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Group issues standards for bigger Web ads
News An online advertising trade group plans to unveil standards for bigger Web advertisements Monday as it seeks to breathe new life into the battered industry. The group has plans to announce further standards for the online advertising industry.
[February 26, 2001, 8:17]
Standards group focuses on Web services performance
News Hoping to accelerate the use of Web services, a standards group on Monday said it will create a technical committee to tackle the problem of managing Web services applications. The Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee at the...
[March 11, 2003, 9:24]
Web standards group outlines core principles
News After nine months of public analysis and debate, the Web's leading standards organisation has outlined the core principles and practices behind the Web's technologies. The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Technical Architecture Group (TAG) on...
[September 2, 2002, 10:51]
Microsoft leaves standards group
News In a sign of growing discord over Web services guidelines, Microsoft has pulled out of a key Web services standards working group. Critics contend that Microsoft and IBM, which also is not participating in the W3C group, are causing confusion...
[March 25, 2003, 14:09]
Web standards group to tackle spam
News Possible ideas to explore are ways of building in consent policies for different types of communications and allowing networks or individuals to reject e-mail that does not meet particular standards, according to the group.
[March 6, 2003, 14:01]
Web standards group examining Apple patent
News The consortium, which oversees standards including the HTML for web-page publishing and the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, is working on a draft standard called Widgets 1.0: Updates that governs how web-based applications can update...
[June 18, 2009, 8:54]
Tech giants form open-cloud-standards group
News A major systems-management standards body has formed a group dedicated to developing open management standards for cloud computing. The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), whose board includes representatives from companies such as VMware...
[April 28, 2009, 17:00]
Enhancing IT Security With Trusted Computing Group Standards
White Papers This paper discusses Trusted Computing Group security standards that can help enable IT organizations to effectively respond to these challenges. Standards-based security measures can address these issues by helping reduce security risks while also...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
GSM group declares victory in standards war
News Eighty-five percent of the world's operators have committed to WCDMA as the natural progression from voice-based GSM, said Conway, with competing standards such as CDMA2000 1X EV-DO distant runners-up in the 3G battle.
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
Group to set bug-reporting standards
News We are concerned about vulnerability reporting standards, and we have been talking with others in the industry and working to come up with best practices about what you can do so you don't learn the hard way," said Chris Wysopal, director of...
[February 22, 2002, 10:56]
Bluephone continues despite standards group's demise
News The group is closing because its standards have been adopted by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) the operator-run group that defines future standards for mobile networks. It will be the same people doing the same standards, whether...
[May 23, 2005, 13:10]
GSM group declares victory in standards war
Talkback >>>For now, the adoption rate will remain higher among CDMA users for EV-DO networks. For example, operator SK Telecom in Korea has nearly 1.5 million EV-DO subscribers while Japan's NTT DoCoMo has only one third of that number on its 3GSM network...
[November 28, 2003, 11:58]
Comdex 2001: Nokia touts new phone standards group
News The alliance will back a variety of nascent standards that merge wireless communications with more Internet-like features. Among the standards is Java, which lets programs run regardless of which chip and operating system the phone uses.
[November 13, 2001, 10:04]
Standards group recommends XHTML 1.0
News A new programming specification just recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium is expected to help move the Web beyond PCs and on to a wider array of wireless devices. XHTML 1.0 is the result of rewriting HTML 4.0 -- the markup language behind...
[January 28, 2000, 10:13]
New backers join datacentre standards group
News The companies joined the datacentre Markup Language (DCML) Organization, a group of 37 companies working to establish a standard that will enable computing gear from multiple providers to share important operational information.
[November 18, 2003, 16:15]
Industry group wants 3D Web standards
News The CAD (computer-aided design) 3D Working Group, which includes Microsoft, Intel, ATI Technologies and Dassault Systems, is working on a technical standard that will let furniture designers, car manufacturers and other companies post their CAD...
[July 23, 2002, 8:03]
Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards
News MPEG LA, a group of patent holders governing MPEG-4, on Monday finalised licensing terms for the media delivery standard, bowing to market pressure for manageable royalty rates. We've met a lot of the concerns that have been expressed in the...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
Liberty Alliance demos technology
News Proponents of the Liberty Alliance Project, a group developing online identity standards, provided details on Tuesday of their Phase Two specifications and demonstrated new features. The group also released a draft of its Phase 2 specifications...
[April 16, 2003, 9:57]
Groups merge to create Linux Foundation
News The Open Source Developer Labs and the Free Standards Group, two groups trying to standardise and steer Linux, have merged in an effort to increase their influence. It made sense to combine two organisations that serve a similar function and have a...
[January 22, 2007, 8:17]
Researchers work on privacy protocols for IP
News A group of researchers and privacy proponents is working to develop new standards for network anonymity at the Internet Protocol level, a prospect that could mask the location of Web users. The IETF is hosting a working group mailing list to...
[December 13, 2000, 9:29]
