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Online ad squabble nears resolution
News A key Internet standards body is scheduled to issue new guidelines next month for counting online ad "impressions," a move that could affect hundreds of millions of dollars in contested annual payments from advertisers to Web publishers.
[October 22, 2001, 12:45]
US Report: HP's real-time Java causes break in ranks
News HP (NYSE:HWP) says the Real-Time Java Working Group -- which includes Microsoft , NewMonics and eight other vendors -- will meet on Thursday to select a standards body to oversee development of real-time extensions to the Java application...
[November 4, 1998, 11:49]
Security holds back Web services
News Last week industry pundits claimed that the submission of the latest version of the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification to international standards body Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) was...
[July 11, 2002, 9:08]
UN agency plans database of tech devices
News The standards-making body, which is a UN agency, hopes the programme will help consumers make more informed purchasing decisions, while increasing competition and decreasing prices. The International Telecommunication Union has announced it is...
[November 3, 2009, 15:59]
Microsoft promises Exchange improvements
News Akers assured ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia Microsoft would take the final specifications to the relevant standards body so other mail server software will be able to interoperate with Exchange.
[May 6, 2005, 13:45]
UK government to trial XML e-procurement system
News Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its own system that could be used as a model by other departments in an effort to prevent interoperability arising from a disparate collection of e...
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'
News Microsoft submitted its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA International last year, as a prelude to seeking ISO standardisation. A couple of days after OpenDocument's ISO approval, sources at the EC told ZDNet UK that...
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
Oasis sets out stall on Web procurement
News Oasis has benefited as large technology companies, including Microsoft and IBM, have used the organisation as an alternative to the leading Web standards body, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which last year reaffirmed its virtual ban on...
[April 29, 2003, 10:17]
Sauce for the goose
Talkback In the case of ODF, it is not an accusation, it is a fact: the purpose of the PAS procedure is precisely to rubber-stamp Publicly Available Standards already reviewed by another standard body, without extensively rewriting them, as it was needed...
[October 7, 2008, 11:48]
Microsoft loses key vote for Open XML
News IEEE, a large international standards body, abstained. Microsoft has failed by one vote to get the backing necessary for Office Open XML to become an alternative to OpenDocument Format as a standard of the International Committee for Information...
[August 13, 2007, 15:46]
IBM puts brawn behind business intelligence efforts
News Perna said IBM recently submitted to the Object Management Group standards body a proposed specification for managing metadata called Common Warehouse Metadata, developed in conjunction with Oracle, NCR, Unisys and Hyperion Solutions.
[September 23, 1999, 10:34]
Oracle: The new industry bad boy?
News Yet several sources claiming familiarity with the TPC standards-body processes say Oracle and Sun have been searching out loopholes to shoot down the Compaq-Microsoft results. In the same week that Oracle suffered through a public relations debacle...
[July 6, 2000, 9:26]
FTC limits size of Rambus royalties
News JEDEC is a standards body for various technologies and had accused Rambus of failing to disclose its plans to develop a version of high-speed memory chips while it was a member of JEDEC in the 1990s. DDR 2 SDRAM and other post-DDR Joint Electron...
[February 6, 2007, 12:52]
Patent holders on the ropes
News Patent holders have held the fort in at least one crucial standards body. The news in recent weeks and months has not been good for patent-holding members of standards groups, as one industry consortium after another has put the brakes on licensing...
[December 3, 2002, 10:31]
Open source 'will solve RFID's image problem'
News EPCglobal is the body charged with developing RFID standards. The public image of RFID as a secretive tool of big business and government could improve if open source groups get involved in developing RFID standards, according to one UK charity.
[November 7, 2005, 17:10]
Telco-friendly Ethernet 'ready for action'
News The standards will be referenced by the telco standards body, the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) -- in itself a very big indication of Ethernet's arrival in the telecoms area. New Ethernet standards and specifications are virtually...
[March 5, 2003, 8:36]
BSI silent on OOXML vote result
News If it is accepted as a standard, this could pave the way to government and public-sector body use. The British Standards Institution has sent its response to the International Organization for Standardization on the subject of whether Microsoft...
[September 4, 2007, 10:13]
Extensions are bugs, not features
Talkback World Trade Organization Appellate Body decision in WTDS 135 EC - Asbestos (March 12, 2001), para. Standards are about taking the feature war out of the competition game by specifying a standard product, allowing competition based on efficiencies...
[February 29, 2008, 17:28]
Firefox? Bah Humbug, I say
Talkback Your CSS-code should look something like this: html, body { height: 100%; overflow: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; /*Opera needs this*/ body background-image: url('demoback.gif'); and so on. Therefore, you have to set the height on each element...
[November 7, 2004, 7:01]
Government's secure shopping scheme condemned
News The initiative -- TrustUK -- is backed by Consumer Association body, Which? But Clicksure claims the protocols will not produce high enough standards and suggests the scheme is UK-centric. A government scheme to increase consumer confidence in...
[July 18, 2000, 12:26]
