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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]
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]
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]
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News A group of technology companies has submitted a specification for encryption-key management to the standards body Oasis. The group, which includes IBM, Seagate, HP, EMC, Thales, LSI and Brocade, announced the submission of the specification to the...
[February 13, 2009, 12:38]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. European Commission, said it can only recommend the open file format to member...
[October 18, 2005, 17:45]
W3C bows to royalty-free pressure
News An Internet standards body has decided to drop a controversial proposal that would have allowed patent holders to charge royalties on technology used in Web standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards body that oversees some...
[November 15, 2002, 9:24]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Intel's PC redesign gets thumbs up
News The proposed technology, called 3GIO, will now be overseen by the PCI-SIG, the standards body that supervises Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), the long-dominant technique for plugging devices such as graphics cards and network cards into...
[August 6, 2001, 16:18]
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]
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]
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]
