Monopoly ownership of a format is nothing new. It'd be nice to see some sort of consortium setting formats, but in these days of corporate America, I think that's prolly a pipe dream.

Box announced Box Shuttle today, a new service that combines software and consulting to help customers move large — as in millions or even hundreds of millions — of legacy files to the Box service.

Email programs can "attach a file" to a message, which means any file (document, image, program, etc.) can be transmitted along with the text message. This is the simplest way to send a file via the ...