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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 | | NHIN - a collection of standards, protocols, legal agreements, specifications, and services that enables th | | 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. | | SunSpec - defines open data standards for the renewable energy and photovoltaic (PV) industries | | 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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| July 2010 | OpenGL 4.1 specification released and ready for use by Apple
The Knronos Group released its latest OpenGL 4.1 specification today at the SIGGRAPH conference, introducing tighter integration with mobile OpenGL ES and OpenCL APIs and expanding its core capabilities to unlock graphics performance on both Macs and PCs and on iPhones and other mobile devices.
- AppleInsider, July 26, 2010 | Betting the House on HTML5
In a series of speeches in May, from the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco to the Disrupt Conference in New York, Friedman has touted upstart Scribd's bold decision to dump years of Flash development and to convert its entire site to HTML5.
- Publishing Weekly, July 26, 2010 | BLOG: New Zealand software patents: abolition isn't certain
In recent months, many proponents of software patents and those favoring their abolition have not only been anxiously awaiting the Bilski decision by the Supreme Court of the United States but also locked horns over New Zealand's patent reform bill.
- fosspatents.blogspot.com, July 24, 2010 | DISCUSSION: OpenStack: The open source, open standards cloud
Discussion on OpenStack, an open source cloud computing solution developed by Rackspace and NASA; and how it compares to Eucalyptus.
- Cloud Computing - Google Group, July 19, 2010 | ANNOUNCEMENT: Socrata Announces the 2010 Open Government Data Benchmark Study
Socrata, Inc., a leading advocate and technology enabler of Open Data today announced it will launch the inaugural Open Government Data Benchmark Study on July 21, 2010. This study will offer insights into the state of Open Government Data from three perspectives: data producers and publishers in federal, state and local governments; civically-engaged data consuming citizens; and programmers who aim to build civic applications based on open, public data.
- marketwire.com, July 14, 2010 | Channel FIVE Quits UK Open Broadband TV Standard Project Canvas
The Project Canvas joint venture, an open standard aiming to deliver UK broadband television services directly into homes via ISPs and IPTV set-top-boxes (STB), has lost one of its key broadcasting partners - Channel FIVE. The TV channel is currently up for sale and is reviewing its digital strategy, which effectively puts its support for Canvas on hiatus.
- ISPreview, July 10, 2010 | EC Says Cloud Will Evaporate Without Open Standards
The European Commission has continued its push against proprietary software and standards by pointing out the key role that openess played in the development of cloud computing services.
- eWeek, July 8, 2010 | Project Canvas looks to open standards for DRM
The Project Canvas web TV effort has opted to use the open Marlin standard for its digital rights management (DRM).
- PC PRO, July 8, 2010 | The Government Has an Online Identity Plan for You
A draft strategy would help users manage their identities online.
- Technology Review, July 7, 2010 | Top Ten Apps That Make Linux Fun To Use
Journalist posts his top 10 Linux apps, with a focus on free open source that implements open standards.
- internet.com, July 6, 2010 | EU’s Digital Agenda Could Mean Headaches For Apple
The European Union’s new Digital Agenda, an ambitious program of incentives and legislation designed to improve access to technology across the EU, could force companies such as Apple to open up their businesses by requiring them to offer more interoperability and use open standards.
- gigaom, July 6, 2010 | Health standards body ratifies online standard
After three years of trials and discussion, the Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) has formally ratified an online forms architecture technical specification to fast-track interoperability for the health sector.
- ComputerWorld, July 5, 2010 | U.S. government moving deliberately to cloud computing
The United States government has made it clear for most of 2010 that it will adopt cloud computing in as many ways as it can. According to Reuters, the government has "embraced" cloud computing in total and will implement it where ever it believes there are no issues related to security and privacy.
- edl consulting, July 2, 2010 | New IEEE Standards Initiative Aims at “Digital Personal Property”
The IEEE Standards Association has approved the formation of a new working group, P1817, the Standard for Consumer-Ownable Digital Personal Property. Chairing the working group is Paul Sweazey, an engineer who has been working on this idea for some time. A draft spec of P1817 is available, and the first working group meeting of the initiative will be in Silicon Valley on July 14.
