The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. Patrick Gannon, the president ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A lot of misinformation about the OpenDocument digital format has started to appear in the mainstream media and interest groups. Answers to many questions on the topic already have appeared, but they ...

I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format (CDF) had been ...

Developers have created a way to save OpenDocument documents from Microsoft Office. The first customer may be the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech ...

The Digital Preservation team at the National Archives is looking to migrate its Xena preservation software to the new OpenDocument format with the next release of the software, in turn being the ...

Malware laced OpenDocument files target Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice users. Attackers have a new obfuscation technique that uses the OpenDocument file format for sneaking payloads past ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a new, albeit temporary, top technology executive. Bethann Pepoli was appointed acting CIO last week, replacing Peter Quinn, who stepped down last month. Quinn ...

A group of more than 35 U.S. and international IT vendors, organizations, academic institutions and industry bodies is due to announce the formation of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) Alliance Friday.

A group of high-profile technology vendors have formalized plans to promote Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as a global standard after a meeting at IBM Corp. last week, an ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday the creation of the Open XML Translator project, so its Office suite will support the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. The move comes in response to government ...

From Groklaw: "I have just heard from the OpenDocument Foundation's Gary Edwards, with news about a plugin the Foundation is offering the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in response to the ...