consortium
RSS consortium3 jumps on board Symbian Foundation
News The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian-derived platforms such as Series 60 and UIQ into the main operating system. [11 Jul 2008]
Super-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]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The EDS-led Atlas consortium won the 10-year contract to install and manage the DII in March 2005. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m... [04 Jul 2008]
An Overview of the Guide to Service Level Agreements
White Paper The Guide to Service Level Agreements produced by members of the Application Service Provider Industry Consortium is intended to help service providers, and especially application service providers (ASPs), prepare, and negotiate service level... [03 Jul 2008]
Spain - Using Mobile Technology to Improve Health Care
White Paper The Foundation is a partner in the Healthmate Consortium, a group of companies and universities, which is investigating new uses for mobile technology to support home nursing and patients with orientation problems. [03 Jul 2008]
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT): Addressing the ICT Skills Shortage in Europe
White Paper This paper discusses how the Careerspace Consortium is helping tackle the ICT skills shortage in Europe. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are pivotal tools for advancing EU prosperity. [03 Jul 2008]
Homeland Security: How Government Can Begin to Bridge the Information Gap
White Paper Working in concert with other software companies and standards organizations such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Microsoft developed an approach known as the Government Interoperability Framework. [03 Jul 2008]
WiMax Forum stamps 2.5G products with seal of approval
News The WiMax Forum is the only consortium to certify base-station equipment, which is key to ensure true network interoperability and a high quality of service among user devices and network equipment. Earlier this week the organisation announced that... [20 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News While Android is a full mobile software stack, LiMo - a rival industry consortium to the OHA - is only developing a common middleware component, on top of which its members can then put proprietary applications. [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News LiMo is an industry consortium that is creating a common middleware layer to help Linux-based software make it onto handsets from a variety of manufacturers. Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including... [12 Jun 2008]
Trevor Didcock
CIO Profile Before arriving at Homeserve, Trevor Didcock was CIO at the AA for four years and a member of the executive team responsible for the highly successful private equity backed development and sale to a consortium with Saga in September 2007. [11 Jun 2008]
A Guide to Securing Broadband Cable Networks: DOCSIS Security
White Paper This Technology Guide addresses security in data over cable standards, summarizing the latest technical specifications outlined by CableLabs, a consortium of cable industry vendors and service providers, and introducing the security specifications... [06 Jun 2008]
OCAP Enables Next Generation Interactive Services and Applications
White Paper CableLabs, a non-profit research and development consortium, has led the creation of the OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP) specification - a middleware software layer specification that allows service providers to launch exciting digital... [31 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Mark Taylor, founder of the Open Source Consortium, said Microsoft had "no choice" but to support ODF. Microsoft announced on Wednesday it will support ODF version 1.1 in the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2), scheduled for the first half... [23 May 2008]
Durham health consortium outsources e-procurement
News A consortium of health trusts and HM Prisons within County Durham has outsourced its shared procurement hub, which it uses to source around £350m of supplies and equipment a year. The consortium's incumbent e-procurement system was maintained in... [22 May 2008]
