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Microsoft To Standardise HD Photo Technology
News Microsoft.intends to standardise the technology and will be submitting HD Photo to an appropriate standards organisation shortly," the company said in a statement. And standards efforts aren't immune to competitive jockeying: Microsoft has faced...
[March 7, 2007, 9:02]
Tesco To Standardise IT Systems
News Tesco is rolling out standardised IT systems across its international operations, with two major projects already underway. The giant retailer is implementing a set of new systems — dubbed "Tesco in a box" — in Turkey and at its new US operation...
[April 26, 2007, 12:49]
Oracle Collaborates To Standardise Suite
News Oracle has forged a handful of new technology partnerships with the aim of building support for its new email server software. The Redwood Shores, California-based company said on Tuesday that it has inked alliances with Symantec, Scansoft...
[February 26, 2003, 14:28]
Gov't May Standardise Public-sector Comms Networks
News The government is looking at the possibility of standardising communication networks for all of the public sector. John Suffolk, the government's chief information officer, has said the Chief Technology Officers Council is working on the issue as...
[March 12, 2008, 15:19]
OpenDocument Threat Emerges In Massachusetts
News The Massachusetts Senate has introduced a provision to an economic stimulus bill that endangers a state decision to standardise on the OpenDocument format. The introduction of the amendment follows a hearing on Monday where the chair of a state...
[November 3, 2005, 16:05]
The Manx Turn From Unix To Windows
News The Isle of Man Government is to standardise on Microsoft's Windows platform, ditching its existing Unix operating systems and choosing to not go down the Linux path that has attracted some high-profile public sector wins lately.
[December 1, 2004, 17:10]
PalmSource And Orange Team Up For Mobile Linux Standards
News PalmSource, Orange and several other companies plan on Monday to announce an effort to standardise aspects of Linux running on mobile phones. The Linux Phone Standard (Lips) Forum wants to standardise Linux interfaces so that higher-level software...
[November 14, 2005, 7:55]
Microsoft Wins Latest Round In OpenDocument Battle
News Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software. Microsoft executives said it decided to standardise...
[December 13, 2005, 16:15]
Linux Vendors Move To Standard Platform
News Several Linux vendors have moved to standardise their customised operating environments on a single platform, the companies announced on Thursday. The efforts of SuSE, Caldera and Turbolinux parallel the work of these companies -- along with Red...
[May 30, 2002, 9:43]
Vodafone Vows To Spike Mobile Platforms
News Both Microsoft and Vodafone have come to an agreement to standardise the use of Windows Mobile within our portfolio of phones," a spokesperson for Vodafone told ZDNet UK. If we look at parallel markets, the whole of the PC market began to take off...
[November 6, 2006, 11:57]
Open To The Public
Leader In choosing to standardise on OpenDocument for government paperwork, Belgium is sending a clear message to software vendors: Our information is too important to be left to the whims of any one company.
[June 23, 2006, 15:40]
RightNow Hopes For Premium Travel
News In the long term the online travel retailer plans to standardise on RightNow across its entire site. It makes sense for us to standardise with a solution that delivers the goods," he added. The online travel company Thomascook.com has ignored...
[October 18, 2005, 17:25]
Web Services Finds Royalty-free Oasis
News By seeking to standardise the Web services business specification through Oasis, backers of BPEL bypassed a similar effort by standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Backers of the W3C say it's a better forum to standardise Web services...
[April 30, 2003, 11:14]
Linux Standard Gets Powerful Support
News LSB is the latest in a series of attempts to standardise the Unix platform and related systems. Some of these standards attempted to standardise the programming interface of the source code, such as Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) and...
[September 13, 2004, 18:55]
Adobe Takes PDF To The Office
News What we've been hearing from enterprises is that they do want to standardise on PDF as the mechanism for how they share information outside the (corporate) firewall," Narayen said. Our vision for PDF has always been focused on broad proliferation...
[April 7, 2003, 8:27]
Antivirus Firms Rebut Naming Accusations
News Despite this, it can sometimes take weeks to standardise on a name, according to Banes. Although most antivirus companies support a system to standardise virus names in principle, none of them expect to see any advancement in this area anytime soon.
[January 9, 2003, 10:06]
Java: Smart Light Switches?
News One of our customers uses Java to send updates on measurements, but they only do so through their own employees, so for them to standardise is not that important. The more open you make the device, the more you have to standardise," says marketing...
[September 21, 1999, 15:32]
Execs Warned: Don't Ignore Spam Menace
News Wong himself has filed with the IETF to standardise SPF. Yahoo has also filed to standardise DomainKeys. Internet users beware: Laziness has dire consequences. As technology executives hunker down for a prolonged battle against spammers and virus...
[December 3, 2004, 14:15]
ODF Summit Joins Open Source Activists
News The OASIS committees will seek to improve OpenDocument-based products for people with disabilities, add digital rights management features that would interoperate with Microsoft Office-based DRM systems and standardise spreadsheet formula formats...
[November 10, 2005, 14:35]
Austrian Tourist Office Makes 50 Per Cent Efficiency Gains With Portal Solution
White Papers The Austrian National Tourist Office (ANTO) wanted to standardise the delivery of destination information to prospective visitors who contact its 30 offices worldwide. Austria, which ranks seventh on the World Tourism Organisation list of...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
