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ID scheme treads the high street for fingerprints
News It also hopes to formulate a document, called the Frontline Services Prospectus, outlining how biometric enrolment would be carried out by businesses. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will invite high-street businesses today... [06 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF support committee
News We invite and encourage participation from all ODF stakeholders - commercial and open-source publishers of ODF applications, testing and certification labs, people responsible for purchasing ODF-related tools, and regulators who specify... [05 Nov 2008]
Microsoft building an Office in the cloud
News In competing with Google, Microsoft is touting the ability to use Microsoft's familiar user interface, as well as the fact that all of the document's characteristics are preserved. If you go into some competitive... [29 Oct 2008]
Vista SP2 on its way to make things beta
News A support document posted this month, however, suggested a beta version was in the offing. The next update to Windows Vista will enter beta testing next week, bringing with it support for Blu-ray drives, among other... [27 Oct 2008]
Vista, Office SP2s in the pipeline
News It also listed many of the features in the update, which includes previously announced support for the Open Document Format. While most of the excitement around Windows and Office is based on the next full versions of... [23 Oct 2008]
Apple's 'private' route to resolve 'Mac clone' dispute
News The document can be downloaded from the US District Court of Northern California's website, and it says Apple and Psystar have agreed to three portions of the ADR process: non-binding arbitration, early neutral... [21 Oct 2008]
Security expert slams Home Office data-sharing guide
News These measures must be agreed with the specified anti-fraud organisation in an information-sharing document. The Home Office has published a code of practice for data sharing between public- and private-sector... [10 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News Bluehouse allows users to carry out many of the activities associated with social networks, but is specifically designed for businesses, with features such as document and contact sharing, joint projects, online meetings... [06 Oct 2008]
Cisco's collaboration launch squares up to Microsoft, IBM
News WebEx Connect includes email, calendaring, team spaces, bookmarking, and document sharing, and integrates with the Unified Communications portfolio. Cisco is busy this week introducing its latest wave of collaboration... [25 Sep 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News Supporters of the rival ODF document standard alleged that national bodies had been stacked with Microsoft supporters, and objected to the fast-track process by which another body, ECMA, submitted OOXML to ISO. [24 Sep 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News The schools' IT body had been concerned about interoperability between the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office 2007 formats. Becta, the government body in charge of IT in education, has welcomed... [17 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News However, according to the consultation document, it is debatable whether these systems are proportionate or appropriate for an educational environment, while "biometric systems can be perceived as more intrusive than... [11 Sep 2008]
Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA
News The business was swamped with paper and deploying scanners and in future a group-wide electronic document management system will allow us to streamline this. Independent financial advisor group Independent Financial... [01 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The International Organization for Standardization has thrown out four appeals against its ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. The appeals were made by Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela,... [19 Aug 2008]
IBM-Linux love-in targets Vista grumblers
News For example, a version aimed at governments would support applications for document or case management, crisis management and government services, while a banking version might focus on virtual thin clients, IBM said. [07 Aug 2008]
