The time for keeping your intellectual property in proprietary file formats is over, says Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Scott McNealy. In a perfect world, you’d be able to open any e-mail attachment, read ...

Though the debate about open data in government is an evolving one, it is indisputably here to stay -- it can be heard in both houses of Congress, in state legislatures, and in city halls around the ...

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...

When you think of file converters, chances are you picture clunky software or websites with dated interfaces, limited format support, and nagging upsells that make you wonder if it’s even worth the ...

If you’re constructing a data lakehouse today, you’ll need a table format to build on. But which open table format should you choose: Apache Iceberg, Databricks Delta Table, or Apache Hudi? A good ...

When you see the Photos can’t open this file because the format is unsupported or the file is corrupted, you can fix it in the following ways. Make sure the file format is supported Check if the file ...

When Marjorie Etique learnt that she had to create a data-management plan for her next research project, she was not sure exactly what to do. The soil chemist, a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute ...