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The article focuses on the Variable Data Printing (VDP) for joining the industry furniture in Australia. The variety of VDP applications that range from simple business agreement with the basic information was changing through its direct mail applications. The issue regarding the variable information languages had been develop specifically to obtain page description languages. Printer Command Language (PLC) is a printer protocol that was produced by Hewlett Packard in 1980 for early inkjet printers.

The article focuses on the refusal of the world's largest search engine companies to support the automated content access protocol (ACAP). It relates that the protocol will acknowledge publishers' rights to control their content once it is captured by search engines. However, the author notes that Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. decline to support the protocol, instead they continue to endorse robots.txt, which only grants or denies access to a search engine's crawler to collect information. It also mentions that Google asserts that the ACAP protocol is incompatible with its search technology as its reason for not supporting it.

The article reports on the preparation of Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) for pre-existing governance organization in the U.S. ACAP was launched in October 2006 to encourage easy availability of high-quality online content, as well as to prevent legal disputes between content providers and search engines. ACAP is still waiting the responses of Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and Gavin O'Reilly to participate in the initiative. However, O'Reilly advises them to discuss with publishers, rather than concede them with copyright disagreements.

The article reports on the initiative of publishing industries towards international copyright issues. The Newspaper Association of America has participated in the establishment of the Automated Content Access Protocol in London, England. It is stated that the protocol is a joint effort of the publishing industries to open technical standards including control access to copyright material for newspapers, magazines and book publishers. It is emphasized that the standard will be designed to be agnostic of business models while ensuring appropriate distribution of revenues.

Introduces the Rendezvous, a proposed standard for automatic device discovery and configuration on Internet protocol networks from Apple Computer Corp. Submission of Rendezvous to the Internet Engineering Task Force; Advantage of the zero configuration technology; Features of the Rendezvous.