- Copyright and Technology, July 2, 2010 | Cable Winks, Giggles at TR-069
Cable is flirting heavily with TR-069, a Broadband Forum remote management protocol standard that Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and other telcos are already using today to remotely manage their own range of DSL gateways. In fact, Cox Communications Inc. is the first to confirm to Light Reading Cable that it's deploying a new line of gateways and plans to monitor them using TR-069.
- Light Reading Cable, July 2, 2010 | Government Prepping Cloud Computing Guidance
As a report warns agencies won't move forward without clearer policy, White House readies comprehensive cloud strategy and cybersecurity rules.
- InformationWeek, July 1, 2010 | IBM embraces Firefox, adopts it internally
A recent change to IBM's internal IT policy has made Firefox the company's default Web browser. The move is a major endorsement of the browser's suitability in large-scale enterprise environments. IBM plans to roll it out to employees on new computers and will encourage its staff of 400,000 to use it on their existing systems.
- ars technica, July 1, 2010 | | June 2010 | Openness Would Decide Whether ‘Google Me’ Is Genius or Garbage
Google is rumored to be working on a social network along the lines of Facebook, whose recent privacy debacle was not enough to drive users away from the service. Could a superior alternative from Google do the trick?
Tags: XMPP, OpenID
- Wired, June 30, 2010 | Has Oracle been a disaster for Sun's open source?
Companies based around open source are still comparatively young. So it remains an open question what happens to them in the long term. As open source becomes more widely accepted, an obvious growth path for them is to be bought by a bigger, traditional software company. The concern then becomes: how does the underlying open source code fare in those circumstances?
- The H, June 28, 2010 | Chipzilla: Standards void threatens cloud future
Intel high-density computing group chief Jason Waxman told Structure 2010 on Thursday that without common agreement on security, management, data federation, and multi-tenancy, there will be API and platform lock-in.
- The Register, June 25, 2010 | Government pushes for open-standard data releases
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said that public releases of data will use open standards when possible.
- ZDNet UK, June 21, 2010 | Why IT Needs To Push Data Sharing Efforts
As IT organizations change their focus from cost cutting to growth, one of the single best things they can do for their businesses is enable effective data sharing. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? The right data sharing can open new markets, win new customers, improve relationships with existing customers, and expedite jobs from materials delivery to inventory management to payment reconciliation.
- InformationWeek, June 19, 2010 | NIST Tests Interoperability Standards
Over many years, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built test beds to support interoperability standards development and their implementation within software applications. A general test framework has been proposed to enhance new test bed development and reuse of existing test components and materials. Currently, the test framework is undergoing a validation effort within a healthcare domain to develop a test case generation facility.
- Laboratory Equipment, June 18, 2010 | Has Oracle broken its promises to open source?
OPINION: Now that Sun has been inside Oracle for a few months I believe the skeptics are being proven right. While some analysts say they’re not surprised at recent job cuts, they are pretty deep, in line with the predictions Ellison called “garbage.” The Wall Street Journal has estimated the job cuts will cost Oracle $1 billion in severance. Sales are slowing.
- ZDNet, June 16, 2010 | Opera embraces HTML 5
"Alternative browser bunch Opera has posted up its own HTML5 showcase. Not to be outdone by Apple and its partisan Safari-only shenanigans, Opera as a new build up its sleeve."
- THINQ.co.uk, June 14, 2010 | Surprising findings in developers' open source usage
Windows usage is declining, MySQL usage is gaining, and Enterprise JavaBeans and Spring usage are tied
- NetworkWorld, June 14, 2010 | EU to support open IT standards
BRUSSELS -- Dominant players in Europe's IT industry will face an EU drive for open standards, starting with services in the public sector.
- B92, June 14, 2010 | EU Commissioner Warns IT Buyers Against Vendor Lock-in
European Commissioner Neelie Kroes warned governments and businesses to avoid vendors that try to lock them in with proprietary technology. "Choosing open standards is a very smart business decision," she said Thursday at a conference in Brussels organized by Open Forum Europe.
- PCWorld, June 11, 2010 | Google's $124.6m open codec hits Chrome dev build
VP8 has been combined with the Ogg Vorbis audio codec and a subset of the Matroska container format to create a new media standard dubbed WebM.
