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Standards group focuses on Web services performance
News Hoping to accelerate the use of Web services, a standards group on Monday said it will create a technical committee to tackle the problem of managing Web services applications. The Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee at the...
[March 11, 2003, 9:24]
Standards spat could cause MPLS downtime
News Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area networks.
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
Data Collection (Case Report Form) Standards: What You Need to Know About CDASH
White Papers A Gartner business case for standards has identified the benefit of applying data standards in the start-up stage of clinical research studies to be in the range of 70-90% reduction in time and resources.
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid
News A European standards expert has defended the move to fast-track the International Organization for Standardization approval process for Microsoft's Office Open XML document standard, dismissing criticisms that the decision to do so is flawed and...
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
Standards
Talkback Where is the section comparing support for various open standards? HTML, CSS, XHTML, PNG, MNG, SVG: Open standards and specifications are the cornerstone of the Internet as they allowed it to grow into what it has become today.
[November 2, 2006, 0:23]
Standards, money and proprietary code: Why IBM passed on JBoss
News JBoss' Java application server contains a significant proprietary component even while it adheres to the J2EE standards. On a technical level, Gluecode's strategy better fit IBM's overall software strategy of sticking to industry standards.
[February 20, 2006, 17:00]
Wireless LANs - Standards and security
News By now, most of us have heard of the 802.11 WLAN standards established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). In this article, I will describe some recent standards affecting WLAN technologies and discuss the standard...
[May 8, 2002, 9:42]
Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy
News The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalised a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
TeleManagement World 2006: Committed to Standards
White Papers The presenter of this webcast explains how HP deepens New Generation OSS commitment with support for OSS/J and TMF Standards.
[December 14, 2007, 0:01]
Online cons slipping past Trading Standards
News The Trading Standards Institute (TSI) has admitted it does not have the skills or funding to police e-commerce shopping, and is calling for an increase in government and industry resources to boost consumer confidence online.
[June 21, 2001, 8:43]
Double-layer DVD heats up standards battle
News The skirmish began a few years ago, when a group of companies did not like the recordable DVD technologies developed by the DVD Forum standards body. One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
BT to build common standards into home-network kit
News According to BT, emerging wireless standards, such as Bluetooth will be incorporated once they are widely adopted. British Telecom has turned to US startup Home Wireless Networks (HWN) to supply it with the necessary technology to turn its vision...
[September 7, 1999, 11:14]
SOA-Enabling Standards: An Overview
White Papers The goal of this paper is to identify standards that help enable the creation of service-oriented architectures. Nowadays, the primary "Building materials" for SOA are known as Web services standards.
[March 10, 2007, 0:00]
SOA Security in a Federated Web Services Environment - Security Standards for Information Assurance
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the web services security-related specifications and standards with a focus on federated business architectures where data must be shared securely with other trading partners and...
[March 9, 2007, 0:00]
Massachusetts stands by its standards
News Massachusetts remains committed to using desktop software based on open standards despite the departure of Peter Quinn, the state's chief information officer and main architect of the policy. A spokesperson for Massachusetts Governot Mitt Romney's...
[January 5, 2006, 8:05]
Why Clinical Development Teams Should Care About Data Standards - Part I: An Introduction to the CDISC Operational Data Model (ODM)
White Papers Standards have the potential to increase the value of clinical trial information by allowing ready exchange among partners and integration for broader and better reviews; in fact, standards can drive innovation.
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Split threatens Web services standards
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems plan to submit a high-profile Web services proposal to the Oasis standards body, company executives said, despite an ongoing effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to sort through similar proposals.
[April 16, 2003, 12:59]
The Business Case for CDISC Data Standards: Affirmation and Implementation
White Papers This webcast will take information gathered from major pharma companies, Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and the FDA, and discusses how an organization can leverage data standards to gain competitive advantage, automate processes and lower...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Telecom standards face patent ambush threat
News A spokesman for the EC's Competition Commissioner told ZDNet on Wednesday that it is investigating the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), an independent organisation that sets standards in Europe, to ensure that its procedures...
[June 15, 2005, 17:45]
New front opens in Web standards war
News Web standards advocates are declaring victory in their battle over browsers, but as they turn up the heat on their next adversary it's clear that their longstanding crusade on behalf of elegant design principles is far from over.
[July 12, 2001, 12:45]
