An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged e-mail addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.
A consortium of major technology companies, including newfound allies Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, submitted on Tuesday a proposed new standard intended to promote interoperability between Web applications.
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OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
Senator Coonan's office has hit back at Labor's communication spokesperson Stephen Conroy for comments he made about using VoIP over WiMax during a debate last week.
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An industry split over a key Web services specification could come to a head next month, when companies backing the proposal meet to hammer out details.
Web services are being touted as offering a wide range of benefits to organisations. But are Australian CIOs and IT managers in the implementation stage, or still assessing the options?
The Web's leading standards group has approved two XML encryption specifications, a move that promises to boost the development of secure Web services.
W3C has proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organisation's push to standardise technologies crucial to Web services.
In Mannheim, a preference for "open" standards -- not cost -- is driving the German city's shift to Linux.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
So far, the open source browser has been getting a free ride -- nobody is criticising it. That is, until now.
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While Symantec's protection is solid, the overall user experience within Norton Internet Security 2008 could be much, much better. Not all the features work together and use fewer system resources.
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