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Alliance promotes networked digital home
News The Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) plans to formally announce its formation on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The purpose of the alliance is to develop standards and promote the use of coaxial cable to send high...
[January 6, 2004, 12:05]
Wireless alliance touts 'magic touch' RFID technology
News Nokia, Sony and Philips have formed an alliance to drive the adoption and use of a new wireless technology based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) that will enable electronic devices to interact when touched together.
[March 18, 2004, 12:05]
IBM and Cisco forge closer alliance
News The two companies have unveiled an alliance to more tightly integrate Cisco switches and networking gear with IBM's management software, server and service offerings. An early example of the alliance will appear in May when Cisco comes out with a...
[April 29, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft and BT form broadband alliance
News The alliance between Britain's incumbent telco and the software giant will see both companies contributing development teams to work on some 30 projects, covering areas such as mobile technology, Web services, broadband portals and multimedia home...
[November 6, 2002, 11:56]
Chip heavyweights hope alliance adds up
News The alliance's main competitor is likely to be IBM, which recently expanded an existing chip pact with Sony and Toshiba. The beauty of this alliance is that it will dramatically accelerate the development of future technologies, ensure...
[April 14, 2002, 7:31]
Intel forms nanotech alliance to improve memory
News Intel has entered into a limited technology alliance with Nanosys, one of the more visible nanotechnology start-ups, to help the chipmaker overcome technological roadblocks in memory chips. Under the deal, Intel and Nanosys will work together "on...
[January 15, 2004, 13:05]
Google's Android Alliance gains 14 new members
News The Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the use of Google's Android mobile operating system, added 14 new members this week, including the world's largest mobile operator Vodafone. In addition to Vodafone, new members of the alliance are AKM...
[December 10, 2008, 10:21]
Liberty Alliance expands membership
News The Liberty Alliance Project gained five new members on Wednesday, boosting Sun Microsystems' effort to outgun Microsoft's Passport online identification system. The Liberty Alliance Project seeks to establish a standard method for online...
[May 29, 2002, 12:05]
Liberty Alliance demos technology
News Proponents of the Liberty Alliance Project, a group developing online identity standards, provided details on Tuesday of their Phase Two specifications and demonstrated new features. That contributed to the image that Liberty Alliance was anti...
[April 16, 2003, 9:57]
Wi-Fi Alliance defends early certification
News The managing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance has defended his organisation's decision to start certifying draft 802.11n equipment before the standard is finalised.n is the latest iteration of Wi-Fi, promising higher throughput, range and bandwidth...
[June 20, 2007, 12:26]
DataMirror Case Study: Health Alliance
White Papers Health Alliance Medical Plans offers quality health coverage to more than 232,000 lives in Illinois and Iowa that are enrolled through more than 800 employer groups. Health Alliance needed a solution in place that would allow them to transfer data...
[May 27, 2004, 0:00]
Liberty Alliance wins international support
News The Liberty Alliance, an industry organisation dedicated to developing standards for online identity verification, has added 15 members. The sign-ups broaden the group's worldwide reach in the telecommunications, government and authentication...
[February 10, 2006, 7:50]
Liberty Alliance takes on ID theft
News In the wake of several high-profile data breaches, the Liberty Alliance is branching out to take on identity theft. The alliance's Identity Theft Prevention Group claims to be the first to address the issue from a multiorganisational perspective.
[June 14, 2005, 15:50]
IBM and Nortel form research alliance
News The IBM-Nortel tie-up follows a similar alliance announced between HP and Cisco on blade server architecture in January this year. IBM has joined forces with Canadian telecoms equipment maker Nortel to set up a centre that will initially focus on...
[May 23, 2005, 9:20]
Yahoo and RIM extend alliance
News Research in Motion (RIM) has extended its alliance with Internet giant Yahoo in a move which analysts believe will help move its BlackBerry devices into the mass-market. The deal, announced on Wednesday at the world mobile phone trade show CTIA in...
[April 6, 2006, 15:55]
Linux Alliance protests software patenting
News International organisation The EuroLinux Alliance announces Friday an online petition against the European Parliament's proposed introduction of software patents. However, divisional director at the British Patent Office Peter Hayward says that the...
[June 16, 2000, 10:27]
US Report: Disney, Infoseek power alliance on Web
News The Infoseek partnership will "provide never-before-seen integration between content, search and other services, and this is not possible through a distribution alliance" such as the Excite deal, according to Winebaum.
[June 19, 1998, 9:32]
Liberty Alliance and Passport still poles apart
News The Alliance has yet to describe publicly how its technology will work, putting it far behind Microsoft's up-and-running Passport service, which Microsoft claims has 200 million subscribers. Microsoft would like to guarantee interoperability...
[February 20, 2002, 9:06]
Open Book Alliance to oppose Google Books deal
News The Open Book Alliance, a consortium that includes not-for-profit author groups, library institutions, and Google rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, launched on Wednesday to "insist that any mass book digitisation and distribution effort be open...
[August 27, 2009, 11:51]
OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about ISO certification
News The recently formed OpenDocument Format Alliance has expressed its confidence that the file format will be approved by International Organisation for Standardization next month. The Alliance, which was launched last month to promote the use of the...
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
