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Politicians should stay out of Net policing
Insight perspective The law cannot hope to keep up with the Internet, and just hampers innovation, says industry expert.
Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government, Domain Name, OSI, monitoring, network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, ISO
TNT: Risk approach pays for supply chain security
News Logistics company's nine-month labor to improve security across its Asia-Pacific operations earns it ISO 28000 certification, and lowers customer claims.
Tags: Risk Management, Security Management, Certification, Security, Asia, Thailand, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, supply chain, ISO
Windows 7 beta 1 makes early debut
News Leaked copies of Microsoft's forthcoming operating system have reportedly appeared on torrent trackers.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Western Digital Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, operating system, Beta, Microsoft Windows, News.com
Hackers rumored to have cracked Windows 7 activation
News Chinese forum and others suggest a leaked Lenovo file of Windows 7 Ultimate has been used to crack the activation mechanism of the new operating system.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Piracy, Authentication and encryption, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, antipiracy, Microsoft Windows, Hacker, CNET Networks Inc., ISO
Singapore BCM Standard SS540: TR19 with a facelift
Blogs In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business...
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
BCM standard discovered in Malaysia
Blogs I have upbraided SPRING Singapore and the Singapore Business Federation for failing to promote effectively Singapore's e...
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News The country has joined South Africa in appealing the ISO decision to ratify Office Open XML as ISO/IEC DIS 29500.
Tags: XML, Standards, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Open Source, blog, ISO, Microsoft Office, Standards
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard
News The PDF (portable document format) gets ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certification as a new standard.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Geneva, ISO, image management
OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News South Africa's national standards body becomes the first to formally protest the ISO ratification of Microsoft's OOXML document format--a move that should delay the process.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Microsoft Office, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office 2007, Redmond, International Electrotechnical Commission, blog, technical committee, ISO
IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News In the wake of ISO's approval of Microsoft's OOXML, IBM has joined calls for standard-body reform, threatening to bow out of standards work.
Tags: Standards, XML, IBM Corp., Google Inc., India, Office Open XML, Open Source, Standards, Standards Body, intellectual property
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News The ISO standard for ODF documents is impossible to implement, says an expert who has now found both OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2007 non-standard compliant.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, consortium, intellectual property, Microsoft Office 2007, marketing
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover.
Tags: Business applications, XML, OpenDocument Format, India, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, Microsoft Office, blog, technical committee, ISO
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Joining South Africa and Brazil, the two countries have lodged formal complaints about Microsoft's Office Open XML being ratified as a standard by ISO/IEC.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Standards, XML, Appeal, India, Office Open XML, Open Source, International Electrotechnical Commission, technical committee
ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News Microsoft's document format is now almost certain to be formally published as an ISO/IEC standard within the next few weeks.
Tags: XML, Software, Business applications, Appeal, India, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office 2007, antitrust, Microsoft Office, European Commission
