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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]
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]
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, 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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
ODF and OOXML are standards in name only
Talkback Standards designed to facilitate interoperability need to specify clearly and unambiguously the conformity requirements that are essential to achieve the interoperability. Complexity and the number of options should be kept to a minimum and the...
[February 29, 2008, 1:24]
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]
The Business Case for CDISC Data Standards: Affirmation and Implementation
White Papers This webcast will take information gathered from major pharma companies, Contract Research Organizations (CROs) and the FDA, and discusses how an organization can leverage data standards to gain competitive advantage, automate processes and lower...
[May 12, 2007, 1:00]
Undocumented eXtensions and Standards
Talkback It's not however good for standards! As marbux pointed out, ODF and OOXML specifications allow for what might as well be unlimited use of undocumented eXtensions. This is indeed good for market leading applications use to competing on the basis of...
[February 29, 2008, 22:43]
Texas Instruments backs open mobile standards
News TI has joined a string of other important companies in the mobile scene by offering its support for open industry standards. Several mobile phone manufacturers are planning to use TI's chipsets in future devices, so its support for the open...
[November 15, 2001, 16:48]
BT to build common standards into home-network kit
News According to BT, emerging wireless standards, such as Bluetooth will be incorporated once they are widely adopted. British Telecom has turned to US startup Home Wireless Networks (HWN) to supply it with the necessary technology to turn its vision...
[September 7, 1999, 11:14]
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]
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]
Wi-Fi standards' future mapped out
News Representatives from key industry groups gave an update on upcoming Wi-Fi standards that lay the groundwork for determining what tools manufacturers will have to work with as they develop new products.
[December 5, 2003, 7:55]
Support standards, not multiple browsers
Talkback IE has, by far, the worst support of web standards of all major web browsers. Even so, it is certainly easiest to design first according to standards and then make tweaks to make sure all of the major browsers are doing what you want.
[August 26, 2005, 18:45]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News Government agencies are continuing to flout the government's own guidelines for interoperability, and failing to comply with the most basic standards designed to make Web sites accessible to people with disabilities, according to recent testing.
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
