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IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News Unless the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and other bodies are open and accountable, IBM could bow out of their standards work, according to a new IT standards policy the company issued today.
[September 23, 2008, 16:03]
Microsoft agrees to work with German security bodies
News The agreement, signed by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Interior Minister Otto Schily, commits Microsoft to working with several security-related bodies and supporting a German standard for secure legal transactions.
[May 4, 2004, 8:55]
Government bodies 'embracing open source'
News Governmental bodies have approved at least 90 initiatives involving open-source software, a Washington think tank has found. The efforts include measures to investigate open-source software or give it preference in purchasing decisions, according...
[September 3, 2004, 10:55]
ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News ISO's statement acknowledged the "significant debate" that has surrounded OOXML's passage through the standardisation process, and said experiences from that process would "provide important input to ISO and IEC and their respective national...
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
Intel's floating bodies
Blog Intel got on the phone on Monday to tell us chip-centric hacks about a bunch of papers the company was presenting to the 2008 Symposium on VLSI Technology in Hawaii. I've been trying to turn the notes from that briefing into a full news story, but...
[June 19, 2008, 8:03]
Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks for Exploration of Solar-System Bodies
White Papers This work evaluates the exploration of the Solar system by ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), i.e.networks where all nodes (either moving or stationary) can both provide and relay data. The two aspects of self-organization and localization are...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Higher-education bodies warned over XML transition
News The Joint Information Systems Committee has published a report highlighting the need for co-ordinated action to help the higher-education sector make a cost-effective switch to XML-based office-document formats.
[August 9, 2007, 17:17]
Public-sector bodies sing Windows Vista's praises
News Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, launched in January 2007, has received a mixed response. There is also still a strong inclination among the company's user base to cling on to older iterations of Windows because of concerns about Vista's...
[June 2, 2008, 8:26]
ThreeBody
Downloads The program ThreeBody illustrates some solutions of the 3 bodies problem in celestial mechanic. It's a scientific program for a general public: its aim is to remain us a fundamental idea, i.e.that even in the case of a perfectly deterministic...
[March 1, 2009, 17:50]
Government approach to IT recycling under fire
News Public-sector bodies could raise an extra £70m each year on the resale costs of IT equipment according to a National Audit Office report released on Tuesday. In the 2005/06 financial year, public bodies bought 1.7 million units of IT equipment, at...
[August 1, 2007, 8:50]
Cavendish Screensaver
Downloads The screensaver generates a 3D universe with randomly distributed bodies and then uses OpenGL to display the evolution of the system due to gravity. The screensaver is fully customizable, with support for user modification of nineteen different...
[September 24, 2009, 17:10]
SI Swimsuit
Downloads - Mobile Application Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is filled with photos of bronzed skin, sun-kissed hair and wet bodies - all direct from the pages of SI to you. And there is always something for your taste - whether its sultry supermodels in exotic...
[March 31, 2009, 8:00]
BT project brings broadband to regions
News The availability of broadband Internet services in remote and rural areas could increase if a trial project involving BT and public bodies in Cornwall is a success. A number of bodies are contributing a total of £10m to finance ACT NOW.
[December 11, 2001, 12:17]
Is Nigeria Ripe for M-Govt?
Blog The Nigerian e-Govt initiative despite its moribund nature is still being held on to by international bodies as a road map for achieving the right citizens-government interactions across Africa. While mobile technology with private sector...
[July 23, 2008, 14:54]
SI Swimsuit
Downloads - Mobile Application Sports Illustrated Swimsuit is filled with photos of bronzed skin, sun-kissed hair and wet bodies - all direct from the pages of SI to you. And there is always something for your taste - whether its sultry supermodels in exotic...
[July 28, 2009, 8:00]
ISO or Microsoft ?
Talkback "Delegates from 15 national standards bodies unanimously agreed to send the message to Oasis, because they are unhappy with its work maintaining ODF, said Alex Brown, convenor of WG1, a working group within SC 34.
[October 7, 2008, 11:58]
Japan plans super grid computer
News The Japanese government, commercial bodies and universities have launched a scheme to develop one of the world's fastest supercomputers by linking smaller computers around the country in a grid. Naregi will also work with international grid...
[July 11, 2003, 8:57]
Government broadband scheme abandoned
News A government initiative to save £200m on the UK's £1bn broadband bill using regional aggregation bodies to pool public sector buying power has led to savings of just £3.5m to date. The future of the regional aggregation bodies -- known as adits...
[November 29, 2004, 13:55]
I disagree
Talkback "However, van den Beld argued that national bodies had more than enough time, from September 2007 to last month's ballot meeting, to resolve issues pertaining to the OOXML specification. It is not for the national bodies to rectify the defects and...
[March 25, 2008, 14:15]
ThreeBody
Downloads The program ThreeBody illustrates some solutions of the 3 bodies problem in celestial mechanic. It's a scientific program for a general public: its aim is to remind us of a fundamental idea, i.e.that even in the case of a perfectly...
[January 10, 2008, 7:00]
