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Axioms For SNABOK, A System And Network Administration Body Of Knowledge: Missing Link Stage Of Ontology Process
White Papers SNABOK, a system an network administration body of knowledge, is coined as an attempt to complement the well-known and quite influential SWEBOK (software engineering body of knowledge) for the less prominent but equally critical profession of...
[March 3, 2008, 23:00]
Perens Takes On Internet Standard Body
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 26, 2002, 10:28]
Microsoft Patents Body Power
News Patent number 6,754,472 describes a method of transmitting power and data to devices worn on the body, and for communication of data between those devices. IBM's work, which was led by Thomas Zimmerman, took advantage of the natural salinity of the...
[June 23, 2004, 11:35]
Orange Sackings Over 'severed Body Parts'
News A source close to Orange claims the sackings at mobile phone operator Orange were over the distribution of images of 'severed body parts' rather than pornography, as was originally reported. Although Orange will not confirm the details a...
[September 4, 2000, 16:01]
Gov't Body Spends On Environmental Data
News A government body is to provide £10m for the development of data-gathering technology for dealing with environmental problems. The Technology Strategy Board is a non-departmental public body that supports the research, development and exploitation...
[February 6, 2008, 9:15]
UK Security Industry Gets Professional Body
News A group representing members of the UK Government, blue-chip businesses and the academic sector announced the launch of a professional body for UK information security professionals on Monday. The Institute will develop a core body of knowledge and...
[February 28, 2006, 8:50]
MP Calls For International Body To Tackle Cybercrime
News Speaking at the Webroot Spyware Summit in London on Thursday, Palmer said that a UN body could, for example, put pressure on ISPs to exclude servers that host criminal Web sites. The UN needs to have a body to ask ISPs not to link to servers from
[October 21, 2005, 17:30]
Government Body Says Developing Countries Need Open Source
News The commission, an independent body set up by the UK government in 2001, includes on its board Professor John Barton of Stanford Law School and Professor John Enderby, vice president of the Royal Society.
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
UK Standards Body Taken To Court Over OOXML
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Serious objections have been raised within the...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
Web Standards Body Finalises Anti-patent Policy
News The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalised a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
Auto Body Repair Shop Maintains Position On Cutting Edge With Wireless Operation
White Papers Barsotti's Body and Fender Service, located in San Rafael, California, has been in business for over 50 years and is one of the area's premier auto body repair shops. Barsotti's needed to streamline the process and make it more efficient.
[October 20, 2004, 0:00]
EU Body Slams Biometric ID Cards
Blog In a great article on an EU body's report on biometric ID Cards, "Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit", Reg veteran John Lettice concludes: Could we all be going to wake up in ten years time and conclude biometric ID was a...
[November 10, 2006, 16:41]
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Authenticated Identity Body (AIB) Format
White Papers This paper provides a more specific mechanism to derive integrity and authentication properties from an 'authenticated identity body', a digitally-signed SIP message, or message fragment. A standard format for such bodies (known as Authenticated...
[December 26, 2004, 23:00]
New Millennium Body For The Capital
News Any clash of opinion between the two is strongly denied by the Millennium body. Yet another Year 2000 committee was born this week -- this time to deal specifically with London-based issues. London Readiness 2000 will liaise with borough leaders...
[December 7, 1998, 15:08]
Security Body: Compliance Burden Will Increase
News John Colley, managing director of security skills body (ISC)2 claims companies will have to contend with increasing amounts of legislation around IT security.
[April 23, 2008, 17:22]
UN Body Promotes Open Source In Education
News A UN-funded body has produced a guide that encourages the use of Linux in educational institutions. The International Open Source Network (IOSN), which is part of the UN's development programme, published the guide to free and open source software...
[January 21, 2005, 10:55]
Microsoft Patents Body Power
Talkback Links to prior art abstracts: http://patents.oncloud8.com/? pns=US4755816;US5796827;US6104913;US6118882;US6211799;US6223018;US6282407;US6424820 This sort of idea has been around for awhile. I'm surprised that they pulled of so many claims.
[June 24, 2004, 21:06]
Microsoft Patents Body Power
Talkback Kick ass! The age of the Microsoft Cyborg is upon us!
[June 23, 2004, 16:37]
Australian Body Calls For Mod-chip Legalisation
Talkback "However, the mod chips also allow gaming enthusiasts to bypass features of their game consoles that block access to pirated game discs. This is not always the case. I run a gaming parlor all Xbox consoles in the United States.
[June 22, 2004, 14:46]
EU Body Slams Biometric ID Cards
Blog Comment I liked the report's point that once biometric details have been stolen they can't exactly be changed, as you could with a stolen password. The imagery this evokes is quite funny - or horrific, depending on your sense of humour.
[November 13, 2006, 15:23]
