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OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News The official standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format could be delayed after a formal objection was made to the International Organization for Standardization. The UKUUG is trying to get the British Standards Institution (BSI...
[May 27, 2008, 13:54]
EC raises antitrust objection to IE in Windows
News European regulators notified Microsoft it believes the software giant is in violation of the region's antitrust laws by bundling its Internet Explorer browser in Windows, the company said on Friday. The European Commission, which received a...
[January 19, 2009, 7:33]
Not inconsistent at all
Talkback My objection to Relax NG DTD Compatibility, is not that it is an OASIS Committee Specifcation rather than an ISO Standard. My objection to apply that specification is that ODF 1.0 does not claim to conform to the part of that standard that was...
[May 22, 2008, 11:35]
Couple object to AOL search for spammer's gold
News My husband is writing an objection, and I'm writing an objection to searching our property and also the interior of house — any kind of search," Peggy Greenbaum said. A small-town New England couple says AOL's search for a spammer's gold on their...
[August 21, 2006, 8:55]
Six thousand pages, one month, no chance...
Blog As part of this, the company has created (by itself, unlike Open Doc) a proposal for OOXML that is six thousand pages long, and then put it into the fast-track approval system with very minimal time for discussion and objection.
[January 18, 2007, 13:41]
Banks face prosecution over Indian call centre leak
Talkback Any objection of lack of data protection laws in India is raised only due to the ignorance of the availability of data protection laws in India. Any objection regarding “insufficient” cyber law or Data protection law is only a misconception and...
[June 23, 2005, 17:03]
Domain name price hikes attacked
News I have no objection to VeriSign's continuing to run the .com registry," said W.G. What I do have is an objection to it being done in a manner that gives a perpetual monopoly to a company with unregulated price increases.
[June 8, 2006, 8:40]
UN summit reopens debate over control of the net
News An additional irritant has been the Bush administration's objection to a .xxx adult domain — an objection that ended with ICANN reversing itself and rejecting the proposal. A long-simmering dispute over whether the US government has too much...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
Tapes containing banking details go missing
Talkback Any objection of lack of data protection laws in India is raised only due to the ignorance of the availability of data protection laws in India. Any objection regarding “insufficient” cyber law or Data protection law is only a misconception and...
[July 8, 2005, 18:37]
Microsoft's antitrust offering 'blocks Samba'
News In response, Gutierrez told ZDNet UK on Wednesday afternoon that the EC has recognised Microsoft's right to charge fees and protect its intellectual property, so the FSFE's objection appears to be with the EC's decision.
[June 8, 2005, 15:15]
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News An early objection to ISO/IEC 29500 was that Ecma was going to [maintain the standard]," Durusau said. Having lost that objection, IBM wants to avoid discussion of the same question for ISO/IEC 26300.
[October 7, 2008, 8:34]
Apologies
Talkback You're correct: My post was intended to be a comment on the story rather than a reply to your objection about the scope of the software. I misclicked.
[May 19, 2008, 10:26]
Misconceptions standing in the way of progress
Talkback I really think EU law makers missunderstand the nature of the web, their objection is based on the assumption that google would dominate advertising by stifling the competition.what they fail to understand is that unlike with Microsoft before...
[November 22, 2007, 23:43]
T-Mobile trademarks colour, issues legal threats
Blog Comment I don't see why T-mobile are making this a big deal, the only legal objection they may have is 'passing off', but as Chales pointed out above, engadget are not exactly using the colours association to T-mobile's to sell anything.
[April 2, 2008, 17:47]
Cameroon registry typo-squats .com
Talkback The Cameroon government owns the .cm, I cannot see any objection to this at all. Seems like a typical "America owns the world" type of comment. The widespraed use of .com / .org etc by companies (especially US) with no 'international' presence is...
[August 9, 2006, 11:29]
Government kicks UK when it's down with more ID Card news
Blog Comment If the scheme were just to have a sort of short form passport then I would have no objection. This is all rather missing the point. The NID database is what I object to. Why is it so important for the state to record where I live, every place I...
[January 30, 2009, 23:06]
MisUnderstood!
Talkback I was simply pointing out that this objection was somewhat disingenous; It is not based on his concern for you and I, its based on the threat they feel Safari poses to Firefox. David, i wasn't defending Apple, infact i've never used Safari or any...
[March 31, 2008, 18:58]
Personal Attacks?
Talkback Consequently what else could critics do but raise a lot of objection to the completely flawed process. Not that I have noticed any personal attacks, the whole process has thoroughly rejected constructive technical input from competent sources.
[April 15, 2008, 2:57]
Privacy Issues
Talkback I have been surprised that there has been very little discussion of this, and even less objection to it. I don't use the Google Chrome browser because I strongly object to the amount and type of information that it continuously sends back to Google.
[July 9, 2009, 18:22]
TMScripter
Downloads Like the branches of a tree, each prospect response, question, or objection leads to a different response or question from the operator, all designed to lead the prospect to a sale or appointment more easily.
[September 10, 2005, 21:39]
