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Focus on Security: Xerox and the P2600 Security Working Group
White Papers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers created the P2600: Hardcopy Device and System Security Working Group to develop security standards. The focus of the Working Group is to identify and document security issues and threats, and...
[May 1, 2009, 1:18]
Proposal to Establish ASAC Working Group, Air Cargo Freight Assessment System
White Papers This document is a proposal for formation of an ASAC working group that will validate processes and systems that may contribute to a risk assessment of cargo shipped via passenger aircraft. The objective of this formation is to identify elevated...
[July 31, 2007, 3:58]
Mobile broadband working group replaced
News The IEEE, the body behind the proposed 802.20 standard, has announced it is to replace all the officers on that standard's working group. The 802.20 (also known as MBWA — Mobile Broadband Wireless Access) working group was suspended in June...
[September 22, 2006, 13:55]
Mobile broadband working group replaced
Talkback But several companies (Flarion included) communicated in the group that they could extend 802.20 to apply to nomadic, portable, and low speed mobile applications as well. LTE (Long Term Evolution) 4G is being defined and is agreed on the use of...
[September 22, 2006, 18:27]
Microsoft joins server-messaging working group
News Microsoft said on Friday that it has joined an industry effort, initiated by several of its competitors, to establish a specification defining a standard way for business software to communicate. The specification, the Advanced Message Queuing...
[October 27, 2008, 9:52]
US Report: US to spur third-world e-commerce
News Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce (the follow-up to last year's sweeping Clinton administration e-commerce report) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will lead the charge to promote open information policies among governments of...
[December 1, 1998, 9:15]
Industry group hones patent standards
News The technologists who oversee the engineering of the Internet have created a working group to clarify their current policy on including intellectual property in their standards, signalling that they may be inclined to use more proprietary...
[August 5, 2002, 11:09]
3D Web standards move closer
News A group pushing for industry standards for 3D on the Web released its final working draft of a key specification, bringing the technology one step closer to international standardisation. The release of the final X3D draft, designed for...
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
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]
Row threatens Web services standards
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week established a working group to define and establish rules for an area known as Web services choreography, which seeks to map out how Web services interact to form business transactions.
[January 17, 2003, 11:30]
MPEG-4, VRML 2.0 breathe life into avatars
News Between now and September 24, the VRML/MPEG-4 liaison WG working group is to raise a list of requirements for the MPEG committee, from the VRML community. The working group was formed in the aftermath of SIGRAPH 97 (Special Interest Group on...
[August 15, 1997, 8:00]
Fast PCs: Can disk drives keep up?
News The way chips are being designed today, they're getting smaller and they're getting faster, so Serial ATA helps address a number of performance issues," said Jeff Ravencraft, chairman of the Serial ATA Working Group and also a marketing manager at...
[December 20, 2000, 9:30]
Open season for phishing as attacks soar
News The quantity and quality of phishing attacks grew at an alarming rate in April, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. On Monday, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which was formed last year to share information about phishing attacks...
[May 25, 2004, 13:45]
WS-I takes on security challenge
News A group working to ensure the compatibility of Web services software is preparing to tackle its biggest challenge yet: security. The WS-I will create a number of technical working groups that will recommend how IT providers and businesses should...
[February 4, 2003, 15:58]
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. Now Microsoft has upped the rancor by dropping out of a W3C working group focused on establishing rules for how...
[March 25, 2003, 14:09]
US Report: HP's real-time Java causes break in ranks
News HP (NYSE:HWP) says the Real-Time Java Working Group -- which includes Microsoft , NewMonics and eight other vendors -- will meet on Thursday to select a standards body to oversee development of real-time extensions to the Java application...
[November 4, 1998, 11:49]
Group tackles OpenOffice desktop spec
News A group of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new standard to handle desktop application documents. Members of the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) have formed a working...
[November 21, 2002, 16:44]
Web consortium to sync text with video
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) chartered the Timed Text Working Group (TTWG) to come up with a streaming text specification, based on XML (Extensible Markup Language), that will synchronise text with video or audio streamed over the Internet.
[January 22, 2003, 10:56]
Phishing sites double in April
News April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of unique sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) rose to 55,643 in April 2007...
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
IDF: Next generation Serial ATA kicks off
News Barely six months after the first version of the storage interface Serial ATA was announced -- and before product is available -- the working group has announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in San Francisco that work is starting on version 2.
[February 26, 2002, 8:57]