- The Register, June 4, 2010 | Everything you need to know about 4G
If your smartphone seems more like a slowphone, hang in there. The next generation of wireless technologies, known as 4G, promises blazing-fast data transmission speeds.
- CNN, June 4, 2010 | Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked
'It's open. But it only works with Safari'
- The Register, June 4, 2010 | BLOG: OnLive: Using the Cloud To Play High-End Games on Any System
One of the most impressive demonstrations at the D8 conference was of OnLive, a cloud-based service that lets consumers play high-end games that otherwise would not work on their systems and play with their friends over great distances.
- PCMag.com, June 3, 2010 | | May 2010 | Draft Policy on Open Standards for E-Governance Available for Public Feedback Public Review Closes on 3rd June, 2010
Government of India has initiated collaborative process of formulation of Open Standards for e-Governance in India with the objective of enabling seamless interoperability of various e-governance solutions developed by multiple agencies, and to promote technology choice and avoid vendor lock-in.
- PIB, May 25, 2010 | Turf war heats up as Google accuses Apple of forgetting its roots and stifling innovation
Apple announced its arrival to smash the established order in 1984 with an iconic advert using imagery from the George Orwell masterpiece. Last week, the same images were turned against it by Google, a rival increasingly moving in on Apple's turf and one which has framed the war as one of ideology.
- THE INDEPENDENT, May 24, 2010 | Will Java EE ever make it to the cloud?
Neil McAllister is bullish; he sees this is a clever move on the part of VMware, which is using Java to move to cloud computing, which is the next step of the virtualization that is its bread and butter. He thinks that Spring support will make up for the lack of Java EE support -- the latter framework, as he explains, is too heavyweight to be virtualized onto a cloud system. But Savio Rodrigues thinks that lack of Java EE support is a killer; this feeds into his previously stated suspicions of Spring, which are focused on the fact that it's ultimately controlled by EMC rather than being an open standard like Java EE.
- JavaWorld, May 24, 2010 | Google open codec 'not open,' says OSI man
A board member with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) — the organization that approves open source licenses — has warned that there are "some serious questions" surrounding Google's swashbuckling efforts to create an open and royalty-free codec for web video.
- The Register, May 24, 2010 | Joined up TV
Home shopping, SMS voting, social networking crossovers and simple text-based services have all entered the broadcast sphere under the banner of interactive TV. Digital Broadcast talks to some of the technology firms supporting these services and asks which of them can drive real revenues.
- arabian business.com, May 23, 2010 | HTC Takes Revenge; Hits Apple
As expected, HTC has hit back at Apple. The Nexus One maker has filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States.
- Katonda, May 13, 2010 | SunSpec Alliance Releases Draft of the First Specification for Renewable Energy Standards for Public Comment
The SunSpec Alliance, a consortium of companies focused on defining open standards to accelerate the renewable energy industry, today announced that it has delivered its first set of proposed communication standards for equipment used in renewable energy systems. The initial SunSpec specification is now open for public comment, enabling all interested individuals and organizations a chance to review and provide feedback on the proposed standards.
- EarthTimes, May 11, 2010 | | April 2010 | Patent challenge looming for open-source codecs?
If authentic, a new e-mail from Steve Jobs indicates that Apple and Microsoft--of all bedfellows--could be preparing to challenge the validity of open-source video codecs.
- cnet news, April 30, 2010 | Facebook's Graph API: The Future Of Semantic Web?
“There are two important themes behind everything we're delivering today.” says Bret Taylor, head of Facebook’s platform products in the facebook developer blog, about the recent announcements at the f8 conference in San Francisco. Facebook introduced Open Graph protocol, and the Graph API as the next evolution in the Facebook platform.
- InfoQ, April 24, 2010 | Cisco promises to open source Telepresence Interoperability Protocol
Cisco completed its Tandberg acquisition today and promised to open and improve Telepresence interoperability
- NetworkWorld, April 19, 2010 | The Horse Race For Video in HTML5 Continues
"Get your scorecards out to track who and why will line up behind which video codec, as the fight for the video soul of HTML5 continues"
- NetworkWorld, April 19, 2010 | Google to open source $124.6m video codec, says report
Google will take a swashbuckling step towards license-free web video playback next month when it open sources the leading video codec from a company it just acquired for $124.6 million, according to a report citing multiple people familiar with the matter.
