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Effective handling and sharing demands in-depth interdisciplinary skills, which, along with industrial vendor proprietary formatting and data locking, makes essential information brokerage a challenging process.
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Audio and video programmes based on proprietary formats such as Windows Media Player are another challenge.
At the moment, the most attractive (or least unattractive) formats in the UK include AZW (Amazon's proprietary format), BbeB (Sony's proprietary format), ePub, MOBI/PRC (MobiPocket), and PDF (Adobe's Portable Document Format).
The company had a reputation on Madison Avenue of being unresponsive and forcing advertisers to use its own proprietary formats.
Each company's books are in its own proprietary format, and you can never sell or donate them.
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Vines and Instagrams are essentially proprietary formats that are closely tied to their platforms, and therefore it's difficult to show them in a simple, isolated way.
"But be in no doubt: the adoption of compulsory standards in government threatens to break open Whitehall's lock-in to proprietary formats.
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