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The Mobile Commerce Technologies: Generations, Standards and Protocols
White Papers In addition to a general lack of customer demand for mobile, location-based, services, it suffered heavily under the technical deficiencies of end-devices, slow data transmission and unripe technological standards.
[March 2, 2009, 20:08]
Wireless LANs - Standards and security
News By now, most of us have heard of the 802.11 WLAN standards established by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE). In this article, I will describe some recent standards affecting WLAN technologies and discuss the standard...
[May 8, 2002, 9:42]
Data Collection (Case Report Form) Standards: What You Need to Know About CDASH
White Papers A Gartner business case for standards has identified the benefit of applying data standards in the start-up stage of clinical research studies to be in the range of 70-90% reduction in time and resources.
[June 2, 2009, 1:18]
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]
Standards
Talkback Where is the section comparing support for various open standards? HTML, CSS, XHTML, PNG, MNG, SVG: Open standards and specifications are the cornerstone of the Internet as they allowed it to grow into what it has become today.
[November 2, 2006, 0:23]
Standards spat could cause MPLS downtime
News Enterprises will be hoping that two warring standards bodies can next week sort out a problem with the widely used MPLS protocol that threatens to cause widespread disruption in companies' wide area networks.
[September 6, 2007, 13:30]
Standards, money and proprietary code: Why IBM passed on JBoss
News JBoss' Java application server contains a significant proprietary component even while it adheres to the J2EE standards. On a technical level, Gluecode's strategy better fit IBM's overall software strategy of sticking to industry standards.
[February 20, 2006, 17:00]
Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid
News A European standards expert has defended the move to fast-track the International Organization for Standardization approval process for Microsoft's Office Open XML document standard, dismissing criticisms that the decision to do so is flawed and...
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
Intellectual Property Management and Protection in MPEG Standards
White Papers This covers the existing standards MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, the upcoming multimedia description standard MPEG-7 and the Multimedia Framework MPEG-21. MPEG has a long history in dealing with DRM issues. Gradually, MPEG is moving from defining hooks to...
[December 26, 2003, 2:13]
Don't hold your breath for blade standards
News RLX Technologies, the company that kick-started the blade server market, sees talk of standards as nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Hingley's colleague, senior research analyst Daniel Fleischer, believes that if standards are coming, they are...
[November 15, 2004, 15:55]
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. The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
IT vendors to profit from stricter green standards
News However, the days of loose standards will come to a close in the next few years, according to McCabe. At some point, in order to export to the EU or China, enterprises will have to show compliance with green standards, McCabe said, presenting a...
[March 13, 2008, 8:25]
A List Apart - How to Grok Web Standards
Blog Recently, they have a new article entitled "How To Grok Web Standards", which is well worth a read for sure - even if you don't hand-code on a day to day basis. And i think that's one of the reasons why Web Standards is so greatly under-valued and...
[January 22, 2007, 16:09]
Healthcare IT pros call for standards
News NHS IT needs a greater emphasis on standards rather than standardisation, according to its representative body. The Association for Informatics Professionals in Health and Social Care (Assist) has said a standards-based approach would support the...
[October 9, 2008, 15:42]
A to Z of wireless standards
News Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days, but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. As with modems, newer standards can fall back to this standard under difficult conditions or if in contact with an older interface.
[March 26, 2003, 8:04]
Digital signatures get web standards nod
News A standards group has completed work on digital signature technology designed to ensure data authenticity between interacting web servers. Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) gave the digital...
[June 8, 2007, 8:45]
W3C members don't meet their own standards
News In a test of whether members of the Web's premier standards group are willing to eat their own dog food, companies and organizations from Microsoft to the United States Environmental Protection Agency were found to be picky eaters.
[September 6, 2002, 15:11]
KDE browser pips Firefox in Web standards test
Talkback They want their standards to be the world's standard. Don't expect M$ to ever pass Acid2. I doubt they will make any effort to bring IE up to the ACID2.
[December 1, 2005, 12:31]
Microsoft and Standards, ha ha ha ha
Talkback Microsoft are the last company who should be trusted in the development of standards. They can't even bring out a web browser that is ACID 2 compliant out of the box - even IE8 requires some stupid document meta tag to force it in to standards mode.
[May 11, 2009, 9:16]
Idea - ISO's World Standards Day is 14 October
Blog Comment No wait a minute, there are sponsors for the US branch of the celebrations, World Standards Week. That's a fanciful idea isn't it? It's interesting to see who is there.http://www.ansi.org/meetings_events/wsw08/sponsorship.aspx?
[October 5, 2008, 23:42]