- The Register, April 13, 2010 | SNIA releases cloud standard for storage
Working in what it called "record time," the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) has released an open industry standard intended to be adopted by cloud providers. The Cloud Data Management Interface standard is intended to be applied to data storage and aims to specify a REST Web-based interface to standardize data storage and transfer.
- TechTarget, April 12, 2010 | ISO OOXML convener: Microsoft's format "heading for failure"
Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't built any software that truly complies with the standard. Microsoft Office 2010, which is expected to be released later this year, implements the deprecated "transitional" version of the format and is not compatible with the version that was crafted by the standards body.
- ars technica, April 2, 2010 | | March 2010 | Project Kangaroo joins Project Canvas
Arqiva, a communications company which provides infrastructure for broadcast television transmission, has today joined Project Canvas as a 7th partner alongside the BBC, BT, Channel 4, Five, ITV and TalkTalk. Arqiva will take an equal stake and provide equal funding. Project Canvas is a project to develop an open standards based set top box which will allow users to watch on-demand TV distributed over the Internet on their television.
- thinkbroadband, March 22, 2010 | Getting Physical: AMD, NVIDIA Trade Shots Over Hardware Physics
When it comes to hardware-accelerated PhysX and the future of GPGPU computing AMD and NVIDIA are the modern-day descendents of the Hatfields and McCoys. Both companies attended GDC last week, where a completely predictable war broke out over PhysX, physics, developer payoffs, and gamer interest in PhysX (or the lack thereof).
- HOT Hardware, March 16, 2010 | Tories promise to break up big gov't IT contracts
A Conservative government will use open standards to break up large government IT contracts into modular components, according to the party's pre-election technology manifesto.
- ZD Net, March 12, 2010 | HTML5 Web Sockets: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web
Lately there has been a lot of buzz around HTML5 Web Sockets, which defines a full-duplex communication channel that operates through a single socket over the Web. HTML5 Web Sockets is not just another incremental enhancement to conventional HTTP communications; it represents a colossal advance, especially for real-time, event-driven web applications.
- SAOWorld, March 11, 2010 | The OASIS Open Standards Consortium Forms New Member Section
The OASIS open standards consortium has announced the formation of a new Member Section, OASIS Blue, saying that it will bring together a variety of open standards projects related to energy, intelligent buildings, and natural resources.
- smart-grid.tmcnet.com, March 10, 2010 | Jeff Jaffe Named CEO of W3C
Jeff Jaffe has been appointed CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium. Until January Jaffe was CTO at Novell and, while his name hasn't come up very often in this community, he is one of the architects of the Novell-Microsoft patent deal.
- slashdot.org, March 9, 2010 | Industry coalition plans interoperability program
The Initiative for Open Authentication, an industry coalition promoting the use of open standards for interoperable strong authentication, used its annual meeting at this week’s RSA Security Conference to discuss plans for an interoperability certification program. The group, usually called OATH, considers interoperability one of its key focuses, said Don Malloy, the institute's marketing chief and director of business development for Nagra ID Security SA.
- GCN, March 4, 2010 | A Look at Service Component Architecture (SCA)
The vision for the Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification, a notion that originated with IBM and BEA Systems, was of a programming standard for service-oriented architecture (SOA), according to Michael Rowley, who has been involved with the spec almost since its inception.
- TechTarget, March 1, 2010 | | February 2010 | UK Government Gives Green Light To Use Of Firefox Across Public Sector
In the light of the recent phishing attack that compromised Twitter accounts of several prominent politicians, the UK government has announced that all its departments will have the freedom to opt for other web browsers as there is no rule about only using the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser.
- ITProPortal, February 27, 2010 | Ten emerging Enterprise 2.0 technologies to watch
Two significant and closely related trends in enterprise computing this year are the growth of Software-as-a-service (SaaS) and social computing. By most accounts, both are gaining ground quite rapidly while still not being used for core business functions or mission critical applications in most large firms, at least not yet.
