ShareBy David Johnston
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
OpenOffice Premium is a modified version of the popular, open-source OpenOffice.org software suite. The original OpenOffice suite aims to compete with Microsoft Office, and I believe it does a pretty good job for most home users and students.
What is Premium?
Premium aims to give OpenOffice a further edge in [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Living in the SF Bay Area as I do, I love it when I get a chance to telec0mmute, because the commutes can be horrible. On the other hand, I can’t telecommute all the time … and I should be happy because a study has shown that average commute times [...]

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By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
We normally applaud vehicular innovation – from a flying jet pack, to the latest breakthrough in any technology that can get us from A to B in an interesting way. Until today, that is. The Hipster is a personal trailer you strap to your body and essentially transform yourself into a human mule [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Despite the fact that the New York Times felt they not only had valid, but legal reasons to exclude a story from British online readers, legal and media experts are concerned there are new questions being raised by this action. While the Times blocked the story from their site, British [...]

ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Looks like Amazon.com is going to let you build your own store of their products. This is actually not a new concept and comes about a week after dot-bomb survivor Vstore.com annouced it was folding. I always liked the Vstore model – you build a store that has your logo and merchandise (that [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
I wrote earlier about a UK worker being fired by text message. It was a body piercing studio, not necessarily a big company, so I might be able to forgive (somethat) that offense. But a company as large as Radio Shack delivering pink slips in email?
Employees at the Fort [...]

ShareBy Alice Hill
RealTechNews
Like most people, I hated the compact fluorescent bulb or CFL when it first came out, and to be honest, for some time after that. They were priced high but packaged in a gimmicky way that made me suspicious. Most hotels uesd them and it felt like it took five minutes for the [...]

ShareBy Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
They had a good reason to exclude British readers, though. The New York Times used targeted advertising technology, tweaked of course, to prevent British readers from reading information that technically would be prejudicial in the trial of the airline terror suspects in that country.

“On advice of legal counsel, this article [...]