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Comment We hear, for example, that customers feel as if Microsoft is holding their data to ransom by keeping it locked up in proprietary formats. It is constantly pressured to be more open, so it switches from binary to XML formats, and passes the end...
[04 Apr 2008]
Comment The wars over DVD formats seem to have been slightly different. We already see super high definition formats such as SHD and SHD 3D being developed and demonstrated, with some initial roll-out with Blu-ray in new cinema complexes.
[17 Mar 2008]
Comment In different formats, solutions and places they allow IT professionals to maintain an overall, but highly disjointed view of their IT estate. Organisations need a more coherent view - and one that has business meaning, says Martin Atherton of...
[13 Feb 2008]
Comment If I look back at some of our progress in the recent past I'd single out: the rebuilding of the silicon.com editorial team, to the extent that it has won several awards over the past few years.a close focus on core readers, coming up with formats...
[08 Nov 2007]
AS Profile The Beeb owns more archive material than any other broadcaster in the world, but rights management and transferring that resource to digital formats will prove tricky. Ashley Highfield remains a top 10 Agenda Setter for the fourth year in a row.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile James Murdoch may have slipped one place since last year, when a couple of smart moves turned Sky from a pay-TV provider into a telecoms provider, but he is still highly rated by the panel for what BSkyB is doing to converge entertainment formats...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment Or document formats that are themselves a kind of encoding to make it hard to read them except in the program that made them. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.
[11 Oct 2007]
Comment Organisations are capturing and storing data from a multitude of sources such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems - and are also seeing a proliferation in unstructured formats such as text...
[18 Jul 2007]
Comment During the ditching and destruction process my mind strayed to Gordon Bell's My Life Bits Project at Microsoft and the Google Books project - both are scanning all available documents and manuscripts into digital formats.
[02 Jul 2007]
Round-Up Apple and Microsoft have both realised that with more media - music, movies and on-demand television - now having made the transition to digital formats in the mainstream the challenge is going to be how best to serve the market for storing...
[12 Jan 2007]
Comment With the advent of TiVo and IPTV, traditional advertising formats are starting to get a hammering and advertisers are starting to get savvy about where their marketing dollars go. But, says Jo Best, they have some magic dust when it comes to...
[01 Aug 2006]
Comment And finally, the leading machine designers dropped the floppy drive facility from PCs and laptops in favour of CD-only formats. Written at a Guilin, China hotel and despatched via the free wi-fi service
[14 Jul 2006]
Round-Up The next gag revolved around an announcement from its AdWords team about two new image ad formats they'd been playing with. April Fool's Day has come and gone again and one technology company which pulled out all the stops to ensure last Saturday...
[07 Apr 2006]
Comment And all this comes just at the time when a fresh battle over Office file formats is brewing. The coming version will use XML, and there have been attempts to persuade the ignorant that this is, in itself, a standardisation of the file formats.
[15 Nov 2005]
Comment Lynch claims 80 per cent of information within the enterprise is unstructured and with the sheer volume of information ballooning, on the back of a move towards greater compliance and new data formats such as multimedia files, the need is greater...
[19 Sep 2005]
Comment We're still several steps ahead of the paper-based titles producing yesterday's news next week and we also believe strongly that we present news in one of the most compelling formats online - not just in our sector.
[04 Jul 2005]
Comment Microsoft's XML-related patents seek to convince the public it believes in open formats while requiring them to pay for access to their data. The solution, says Martin Brampton, lies with the user. Is it really true that Microsoft has patented the...
[07 Jun 2005]
Comment The iPod is arguably not the cutest design and the proprietary approach to audio formats is a bone of contention for many but it delivers music in a simple way, with clear controls that can be understood without reference to a manual.
[20 May 2005]
Round-Up Speaking of matters musical - those British purveyors of middle-of-the-road geography teacher-pop Coldplay have announced their forthcoming single will come out as a mobile phone ringtone before more conventional formats are available.
[15 Apr 2005]
Leader Despite some attempts and overtures made by other tech firms to get Apple to open up its file formats, those self-same rivals are the first to say they'd rather the door to the iPod was opened voluntarily than kicked down.
[07 Apr 2005]
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