MA OPEN FORMAT POLICY: STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT MORE NEEDED
Washington – Today, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Information Technology Division posted a new draft of its open format proposal as part of a periodic revision to its Enterprise Technical Reference [...]
ACT Executive Director Joins iPhone Mania
Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT and avowed Apple zealot, waits relatively patiently for his pretty new iPhone at the local Cingular/AT&T Store. He's number 6 in line…let's just hope [...]
Does the Free Software Foundation Have Brilliant PR People…or Stupid Ones?
I’m sure you are already aware, but today is a big day! REALLY BIG! 10 years in the making, the Free Software Foundation will finally release version 3 of the [...]
The power of technology
MSNBC today has as an interesting article on how technology is empowering Chinese citizens. A recent text messaging campaign by Chinese environmentalists that resulted in the construction of a chemical [...]
Number of cell phone subscribers passes the 3 billion mark
Reuters points out that, according to a report by UK-based telecoms analysis company The Mobile World, “[g]lobal mobile phone use will pass the 3 billion mark -- equivalent to half [...]
Danish government makes both ODF and Open XML document formats mandatory
In his blog [apptly named Matusow’s blog], Jason Matusow writes that “[i]n one of the most thorough and intensive periods of scrutiny for any type of standard, the Danish government [...]