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German Clinical Development Service Organization, Accovion, Uses SAS Solutions for Faster Drug Approval and Delivery
White Papers At the request of its clients, Accovion plans and conducts national and international clinical studies which are used to prove the efficacy and tolerance of drugs - from the first clinical tests to the final marketing approval of the drug by...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft wins battle for OOXML approval
News Three-quarters of the "Principal Countries" involved in the vote gave their approval (at least two-thirds were needed) and just 14 percent of participating members of ISO and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) disapproved (under a...
[April 2, 2008, 8:32]
Psion's Symbian sell-off hangs on German approval
News Psion's attempt to sell its stake in Symbian to Nokia is waiting on the approval of Germany's competition authorities. Even if approval is given, Nokia won't necessarily win all 31 percent of the stake, though, as other shareholders would have the...
[May 6, 2004, 17:10]
AOL-Time Warner deal on verge of approval
News The megamerger between Internet giant America Online and media goliath Time Warner could win final approval by the Federal Communications Commission as early as Wednesday, according to reports. The FCC, which missed its targeted deadline last month...
[January 10, 2001, 14:21]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News IBM and Cisco Systems are among the early backers of iSCSI, but Mackin said he expects a large number of companies to come out with products this year, now that the standard has won final approval. A key standards body has given its blessing for a...
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
Stronger Wi-Fi security spec nearing approval
News A Wi-Fi security standard awaiting final approval is intended to restore confidence in a market damaged by previous weak specifications. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers standards board will decide on Thursday whether the...
[June 24, 2004, 9:00]
G.Lite approval paves way for US broadband
News That vision came a step closer to reality Tuesday with the approval in America of G.Lite, a standard for digital subscriber lines (DSL) that makes the technology easier to install for consumers, and easier to roll out for service providers.
[June 24, 1999, 9:32]
XML on its way to Web approval
News The W3C's recommendation process is intended to suggest a specification is stable and has been examined with members' approval. XML, a subset of SGML (Standard Generalised Markup Language), is a system for defining and collaborating on Web documents.
[February 11, 1998, 13:53]
US Wi-Fi hot spots to get seal of approval
News A group whose certification mark for wireless gear is considered essential by US manufacturers has now developed a seal of approval for commercial wireless "hot spots," places where wireless Web access is available to the public for a fee.
[January 10, 2003, 11:22]
Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal of approval
News The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. In an open letter sent to Microsoft, the organisers of the Xbox Linux Project requested that the software giant...
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
AMD grants win EU approval
News With this approval, our new project has passed a key financial milestone as we begin the process of building, equipping and ramping the new fab," Bob Rivet, chief financial officer of AMD, said in a statement.
[February 6, 2004, 15:30]
Microsoft Open XML moves closer to approval
News Office Open XML (OOXML) was approved as an Ecma International standard in December and submitted to the ISO for so-called fast-track approval. Ecma International said on Monday that Office Open XML, the document format for the latest version of...
[April 5, 2007, 8:43]
Apple details App Store approval process
News Apple has broken its silence over how its App Store approval process works, in answer to queries from the US Federal Communications Commission. The company has not publicly discussed in detail how developer-created applications are approved for the...
[August 24, 2009, 15:50]
Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval
News Sun has secured a crucial approval in its plan to make its Solaris operating system an open source project, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. In December, Sun submitted its Community Development and Distribution License, or CDDL, for...
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
Solaris licence gets OSI approval
News The Open Source Initiative's licence approval committee has given a vote of support to Sun's licence. In late December, the committee recommended that Sun's Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL) be granted official status as an open...
[January 5, 2005, 11:35]
AMD chips win broader Dell approval
Talkback I wont be buying an AMD dell machine, ill just stick with the good and trusted intel as always!
[August 18, 2006, 14:09]
Voice interaction spec nears approval
News After more than a year in development, a Web specification for computer-voice interaction has advanced to the next-to-last phase before becoming a standard. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) on Monday published VoiceXML 2.0 as a proposed...
[February 4, 2004, 9:40]
ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'
News In its research note, ISO Approval of OASIS OpenDocument is a Blow to Microsoft, Gartner advised vendors to "seek opportunities to leverage ODF". A couple of days after OpenDocument's ISO approval, sources at the EC told ZDNet UK that it is...
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
DVD standard wins approval
News The DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, granted approval of the Toshiba and NEC format, called HD DVD, the Associated Press reported on Friday. The approval is limited to "read-only" DVD players, with...
[December 1, 2003, 8:30]
Linux wins approval from the taxman
Talkback This will become more common over time. Governments and other organizations around the world will standardize using OpenDocument - something MS Office doesn't support.
[October 28, 2005, 7:01]
