With the countdown on to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ballot on OOXML, Australia and New Zealand's representatives are keeping their cards close to their chests on which way they will vote.
Open standards allow the National Archives of Australia to store documents and safeguard against hardware, software and OS obsolescence.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
As the DVD rewritable market heats up, a lot is riding on which format, if any, becomes dominant. Two groups striving to spread their respective formats take a stand at CES.
Adobe's Digital Negative format hasn't caught on widely. Standardising might help, and Adobe has given DNG to a major standards group to evaluate.
The eyes of the world were on Australia this week as the APEC summit got underway in Sydney, and what they've seen is a city being held under virtual martial law major roads blocked off, police cars outnumbering taxis and snipers openly hanging out on roof tops.
Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
As CSIRO stands firm on its refusal to freely license key patents relating to WLANs, I'm reminded of the joke: what do you get when you grab a man by the testicles? The answer: his full attention.
Edward J. Black, CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, discusses the implications of Massachusetts' adoption of the OpenDocument format.
A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents.
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.
The IETF has set up a working group to clarify its policy on intellectual property claims.
Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.
Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.
Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.
Iomega's latest drive, which records in all the popular DVD/CD formats, including DVD-RAM, promises to whip up a storm of interest from videophiles. We take a first look at this do-it-all drive.
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We put three 4x DVD writers from Sony, HP and Plextor through their paces to determine the current DVD burning champion.
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