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    Standards Australia has maintained its "abstain" vote on Microsoft's attempt to attain international standard status for its Office Open XML file format.

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  • Australia stalls OOXML vote as NZ scratches head

    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.

  • Proprietary past may haunt Microsoft in OOXML vote

    More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to prepare for a final decision on Microsoft's contentious OOXML document format.

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    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.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Remember the Ala-MIMO

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    The software company has made a big show about opening up its APIs, but has it really changed its stance towards open source?

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    What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Time to labour for IT

    Remember the Labor Party´s "Knowledge Nation" IT manifesto unveiled in the last federal election? It died a natural death. Will the party's communications and information policies for the October federal election suffer the same fate?

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    Samsung's D500 was voted the best mobile handset of 2005 by the GSM association. Can the upgraded D600 outdo it in 2006?

  • Removable flash cards continue to shrink

    Companies supporting Secure Digital, a specific format for removable flash memory cards, are working to develop a smaller version of the format for mobile phones, according to sources.

  • Age has not wearied them

    Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.

  • CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11.0: Suite deal

    Any suite that contains CorelDraw gets our vote, and the other apps in this package only add to CorelDraw's appeal. Even though Adobe Photoshop is the top image editor in its class, you won't find another suite deal like this one.

  • Avoid injury in the DVD standards war

    Personal computing, the Internet, and home entertainment are on a collision course. This could wind up being that wonderful 'synergy' they talk about in those pop-business books, or it could be a train wreck. The events of the PC Expo in New York this week may give us a clue as to which will occur.

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