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Oasis forms ODF support committee
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has formed a committee to promote the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. We invite and encourage participation from all ODF stakeholders -... [05 Nov 2008]
How global computing grid could save the world
News Cern's Foster, however, warned that the common standards that allow the world's computing grids to link up are still being hammered out. The problem is the standards - working out the middleware and... [20 Oct 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News IBM has issued a warning to international standards body ISO in the wake of its approval of Microsoft's OOXML. Unless the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and other... [24 Sep 2008]
Scottish gov't enlists data privacy experts
News Scottish finance secretary John Swinney said in the statement: "While I am confident that public bodies are already working to high standards of IT security, we recognise the need to ensure public confidence in the... [11 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News ISO's statement acknowledged the "significant debate" that has surrounded OOXML's passage through the standardisation process, and said experiences from that process would "provide important input to ISO and IEC and their respective... [19 Aug 2008]
RFID could disrupt medical devices, say researchers
News Implementation of RFID in the critical care environment should require on-site EMI tests and updates of international standards. Radio frequency ID RFID) technology can interfere with medical equipment,... [25 Jun 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft has admitted that, despite being one of the dominant names in IT for more than 30 years, it had little or no experience of software standards until the company was mid-way through the process of getting Office... [24 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial review of the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote 'yes' in an international vote on... [23 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of European governments to any one technology. In a speech to OpenForum Europe in Brussels on Tuesday,... [12 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News IBM will be able to claim Symphony has better support for international standards than Microsoft, as it supports the ODF document format, which is the basis of an international standard.... [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft's director of standards, Jason Matusow, said Microsoft deciding to support ODF was not about one format beating another. Microsoft pushed OOXML through as a fast-track International... [23 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's controversial decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for... [02 May 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]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Mason added that large national bodies, such as Incits (International Committee for Information Technology Standards), are heavily politicised, and that often prevents decisive action. The ISO process... [21 Apr 2008]
Beware the insider security threat
News Neil Harvey, head of IT and accommodation, Food Standards Agency Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, said: "Undoubtedly, the... [17 Apr 2008]
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