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Intel seeks new 'microserver' standard
News The computer industry is in constant tension between proprietary designs and standards that anyone may use. If the group's board votes its approval for the specification, group members may use the designs royalty-free, he said in a meeting with...
[October 30, 2009, 7:31]
Tory think tank proposes new data model
News Such an approach would require all public services to use open data standards to ensure that data can be easily and securely transferred from one data provider to another. He told GC News: "If you allow people to own their data it will free up so...
[June 29, 2009, 12:48]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News Apple in March said it was not willing to include the patent's 30 claims in the royalty-free licensing requirements of W3C standards. The consortium, which oversees standards including the HTML for web-page publishing and the Portable Network...
[June 18, 2009, 8:54]
Apple denies royalty-free licence to widget patent
News When companies participate in a W3C standards-setting process, they must agree to disclose relevant patents and license any 'essential claims' related to those standards to the group free from royalties.
[April 8, 2009, 9:25]
Vodafone exec warns against tech regulation
News Vodafone's global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, told a Westminster eForum event on Wednesday that following food riots at Egyptian government-subsidised bakeries in March 2008, the Egyptian authorities demanded communications data from...
[February 11, 2009, 16:01]
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News ISO/IEC standards have to be managed and published by ISO/IEC committees, even if they are created elsewhere, and ODF cannot have a free ride any more than OOXML, he said. Delegates from 15 national standards bodies unanimously agreed to send the...
[October 7, 2008, 8:34]
Big names drum up support for Asia Linux groups
News This exposes them to one of the biggest advantages of [the group], that interactions and knowledge-sharing has no barriers.a junior developer can ask questions and have an informal conversation with international personalities such as IBM's [vice...
[April 30, 2008, 10:00]
ODF supporters hold 'Document Freedom Day'
News McRae, also a member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (ITEF), said the goal of open document standards is similar to open web standards. From that perspective, we felt that the value of open standards is that it allowed the internet to really...
[March 27, 2008, 11:12]
Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact
News And as ZDnet blogger Mary Jo Foley noted, the ISO standards group is meeting in Geneva next week to vote on whether OOXML should be awarded official standard status. Sharing protocols, while it makes it easier for others to interoperate or clone...
[February 22, 2008, 12:03]
Microsoft: IBM masterminded OOXML failure
News As a member of European standards group Ecma, IBM voted against the approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an Ecma standard. Paoli said that Microsoft has never been an aggressor in the standards world and did not mobilise against Sun and IBM when...
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
W3C releases draft of HTML 5
News In order to preserve this information, we need to know how to process it even if the particular programs it was designed for disappear," said Charles McCathie Nevile, chief standards officer for mobile-browser company Opera.
[January 25, 2008, 13:59]
Cisco develops own Power over Ethernet standard
News Although Cisco is a member of the IEEE's PoE standards group — responsible for a global effort to standardise PoE technology — this development has been undertaken separately. Businesses that currently own those switches can install the feature for...
[January 23, 2008, 15:23]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the OpenDocument Format (ODF), as favoured by free or low-cost office-productivity suites such as OpenOffice.org, and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, which is central...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News The British Standards Institution took a vote on whether it would accept OOXML days before the ISO's decision, but it refused to say whether it voted for or against the specification. Neither group is willing to make the big changes required for...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
Microsoft voted 'Best Campaigner against OOXML'
News By pushing so hard to get OOXML endorsed, even to the point of loading the standards boards in Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, and beyond, Microsoft showed to the world how poor their format is.
[October 2, 2007, 13:00]
Legal summits to tackle Linux
News The Linux Foundation was created in 2007 by the merger of the Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group. The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux...
[September 12, 2007, 12:02]
Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks
News It's a very popular thing to say that Microsoft owns or controls parts of these specifications — the entire purpose of taking this format into a standards-based environment is to avoid this; it is precisely to ensure that people have the ability...
[August 31, 2007, 8:49]
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of Microsoft partner companies from several countries have joined standards organisations and have voted to approve the...
[August 30, 2007, 16:27]
Social Networking - the downside
Blog If you're going to be imposing moral standards, they asked, how about this? In particular, LJ hosts a large and garrulous group of self-proclaimed fan girls who like nothing better than to re-imagine notable fictional figures (male.powerful...
[August 24, 2007, 13:49]
Microsoft photo standard comes into focus
News JPEG 2000, a successor to JPEG that came from the same standards group, has been a dud in mainstream consumer markets even though it offered better compression quality. In coming months, 16 national standards groups will formally vote on whether...
[August 1, 2007, 8:09]
