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| Standards Bodies and Consortia | | AIAG - Develops standards for the automotive industry | | ANSI - American National Standards Institute | | ASTM - an international voluntary standards organization that develops and produces technical standards for | | CableLabs - pursues new cable telecommunications technologies and their integration | | DCML - provides a standard model to describe one or more data center environments | | DMTF - Develops standards for distributed desktop, network, enterprise and Internet environment | | ECMA - International European association for standardizing information and communication systems | | ETSI - produces European telecommunications standards | | FIX - messaging specifications for the electronic communication of trade-related messages | | FreeStandards.org - Accelerating the use and acceptance of open source technologies through standards. | | ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers | | IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission | | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc | | IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force | | ISO - International Organization for Standardization | | ITU - International Telecommunications Union | | JCP - Java Community Process | | JXTA - Combination P2P open standards with Java open source implementation. | | LibertyAlliance - Liberty Alliance Project | | OASIS - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Systems | | ODMG - Object Data Management Group | | OGC - international consortium for geospatial and location based services standards | | OMA - Creates open standards and specifications for interoperable mobile services. | | OMG - Object Management Group | | OpenGroup - an international vendor and technology-neutral consortium | | OSGi - dynamic module system for Java | | RosettaNet - Open e-business process standards | | RTCA - Develops recommendations for communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic issues. | | TCG - Industry standards group to help create specs for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security te | | UDDI.org - Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration | | VoiceXML - an industry organization formed to create and promote the Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML | | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium | | workforce-xml - standardization of xml integration of devices/apps for the workforce | | WS-I - Web Services Interoperability Organization |
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| June 2009 | HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development, one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX.
- Computer World, June 16, 2009 | An Open Platform for Electric Car-Charging Networks?
Some players in the market envision a Java-like platform to accelerate deployment and foster innovation
- Business Week, June 15, 2009 | Microsoft's IE unbundling treated with skepticism
MICROSOFT'S ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday that it will unbundle Internet Exploder (IE) from Windows 7 in Europe has been met with widespread skepticism.
- The Inquirer, June 12, 2009 | Different cloud computing standards a huge challenge
The lack of agreement on standards may put the best technology bet to cut costs at the disposal of Indian companies in these tough times ? cloud computing ? under the cloud.
- The Economic Times, June 4, 2009 | | May 2009 | Unlocking the cloud
Open-source software has won the argument. Now a new threat to openness looms
- The Economist, May 28, 2009 | Google Says HTML 5 Tools Leave Microsoft In the Dust
Google led off its Google I/O 2009 developer conference in San Francisco by declaring "the Web has won" -- that is, the Internet and Web browsers, not a computer's operating system, are the future of application development.
- ChennelWeb, May 28, 2009 | Vancouver endorses open standards
THE CITY COUNCIL of Vancouver in (once-) British Columbia has embraced open standards to make its data more widely accessible and says it will consider open source software on equal footing with proprietary software products when making public acquisitions.
- The Inquirer, May 26, 2009 | City of Vancouver, Canada adopts open standards
Vancouver, Canada's third-largest city, has adopted a policy of "open standards, interfaces and formats" for all public data.
- Slashdot.org, May 24, 2009 | | April 2009 | DMTF to Develop Standards for Managing a Cloud Computing Environment
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced that it has formed a group dedicated to addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing. The ?Open Cloud Standards Incubator? will work to develop a set of informational specifications for cloud resource management.
- businesswire.com, April 27, 2009 | Analysts say Oracle buying Sun is a game-changer
Oracle has announced its intention to acquire Sun in an all-cash transaction worth $US9.50 per share of Sun stock, for a total net value of $US5.6 billion when Sun's debts are factored in.
- SearchStorage, April 21, 2009 | Free Mobile Digital TV in North America gets one step closer
Today the Open Mobile Video Coalition announced that Washington D.C. will be the showcase market for the ATSC-M/H mobile TV standard. ATSC-M/H is a version of the current ATSC digital television standard used in North America that will allow for mobile-formatted digital TV broadcasts to be made in parallel with existing DTV transmissions, which are set to take over for analog transmissions in the USA as of June 12, 2009.
- mobileburn.com, April 20, 2009 | Adobe's Flash: Coming to a TV (and living room) near you
Adobe said Monday that it is taking its Flash software, which is commonly used for Web video, to TVs, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
- ZD Net, April 20, 2009 |
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