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  • United States set to vote 'yes' on OOXML

    The US seems set to vote for Microsoft's Open XML (OOXML) file format be ratified as an international standard; the chair of its technical committee said opposition to the file format was based on spite and anti-Microsoft sentiment.

  • A change in whitehouse.gov

    The countdown is on to the moment the whitehouse.gov site is revamped and, oh yes, the moment that Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.

  • Citrix hikes prices worldwide

    Virtualisation and remote access specialist Citrix Systems yesterday told customers it would hike prices by 10 per cent in all countries except the United States, due to the changing value of the US dollar.

  • Yahoo sticks up search suite with Glue

    Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a new way to present search results that take advantage of its background as an Internet portal.

  • First upgrade on Southern Cross Cable complete

    The first stage of an upgrade of the submarine Southern Cross Cable linking New Zealand and Australia to the United States has added 260Gbps.

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  • Uncloaking the US Patriot Act

    More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.

  • China, US resolve chip tax issues

    China has agreed to phase out an oft-criticised tax that US companies complained discriminated against foreign semiconductor makers, the latest step in improving relations.

  • US labour group: MS offshoring Longhorn work

    Microsoft is outsourcing some of the work related to its next-generation operating system to India, according to a labour group.

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  • MIT, US Army open nanotech center

    Research at the center is geared toward creating battlefield armor for the 21st century, such as bacteria-killing materials and expanding fabrics that could be used as tourniquets.

  • Frequent fliers: The biometric guinea pigs

    Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.

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