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News But JSON, like XML, is a human-readable text format, rather than a binary format such as Protocol Buffers, a fact that reduces JSON's efficiency, Google said. David Golightly, user experience developer lead for Zillow.com, argued the textual syntax... [11 Jul 2008]
silicon.com goes mobile
News The silicon.com mobile website is now live and offers our leading news and comment in a format that fits on to your mobile. You can now get the latest news and views from your favourite technology and business publication while on the move. [25 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A group of UK open-source advocates is seeking donations so it can continue its fight against the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. A High Court judge threw out the application on 5 June but UKUUG is now set to appeal that... [23 Jun 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Apache mod_ssl Log Function Format String vulnerability: Some versions of mod_ssl running on a server are affected by this vulnerability. Poor corporate IT security is leaving businesses vulnerable - with almost 90 per cent of breaches found to... [19 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 office suite from the search giant, now has some... [17 Jun 2008]
Stolen music still big with MP3 generation
News However, the CD is still seen as a viable for this age group, with 60 per cent saying they will continue to buy the physical format. Record industry artist and publisher group, British Music Rights (BMR), claims the average 14- to 24-year-old now... [16 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News The software is free, with unlimited technical support for around $25 per user, and it supports the ODF document format - which could cast an unflattering light on the confusion around Microsoft Office. [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues. Microsoft's director of standards, Jason Matusow, said Microsoft deciding to support ODF was not about one format... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft pledges Office 2007 ODF support
News Without adding any special software to Office, users will be able to open documents sent to them in the open source Open Document Format (ODF), the company said. Users will also be able to edit and save documents in that format. [22 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an investigation that has since expanded to take in questions over how Microsoft may have used its dominance in the sector to... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Microsoft Office 2007 saves files in OOXML, an XML-based format, which has been offered for standardisation through the Ecma industry body to the ISO. Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely... [21 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News On 2 April, Microsoft's OOXML standard, which had previously been accredited by standards body Ecma, gained enough votes to be ratified by the ISO document-format committee, SC 34. Critics of the OOXML standard include the Free Software Foundation... [21 Apr 2008]
Tesco to launch iTunes challenger
News Tesco Digital will initially offer all of the tracks in Window Media format with around half (1.6 million) also available as MP3s. Tesco hopes to make all tracks available in MP3 format by the end of the year while there will also be more than a... [15 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News At the start of April, the document format won enough votes to become a fully fledged ISO standard. Many observers had been against that standardisation, pointing out that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) already existed as an ISO standard, and... [15 Apr 2008]
