Roaming standard ratified
Aug. 25, 2008
The IEEE recently ratified the long-awaited 802.11r standard for fast handoff, officially named Fast Basic Service Set Transition. 802.11r, in development for four years, is a key component to solving the performance ...
How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing
Feb. 28, 2008
Next month, national standards bodies will vote for the second time on whether to adopt the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
Court dismisses case challenging warrantless e-mail searches
Jul. 16, 2008
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week dismissed on procedural grounds a case involving the constitutionality of warrantless no-notice searches of e-mail messages stored by an ISP.
PCI standards body moves ahead on payment-application cert
Apr. 16, 2008
PCI Security Standards Council releases list of certified payment applications under Payment Application Data Security Standard, while Council general manager Bub Russo describes upcoming standard efforts, and office- ...
India and Brazil file appeals against OOXML standardization
May. 30, 2008
India and Brazil have filed appeals against the adoption of the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
Few expected to make PCI deadline for Web app security
May. 14, 2008
Retailers covered by the Payment Card Industry data security standard (PCI-DSS) have just about a month and a half left to comply with new requirements for protecting Web applications. But as with previous PCI-related ...
India rejects Office Open XML again
Mar. 21, 2008
A technical committee in India has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML file format as a standard.
New payment application security standard on deck
Nov. 07, 2007
The PCI Standards Council announces it will establish a new standard and certification program for payment-application software
10 security threats to watch for
Apr. 09, 2008
From virtual server exploitation to compromised Web sites and mobile Web browsers, a list to 10 security threats to be on the lookout for.
An open, free, distributed Web authentication service
Apr. 09, 2008
How many accounts do you have on the Internet? If you have as many as I do you'll probably have some tool for managing all of your logins. I use Siber Systems' RoboForm but it has one problem - it is PC-based which ...
Balloting ends for close OOXML ratification vote
Mar. 31, 2008
Balloting on whether Office Open XML (OOXML) should become an international document standard closed at midnight Saturday in Geneva, in an apparently tight vote. The results have not yet been officially announced.
Votes roll in for ballot on OOXML standard
Mar. 28, 2008
Ballots are rolling in for the final ballot to decide whether the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopts a file format based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) as an international standard. ...
U.S. likely to maintain 'yes' vote for OOXML in ISO
Mar. 10, 2008
An esoteric-but-key technical committee will recommend that the U.S. maintain its support for making Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format an ISO-certified open standard, despite controversy at a meeting ...
BEA warms to ColdFusion users
Apr. 17, 2006
BEA Systems hopes to lure users of ColdFusion applications to BEA's WebLogic Server platform by licensing New Atlanta's BlueDragon software.
Fleury: JBoss to scale its business
Apr. 12, 2006
Look for JBoss to scale its business now that it has the backing of Red Hat, JBoss Chairman and CEO Marc Fleury said on Wednesday.
SPML 2.0 ratified as a standard for managing user access
Apr. 11, 2006
In a move that could open the door to more user account provisioning in the enterprise, the OASIS consortium approved the SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language) version 2.0 specification as an official OASIS ...
BEA seeks to modularize app server
Mar. 31, 2006
BEA Systems is working to modularize services from its WebLogic Server application server, enabling them to run independently with open source frameworks, a company official said on Thursday.
PDF approved as international standard in ISO vote
Dec. 05, 2007
Adobe PDF 1.7 has been approved as an international standard by the International Standards Organization (ISO), according to a company executive.
U.S. standards committee still undecided on Open XML
Jul. 25, 2007
A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft, even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming ...
Liberty releases new client ID specifications
Mar. 21, 2007
The Liberty Alliance released a new set of specifications aimed at protecting identity information transmitted by mobile devices during Web-based transactions.
Study: Businesses don’t understand Web application security threats
Mar. 20, 2007
Businesses may unwittingly leave themselves open to application-layer attacks because they don't understand their networks lack defenses to deflect them, according to a study by Forrester Research.
Coalition to offer free prescription app to U.S. doctors
Jan. 16, 2007
A coalition of technology companies and healthcare providers Tuesday announced a $100 million program to offer free access to electronic prescribing software to all U.S. physicians.
GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
Nov. 26, 2007
The GNOME Foundation, recently slammed by critics who accused it of supporting Microsoft's Open Office XML document format, has issued a statement to clarify its position on the matter.
Standards suggested for writing secure Java
Nov. 20, 2007
A group of secure-programming experts plans a series of documents that outline the skills coders need to write Web applications that are better able to withstand attacks.
IBM to spend $1.5 billion to improve computer security
Nov. 01, 2007
IBM will spend $1.5 billion developing computer security products in 2008, a sum that could double the company's previous spending.
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