standards
RSS standardsStandards battle holds up Chinese revolution
News The key hold-up is the Chinese government's unease about relying on Western technology standards, preferring to develop its own domestic equivalent. The battle over international standards is currently... [01 Aug 2003]
The Mobile Commerce Technologies: Generations, Standards and Protocols
White Paper In addition to a general lack of customer demand for mobile, location-based, services, it suffered heavily under the technical deficiencies of end-devices, slow data transmission and unripe technological standards. [02 Mar 2009]
Standards group takes aim at spam
News An influential internet standards-setting body has begun a close scrutiny of the mounting problem of spam, in an effort that could have wide-ranging implications for future email use and security. Possible ideas to... [06 Mar 2003]
Ethernet Service OAM: Standards and Functionality
White Paper Ethernet connectivity and service layer Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) standards are designed to simplify the management of Carrier Ethernet services with end-to-end service visibility, fault isolation,... [02 Apr 2009]
Data Collection (Case Report Form) Standards: What You Need to Know About CDASH
White Paper A Gartner business case for standards has identified the benefit of applying data standards in the start-up stage of clinical research studies to be in the range of 70-90% reduction in time and resources. [02 Jun 2009]
Standards set to stop the Linux splitters
News The LSB, administered by the Free Standards Group, a non-profit organisation of software developers and information technology industry members, standardises many of the basic parts of Linux while allowing companies to... [19 Aug 2002]
Standards group tackles XML documents
News An ebusiness standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents. The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or... [29 Jan 2003]
Employing IBM Database Encryption Expert to Meet Encryption and Access Control Requirements for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)
White Paper This alignment in standards provided an industry-wide framework that complemented each brands' individual security policies - MasterCard's Site Data Protection program (SDP), Visa USA's Cardholder Information Security... [29 Mar 2008]
RADVision chiefs calls for IP telephony standards
News The company's CEO and founder, Ami Amir, believes standards are vital if the IP telephony market is going to prosper. The drive to create greater interoperability has made the standards market highly... [09 Aug 1999]
Driving Service Innovation and Profitability: Adoption of TM Forum Standards in OSS
White Paper The TMF and its members deserve substantial credit for their development, promulgation and support for adoption and implementation of OSS standards. In the end though, it is up to the CSPs and their technology partners... [11 Jun 2009]
Intelligent Customer Routing: A New Architectural Approach to Intelligent Customer Service - Moving Beyond "Flatten, Consolidate, Extend" Leveraging SIP and Open Standards
White Paper New technology and changing business drivers are leading organizations to take the next step in open standards architectures. Intelligent Customer Routing facilitates new intelligent customer service operating models... [07 Aug 2009]
Devil's Advocate: In support of open standards
Comment The time is ripe for the government to use its considerable IT muscle to back open standards. Unfortunately, standards are commonly driven by vendor considerations. A major part of the problem with... [26 Oct 2004]
GEC reaps the benefits of standards
News Armitage said: "The first thing was always defining the standards - if you just take something simple like what standard of PC should be used for a secretary and what standard should be used for a software engineer, you... [04 Aug 1999]
Identity management savings threatened by standards row
News A standards war is threatening to cancel the short-term cost savings companies can make by deploying an identity-management infrastructure. Earlier this week the Liberty Alliance - a group of 160 companies working... [11 Jul 2003]
Oasis looks for more web services standards
News Hoping to accelerate the use of web services, a standards group on Monday said it will create a technical committee to tackle the problem of managing web services applications. The Web Services Distributed Management... [11 Mar 2003]