- ZD Net, February 22, 2010 | Open standards win again: Google drops Gears for HTML5
Google announced this weekend that it’s going to be ending support for Google Gears, its product for allowing offline access to applications like Gmail and Google Docs.
- VentureBeat, February 22, 2010 | Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA) For DC Power Expands Membership to 13 Companies with FDK Corp
The Distributed-power Open Standards Alliance (DOSA), a global association dedicated to bringing compatibility and standardization to the DC-DC board mounted power conversion market, today added FDK Corporation to its membership roster.
- Market Watch, February 9, 2010 | Smart Grid cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified
The second draft of the Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements released last week provides more detail about the Herculean task of securing the nation’s modernized electrical infrastructure.
- smartplanet.com, February 8, 2010 | Denmark adopts ODF and PDF/A
Central government bodies in Denmark will have to use open document formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF), from 2011, the Danish parliament has ruled.
- ZDNet Asia, February 3, 2010 | Industry calls for smart card security standard
The solution will build on an open standard already implemented by the four partner companies, and that will eventually be governed by an independent body.
- EE Times India, February 1, 2010 | | January 2010 | Oracle changes the IT strategy landscape
The $4.3 billion of research and development budgeted for fiscal year 2011 will allow Oracle to safeguard and reinvigorate Sun products and to make this hardware the “gold standard” for running Oracle applications. The announcement also included a commitment to continue its open standards efforts, specifically mentioning Java and MySQL; to this end, Oracle has expanded its upcoming Java developer’s conference to locations in Brazil, Russia, China, and India.
- TechRepublic, January 29, 2010 | Danish Parliament Sets Rules for Open Document Formats
The Danish Parliament has decided on a set of rules to which open document formats must adhere if they are to be used by state authorities after April 1, 2011, Denmark's Liberal Party said on Friday.
- PC World, January 29, 2010 | Apple becomes more closed with each new device...
OPINION: "Since the introduction of the iPod, iPhone, and now the iPad, Apple is becoming less and less open, it using fewer standard components and chips, and far fewer Internet technologies common to Mac/PC desktop and laptop systems."
- ZD Net, January 28, 2010 | Major Smart Card Market Players Join Forces to Advance Open and Secure Public Transport Smart Card Applications
Transport Ticketing 2010 Conference & Expo, London - January 26, 2010 - Smart card manufacturers Giesecke & Devrient GmbH (G&D) and Oberthur Technologies S.A., and chip suppliers Infineon Technologies AG and INSIDE Contactless S.A. announced they have launched an industry initiative to provide a new security solution for next-generation smart card-based public transport applications.
- MoreRFID, January 27, 2010 | Steps to adopt open source standards draw flak
“The modifications made to the suggestions given by an expert committee recommendations would make the policy very weak and not favour open standards,” says Dr G Nagarajan, chairman of the Free Software Foundation of India, which advocates that the software should be free and open for all. The draft is also not clear on whether it will also impact existing e-governance projects or only new tenders.
- The Economic Times, January 19, 2010 | Twitter Punches Back at Facebook Connect
Twitter is using an open, standards based approach with OAuth for authentication and data sharing, while Facebook uses proprietary protocols for Facebook Connec
- PAETEC, January 18, 2010 | Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010
Think of the words "standards war," and unless you're a standards wonk like m...oh, never mind...you're likely to think of the battle between the Betamax and VHS video tape formats. That's because videos are consumer products that just about everyone uses, and therefore the bloodshed in that standards war was not only shed in public view, but the some of the blood that was shed was shed by the public (i.e., those that bought video players supporting Betamax, the losing, but arguably superior, format). Fast forward (pun intended) to the present, and the trademarks "HD DVD and "Blu-ray" may ring a bell - and that's no coincidence.
- consortiuminfo.org, January 11, 2010 | 9 Reasons Why SVGs are Important for the Web
OPINION: Despite being a W3C specification since 2001, Scalable Vector Graphics have never received the attention they deserve. Primarily, this is because the majority of web users (using Internet Explorer) are unable to view the images without a plugin.
