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.
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European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised.
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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.
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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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.
Guidelines for IT governance and project management are being developed by an Australian standards body. Is this what senior management are looking for when making their tech decisions?
A group of software makers, led by IBM and Microsoft, has announced a proposal to make Web services messaging more reliable, overlapping an earlier standards effort.
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.
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.
Although it won't be in stores until autumn 2007, Steve Jobs has given the world a preview of the next Apple operating system.
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.
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