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Google investigates Android app licence hack

...bit of coding knowledge, according to an investigation done by Android Police. Tim Bray, Google's Android developer evangelist, defended the licensing server in a... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Tom Krazit

XML expert brings blogging to Sun

Extensible Markup Language guru Tim Bray has joined Sun Microsystems' software group to work on XML-based... Read more

16 March, 2004 by Martin LaMonica

How does XML measure up?

Tim Bray and his colleagues in the World Wide Web Consortium had a... Read more

24 September, 2003 by David Becker

Ex-Sun director Bray joins Google's Android team

...Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and notable tech blogger, has left Sun... Read more

15 March, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'

...an international standard in order to forward the company's wider interests. Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog on Thursday that... Read more

18 April, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

...really be trusted to behave? We shall see," said Brown. Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to... Read more

21 April, 2008 by Peter Judge

ISO may change its processes following OOXML debacle

...its processes. You can read more in the story I wrote about Tim Bray (XML author) and Dr. Mason's comments about OOXML and ISO... Read more

18 April, 2008

Microsoft's OOXML limps through ISO meeting

...said Microsoft Office programme manager Brian Jones, who was a US delegate. Tim Bray, one of the original creators of the XML specification on which... Read more

4 March, 2008 by Peter Judge

OOXML debacle - time to take away ECMA's toys?

...this kind of abuse is going to happen again and again," says Tim Bray, one of the writers of the XML standard Read more

4 March, 2008

The Beautiful Code

...language, Jon Bentley, a renowned author of the book Programming Pearls, and Tim Bray, a major contributor to the XML and Atom web standards. It... Read more

20 August, 2007

Sun shines a light on open source

Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, talks about the company’s open source strategy Read more

10 July, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

Sun attacks Microsoft's 'open' efforts

...able to be opened decades later. Sun trotted out Phipps, XML guru Tim Bray and several other top executives the same day as Massachusetts held... Read more

15 December, 2005 by Ina Fried

Splogs: Wreaking havoc in the blogosphere

...of the blogosphere, I think we have an emergency on our hands," Tim Bray, Web technologies director at Sun, wrote in his blog in response... Read more

21 October, 2005 by Elinor Mills

Office 12 to support PDF creation

...d think we'd be interested in developing it," said Strange. However, Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, told the OpenOffice.org... Read more

4 October, 2005 by Rupert Goodwins

OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'

...on Thursday the OpenDocument format has the potential to change the world. Tim Bray, the director of Web technologies at Sun, said at the OpenOffice... Read more

30 September, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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