Factual: Wikipedia of data in spreadsheet form!
Factual is a new web based project that aims to collect public information in spreadsheet format.
This project has been launched by Gil Elbaz who is related to Applied Semantics.
He describes Factual as “a platform for anyone to share and mash open data.”
The concept is pretty cool. [...]
Acrobat.com takes on Google Docs and Microsoft Office!
Adobe has launched the stable edition of their Acrobat.com web based service.
Acrobat.com has been designed to provide a web based alternative to Microsoft Office.
In a way, it competes with Google Docs and other similar web based services.
Acrobat.com already has a word processor and presentation engine. The company [...]
Edit Excel files on the iPhone with Mariner Calc
Mariner Software has announced the launch of their mobile application Mariner Calc.
Mariner Calc is now on sale for USD 9.99 on the Apple App Store.
This application is designed to enable the iPhone user to open and edit spreadsheets.
It support native Excel files. User can wirelessly transfer [...]
Google Spreadsheets to get Gadget support
Search engine giant Google is said to be working on adding some new nifty features to their Spreadsheet application (part of Google Docs).
Google is expected to announce support for gadgets in spreadsheets. In addition, the service would also start notifying users via e-mail when data is changed.
These new features would [...]
IBM Lotus Symphony saw 100,000 downloads in first week of free release
IBM recently launched their Lotus Symphony office suite application as a free download. The company aims to complement existing freeware products like OpenOffice to provide a challenger to market dominating Microsoft Office suite.
The company has now stated that the suite has been already downloaded [...]
IBM to offer Lotus Symphony for free
US based tech company IBM has announced that they would now challenge Microsoft’s MS Office productivity suite with their own free application package.
IBM plans to offer Lotus Symphony for free and it would come loaded with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software.
With this they would join Google which is [...]
