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Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday: The International Standards Organization won't make an official announcement about whether Office Open XML OOXML will be a standard until Wednesday -- and perhaps for good reason. Final voting and reporting on the proposal was expected Monday but the ISO said it decided to hold...; Tags: Irregularity, ISO, Norway, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-03-31
'Scandal' over norway's vote for OOXML: We hear stories of "voting irregularities" around the world, not least of all right hear in the USA, but surely the ISO is different. No? The Register reports that delegates have been "complaining loudly about alleged heavy-handed tactics and misdeeds in the voting process" on Microsoft's OOXML standard. ...; Tags: ISO, Norway, Committee, OOXML, Register, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-03-31
88% of 10-year-olds in norway have a mobile phone: 88% of 10-year-olds in Norway have a mobile phone. In 2004, 52% of 10-year-olds had a mobile phone. 71% of 9-year-olds owned or had access to a mobile phone, compared with 57% in 2006, according to Opinion Research. by nadezhda; Tags: Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Norway, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, nadezhda; Blog posts 2008-01-08
Gore's Nobel speech: harsh but optimistic: Al Gore collected his Nobel Peace Prizre today in Norway. He won for his efforts to publicize the dangers he sees from global warming. Sharing the Prize was the I.P.C.C., the United Nations' international organization to study climate change and make recommendations to the world's governments. ...; Tags: Norway, Al Gore, Global Warming, Gore, Government, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2007-12-10
TV-Guide (6): TV-Guide Widget is a Norsk Norwegian TV-Guide widget. Displays whats on TV in Norway and some other European countries with lots of functions and over 80 channels. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Norway, TV-Guide Widget, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment; Software downloads 2007-11-13

LinderudCam (widget): This cam is located in Oslo, Norway, at a place called Linderud. It updates every 15 minutes, or by clicking on it.; Tags: Oslo, Norway; Software downloads 2007-04-18
Fund Prices Downloader (norway Edition) (1): Fund Prices Downloader previously known as Fund Downloader is a software that allows you to collect fund prices from Web sites. The prices are stored in database which can be exported later in a customized format. Downloading can be scheduled using built-in scheduler. In addition, free data manager allows you...; Tags: Norway, Edition, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Backups, Management, Internet; Software downloads 2006-07-04
Medal of Honor Allied Assault Zone Assault: Telemark Map (zip): This is a map for Medal of Honor Allied Assault, takes place in Telemark, Norway. This map for Medal of Honor Allied Assault takes place in the snowy mountains of Telemark, Norway. Both teams spawn in a hardwater factory and must fight to take control of the area.; Tags: Norway, Team Management, Management; Software downloads 2004-03-01
Data Transfer That Goes the Distance: Linjegods is Norway's largest transportation and distribution corporation. With new applications being put in place, the previous system of utilising established leased-line networks was proving too slow, cumbersome and expensive, so Linjegods was looking for an IP-based system that would bring the necessary bandwidth to its data network, whilst reducing...; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., IP, Norway, Linjegods, Transportation, Networking, Network Technology; Case studies
Microsoft .NET Software Turns Outdated Reporting Processes Into a Dynamic, Simple and Cost-Effective System: Norway is a major exporter of fish and fishery products around the world, relying heavily on the fishing industry as a source of export revenue. Fish breeding generates a large portion of the export revenue and is seen as an integral part of the fishing industry in Norway. Over 800...; Tags: Capgemini, Norway, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Application Servers, Operational Accounting, Middleware, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management; Case studies
Pension Insurance Provider Reduces Time-to-Market With Scalable Solution: Vital Forsikring ASA, part of DnB NOR ASA, is Norway's largest privately owned provider of pension and life insurance. Soon-to-be-implemented pension laws in Norway are expected to increase the number of new pension insurance subscribers. Anticipating the new legislation to take effect in January 2006, Vital wanted to be ready...; Tags: Norway, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance; Case studies
Inter-Agency Collaboration Simplifies Reporting Obligations in norway: Three Norwegian government agencies - the Tax Directorate, the Bronnoysund Register Centre, and Statistics Norway - cooperated to establish a common electronic reporting channel for businesses to file government forms. Developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework and the Accenture eGovernment Accelerator, and standardized on products in Microsoft Windows Server System,...; Tags: Norway, Microsoft Corp., Inter-Agency Collaboration, E-government, Government; Case studies

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Photos: Where the building is the network: The San Jose, Calif., headquarters of Echelon, maker of technologies for smart buildings, model the company's energy management systems.Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn''t call its embedded control technologies "green,"...; Tags: Network, Echelon, Photograph, Building, It', Echelon', That', Networking, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-14
A personal denial of service attack: A personal denial of service attackNot that easyMost email spam comes from zombie bots - computers taken over through nefarious means. I'm sure that your D.O.S. email could be traced back to one of these bots - and THEN who would you fine/cut off? It was probably 10 years ago...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, personal denial of service attack, Linux Expert, denial of service; Discussion threads 2008-05-01
Microsoft's Oslo connections begin to bud: Microsoft took another step in unveiling its "Oslo" SOA strategy, with a sample application intended to not only demonstrate the vendor's interoperability as a SOA platform, and also show how it can automatically scale to meet the increased and unpredictable workloads SOA will bring to data centers. ...; Tags: Oslo, Microsoft BizTalk Server, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Application Servers, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-04-29
OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely: OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikelyStandingISO has also stated that it will only accept appeals of NB votes from the NB itself. In other words, the only ones who can appeal for instance Norway's vote are the people who filed it.Either paid for or bullied into submissionThe results are...; Tags: Office Open XML; Discussion threads 2008-04-17
OOXML appeal possible, but looks unlikely: The International Organization for Standardization ISO has not received a formal appeal of its approval of Office Open XML as a standard, but it looks more unlikely with each day that passes. To date, there have been "no appeals and I have no way...; Tags: ISO, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-04-17
Country Radio (gadget): Get direct links to 38 of the Best Country Radio Stations streaming music 24 Hrs a day and we threw in the Country Slide Show with over 300 CD covers from the most current Country artists & bands. BBC Radio 2, UK BCR Sidney, AU BEAR Lake Placid, FL CHFX...; Tags: Radio, Computer Associates International Inc., Sidebar Gadgets, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing; Software downloads 2008-04-16
ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks': The ISO committee handling OOXML braves open-source protests to meet in Oslo and works out how to ensure interoperability with ODF.By David Meyer of ZDNet UK The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. ...; Tags: Standards; News items 2008-04-15
EU investigating OOXML vote: The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities. In...; Tags: Standards Body, Microsoft Corp., European Union, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Management, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-04-02