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Supplier Compliance With the Department of Defense RFID Mandate: Who Is Affected, When, and What to Do to Comply
White Papers This white paper provides information on the compliance requirements of the initial phase of the Department of Defense (DOD) radio frequency identification (RFID) mandate for suppliers shipping directly or indirectly to DOD clients.
[August 2, 2005, 0:00]
EU refuses to mandate broadband for all
News The European Union has declared that mobile and broadband access is not to become a given for all citizens. The EU announced the universal service obligation that currently covers fixed landline telecoms - ensuring every European has access to...
[April 13, 2006, 10:00]
A New IT Mandate for Eco-Consciousness and Sound Business Sense
White Papers Industry initiatives and hype abound today around corporate environmental consciousness and responsibility. Driven in large part by heightened consumer demand for environmentally friendly products and services, companies have responded to the issue...
[May 17, 2009, 1:48]
Sarbanes-Oxley - A Legislative Mandate for Business Intelligence
White Papers The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the most far-reaching piece of legislation affecting Corporate America in years. Ultimately, its purpose was to restore investor confidence in publicly traded corporations in the US.
[March 20, 2005, 23:00]
Should 999 support be a mandate or a guideline?
Talkback This is a tough question, because while I agree with the previous post that VoIP is set to become the vehicle of choice in the coming years, I also believe that the regulators must realise that if they impose mandatory requirements at such an...
[December 21, 2007, 14:34]
State Department technology under the spotlight
News Tuesday's attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon could put a spotlight on a long-standing State Department mandate to upgrade its computer systems to better prevent terrorism. Despite the long-standing mandate, several studies in recent...
[September 12, 2001, 10:00]
Should the UN administer the Internet?
News We tried to support ICANN as far as we could, but on the other hand you see that ICANN's mandate seems to be a little bit unclear. Created in 1865 to facilitate telegraph transmissions, its mandate has expanded to include radio and telephone...
[March 30, 2005, 16:05]
Survey on Adoption and Potential Application of RFID in the Government
White Papers The strongest driving force is the mandate imposed by giant retailers like the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.and the Tesco Plc.on their suppliers on RFID tagged shipments. Such mandate has led to increased demand on RFID and thus, the costs of RFID tags and...
[May 10, 2006, 1:00]
12 Basic Steps for DoD RFID Compliance
White Papers As a supplier to the DoD, a person may need to comply with the DoD passive RFID mandate. This paper will simplify the process required to comply with the DoD mandate and provide a common-sense approach to RFID compliance.
[October 5, 2006, 1:00]
PC makers consider child-friendly computers
News Computer and software manufacturers are responding positively to government calls to market child-friendly PCs, but cyberliberty groups warn against the dangers of a government mandate controlling UK Internet users.
[April 2, 2001, 15:33]
Driver shortage could derail 64-bit
News Attendees at The CTO Mandate event in London heard evidence that 64-bit applications and architectures could deliver significant productivity gains. The CTO Mandate was organised by the European Technology Forum, which is owned by CNET Networks...
[May 10, 2005, 19:10]
Understanding and Evaluating RFID Technology
White Papers The adoption of RFID should be driven by either business case justification or mandate compliance. It addresses important issues companies must consider when building a successful RFID program such as understanding the characteristics of RFID...
[January 4, 2006, 23:00]
MP welcomes UN indecision on Internet policy
Talkback The mandate of this group was to provide input to the negotiation sessions, not to negotiate. Wyatt's statements are not relevant at this time, as : a) In the first case re: failing to reach agreement - he is responding to something that does not...
[July 19, 2005, 15:10]
Ultrawideband legal in EU within six months
News Its status has now been reversed at a meeting on the 4th and 5th December of the Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC), a European Commission body which can mandate spectrum usage across the continent. He pointed out that if the RSC approves a document...
[December 8, 2006, 12:45]
German retailer opens RFID test centre
News Last year, the retail firm announced an RFID mandate requiring its top 100 suppliers to begin attaching the RFID tags to pallets of goods headed for the company's 10 central distribution warehouses and 50 of its stores by this November.
[July 8, 2004, 9:25]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News The mandate returning the case to the trial court will be issued seven days from Friday, the order states. Microsoft also asked the Court of Appeals to stay the mandate that would return the case to the US District Court for the District of...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Researcher slams open-source compulsion
Talkback In any event, open and free standards would make a great deal of sense to mandate. I can also see a strong argument to mandate file formats and communications protocols for which Free software support exists.
[September 25, 2003, 1:46]
Technologists assail federal Net-tapping rules
News The study, organised by the Information Technology Association of America, says that because VoIP relies on a fundamentally different network architecture from that of traditional phone lines, such a mandate would pose "enormous costs" to the...
[June 13, 2006, 10:25]
UK government to trial XML e-procurement system
News And even if we could mandate across government there is no way we can mandate across the supplier base. The government is to trial XML interoperability standards that will allow different departmental e-procurement systems to talk to each other.
[June 18, 2003, 15:32]
Mobile-chip firm rides IPO wave
News In the United States, demand can be largely traced to the Federal Communications Commission's E911 mandate. Under that mandate, cellular carriers must ensure that by the end of next year 95 percent of the phones on their networks can be located by...
[April 23, 2004, 13:30]