- sitepoint, January 8, 2010 | Obama's CTO Aneesh Chopra: Innovation and open technology standards are key
The message of White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra on Thursday was both clear and irritatingly abstract. For the United States to pull out of recession and strive, government and businesses must be nimble and transformative, he said.
- Los Angeles Time, January 8, 2010 | The rise of web applications and Chrome: it's all about timescales
The significant thing about Chrome is that it sets a new way of thinking. It does not mean Chrome will dominate the world. Open standards mean that other companies could provide similar services. It’s the 80% scenario.
- Free Software Magazine, January 8, 2010 | Why You Should Use OpenGL And Not DirectX
OPINION: OpenGL is better for the future of games OpenGL is a non-profit open standard created to allow users on any platform to experience the highest quality ...
- gamasutra.com, January 8, 2010 | Automation World Readers voice innovation needs and concerns
In October, Automation World conducted an Internet survey asking readers about their feelings regarding automation innovation. Almost 100 responded, sharing insights, concerns and their outlook for the future. Here are some of the responses compiled by Contributing Editor Alex Anderson.
- AutomationWorld, January 7, 2010 | HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Happy New Year, everyone!
- OpenStandards.net, January 1, 2010 | | December 2009 | Meet the New OpenID Foundation Board Members
OpenID, the open standard for federated user identity across multiple websites, is led by the OpenID Foundation. That organization announced the election of its newest Board members today. These are the people who will be moving and shaking OpenID on a policy and standards level.
- ReadWriteWeb, December 30, 2009 | An application war is brewing in the cloud
Today's cloud-computing vendors focus on infrastructure, but that won't be the case for long. It can't be. As competing vendors seek to differentiate themselves, they're going to move "up the stack" into applications.
- THE OPEN ROAD, December 30, 2009 | Everything in health care depends on execution
NHIN-Connect was designed to ease the work of Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), but now it will define it. The open standards and open interfaces of the Health Internet will let doctors get records, not just between Atlanta and Macon, but between New York and Los Angeles.
- ZD Net, December 28, 2009 | Microsoft Loses to i4i
Microsoft Corporation, one of the world’s largest software companies, has lost another battle. The company has been slapped with a $290 million penalty for infringement of Canada-based i4i’s patent number 5787449.
- Zacks.com, December 24, 2009 | For Google, The Meaning Of Open Is When It's Convenient For Them
OPINION: Yesterday, Google published a long manifesto on the "meaning of open" in the form of an email to all employees republished as a blog post. In it, senior VP of product management Jonathan Rosenberg, makes an eloquent argument for why open systems always win and urges Google's employees to always strive to be open when designing products. An open Internet spurs innovation and brings more consumers on board, which ultimately means more searches and increased use of Web applications.
- The Washington Post, December 22, 2009 | XSPA Profile of SAML and XSPA Profile of XACML approved as OASIS Standards for Healthcare
The OASIS international consortium today announced two new information standards that give hospitals, insurers, and others in the healthcare community much-needed mechanisms for exchanging privacy policies, evaluating consent directives, and determining authorizations. The Cross-Enterprise Security and Privacy Authorization (XSPA) Profile of the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) for Healthcare and the XSPA Profile of the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) for Healthcare have both been approved as OASIS Standards, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification.
- THE MEDICAL NEWS, December 19, 2009 | Google Grabs Plaxo’s CTO To “Turbocharge” The Opening Of The Social Web
Back in June, Google lost Kevin Marks, one of the social web’s main proponents within the company. Today, they’ve gained a new one: Joseph Smarr.
- TechCru;nh, December 18, 2009 | 10 points on the mandatory use of open standards in Hungary
Hungarian Parliament has made the use of open standards mandatory by law in the intercommunication between public administration offices, public utility companies, citizens and voluntarily joining private companies, conducted via the central governmental system.
- Nyílt Szabvány Szövetség - Open Standards Alliance, December 17, 2009 | In Letter to FCC, Obama Administration Wants Open Standards and Networks for Public Safety
A government letter sent on behalf of the Obama Administration to the agency charged with rolling out a national broadband plan repeatedly refers to the need for open platforms, standards and networks going forward in order to keep the country safe.
