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WEEE Directive Being Recast (2012)- What for the UK?

...so apparent than where a business holds or intents to hold ISO (international Standards Organisation) certification simply because an added "Duty" is placed upon the... Read more

30 January, 2012

MP3: You can't stop the music ...

...1 was born in 1992 after the MPEG organisation met with the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). It featured audio... Read more

10 April, 2000 by Giancarlo Varanini

Is it really legal to have MP3s?

Perhaps one of the biggest questions surrounding MP3s is the question of legality. Depending on whom you talk to, MP3s are both legal and illegal Read more

10 April, 2000 by Giancarlo Varanini

The Napster controversy

The muddy waters of pirate music Read more

10 April, 2000 by Giancarlo Varanini

Geekender Gallery: Top 10 usability greats

1993 ISO Standard 9241 The International Standards Organisation isn't guaranteed to make your heart skip a beat... Read more

11 September, 2009 by Joanna Bawa

Berners-Lee sketches out plan for gov't data

...metadata web specifications developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international standards organisation set up by Berners-Lee. In addition, Berners-Lee suggested... Read more

26 June, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes

More than 30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to... Read more

28 February, 2008 by Marcus Browne

An end to the software police?

The International Standards Organisation (ISO) finally published its standard for software asset management (SAM... Read more

10 May, 2006 by Colin Barker

The new standard for software assets

...indicates that interest in this sector is growing, and comes as the International Standards Organisation (ISO) gears up to ratify the first internationally recognised standard... Read more

27 April, 2006 by Colin Barker

Sun pushes towards OASIS standard

...IDA recommends going a step further and submitting the format to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) for adoption as a global standard. In addition to... Read more

1 October, 2004 by David Becker

.Net under the microscope

...as international standards, first by the ECMA organisation and latterly by the International Standards Organisation in April, 2003, as ISO/IEC 23270 (C#), ISO/IEC... Read more

5 August, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Demystifying regular expressions

...number of iterations, and the current standard is kept by the ISO (International Standards organisation) and defined by The Open Group, a collaborative effort of... Read more

9 June, 2002 by Shelley Doll

PKI investigation labelled a waste of time and money

...digital certificate standard X509 promoted by the International Telecoms Union (ITU) and International Standards Organisation (ISO). Lofthouse added: "PKI is not a difficult technology to... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Sally Watson

A Year Ago: MP4 gets cool welcome, but 'resistance is futile...'

...with MPEG-4, an audio and video compression format endorsed by the International Standards Organisation as an open standard for media delivery. There is no... Read more

19 January, 2000 by Jane Wakefield

XML 4: Of all the mark-ups in all the WWW, why walk into XML?

...in HTML, as have many of the W3C's. Also the ISO (International Standards Organisation) has standardised HTML in the conviction that HTML will persist... Read more

10 November, 1999 by Dave Wilby

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