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It's easy to be cynical about 10 Downing Street's e-petitions (I should know). But here's a case where it might even have done...

I've written a lot here and elsewhere about Microsoft's faux-open file format OOXML. I've also noted that there is an unhealt...

In a move that seems like a great model of public and private cooperation, the National Archives and Amazon.com have reached a pact under wh...

As you may have noticed, there is a big bust-up over office file formats going on at the moment. On the one hand, we have ODF, which is a c...

Well, now, here's some progress : The OFT's market study into the commercial use of public information has found that more competiti...

This press release from the US National Archives raises a key issue for the digital age: the need for archives to act in a completely trans...

Another day, another Google launch. As the official Google blog announced , the company is launching a pilot programme to digitise national...