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RFID Certification Plans Approved
News The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) has announced it's working on skills certification for RFID. With a recent report from the Association finding skills in the tracking tag arena sorely wanting, CompTIA has teamed up with...
[March 10, 2005, 8:15]
Business Face Up To RFID Skills Shortage
News Companies looking to hire workers skilled in RFID have their work cut out for them, according to a survey released on Tuesday by the Computing Technology Industry Association, CompTIA. The results of the survey are based on responses from 51...
[March 2, 2005, 14:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It's about the current dispute between Microsoft and the EC, and it says that CompTIA (the Computing Technology Industry Association) feels that Microsoft is being hard done by. Today, we get an "open editorial" from one Hugo Lueders, Director of...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
Consider These Options For Web Certifications
News Many other topics Compaq Compaq Master ASE Internet/Intranet CompTIA e-Biz+ Electronics Technicians Association...
[February 14, 2003, 11:58]
Microsoft Launches OOXML Drive In Philippines
News Representatives from both Microsoft and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), in a briefing last week, said they will hold various campaigns, as well as talks with government and private-sector groups, with the aim of...
[November 15, 2007, 11:53]
CompTIA Sheds Light On SLAs
White Papers To help address this fundamental aspect of the software service provider relationship, the Software Services Group of CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, has unveiled its Global SLA Navigator, a comprehensive tool designed to...
[August 23, 2006, 1:00]
Browser-based Attacks Increase As Viruses Decrease
News On Tuesday the Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA, released its third annual report on IT security and the work force. The survey of nearly 500 organisations found that 56.6 percent had been the victim of a browser-based attack...
[June 15, 2005, 10:45]
Internet Explorer 'most Influential' Tech Product
News The survey was carried out by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a 25-year-old trade body which certifies IT professionals and is funded by major vendors, including Microsoft. Microsoft and CompTIA have traditionally been...
[July 31, 2007, 16:04]
MS-backed Group Lobbies Against Government Open Source
News The Initiative for Software Choice, which launched quietly in early May, is chaired by an industry body called the Computer Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), but its biggest software industry backer is Microsoft.
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
EC Rebuffs Microsoft Over Open-source Report
News The software giant also commissioned a respected university academic to back its case and enlisted the help of a trade association, CompTIA. The academic produced 44 pages of evidence supporting Microsoft's case, while CompTIA wrote a five-page...
[February 8, 2007, 13:41]
Calling IT Pros: The Jobs Are Out There
News Research conducted by IDC on behalf of industry body CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) showed that the skills gap is at its widest in the networking sector. Steve Gilroy, VP of marketing at CompTIA, said there are far more jobs...
[August 21, 2002, 10:03]
Experts Warn Migration Rules May Fuel IT Offshoring
News Matthew Poyiadgi, IT trade association CompTIA's European VP, added that barriers to skilled techies working in the UK could reduce the competitiveness of UK Plc. However, Marilyn Davidson, a director at Association of Technology Staffing Companies...
[September 12, 2008, 10:31]
Revealed: Tech Titans Of The Past 25 Years
News The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a 25-year-old trade body that certifies IT professionals and is funded by major vendors, including Microsoft, has released a poll that claims that Bill Gates is most influential person in tech.
[November 13, 2007, 13:08]
Poor Training Causes Security Holes
News A survey commissioned by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) revealed that 31 percent of companies have experienced between one and three "major security breaches" in the past six months -- characterised as a security breach...
[March 27, 2003, 17:14]
VoIP Skills To Gain Recognition
News CompTIA's qualification, called Convergence+, is aimed at IT professionals who want to prove their expertise in deploying a converged network. Convergence+ follows on from the rest of CompTIA's "plus" series, which includes A+ (basic computing...
[April 23, 2007, 14:20]
VoIP Eating Into Telcos' Revenue
News In a separate poll released by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), VoIP was named as the application capable of offering the greatest productivity gains by 34 percent of 500 respondents.
[February 10, 2005, 14:35]
'Default' Open-source Licensing Plans Under Fire
News The ISC is an initiative of industry association CompTIA, which represents several hundred proprietary software companies, including Microsoft -- one of the most outspoken critics of open-source licences.
[March 11, 2004, 15:40]
Bush Challenges EC Over Internet Governance
News The CompTIA trade association, for instance, has stressed that it supports a "market-based solutions" approach rather than expanded UN control. In a sign that traditionally obscure discussions about Internet control have taken on new prominence...
[October 21, 2005, 11:30]
Microsoft Opens New PM Career Path
News The PMI program beat out notable competitors, such as the CompTIA IT Project + and the International Project Management Association's Certificated Project Manager and Certificated International Project Manager.
[March 13, 2003, 15:43]
EC: We'd Accept Software Patent Defeat
News Industry associations CompTIA, the Business Software Alliance and the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association have expressed their approval of the EU Council's endorsement.
[March 9, 2005, 11:45]
