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Microsoft is finally adding support for ODF (OpenDocument Format for Office Applications) and Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) to its Office productivity suite, the company announced on Wednesday.

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Finland school massacre drives increased attention to the influence of violent games on children

As if the kid kicking your chair wasn't bad enough, you can now expect to deal with people talking on their cellphones during European flights.

Memory company Rambus won a patent case against rival memory makers on Wednesday when a court ruled that the company did not engage in anticompetitive behavior or violate antitrust laws related to on-chip memory technology.

Microsoft continued telling the open source interoperability story it began crafting last month by adding partnerships around support of document formats and user interface technology.

Bill Gates appeals, the EU approves, AOL buys, hands free comes into question, brain chips control computers and more!

The European Commission has cleared the way for French government plans to fund a European search engine to rival Google.

CeBIT comes to a close, reporting more visits to this show than last year.

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick does not pose a significant threat to competition in the European online advertising market, the European Commission said this week. However, it reminded the companies that they also have an obligation to respect European Union legislation on the privacy of personal data, one of the grounds on which opponents lobbied to block the merger.