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Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy
News The Web's leading standards body on Tuesday finalised a patent policy banning the use of most royalty-bearing technology in its technical recommendations, an issue that sparked a clash between open-source advocates and software makers.
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. Serious objections have been raised within the...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
Film studios create new standards body
News Seven major US film studios said on Tuesday that they have joined forces to promote standards for digital cinema technology. The studios said they aim to improve the digital movie experience through various initiatives, including adopting open...
[April 3, 2002, 15:32]
Web standards body advances TV features
News The goal of making the Web act more like television has inched closer to reality with the revision of a key multimedia standard. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) last week recommended SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) 2.0, the...
[August 16, 2001, 10:47]
ECMA ratifies C# as standard
News Microsoft on Thursday said a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan. More than two years ago, Sun said it would turn Java over to the same standards body, but...
[December 14, 2001, 9:27]
Web standards group to tackle spam
News An influential Internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of email spam, in an effort that could have broad-ranging implications for future email use and security.
[March 6, 2003, 14:01]
AOL puts its IM standard to the test
News America Online has submitted a proposal for interoperable instant messaging to a standards body studying the issue. While AOLÂ’s draft is one of several submitted to the standards body, the move does signal a change in the companyÂ’s stance on...
[June 19, 2000, 11:21]
Sun signs up to rivals' security standards
News Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign have submitted a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the backing of an unlikely supporter: Sun Microsystems. Its three creators -- Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign...
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
WS-I to clear path for Web services security
News A standards body is hoping to remove one of the biggest hurdles standing in the way of greater Web services adoption. One security specification expected to be under consideration by the WS-I is WS-Security, which is now being developed in the...
[April 2, 2003, 9:06]
IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News IBM has issued a warning to international standards body ISO in the wake of its approval of Microsoft's OOXML. We have no intention to create a new standards body," said Kiess. Supporters of the rival ODF document standard alleged that national...
[September 23, 2008, 16:03]
Web services need trust as well as standards
News Proposed Web services security specifications are to be submitted to an international standards body by some of the industry's major vendors. The latest version of the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification is being submitted to...
[July 5, 2002, 9:04]
IEEE infighting may derail Ethernet development
News Squabbling within the international IT standards body IEEE looks set to derail efforts to clarify the next Ethernet standard. A group within the standards body, which was set up to define the evolution of Ethernet, has succumbed to infighting, and...
[June 19, 2007, 18:07]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News A fight has broken out between a key Net standards body and Web address administrators in Europe. ICANN, however, said the stability of root servers can only be achieved through a cooperative effort by many organisations, not through a single body.
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
OASIS enlarges specification tent
News Standards body OASIS will take on development of an existing utility computing specification for automating data centre operations. What we heard from (larger providers) is, 'we understand the problem, we like the approach, don't ask us to go and...
[August 31, 2004, 10:00]
Draft choreography spec published by W3C
News Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium on Monday released a draft version of Web Services Choreography Description Language, a specification intended to create an standard format for modelling business processes that will work in conjunction...
[April 30, 2004, 16:00]
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The international standards body ISO has offered to help maintain the ODF document standard alongside its work on the rival Microsoft-originated OOXML specification, saying its creator Oasis is not dealing with defect reports quickly enough.
[October 7, 2008, 8:34]
Microsoft weighs up Explorer changes
News Microsoft told the Web's leading standards body that it's considering making changes to its Internet Explorer browser in light of a recent ruling against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit. This week, the standards body held an ad hoc...
[September 1, 2003, 8:50]
Microsoft gets backing for .Net tools
News Microsoft on Thursday said that a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan. More than two years ago, Sun said it would turn Java over to the same standards body...
[December 14, 2001, 6:31]
Split threatens Web services standards
News IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems plan to submit a high-profile Web services proposal to the Oasis standards body, company executives said, despite an ongoing effort by the World Wide Web Consortium to sort through similar proposals.
[April 16, 2003, 12:59]
Web services spec gets makeover
News A Web services directory effort spawned by Microsoft, IBM and Ariba has been updated before its submission to an industry standards body. A consortium of 220 companies is releasing a third version of the specification on Tuesday and submitting the...
[July 29, 2002, 13:41]