- BroadbandBreakfast.com, December 15, 2009 | | November 2009 | Major Companies Endorse Legal Agreement For Open Standards
Sharing open source software just got a whole lot easier. The Open Web Foundation has announced the availability of the Open Web Foundation Agreement, and some huge corporations - namely Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo - have given the arrangement their figurative seal of approval.
- WebProNews, November 17, 2009 | Protests against proposed redefinition of open standards within the EU
An unofficial new draft of an amended EU interoperability framework for e-government services has fuelled the dispute over the definition of open standards. Open source associations have criticised the fact that the draftPDF of a planned amendment to the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) published by a Dutch journalist includes patented and proprietary solutions in an "openness continuum". They are concerned that this could significantly restrict the usability of open source software in public administration.
- h-online.com, November 10, 2009 | Oracle Outlines Sun Software Plans
With the deal's approval still pending, Oracle offers more details on what it plans to do if it can close on its purchase of Sun Microsystems.
- internetnews.com, November 3, 2009 | Red Hat Rolls Out Virtualization Platform for Heterogeneous Servers and Clouds
ANNOUNCE: Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, the newest product set in the Red Hat EnterpriseVirtualization portfolio.
- reuters, November 3, 2009 | Web Open Font Format backed by Mozilla, type foundries
Type designers and Web designers have reached a consensus on a format specification for embedding fonts on the Web. Mozilla is already including support for the font format in Firefox 3.6, and wide adoption could come sooner than many expected.
- ars technica, November 2, 2009 | | October 2009 | DocumentCloud Going Open Source Every Step of the Way
What does it mean to work on a project where open-source principles are written into the founding contract? A little over a month after receiving a 2009 Knight News Challenge grant, DocumentCloud released its first open-source component.
- MediaShift Idea Lab, October 29, 2009 | Opera CEO: Browser Ballot Is Good for Consumers
In an interview with eWEEK, Jon Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, which brought an antitrust case against Microsoft in European Union courts, talks about some of the latest developments in the case.
- eWeek.com, October 28, 2009 | Making the leap from virtualization to cloud computing: A roadmap and guide
This latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion focuses on enterprise IT architects making a leap from virtualization to cloud computing.
- ZD Net, October 15, 2009 | Google To Open Online E-Book Store
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Google revealed its plans to launch Google Editions, an online store to sell e-books. The company says the store will launch in the first half of 2010 with about half a million e-books.
- search engine land, October 15, 2009 | G2iX Unveils First Server Using Open Standards for Custom PaaS Creation Inside the Enterprise
PRESS RELEASE: Today at the ITU Telecom World (http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009/) conference, G2iX unveiled the Morph CloudServer (http://www.g2ix.com/morph), the first appliance using open standards to dynamically create custom Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. Following industry-leading standards established by Amazon's (http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/morph/) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/)) and Eucalyptus (http://www.eucalyptus.com/), the Morph CloudServer offers unprecedented flexibility, control and agility for developing and deploying software on a massive scale.
- EarthTimes, October 7, 2009 | | September 2009 | IBM Building 'Smarter City' Cloud In China
The center will be built with IBM's CloudBurst hardware and will be used to modernize a municipal administration and economy.
- InformationWeek, September 25, 2009 | Cloud Computing Gains Momentum but Security and Privacy Issues Persist
"What tends to worry people [about cloud computing] are issues like security and privacy of data -- that's definitely what we often hear from our customers," said Chris Willey, interim chief technology officer of Washington, D.C.
- Government Technology, September 25, 2009 | FCC Chairman wants network neutrality, wired and wireless
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski waded directly into the network neutrality fight today, launching a new proceeding designed to turn the FCC's existing "principles" into "rules"—and to add two more. The rules would apply equally to wired and wireless connections.
- ars technica, September 21, 2009 | Cloud Computing Explained In Four Paragraphs
Cloud computing. The definition for that two-word term varies greatly depending on who’s doing the talking. But during Atlanta Linux Fest, held Sept. 19, Canonical’s John Pugh offered a simple definition that brings order to cloud computing, SaaS (software as as service), platform as a service (PaaS) and some other hot terms in IT. Here’s the scoop.
- MSPmentor, September 21, 2009 | Meet Google's 'Data Liberation Front'
You say you want a revolution? Google's hoping you do -- at least, when it comes to being able to take your cloud-stored data wherever you want.
