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Oasis forms ODF support committee
News As part of this, it will compile a body of ODF interoperability test documents and host multivendor interoperability demonstrations showcasing products that conform. We invite and encourage participation from all ODF... [05 Nov 2008]
Financial advisors digitise docs to please FSA
News Independent financial advisor group Independent Financial Services (IFS) has signed a deal to implement scanners in 100 offices, to keep client documents safe in light of FSA regulation. The Kodak scanners provided by... [01 Sep 2008]
Google ups Search Appliance index
News Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets people search their company's documents. The earlier incarnation of the device could index as many... [06 Aug 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A High Court judge threw out the application on 5 June but UKUUG is now set to appeal that decision, claiming that unresolved flaws in the OOXML specification threaten the long-term readability of documents created using... [23 Jun 2008]
Google Docs sports PDF support
News People using the service now can upload and view documents encoded with the widely used and now standardised Portable Document Format (PDF) initially created by Adobe Systems. Google Docs, the online... [17 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News In its ongoing antitrust investigation concerning interoperability with Microsoft, the Commission will investigate whether the announced support of ODF in Office leads to better interoperability and allows consumers to process and... [23 May 2008]
The future, in 3D
News The inventor also demonstrated a document capture application running on a cameraphone which was able to convert a photograph of print into text and then read that information back to the user - an application he... [19 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News For example, users of Office 2003 could have trouble reading documents created in Office 2007. However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News He said: "If you're talking about reading documents in one or two hundred years' time, you would have great problems in doing it [with documents based on OOXML]. The British Standards Institution has... [02 May 2008]
Microsoft embraces cloud computing with 'Live Mesh'
News Microsoft has begun testing technology that brings together a user's pictures, documents and other data scattered across a growing number of machines with the goal of allowing people to access their information from... [23 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by... [21 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create Microsoft Office documents. In response, the Norwegian standards body, Standard Norge, said there was heated debate but not... [04 Apr 2008]
Get flexible, keep staff - it works for the OFT
News Hextall told silicon.com that the greater productivity has allowed OFT staff to progress cases more smoothly by being able to create documents on the move. It is understood the OFT is shortly about to undertake a... [18 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News The biometric data would be stored on documents or cards, not on a central database, making the information faster to process and reducing the security risk. By 2015 the majority of people arriving in and departing from... [21 Feb 2008]
Students revolt against being ID card guinea pigs
News Leaked Home Office documents reveal teenagers may need an ID card to open a bank account or take out a student loan from 2010 - making them among the first people to have the controversial biometric cards in the UK. [24 Jan 2008]
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