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Committee calls for mobile phone health research
News The British Science and Technology Committee, not satisfied with the government's own investigations into the implications on health from mobile phone use, has called for more in-depth research. However the Committee believes more research is...
[September 23, 1999, 11:09]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
News Cable & Wireless was attending evidence hearings being held by the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport -- which is considering the forthcoming Communications Bill. Graham Wallace, Cable & Wireless chief executive, told the select...
[February 6, 2002, 14:08]
Oasis forms ODF committee
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has formed a committee to promote the OpenDocument Format standard. The ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) committee will comprise representatives from IBM...
[November 4, 2008, 16:39]
Gov't committee launches ISP regulation inquiry
News An inquiry into possible regulation of the ISP industry has been launched by a government committee. The committee will debate whether this legislation is still appropriate. The committee has called for submissions on five questions surrounding...
[April 23, 2009, 17:05]
Spam plan fails in EU committee
News The European Parliament is unlikely to announce a ban on unsolicited email, after a committee decided not to approve an "opt-in" junk mail policy. The EU Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs committee was considering plans that...
[July 12, 2001, 12:01]
JPEG committee refutes patent claim
News The committee that develops the JPEG image compression standard have refuted a claim by a US company to own a patent that gives it exclusive rights to the algorithm underlying JPEG. The JPEG committee does not believe there is any foundation to...
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
Committee urges gov't database prudence
News The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to...
[June 9, 2008, 8:31]
Health committee chair backs database plans
News The chair of the Commons Health Select Committee has criticised the doctors campaigning against the development of the NHS electronic patient record system. Although generally supportive of the government, Barron said the committee had recommended...
[February 28, 2008, 15:47]
Net phone security committee formed
News The Voice over IP Security Alliance, a recently formed industry group, has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. The committee will define security requirements across a variety of voice-over-IP...
[March 29, 2005, 10:15]
Global Justice XML: Prosecutor Exchange Committee & Global Justice XML Data Model
White Papers New Dawn Technologies is a member of the IJIS Institute and the Prosecutor Exchange Committee. This white paper will introduce the Prosecutor Exchange Committee and explain what GJXDM is and what it can do to help the criminal justice community...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee
News A European parliamentary committee is due to discuss the controversial global surveillance system Echelon and the involvement of European countries. The organisation is worried that European proposals for surveillance against cyber criminals is at...
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their internet service providers.
[July 8, 2008, 16:43]
ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog It's all a bit opaque, but the OOXML standard from Microsoft is maintained by a committee set up by ISO/IEC.called SC34. This committee has now - if I understand it right - offered to help Oasis, the source of the rival ODF standard (accepted as...
[October 5, 2008, 22:36]
ukuug quit BSI committee themselves prior to OOXML vote
Talkback I seems that the ukuug quit the relevant BSI committee a few months before the OOXML vote. We are very disappointed that BSI has chosen to take this decision against the advice of its technical committee.
[May 2, 2008, 14:18]
BT boss grilled by select committee on unbundling
News The telco was put on the defensive as the Trade and Industry select committee grilled managing director Sir Peter Bonfield over the way his company is handling unbundling the local loop. The committee was charged with investigating the process...
[December 20, 2000, 12:31]
MS Stuffs OOXML JTC1/SC34 Maintenance Committee
Blog What now transpires is that they have hijacked the committee and are not only stepping outside the established procedures but are also working towards amending the standard in order to make it compatible with Office 7, rather than building or...
[October 29, 2009, 8:09]
Public Accounts Committee attacks C-Nomis project
News Parliament's Public Accounts Committee has issued a scathing attack on the implementation of the National Offender Management Information System. In a report on the programme, the committee describes it as a singular example of poor project...
[November 3, 2009, 7:49]
MS Stuffs OOXML JTC1/SC34 Maintenance Committee
Blog Comment After reading the article, I'm not surprised at all. It is just Microsoft being Microsoft. The only way they can win is by underhanded methods. They can't compete openly and fairly. Looks like the ISO will eventually be a Microsoft owned entity.
[November 5, 2009, 14:42]
ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog Comment This can only be described as bizarre. But beware, it seems to me that it is the most bizarre things which actually do come to pass, especially when you are talking about bloated, opaque, byzantine bureaucracies.
[October 6, 2008, 8:49]
ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog Comment I thought I had heard it all, but this takes the cake. Causes one to wonder to what depth will Microsoft sink to have their way?
[October 6, 2008, 5:24]