- pcworld.com, September 14, 2009 | VMware Submits VMware vCloud API Specification to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced the submission of its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to enable consistent mobility, provisioning, management, and service assurance of applications running in internal and external clouds.
- JDJ, September 1, 2009 | | August 2009 | Xen Project Launches New Open Cloud Initiative
Introduction of Xen Cloud Platform Will Accelerate Customer Adoption of Open Enterprise-Class Cloud Infrastructures
- REUTERS, August 31, 2009 | Study: IT shops have cash in hand for cloud computing
More than 80% of large enterprises are at least in trial stage on a cloud computing initiative, according to a new study released today, signaling potentially solid demand for this new style of managed services.
- telephonyonline.com, August 25, 2009 | SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers
OPINION: Indeed, the new SONY readers are slick devices that feel like premium products when you use them, much like the feeling of when you handle something like, well, an Apple product, for lack of a better comparison. But unlike Apple, and unlike Amazon, SONY’s readers are both premium in build quality and embrace open standards.
- ZD Net, August 25, 2009 | Linux Needs Open Multimedia on the Web
The state of web multimedia on Linux is pitiful. Proprietary codecs, plug-ins and closed standards are helping to keep Linux a second rate citizen. What Linux needs is not another proprietary framework like Moonlight, but more open standards. Can Google help by making YouTube a Theora-fest?
- linux-mag.com, August 20, 2009 | BLOG: Comparing Force.com, Google Apps Engine and Amazon WS
These are often referred to as the primary vendors in cloud computing today. Yet, the differences between these cloud offerings are broad.
- Blogspot, August 12, 2009 | Cloud Security Panel: Is cloud computing more or less secure than on-premises IT?
Excerpts from panelists at The Open Group’s 23rd Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Toronto discuss the challenges of security in cloud computing.
- ZD Net, August 12, 2009 | Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books
On Thursday, Sony Electronics, which sells e-book devices under the Reader brand, plans to announce that by the end of the year it will sell digital books only in the ePub format, an open standard created by a group including publishers like Random House and HarperCollins.
- NY Times, August 12, 2009 | Microsoft patents XML word processing documents
The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an application that understands XML, or to enable another application or service to create a rich document in XML so that the word-processing application can open it as if it was one of its own documents."
- ZD Net, August 7, 2009 | WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing Use Cases (v1.0)
The Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group released version 1.0 of the Cloud Computing Use Cases white paper.
- Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group, August 5, 2009 | Energy software startups set to fight off Google, Microsoft
With a number of traditional IT powerhouses—including Google, Microsoft, and Cisco —entering the field of energy management, it's tempting to view them as pushing a lot of the entrenched companies aside. Instead, because of the way that the energy market is structured, these newer entrants may find themselves relying on some of the services of the startups that occupy the energy management space.
- ars technica, August 4, 2009 | Windows losing out to Web-centric development?
Google's Chrome operating system isn't the only thing threatening Windows these days. In a recent New York Times story, VMware CEO Paul Maritz highlighted how dynamic Web frameworks and languages are fundamentally shifting our understanding of the operating system. He said, "If you are in Ruby on Rails, you have to work really hard to tell what the operating system is, it is so far removed."
- CNet news, August 4, 2009 | Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
The cornucopia of products for handling distributed data in the cloud includes everything from lightweight key-value stores to industrial-strength databases.
- Dr. Dobb's Journal, August 3, 2009 | GSA Outlines U.S. Government's Cloud Computing Requirements
A newly issued RFQ details what's expected from cloud computing vendors in terms of security, SLAs, geographic location, and data ownership.
- InformationWeek, August 3, 2009 | | July 2009 | WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing Use Cases (final draft)
An open collaborative group released this under a Creative Commons license. Read and discuss on the Cloud Computing Use Case discussion group. Here is the PDF.
- Cloud Computing Use Case Discussion Group on Scribd.com, July 31, 2009 | Brokering Cloud Computing as a Commodity
I seem to keep coming back to the same question when discussing Cloud Computing. Can cloud computing be treated as a commodity that could be brokered and or exchanged? ...
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