 11:39

  A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the U.S., but legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely.

• Rigged Word docs exploit 2008 bug, say researchers

  By Gregg Keizer | 24 April, 2009 08:02

  Attackers, probably based in China, are exploiting a December bug in Microsoft Word to hijack Windows PCs, Vietnamese security researchers warned Thursday.

• Microsoft testing a better rival to Google Docs

  By James Niccolai and Elizabeth Montalbano | 12 January, 2009 08:07

  Microsoft has begun testing some Web-based Office applications that will be delivered through Office Live Workspace, its online adjunct to Microsoft Office, and will give the company a closer rival to online application suites such as Google Docs.