items tagged with Standards
Unknown new ISP, myKP, offers broadband “with no download caps”
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-13 20:26:50
Could it really be true – an ISP in Australia offering broadband with no download caps? A new ISP called “myKP” says it will offer just that from January 26 but “initially” only on a limited basis in areas that can already access myKP’s Free Wi-Fi - although the service is expected to be offered to "everyone" in a "not too long" timeframe.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2009-01-13 20:26:50
Could it really be true – an ISP in Australia offering broadband with no download caps? A new ISP called “myKP” says it will offer just that from January 26 but “initially” only on a limited basis in areas that can already access myKP’s Free Wi-Fi - although the service is expected to be offered to "everyone" in a "not too long" timeframe.
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New standard to wire up the digital home in the age of multimedia
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-12-14 14:10:05
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released a new standard that will enable communications over phone, power and coaxial cables in the home at up to 700Mbps for the delivery of bandwidth intensive multimedia content.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-12-14 14:10:05
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released a new standard that will enable communications over phone, power and coaxial cables in the home at up to 700Mbps for the delivery of bandwidth intensive multimedia content.
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Race for the 5Gbps wireless LAN heats up
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-12-11 15:22:29
With the increasing popularity of high definition video and multimedia today's wireless local area networks just won't be fast enough and work is well advanced to develop technologies with throughputs of 5Gbps operating at frequencies around 60GHz. Australia's NICTA is a lead player, but competition is heating up.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-12-11 15:22:29
With the increasing popularity of high definition video and multimedia today's wireless local area networks just won't be fast enough and work is well advanced to develop technologies with throughputs of 5Gbps operating at frequencies around 60GHz. Australia's NICTA is a lead player, but competition is heating up.
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Apple's OpenCL adopted by industry consortium
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-12-09 16:17:31
Industry consortium Khronos Group has ratified the OpenCL specification designed to make it easier to exploit modern graphics chips for computational tasks. OpenCL was originally proposed by Apple and slated to appear in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-12-09 16:17:31
Industry consortium Khronos Group has ratified the OpenCL specification designed to make it easier to exploit modern graphics chips for computational tasks. OpenCL was originally proposed by Apple and slated to appear in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Corporate governance of IT - Critical for all organizations, large or small (iTWire podcast)
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Pod Casts
2008-12-01 18:29:37
HTML clipboard In this iTWire podcast interview, Mark Toomey of Infonomics explains why IT governance is so critical to organizations of any size, and how
it is non-IT executives and directors who play the key role in effective governance.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Pod Casts
2008-12-01 18:29:37
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100 reasons Linux beats Windows
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-09-27 23:30:15
That's right; you heard me. Here are – count 'em – one hundred reasons why Linux beats Windows.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-09-27 23:30:15
That's right; you heard me. Here are – count 'em – one hundred reasons why Linux beats Windows.
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First specification emerges from Metadata Working Group
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-09-24 18:57:54
The proliferation of metadata standards has been causing headaches for users of digital photography. But a band of industry heavyweights in the Metadata Working Group has come up with a set of guidelines that should cut the confusion.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-09-24 18:57:54
The proliferation of metadata standards has been causing headaches for users of digital photography. But a band of industry heavyweights in the Metadata Working Group has come up with a set of guidelines that should cut the confusion.
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New and open IBM standards policy revealed
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-09-23 09:48:52
IBM is instituting a new corporate policy that, it promises, will formalise behaviour with regards to creating open technical standards. So just what is Big Blue actually doing to encourage improved quality and transparency of tech standards then?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Vendors
2008-09-23 09:48:52
IBM is instituting a new corporate policy that, it promises, will formalise behaviour with regards to creating open technical standards. So just what is Big Blue actually doing to encourage improved quality and transparency of tech standards then?
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Eating Alfresco: the healthier FOSS alternative to SharePoint
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-08-13 10:05:47
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2008-08-13 10:05:47
I assisted a company today with a spectacular Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) crash. The experience showed some folly in the oft-claimed mantra that Windows-based applications are graphical and friendly. In fact, here’s a free Linux-friendly open source package called Afresco which makes a better SharePoint than SharePoint.
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New 'green' rules for plug-in power packs
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-08-10 20:43:25
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Cornered!
