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Sun launches StarOffice 8
News Sun claimed that StarOffice 8 is "the first commercial office suite to use the OpenDocument format", a file format developed by the standards body OASIS. Sun released StarOffice 8, the next version of its office productivity application that...
[September 27, 2005, 16:05]
Mobiles to get PowerVR 3D this year
News Nvidia this week joined the Khronos Group, the standards body behind OpenGL ES, as did ETRI, Futuremark, Oki, Secret Level, TAKUMI and WOW4M. The first portable products using Imagination Technologies' PowerVR MBX 3D graphics technology will ship...
[January 8, 2004, 16:35]
AOL enters the rating game
News The ratings body, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), ranks games in categories ranging from "early childhood" to "mature" and "adult. We really think it's important for consumers to be informed and help them make the best decisions...
[November 19, 1999, 10:02]
Microsoft revamps Sender ID
News Microsoft has resubmitted the specification to the Internet Engineering Task Force, a technical standards body. Microsoft has revised its anti-spam specification Sender ID following the spec's near-death in the technical community.
[October 26, 2004, 8:20]
ICANN under fire for dodgy domains
News Smith concluded that the ICANN, the standards body for Internet domain names, is failing to "weed out such fraudulent identifications". More than 8 percent of all Internet domain names are registered with false or incomplete information, according...
[December 8, 2005, 8:40]
EMC promises bullish growth as rivals gather
Talkback The area was discussed in detail at last year's SNIA ILM conference in Long beach, with the industry’s leading body concluding that in the absence of industry standards, ILM is 3 -10 years from being realised, by any vendor.
[August 11, 2005, 12:02]
AOL releases new Instant Messenger
News AOL did say it would work with a standards body to develop a protocol for interoperability. America Online has released a new version of its Instant Messaging software with such features as stock tickers and graphics transfers.
[August 24, 1999, 15:41]
Sun attacks Microsoft's 'open' efforts
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has tried to satisfy its critics by submitting the file formats for Office 12 to Ecma, a standards body separate from the group that certified OpenDocument. Having an open, stable document format is necessary to preserve the...
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
IBM accused of lifting privacy language
News That specification formed the basis of IBM's Enterprise Privacy Authorisation Language, which was licensed to the technical standards body World Wide Web Consortium without ZKS' authorisation, according to the complaint.
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Exclusive: London company accused of PS2 fraud
News The Trading Standards body for the Docklands area said it has received a number of complaints against Games Master. London's Metropolitan Police is investigating a Docklands company that has allegedly defrauded customers out of thousands of pounds...
[December 1, 2000, 16:25]
Mono seeks to open up .Net
News To de Icaza, replicating Microsoft's hard work -- much of which has been published to standards body Ecma International -- will make other operating systems, notably Linux, more attractive to developers.
[July 16, 2004, 14:25]
Buffalo AirStation WBR-G54 review
Reviews However, since this is a draft standard, it's possible that it could be changed before the IEEE, the body in charge of this family of standards, ratifies it -- this is expected to happen in May 2003. The AirStation WBR-G54 uses a draft of the...
[January 24, 2003, 17:04]
Ten years ago: switching on the World Wide Web
News Kunz didn't invent the Web -- that credit goes to Tim Berners-Lee, an English researcher then working at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland and now heading the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C ), a preeminent standards body.
[December 10, 2001, 16:37]
Cisco offers tunnel-less VPN
News Cisco has submitted the idea to the IETF, an international standards body. Cisco is to offer a tunnel-less VPN, which could solve some of the challenges of securing WAN traffic. At the moment many organisations use IPSec encryption to create secure...
[December 8, 2006, 16:06]
Slammer: The first 'Warhol' worm?
News The findings come from the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), a US body largely funded by government agencies such as the National Science Foundation, and devoted to developing tools and standards for measuring Internet...
[February 3, 2003, 16:12]
Amazon's cloud gets multi-factor authentication
News The single-use passwords are generated according to a reference architecture provided by the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH), an industry body for authentication open standards. Users of Amazon Web Services are being offered...
[September 1, 2009, 15:45]
XML expert brings blogging to Sun
News Bray, who has been active in the debate over syndication formats, offered some comment on a proposal from Dave Winer, commonly considered the arbiter of the RSS format, to move RSS to an Internet standards body.
[March 16, 2004, 7:55]
High-speed wireless kit to be certified next month
News The publication date for the finalised standard, which has to be approved by standards body the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has been repeatedly pushed back. High-speed wireless networking equipment will be certified in...
[May 16, 2007, 16:08]
Microsoft to share more knowledge
News For example, Microsoft said in September that it would submit its Windows Media 9 codec to a standards body as part of an effort to win broader adoption of the format. Microsoft plans on Wednesday to announce a new programme for licensing some of...
[December 3, 2003, 7:50]
Secure Wi-Fi standard in 12 months
News A standards body called the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has been working to develop and approve 802.11i, a security standard that won't be finished for at least another year.
[May 2, 2003, 9:33]
