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ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News ISO's statement acknowledged the "significant debate" that has surrounded OOXML's passage through the standardisation process, and said experiences from that process would "provide important input to ISO and IEC and their respective national...
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
Microsoft agrees to work with German security bodies
News The agreement, signed by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Interior Minister Otto Schily, commits Microsoft to working with several security-related bodies and supporting a German standard for secure legal transactions.
[May 4, 2004, 8:55]
Government bodies 'embracing open source'
News Governmental bodies have approved at least 90 initiatives involving open-source software, a Washington think tank has found. The efforts include measures to investigate open-source software or give it preference in purchasing decisions, according...
[September 3, 2004, 10:55]
IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News Unless the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and other bodies are open and accountable, IBM could bow out of their standards work, according to a new IT standards policy the company issued today.
[September 23, 2008, 16:03]
Public-sector bodies sing Windows Vista's praises
News Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has received a mixed response. There is also still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows because of concerns about Vista's...
[June 2, 2008, 8:26]
Higher-education bodies warned over XML transition
News The Joint Information Systems Committee has published a report highlighting the need for co-ordinated action to help the higher-education sector make a cost-effective switch to XML-based office-document formats.
[August 9, 2007, 17:17]
Intel's floating bodies
Blog Intel got on the phone on Monday to tell us chip-centric hacks about a bunch of papers the company was presenting to the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii. I've been trying to turn the notes from that briefing into a full news story, but...
[June 19, 2008, 8:03]
Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks for Exploration of Solar-System Bodies
White Papers This work evaluates the exploration of the Solar system by ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), i.e.networks where all nodes (either moving or stationary) can both provide and relay data. The two aspects of self-organization and localization are...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
ISO or Microsoft ?
Talkback "Delegates from 15 national standards bodies unanimously agreed to send the message to Oasis, because they are unhappy with its work maintaining ODF, said Alex Brown, convenor of WG1, a working group within SC 34.
[October 7, 2008, 11:58]
BT project brings broadband to regions
News The availability of broadband Internet services in remote and rural areas could increase if a trial project involving BT and public bodies in Cornwall is a success. A number of bodies are contributing a total of £10m to finance ACT NOW.
[December 11, 2001, 12:17]
Snooping laws may be illegal
News Regulations being introduced in the UK and other European Union member states that allow a wide range of government bodies to access communications data may violate EU human rights law, according to a British privacy group.
[October 17, 2003, 10:05]
MPs demand tougher data-breach sanctions
News A group of MPs wants to see tougher sanctions for government bodies that commit serious breaches of data-protection law. The MPs call for the same basic data controller registration fee of £35 — which is paid by individuals, small businesses, large...
[January 3, 2008, 13:45]
Government approach to IT recycling under fire
News Public-sector bodies could raise an extra £70m each year on the resale costs of IT equipment according to a National Audit Office report released on Tuesday. In the 2005/06 financial year, public bodies bought 1.7 million units of IT equipment, at...
[August 1, 2007, 8:50]
Is Nigeria Ripe for M-Govt?
Blog The Nigerian e-Govt initiative despite its moribund nature is still being held on to by international bodies as a road map for achieving the right citizens-government interactions across Africa. While mobile technology with private sector...
[July 23, 2008, 14:54]
Two UK intranets make global top 10
News The two bodies were the only ones in the UK to make the top 10 of a global survey by Nielsen Norman Group (NNG), a US design specialist, on public sector intranets. The average size of the winning organisations was 5,200 employees, but their size...
[June 25, 2004, 11:35]
Government broadband scheme abandoned
News A government initiative to save £200m on the UK's £1bn broadband bill using regional aggregation bodies to pool public sector buying power has led to savings of just £3.5m to date. The future of the regional aggregation bodies -- known as adits...
[November 29, 2004, 13:55]
Japanese group wants more human faces scanned
News A group of commercial and government bodies have banded to promote the development of biometrics, or the technology of measuring human features for security and other purposes. Biometric security such as facial-recognition systems has become more...
[June 24, 2003, 14:39]
OpenOffice makes government inroads
News Two significant government bodies, the Israel Department of Commerce and the City of Austin, Texas, are moving toward replacing Microsoft Office installations with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
[December 18, 2003, 13:25]
SI Swimsuit
Downloads - Mobile Application Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is filled with photos of bronzed skin, sun-kissed hair and wet bodies - all direct from the pages of SI to you. And there is always something for your taste - whether its sultry supermodels in exotic...
[July 28, 2009, 8:00]
I disagree
Talkback "However, van den Beld argued that national bodies had more than enough time, from September 2007 to last month's ballot meeting, to resolve issues pertaining to the OOXML specification. It is not for the national bodies to rectify the defects and...
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