Category: Telecommunications blog
2008-08-10 20:43:25
How many of those plug-in low voltage power packs are in your home: to charge your cellphone, power your Internet router, cordless phone, children's toys etc etc. When they are plugged in, they are sucking power whether they are being used or not. And from December they will have to meet new standards aimed at reducing the amount of energy they waste.
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Better browsing on mobiles
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-08-04 15:48:02
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued a new set of standards to guide developers of content to be accessed from mobile phones so as to make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-08-04 15:48:02
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued a new set of standards to guide developers of content to be accessed from mobile phones so as to make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices.
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What's the impact of IT on climate change? ITU aims to find out
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: International
2008-07-12 19:29:13
The International Telecommunication Union has set up a new group to work on standards covering the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on climate change.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: International
2008-07-12 19:29:13
The International Telecommunication Union has set up a new group to work on standards covering the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on climate change.
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PDF becomes an international standard
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-07-02 16:10:12
Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has become an international standard - ISO 32000-1 - following a decision by Adobe to relinquish control to the International Standards Organisation.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-07-02 16:10:12
Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) has become an international standard - ISO 32000-1 - following a decision by Adobe to relinquish control to the International Standards Organisation.
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iBurst now an IEEE standard
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-06-17 01:13:54
The iBurst mobile wireless broadband technology - arguably the first truly mobile broadband technology to go into commercial service when it was launched in Sydney in March 2004 - has finally become an international standard, IEEE 802.20.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-06-17 01:13:54
The iBurst mobile wireless broadband technology - arguably the first truly mobile broadband technology to go into commercial service when it was launched in Sydney in March 2004 - has finally become an international standard, IEEE 802.20.
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More woes for WiMAX? 802.20 rises from the dead - UPDATED.
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-06-16 20:46:47
A few years ago the 802.20 broadband wireless technology was touted as a serious rival to mobile WiMAX, and 3G mobile broadband, but it was given up for dead thanks to a dysfunctional IEEE working group. Now, out the blue, the IEEE has announced finalisation of the standard, and Kyocera says that the technology underpinning the standard is its proprietary iBurst system
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-06-16 20:46:47
A few years ago the 802.20 broadband wireless technology was touted as a serious rival to mobile WiMAX, and 3G mobile broadband, but it was given up for dead thanks to a dysfunctional IEEE working group. Now, out the blue, the IEEE has announced finalisation of the standard, and Kyocera says that the technology underpinning the standard is its proprietary iBurst system
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Uh-oh... Microsoft Office 2007 not OK with OOXML
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 04:54:59
A test of Office 2007’s compatibility in outputting OOXML compliant documents has shown that Microsoft’s latest Office suite generates files with errors, failing the test. But is this really a surprise?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-04-23 04:54:59
A test of Office 2007’s compatibility in outputting OOXML compliant documents has shown that Microsoft’s latest Office suite generates files with errors, failing the test. But is this really a surprise?
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What the OOXML fiasco can teach us
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-02 19:33:40
The late Charles M. Schulz, the genius behind Peanuts, could make a much more telling comment on human foibles through one of his cartoon strips than many a writer can in 1000 words.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-04-02 19:33:40
The late Charles M. Schulz, the genius behind Peanuts, could make a much more telling comment on human foibles through one of his cartoon strips than many a writer can in 1000 words.
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OOXML: decision time is nigh
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-27 10:42:22
In a few days the fate of Microsoft's Office Open XML will be known - whether it will be accepted as a second ISO standard for documents. Two years ago, the Open Document Format was ratified as a standard.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2008-03-27 10:42:22
In a few days the fate of Microsoft's Office Open XML will be known - whether it will be accepted as a second ISO standard for documents. Two years ago, the Open Document Format was ratified as a standard.
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More power over ethernet: a boost for video services - UPDATE
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-03-25 18:44:40
A new standard for the delivery of up to 24 watts of power over standard ethernet cables enabling support for a number of key video services has passed a major milestone and is expected to be ratified by 2009.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Technology
2008-03-25 18:44:40
A new standard for the delivery of up to 24 watts of power over standard ethernet cables enabling support for a number of key video services has passed a major milestone and is expected to be ratified by 2009.
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Safari 3.1 includes security fixes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-03-18 15:16:45
Even if you're not moved by Apple's claims about Safari 3.1's speed, there are other good reasons to install the new version.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2008-03-18 15:16:45
Even if you're not moved by Apple's claims about Safari 3.1's speed, there are other good reasons to install the new version.
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