consortia
RSS consortiaSuper-Size Bandwidth and Two-Way Video in the Classroom: Internet2 and Its Impact on Videoconferencing
White Paper Internet2 is a consortium of over 206 universities (as of April 2004), as well as over 50 corporate members, 40 affiliate members, and 40 international 'partners,' many of which come from various consortia and governmental agencies. [10 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Purple Labs joined the LiMo Foundation - one of three big, mobile open-source consortia, alongside the Symbian Foundation and Google's Open Handset Alliance - at the start of 2008. Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a... [07 Jul 2008]
Energy-Efficient Performance on the Client: A Proposed Measurement Methodology
White Paper Intel will engage with industry consortia and government agencies to help foster the process of arriving at an industry-created methodology that can be broadly adopted and used across the industry. It is clear that the industry needs to implement... [06 Nov 2007]
Competing Through Cooperation: Standard-Setting in Wireless Telecommunications
White Paper Focusing on the competition among firms to influence formal standardization, the roles of standard-setting committees, private alliances, and technical consortia are highlighted. Panel data analyses suggest that participation in external technical... [31 Jul 2007]
IFX Service Orientation Study for Payment Processing
White Paper The Interactive Financial Exchange Forum (IFX) was formed as an outgrowth of the OFX consortia many years ago. The IFX Payment Reference is a best practice guide for using industry standards and service orientation. [31 Mar 2007]
Architecting Industry Standards for Service Orientation
White Paper These consortia gain general technical agreement on data types, messaging, or data models, yet the industry can still struggle with how to relate these efforts to a cohesive Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) where the industry standard comprises... [31 Mar 2007]
SOA Security in a Federated Web Services Environment - Security Standards for Information Assurance
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the web services security-related specifications and standards with a focus on federated business architectures where data must be shared securely with other trading partners and... [08 Mar 2007]
£400m 'biometric borders' bidders revealed
News Two consortia, led by BT and Raytheon, have now been shortlisted for the contract, which is due to be awarded in the summer of 2007. BT and Raytheon will fight it out for the government's £400m e-Borders contract to build a system that will... [06 Nov 2006]
O2 pulls out of €100m police radio network bidding
News O2 had been tipped to pitch its Airwave service against four other consortia led by Arqiva, BT, Eircom and Rivada Networks for the lucrative National Digital Radio Service (NDRS) contract to replace ageing analogue radio systems for the Garda... [04 Jul 2006]
O2 in race to build €100m Irish police radio network
News Two other consortia reported to be in the frame for the deal are Arqiva and Galway-owned Rivada Networks. O2 is up against BT and Eircom in the battle to win a contract to build a €100m secure digital radio network for the Irish police, fire and... [03 Jul 2006]
The Case for Peer-to-Peer Wireless LAN Consortia
White Paper This paper presents the case for Consortia of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a community of WLAN Administrative Domains (ADs) that offer network access to each other's registered users. [16 Feb 2006]
Services Integration Monitor for Collaborative Workflow Management
White Paper This paper deals with change management of collaborative workflow in such consortia and proposes architecture for synchronization and monitoring of these services where existing workflow systems are adapted to the changes requested by management. [14 Dec 2005]
Grids and anti-terror bio-sensors get funding boost
News Projects range in size from £1.5m up to £4.4m with between four and 11 collaborators in each consortia. Grid computing in healthcare and anti-terrorist bio-sensors are some of the innovative projects taking part in a £90million government funding... [25 Nov 2005]
Digital Maps: An Essential Part of Every Citizen's Interface to the NII
White Paper By participating as technology users in industry consortia (such as OGC) that include users in technology planning and specification efforts, government agencies can ensure that the technology provider community meets agency needs and influence... [01 Sep 2005]
Converting Distance Learning Networks to a High Bandwidth, Flexible Infrastructure
White Paper The staff of the Nebraska Information Technology Commission and the members of the Collaborative Aggregation Partnership (CAP) have drafted this white paper in an attempt to communicate the history, challenges and future facing a majority of... [01 Sep 2005]
