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  • Ex-OpenDocument advocates opt for W3C alternative

    The conflict over document formats has taken a twist as some advocates for OpenDocument, or ODF, abandon the format in favor of the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium's Compound Document Formats standard.

  • Aust political party Web sites still not good enough: Hiser

    Major Australian political parties Web sites are still not demonstrating enough leadership to attract swinging voters to their cause, according to interface designing company Hiser Group.

  • Youth radio hammered over World Trade Centre digital photo

    Digitally-enhanced photographs are becoming a popular feature of many consumer Web sites, with uses ranging from marketing and promotion to reader competitions. However, the use of a particularly sensitive image to promote a branding exercise for Australia's publicly-funded youth radio network has sparked outrage, fuelled by articles and polls run on some of the country's dominant news Web sites.

  • Political Web sites not pulling in voters

    Political party Web sites have failed to comply with usability guidelines, according to research from the interactive system design company The Hiser Group, who said that the six major political party sites are failing to attract the swinging voter.

  • Governments vote against Microsoft

    Microsoft has had its share of bad courtroom experiences, but lately the software giant has been taking some of its hardest knocks in city council and legislative chambers.

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  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Get ready for the applications boom

    Will the NBN provide a boom for local application developers? If so, have we got enough local expertise to develop these applications? A visit to many government department websites will show how poor the user experience can be. With the new network will we just get more frustrated quicker?

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  • OpenOffice ready for world tour

    The organization behind OpenOffice on Wednesday released a trial version of one of the first major updates to the free open-source office software. A beta release of version 1.1 of OpenOffice is available now from OpenOffice.org.

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