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IBM warns standards bodies to shape up
News In the wake of ISO's approval of Microsoft's OOXML, IBM has joined calls for standard-body reform, threatening to bow out of standards work.
Tags: Standards, XML, IBM Corp., Google Inc., India, Office Open XML, Open Source, Standards, Standards Body, intellectual property
Politicians should stay out of Net policing
Insight perspective The law cannot hope to keep up with the Internet, and just hampers innovation, says industry expert.
Tags: Web sites, Legal, Government, Domain Name, OSI, monitoring, network, Internet Service Provider, Internet, ISO
Standards body tackles business XML
News The influential OASIS group kicks off a project to create XML guidelines for sharing business documents within the insurance, publishing and human resources industries.
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The U.K. Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Office Open XML, Open Source, Standards Body, decision-making, Microsoft Office, industry, desktop, technical committee
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News Seven technology companies have developed a specification that the group hopes will improve encryption-key management interoperability.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business ethics, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Security, Specification, Seagate Technology LLC, Encryption, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage
Tech giants form open cloud standards group
News Companies including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Sun and VMware are to develop open standards for private and public cloud interoperability.
Tags: Cloud computing, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Specification, Standards, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., PaaS
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News Documents created using the Office Open XML document format can now be viewed via a Firefox plug-in, while OOXML's compatibility with ODF and Apache has also been enhanced.
Tags: Office suites, Open source, Software integration, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Plug-in, Tool, Interoperability
Singapore BCM Standard SS540: TR19 with a facelift
Blogs In July 2008, I wrote that Technical Reference 19 (TR 19:2005), Singapore's proposed international standard for business...
Novell joins Linux standards body in China
News Novell has become the second foreign company to join a Linux standards body in the mainland.
W3C publishes choreography spec
News in brief Standards body the World Wide Web Consortium on Monday released a draft version of Web Services Choreography Description Language, a specification intended to create an standard format for modeling business processes.
Tags: Web services
IBM sets up RFID center in Japan
News Big Blue has launched the latest salvo in the race to win RFID customers, thanks to a new solution center in Japan.
Linux, Microsoft struggle looms over .Net
News A fledgling effort to replicate Microsoft's .Net architecture on Linux, called Mono, could quickly become mired in intellectual property difficulties.
NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote
News The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
Tags: Office suites
W3C recommends quicker XML transmission
News in brief The World Wide Web consortium issues three recommendations designed to make handling XML-formatted data more efficient.
Tags: XML
Web services spec gets makeover
News A consortium of 220 companies is releasing a third version of the UDDI Web-cataloging specification, recognizing its appeal to big companies for in-house projects.
