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  • Defence opens suggestions box for big IT project

    The Department of Defence is seeking proposals from vendors to provide extensive systems upgrades, services and support for its military integrated logistics information system, an IT project it has described as one of the largest currently underway in Australia.

  • Microsoft OOXML 'standards' proposal thrown out

    Microsoft has failed in its initial effort to fast-track the Office Open XML (OOXML) document file format as an international standard but it will have another chance in early 2008.

  • Massachusetts finalises open standards proposal

    The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office.

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    Brazil is to appeal the International Organisation for Standardisation decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500.

  • Microsoft struggling in aftermath of OOXML vote

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    It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The more things change...

    With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Labor: Clueless on wireless?

    If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.

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    Let's not go back to the bad old days where telco and vendor incumbents were unchallenged.

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  • War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans

    What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

  • W3C proposes XML encryption methods

    W3C has proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organisation's push to standardise technologies crucial to Web services.

  • The long and winding road to Wi-Fi 2.0

    New technology promises to increase the speed of wireless networks by a factor of 20, but the emerging standard is being delayed by vendors squabbling.

  • W3C brushes up SOAP standard

    Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium has indicated that it is close to finalising an upgrade to an important Web services protocol called SOAP.

  • Standards group tackles XML documents

    An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents.

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Reviews (36)

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    Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.

  • Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

    Although it won't be in stores until autumn 2007, Steve Jobs has given the world a preview of the next Apple operating system.

  • Ultrawideband gets new standards hearing

    An international standards body will try again next week to settle on an industrywide blueprint for UWB, or ultrawideband, a wireless technology meant to rival Bluetooth.

  • After the PC, what next? My proposal for the next platform

    The personal computer has hit the wall. People aren't buying, and I see nothing that'll make them start. Maybe it's time for something completely different--yet familiar, at least to kids. Here's my idea: a next-generation platform that can challenge Windows.

  • Microsoft puts its spin on office chat

    The proposed SIP standard is key to IM interoperability and to merging voice, data, video and messaging into a single system, says a Microsoft executive.

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