Standards Australia has returned an 'abstain' vote on the proposal to adopt the Office Open XML format standard as an International Standard.
Microsoft claims that Australia will benefit from "greater choice" if local standards bodies vote this week to accept the Office Open XML format as an ISO standard.
Guidelines for IT governance and project management are being developed by an Australian standards body. Is this what senior management are looking for when making their tech decisions?
With all our stockpiles of information, are we well prepared to predict our future needs? Not likely.
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.
Guidelines for IT governance and project management are being developed by an Australian standards body. Is this what senior management are looking for when making their tech decisions?
With all our stockpiles of information, are we well prepared to predict our future needs? Not likely.
One of the government's regulatory agencies is on the hunt to fill a newly-created head of IT position, bucking the trend for technology outsourcing in public services.
What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?
Data overload is hitting Australian IT departments, as CIOs faced with shrinking budgets grapple with new ways to meet enterprise storage needs.
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The latest notebook to jump on the wireless-LAN bandwagon, Toshiba's Tecra 8200 outfits a midsize corporate notebook offers much but definitely stretches the IT budget.
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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