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Cabinet Office: no lobby influence on open standards

...The government has launched a consultation on the definition of 'open standards' for government IT, while denying claims that lobbying from proprietary software vendors... Read more

9 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Web to get 'do not track' privacy standards

...World Wide Web Consortium has published the first drafts of two new standards designed to protect the privacy of web surfers. The draft standards, entitled... Read more

15 November, 2011 by David Meyer

EU goes global for procurement standards

...in the European Union will now be able to reference international IT standards, under new regulations being proposed by the European Commission. Public-sector procurement... Read more

2 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Adobe pushes standard for magazine-style web pages

...Adobe has proposed a standard that could make it easier to create web pages with fancy layouts... Read more

10 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

BSA: Open standards will 'increase e-government costs

...its IT costs rise because it has chosen to get behind open standards, the Business Software Alliance has argued. The BSA has reacted strongly to... Read more

1 March, 2011 by David Meyer

Government pushes for open-standard data releases

...Francis Maude has said that public releases of data will use open standards when possible. Answering a parliamentary written question from Labour MP Tom Watson... Read more

21 June, 2010 by Kable

Ad watchdog bites Motorola over 'most powerful' claim

...The UK's advertising standards watchdog has ordered Motorola not to repeat its claim that its Atrix... Read more

24 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Microsoft signs cloud deal with Chinese Linux provider

...Microsoft has joined forces with a Chinese Linux distributor, China Standard Software, to jointly develop and sell mixed-source cloud-computing products. A... Read more

23 August, 2011 by David Meyer

US Justice Department investigates web video patents

...The corporate wrangling over web video standards, already a technically and legally complex matter, is getting a lot more... Read more

4 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
W3C promotes HTML 5 with new logo

W3C promotes HTML 5 with new logo

...marketing. The new HTML 5 logo could help increase awareness of the standard. Credit: W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hopes the logo — shirts... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

W3C seeks help with HTML 5 standards tests

...make premature judgements regarding which browser best complies with the HTML 5 standard, and has asked for help in improving its tests. On Thursday, Philippe... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

DWP to run open-source trials

...The coalition government has appeared keen to promote increased use of open standards and open-source software. A year ago Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude... Read more

7 December, 2011 by Gill Hitchcock

Government: Half of IT spending to go on cloud

...longer term it aims for standardisation, with the mandatory use of open standards and commodity procurement.Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said: "This government is... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Mark Say

Mozilla revenues rise as Firefox battles rivals

...22m, according to the company's latest tax filings (PDF).The web standards Mozilla long advocated are now ascendant, though not without a lot of... Read more

11 October, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Government lays out cloud and open-source IT strategy

...duplication and waste, deliver common infrastructure based on a series of open standards, drive interoperability, and support the ongoing work of digital by default," deputy... Read more

30 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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