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    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.

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    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.

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    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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    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.

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    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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