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Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News In some cases, people favourable to Microsoft's pro-OOXML position joined standards bodies late in the process, bringing protests from Microsoft's foes. For example, an employee from Google, which opposed OOXML standardisation, joined the Danish... [04 Apr 2008]
BT names new chairman
News Rake joined KPMG 35 years ago and has been on the UK board since 1991. Rake said he was feeling "extremely enthusiastic" about building on the company's recent success in establishing itself as a leading networked IT service firm. [19 Feb 2007]
Mobiles on planes: Pilots speak out on safety fears
News However, they have joined the growing ranks of detractors from the scheme who fear the effect mobile phones will have on passenger comfort and the harmony in their cabins. Want to read more about mobiles on planes? [02 Aug 2006]
IT guy becomes new Betfair CEO
News Also Tim Bunting from Goldman Sachs has joined the board and taken over as chairman of the company. Plus: Read our leader on what Yu's appointment means for CIOs' prospects of advancing to the top job. [05 Jan 2006]
Perception of government IT at "all-time low"
News But speaking exclusively in an interview with silicon.com Watmore outlined his plans to change this view, including the creation of a "joined-up" government IT strategy and the recruitment of a team of "heavy hitters" to work across the various... [16 Feb 2005]
Royal Mail slashes IT bill in half
News In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Royal Mail CIO David Burden, who joined in 2002, said the organisation's IT bill needed "radically" cutting. Cost-cutting has been Burden's main focus since he joined the Royal Mail, but this year will... [16 Jun 2004]
Dell and HP help push next-generation laser discs
News Dell and Hewlett-Packard have officially joined the Blu-ray Disc Founders group, having announced their support of the format earlier this month. In addition, it is working on read-only (BD-ROM) and record-only (BD-R) formats. [30 Jan 2004]
Wozniak has a new date with Danger
News Wozniak, who joined Danger's board in late 2001, will serve on an advisory board with Mike Read, president of GX Networks in Europe. The venture capital firm was previously represented on Danger's board by Greg Galanos, a Softbank Venture Capital... [11 Mar 2003]
The strictest IT departments in the UK defend their policies
News He told us: "When I first joined, we could download software, play huge multiplayer games while talking to customers.the works. When we asked you to tell us about policies at your place of work - policies on downloading software, performing... [27 Sep 2002]
The Times starts charging for archive access
News There may also be future plans to add content from rival publications in the archive: "It would be fantastic if down the line some of our competitors joined the ranks, but that's still a long way off," admitted Vanneck. [16 Oct 2001]
Microsoft inks e-book deal with WHSmith
News The e-books will be viewed on a variety of devices running Reader software, which attempts to make text easier to read than on PCs, laptops or standard PDAs. The deal will see Microsoft developing a whsmith.co.uk branded version of its Microsoft... [26 Mar 2001]
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