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High-speed Wi-Fi standard nears ratification
News The latest version of the Wi-Fi standard 802.11n is close to final ratification.n is much faster and of higher bandwidth than its predecessor, 802.11g. Delays over the final ratification of 802.11n led many manufacturers of Wi-Fi equipment and PCs...
[July 23, 2009, 12:53]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. Jonathan Buck disagreed that the ratification of ISO/IEC 29500 had...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News ABNT also said it had decided to appeal as the final text of DIS 29500 had not been made available to national bodies, even though ISO regulations state that no more than a month should pass between ratification of a standard and a final text...
[May 30, 2008, 15:03]
ZigBee clears ratification hurdle
News Intelligent sensor networks moved a little closer to commercial deployment on Tuesday with the ratification of ZigBee. ZigBee's ratification has been eagerly awaited, but the companies pushing the technology still have much work to do.
[December 15, 2004, 16:20]
ZigBee clears ratification hurdle
Talkback how does zig bee differ from bluetooth/
[December 15, 2004, 18:00]
OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News Pepper resigned from the Norwegian committee over his country's 'yes' vote he also faxed an objection to ISO over the matter but, as the letter did not constitute a formal objection from Norway's standards body, it did not succeed in impeding...
[May 27, 2008, 13:54]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
Talkback I doubt Brazil, or South Africa's protests will cause the iSO to revise their decision. Enough money, or promises will be made to overcome the deficiencies of OOXML to remove it from the standard list.
[June 2, 2008, 13:51]
Microsoft muscles in on OpenDocument group
News Microsoft has joined a committee that has a key role in the ratification of OpenDocument as an international standard, leading to accusations that it intends to sabotage the process. Microsoft denied these accusations on Friday, claiming that it...
[March 27, 2006, 9:30]
Dell laptops offer draft Wi-Fi technology
News The draft specification for the next-generation 802.11n standard has been completed, but final ratification isn't expected until next year. But there's no guarantee that firmware will be able to accommodate all the changes that could take place in...
[July 18, 2006, 9:40]
400Mbps Wi-Fi standard back on track
News Final ratification of the standard is not expected until next year, and several revisions are expected to take place before that final standard is ratified.n will allow notebook users to connect to wireless access points at much faster speeds than...
[January 20, 2006, 9:10]
C# gains support
News Final ISO ratification is expected in January. Last week, an ISO subcommittee cleared the way for final ratification by the full ISO of C# and the required underpinnings called the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI), said John Montgomery, group...
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML
News However, OOXML may yet achieve ISO ratification. We are extremely delighted to see that 51 ISO members, representing 74 percent of the qualified votes, have already voiced their support for ISO ratification of Open XML, and that many others have...
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
US Report: Adoption of standard could speed acceptance of ADSL
News The ITU vote "determined" G.Lite as the standard, which means that -- unless a major flaw is found between now and final ratification -- G.Lite will become the standard for consumer ADSL access. Final ratification of the G.Lite standard is expected...
[October 23, 1998, 11:20]
3G: It's a standards thing
News An agreement thrashed out in Istanbul in May by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) saw the ratification of five world standards for 3G. Secretary-general of the ITU Yoshio Utsumi described the ratification as the result of "ten years...
[August 23, 2000, 13:28]
Microsoft Office Open XML gets US knockback
News However, a senior Microsoft executive said that no decision regarding ISO ratification had yet been reached by INCITS, and that a "clear majority" of the V1 group had been in favour of recommending ISO ratification.
[July 17, 2007, 18:39]
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
News Weeks away from a crucial International Organization for Standardization vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft's proposed Office Open XML standard, the software giant is engaged in a last-ditch campaign to convince the wider industry...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News The national bodies were concerned that third-party developers may have had difficulties converting Office binary formats to OOXML, referred to in the ISO ratification process as "DIS 29500". Software giant Microsoft has published Office file...
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Fibre channel competitor wins approval
News Companies have already built iSCSI products based on a draft proposal, but the formal ratification paves the way for greater adoption by storage companies and customers. Ratification of the standard means that end users can move forward with...
[February 13, 2003, 13:11]
OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
News However, Microsoft on Thursday told ZDNet.co.uk that the changes OOXML had gone through in the ISO ratification process had made it more difficult to support OOXML than ODF in Office 2007. Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the...
[May 22, 2008, 15:39]
