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RSS iso in newsGreat Wall of China chipped
News Today's agreement with the Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card Company is based on Philips' Mifare contactless chip technology but this is compatible with NFC, in accordance with the ISO 14443 A standard for contactless smart... [03 Sep 2004]
Philips sells chips for 'next big thing' to Samsung
News NFC has been pioneered by Philips and Sony but the consumer electronics giants now point to it as a standard, with ISO and ETSI classifications. Philips Semiconductors has announced Samsung will make mobile phones that use its Near Field... [31 Aug 2004]
File-swapping could hit digital books for millions
News Nalebuff advocated Rights Expression Language (REL), a standard published by the International Standards Organization (ISO), as a good starting point that would give publishers a common framework for communicating their copy-protection intentions. [19 Aug 2004]
Blaster dodges responsibility for US blackout
News Systems failures and human error at both the Midwest ISO and at FirstEnergy, a group of seven electric utilities that operate in the US Northeast and Midwest, were the primary causes of the blackout, according to the report. [06 Apr 2004]
Marketers ready to risk data rows over training
News Furthermore, 77 per cent of marketing heads within 100 companies with revenues of £50m-plus, have no ISO-accredited procedures in place to ensure compliance, according to research released by CRM Technologies. [28 Oct 2003]
Smartcard ticketing going Underground
News The chip is compliant with the international ISO 14443 standard for contactless smartcards, and in fact Philips claims that the new ticketing infrastructure in London is the largest ISO-compliant smart-card project of its kind in the world. [20 Nov 2002]
'We need help,' says e-minister to security experts
News As far as practical security measures go, the minister stressed the government's support for the information security standard ISO 17799, which brings risk assessment and security control closer to the heart of business processes. [26 Sep 2001]
PKI investigation labelled a waste of time and money
News A number of standards for PKI already exist, including digital certificate standard X509 promoted by the International Telecoms Union (ITU) and International Standards Organisation (ISO). The EC this month launched a two-year investigation into the... [18 Jan 2001]
Powergen scandal: IT industry fears credibility loss
News There will be an ISO kitemark. The IT industry is in danger of being held accountable for security breaches such as the one suffered by Powergen according to leading industry figures. In this week's Behind the Headlines feature, Mark Roberts... [21 Jul 2000]
Sun could bypass ISO on Java
News Java has been heading towards the International Standards Organisation (ISO) since November 1997, when Sun was given the authority to make a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) submission to the ISO. [30 Apr 1999]
Global software standard gets seal of approval
News An international benchmark for evaluating software security will be rubber-stamped this week by the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation). ISO's technical management is finalising a draft of the standard this week. [16 Dec 1998]
IBM calls on Sun to give up Java stranglehold
News Sun Microsystems' chief ally in Java development has called for the company to hand over control of the language to the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). But passing the technology on to the ISO could mean that the whole... [08 Dec 1998]
Governments push for secure software standard
News The International Standards Organisation (ISO) is to vote on CC in October. Hickson added that if the standard was accepted by the ISO, he hopes it will be adopted by all of Europe's main trading partners. [09 Jul 1998]
