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Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Authenticated Identity Body (AIB) Format
White Papers A standard format for such bodies (known as Authenticated Identity Bodies, or AIBs) is given in this paper. This paper provides a more specific mechanism to derive integrity and authentication properties from an 'authenticated identity body', a...
[December 26, 2004, 23:00]
Format String Attacks
White Papers The cause and implications of format string vulnerabilities are discussed. Format string bugs come from the same dark corner as many other security holes: The laziness of programmers. Practical examples are given to illustrate the principles...
[December 23, 2003, 23:00]
IBM To Sit Out Office Format Standards Process
News IBM is a big supporter of OpenDocument and intends to have that document format as the default in its forthcoming Workplace products. IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardising Microsoft...
[December 21, 2005, 8:15]
Ximage And WIM Image Format: File-Based Disk Imaging Is A Core Capability Of Windows Vista
White Papers XImage and the new WIM image format is a significant enhancement for Windows Vista. These technologies offer you a faster and more cost-effective way to deploy the new operating system. You have far fewer disk images to maintain, and maintaining...
[July 9, 2007, 0:00]
China Developing 'super DVD' Format
News Teams in China aim to release full specifications for a higher-end complement to the DVD format next month. The new format, called EVD (Enhanced Versatile Disc), will be playable only on EVD players and promises five times the image quality of DVD...
[October 28, 2003, 8:55]
DVD+RW Format Will Offer DVD, Rewritable Media
News Called Phase-Change ReWritable, the 120mm disk format specifies a 3Gb single-sided capacity. The group
[September 4, 1997, 15:45]
A While To Wait For A Truly Open Format
Talkback Interesting to note that the Groklaw legal/technology blog recommends in the light of this story that users convert their files into OpenOffice, before converting them back into a format recognisable by Office 2003.
[January 4, 2008, 10:49]
MS Office 2007 DOES Write OOXML As Its Default Format
Talkback Of course MS Office 2007 default format is OOXML. It writes its default files in the officecial Ecma 376 Office Open XML format to be found here: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm
[February 28, 2008, 19:19]
Palm, Adobe Team On Book Format
News Palm Computing and Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced plans to work together to develop a version of Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) for the Palm platform, which includes the 3Com division's software and hardware.
[February 8, 2000, 17:13]
Office Open XML Is The Default Format Of MS Office 2007
Talkback Put in it everything you like and save in the default format This is easily verifiable. Make a new file in MS Office 2007 Check the xml files in the OOXML package file (.docx, .xlsx or pptx) and verify them against the official Ecma open standard.
[February 28, 2008, 19:15]
Convert A Database To The Access 2007 File Format
White Papers The user can convert a database that was created by using Microsoft Office Access 2003, Access 2002, Access 2000, or Access 97 to the new Microsoft Office Access 2007 file format. The user should use the new file format whenever possible because it...
[February 18, 2007, 23:00]
TechNet Webcast Express: Working With Office Open XML File Format: Microsoft Office Excel (Level 100)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the benefits of open XML format. This includes creating an Excel spreadsheet and using the Excel XML container.
[March 27, 2008, 23:00]
MPEG-4 Format To Boost Digital Video
News An international standards team is close to approving a new compression format for digital video, promising improvements as well as a few uncertainties for emerging multimedia technology. Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is...
[October 11, 2002, 11:53]
Standard Coming To Virtualisation Format
News Major virtualisation companies are co-operating to bring some simplicity to the world of their mutual interest: the format used to save virtual machine images to disk. The proposed format, called the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF), doesn't...
[September 10, 2007, 16:29]
Open-source Music Format Ready To Play
News Just a few days after the world got its first look at the updated MP3 music format, rival open-source format Ogg Vorbis is ready to reveal a major facelift. On Thursday, the companies behind the rival MP3 format released an updated version of their...
[June 18, 2001, 9:56]
HP Large-Format Media Elicits "Oohs" And "Aahs" From The Science Museum Of Minnesota’s Audiences
White Papers The museum's state-of-the-art, in-house graphic production facility is capable of large-format graphics output and mounting - thanks to HP Designjet printers and HP large-format media. In 1999, the Science Museum opened its new 370,000-square-foot...
[May 29, 2004, 0:00]
Apple Will Support Rival DVD Format
News After years of backing only one format in the recordable DVD format war, Apple Computer is adding limited support of a rival format into its operating system. Apple, a longtime supporter of the DVD-R format, confirmed on Monday that it is adding...
[October 14, 2003, 14:30]
Property Format Specification For Device Metadata
White Papers This paper provides guidelines for vendors about the format and structure of metadata for their devices. Previous versions of Windows did not include a central place to expose device metadata. In the next version of Windows, a new shell folder...
[April 1, 2004, 0:00]
From Any Source, In Any Format, To Any Destination
White Papers Learn how to produce high-quality reports, documents and images from any data source into virtually any format, and then distribute them via email, the web, printers or any other destination.
[July 19, 2003, 0:00]
Anger Over DVD Format Wars
Talkback I think that its' absolutely disgusting that there is going to be another format war like Beta / VHS. It's about time that there was some sort of central governing body that decides on which format is going to be used to sell products to the public...
[January 16, 2006, 2:50]
