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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 |
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