GigaOM

Early-bird tickets for our first official GigaOM conference, Structure 08, are only available until midnight Monday, April 7th. Structure 08 will gather the most innovative and influential industry leaders together to explore the latest Internet infrastructure buildout. Among our scheduled keynote speakers are Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and Greg Papadopoulos, CTO [...]

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It’s official. The ISO has approved Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard. The move comes after much controversy, especially in the open-source community, where many people had been rooting for standardization of the competing Open Document Format (ODF). This decision could have major repercussions on open standards for years [...]

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