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1. Software tools in seven Indian languages (Mailing List Manager) 2. Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a standard (Farooque Shaheen)

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:48 +0530 (IST) From: Mailing List Manager <mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Software tools in seven Indian languages To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID:

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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 18:37:24 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun@mssrf.res.in>

CDAC to launch software tools in seven Indian languages Sapna Agarwal / Mumbai/ Pune=A0December 07, 2006 The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) is all set to launc= h software tools in Punjabi, Marathi, Malyalam, Kannada, Assamese, Bengali = and Oriya by March 2007. =A0 The company had launched Hindi, Tamil, Telgu and Urdu regional language sof= tware tools in 2005. =A0 =93The new software incorporates customer requirements for a localised vers= ion of open source software for email client, multi protocol messenger, bro= wser and office suite besides a content management tool. It contains the st= andard key board drivers, text speech and converters to change from true ty= pe to open type fonts. A new feature called queters, a =91Do It Yourself=92= software kit to increase speed of typing, has been introduced and even the= terminology is a mix of layman and purists, as against only purists termin= ology,=94 said S Ramakrishnan, director general, CDAC. =A0 Mahesh Kulkarni, group coordinator,CDAC, Graphics and Intelligence-based Sc= ript Technology (GIST), said, =93The launch date was advanced from the firs= t quarter of 2006 to 2007 to incorporate user feedback in making the softwa= re more user friendly.=94 GIST is a technology that facilitates the use of = Indian languages in IT. =A0 The regional language software development initiative comes under the Techn= ology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) project of Department of Info= rmation Technology (DIT), Government of India under which CDAC is an aggreg= ator bringing together the work of different organisations under one umbrel= la. =A0 It is working with CK Technology, Modular Infotech, The Indian Institutes o= f Technology=92s (IITs) Kanpur, Kharagpur and Mumbai, Microsoft, Google and= IBM. =A0 CDAC is a part of a nation wide consortium of 25 institutions for undertaki= ng R&D in regional languages. The consortium is working on four projects re= lated to regional text translation and recognition. =A0 =93We are in advanced stages of development on these technologies,=94 said = Ramakrishnan adding that they have accelerated their focus on developing th= ese technologies this year. =A0 Ramakrishnan hopes to bag a Rs 8 crore project for voice-based multi lingua= l information access (V-MIA) railway reservation system. =A0 =93The project is in the final stages of approval by the DIT and Department= of Science and Technology and we will work in a consortium with other inst= itutions to develop the voice-to-voice information access system for the ra= ilways,=94 he said.

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 12:47:17 +0530 From: Farooque Shaheen <Farooque.Shaheen@caritor.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Microsoft's Office Open XML format becomes a standard To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Message-ID:

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At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML--a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office--was certified as a standard.

In addition, the membership-based standards organization voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organization for Standardization (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process.

These document formats are the default for Office 2007, an upgrade to Microsoft's productivity suite that was released to businesses late last month and expected to be available to consumers next January.

http://news.com.com/Microsoft+sails+through+document+standard+vote/2100-1013...

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