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RSS w3c in newsW3C recommends online forms standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has reached a critical stage in a new standard that governs how developers use forms on the internet. The W3C, a standards body that governs some internet protocols,... [13 Nov 2002]
Patent claims a problem for next web services standard
News A web standards body is close to approving a key web services specification but concerns about patent rights may hold up the process. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a standards body that oversees some internet... [07 Nov 2002]
IBM promises to solve security "alphabet soup"
News IBM is planning to add to its products new software that should make Web services applications more secure. IBM said that it is building a new software component into version 5 of its WebSphere application server, which is scheduled for... [19 Sep 2002]
Web services standard: how it works
News Oracle hopes to avert a battle over rival efforts to create Web services standards by asking the leading oversight group to pick a winner. Oracle's proposal could help ease tensions between Sun and the tandem of Microsoft and IBM. [12 Sep 2002]
Decide what you want websites to know about you...
News Software that instantly discloses websites' privacy policies to internet users has been approved by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The system, called Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), allows web surfers to... [17 Apr 2002]
WC3 does U-turn on web patents
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has backtracked on its proposal to let companies claim patenting rights on 'standard' internet technologies. The controversial move, originally drafted last autumn, would have allowed... [26 Feb 2002]
Microsoft and IBM unveil directory service protocol
News Microsoft and IBM have produced another webServices standard for easy B2B service location over the internet. The proposed protocol will sniff out a required service using industry or subject-specific directories held on the net that are... [01 Nov 2001]
Microsoft U-turn on rival browser exclusion
News Microsoft has backtracked on its decision to deny access with non-MS browsers to its portal site and has allowed users to view the MSN.com site with other browsers. Web surfers using Netscape, Opera, or AOL's Mozilla browsers were locked... [29 Oct 2001]
Web freedom fighters strike back at corporate interests
News A move to allow the likes of Microsoft and Sun to milk millions from the web's underlying technology has been derailed - if only for the time being. The body responsible for online standards, the Worldwide Web Consortium... [02 Oct 2001]
Terrorist attacks: Don't blame the web, says Berners-Lee
News 'Father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee has expressed his concern about a backlash against the internet in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks. During a visit to his former university, Oxford, Berners-Lee expressed his deep regret at... [27 Sep 2001]
Happy 10th birthday to the World Wide Web
News Ten years ago today, on 6 August 1991, the initial sketches of a system designed to publish universal information on the internet went public, to a very mixed welcome. Two engineers at Switzerland's nuclear research laboratory Cern, Tim... [06 Aug 2001]
Web content standard plays antics with semantics
News The semantic development of internet content has dominated the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with European researchers putting forward a standardisation proposal that hopes to supersede XML. The proposal consists of... [29 May 2001]
'Big step forward' for software developers
News The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is urging businesses to adopt its recommendations for XML schemas, which make it easier to develop common vocabularies. XML (extensible markup language) is fast becoming the recognised... [03 May 2001]
Microsoft and IBM squabble over standards
News The trio have been working on the UDDI (universal description, discovery and integration) initiative since last September, with the aim of creating an international directory of B2B firms, based on an open XML standard. [17 Apr 2001]
SOAP to clean up B2B standards mess
News The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) is to use SOAP as the message level protocol for its ebXML B2B standards, which are aimed at simplifying and standardizing commercial transactions over the... [26 Feb 2001]
