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Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee, has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. Read more »

LinkedIn retrieves Australian domain

US-based business social networking company LinkedIn has taken action to retrieve the Australian version of its internet address from local digital marketing agency Clear Blue Day. Read more »

Microsoft Office 2007 is incompatible with OOXML

Word documents generated by the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, according to tests run by a document standards specialist. Read more »

OOXML just a Microsoft 'marketing tool'

The developer of XML and a former ISO committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's wider interests. Read more »

Microsoft struggling in aftermath of OOXML vote

The Microsoft-created specification OOXML is struggling to achieve the two-thirds majority backing of ISO members in order for it to become a recognised standard, the aftermath of a high-profile meeting has revealed. Read more »

WS-* debate rages on

Do Web services protocols help or hinder? Read more »

OpenDocument could 'turn the world inside out'

The data format standard has the potential to transform the world just as the Web did, according to a senior Sun executive. Read more »

Microsoft to provide REST support in Indigo

Despite lack of widespread enthusiasm for the architectural style, Longhorn's Web services system will have full support for it. Read more »

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What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it

The popular Web syndication's brand of flexibility promises to make life difficult for all those attempting to bring order to the natural chaos that defines the Internet. Read more »

Skills shortage: A thing of the past?

It's official. Read more »

Where's the simplicity in Web services?

Has Web services, the technology intended to simplify programming, gotten too complex? Learn how REST (Representational State Transfer) makes things a bit easier. Read more »

XML: Too much of a good thing?

Explosion of special-interest XML dialects could mean the standard is a success or could be the start of a new headache. Read more »

W3C members: Do as we say, not as we do

A simple study points out that less than 5 percent of the premier Web standards group's own members follow consortium protocols in building their own Web pages. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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