Consortium Learns to Please 19 Bosses From Competing Companies
White Papers Such was the dilemma faced by the fledgling Embedded Linux Consortium as it endeavored to promote an underdog technology vs.the world's largest software company and the world's number-one ranked embedded software vendor.
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
Consortium to push Debian to the fore
News A number of companies are working together to promote the commercial use of the Debian Linux distribution, in a consortium that is due to be announced at LinuxWorld in California next month. Ian Murdock, founder of Debian and also the chairman of...
[July 26, 2005, 18:10]
IBM chip consortium pushes 28nm plans
News An IBM consortium that includes chip-manufacturing players Chartered, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics said on Thursday it is developing 28nm low-power semiconductors. The consortium also extended technology pacts between...
[April 16, 2009, 14:30]
Telcos consider consortium to fight BT
News Energis is considering forming a consortium with the remaining unbundling players to share costs, after talks between Energis and BT broke down at the weekend with Energis calling the unbundling process now partially "dead".
[May 8, 2001, 11:46]
Open source consortium wins EC funding
News A European Commission-funded consortium has raised over three million Euros to fund a project testing the quality of open source software. The consortium is made up from research organisations, consultants and those undertaking open source projects.
[October 23, 2006, 17:10]
PASS Consortium Brings Secure Financial Transactions to the Vista Desktop
White Papers One goal of the PASS Consortium is to establish a higher level of expectation around security and payment services at the desktop, using Windows VistaIP Commerce, a Denver-based software company, and several top financial institutions formed the...
[September 14, 2007, 1:00]
Consortium launched to support OpenDocument
News Source Consortium and SchoolForge UK. The Open Document Fellowship was launched on Monday to add momentum to what appears to be a growing movement to support the open standard for the production, storage and dissemination of documents.
[October 10, 2005, 17:50]
High-tech heavyweights form new e-business consortium
News The Business Internet Consortium, whose Web site will debut Wednesday, will work with companies such as Capital One and ImageX.com to ensure that their back-end software works with those of the companies' vendors and their customers.
[November 29, 2000, 9:05]
Web consortium issues privacy standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed a new standard for privacy online. The W3C, a Web standards body, has declared the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0, or P3P, a W3C recommendation, essentially endorsing the technology as a standard.
[April 16, 2002, 16:20]
Linux consortium takes on Red Hat
News UnitedLinux, a consortium of four second-tier Linux companies working to catch leader Red Hat, released its first version of the open-source operating system on Tuesday. And as expected, two partners in the effort, SuSE in Germany and the SCO Group...
[November 20, 2002, 7:58]
Webcast: Collaboration on the Edges -- How IBM Lotus Connections is Helping the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium Foster Knowledge-sharing
White Papers In this Webcast, Jeff Schick, VP of IBM Social Computing Software introduces the IBM Lotus Connections project with the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), a project that demonstrates how IBM is leading the path in helping...
[February 19, 2008, 5:51]
Web consortium to sync text with video
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chartered the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) to come up with a streaming text specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), that will synchronise text with video or audio streamed over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:56]
Toshiba jumps in to back CPU consortium
News Toshiba said today it will join the consortium, led by Professor Murakami of Kiushu University, which plans to produce a processor to rival the Pentium by 1998. So far the consortium has not yet been formed," clarified Angela Murphy, marketing...
[December 20, 1996, 9:35]
Sun Case Study: Advanced Airport Systems Technology Research Consortium
White Papers Ltd(ANA), came together to found ASTREC, the Advanced Airport Systems Technology Research Consortium, which studies the implementation of RFID and other technologies for aviation. In Japan, major players in aviation, including the NARITA...
[December 21, 2005, 23:00]
Alcatel-Lucent aims to lead 4G consortium
News Alcatel-Lucent said on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has joined with other companies to form a consortium to encourage the development of the next generation of wireless communications technology.
[February 17, 2009, 16:01]
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium Protects Data at the Top of the World With Symantec
White Papers A scientific research organization on Alaska's remote North Slope, the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) cannot afford for its data to be compromised. With hundreds of visits each year by scientists from around the world, BASC must meet some...
[August 25, 2009, 10:14]
MIT to launch Kerberos Consortium
News The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to launch a consortium to further the development of Kerberos, its single sign-on authentication protocol. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said the Kerberos Consortium, which will be...
[September 19, 2007, 16:04]
Mobile consortium releases first Linux platform
News Chipmaker Texas Instruments (TI) will be joining another processor manufacturer, ARM, in LiMo, the largest mobile Linux consortium. Unlike Google's Android project, which is a complete software stack, LiMo's is a middleware platform, allowing...
[March 31, 2008, 16:28]
AMD sees slow uptake for chip consortium
News "Producing the silicon isn't the difficult bit," said Richard Baker, regional marketing manager for AMD's PC products division. If the chip isn't compatible with existing [PC systems], it has to be out for a long time to be a competitor and get...
[December 19, 1996, 15:00]
Tech consortium to focus on sensors
News Boston University is leading the charge, forming a consortium to encourage businesses to use "sensor networks". The Sensor Network Consortium, which the school announced on Tuesday, has already signed up an impressive member list that includes oil...
[December 1, 2004, 8:20]



