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Standards: Standards make up the most important issue in the computer field. As an unregulated industry, we have wound up with thousands of data formats and languages, but few standards...; Full Standards Definition >>

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Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic: There is no standard that will tell hospitals what frequencies the tags are using. Thus they can't tell when the frequencies being used by the tags might interfere with other gear. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: Hospital, Media, Medical Device, Standards, RFID, Healthcare, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-06-25
Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense: Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...; Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8: Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE 8They should publicly ignore the catcalling.The louder people complain, and the louder MS doesn't care and simply push developers for more and more compliance, the more respect they will garner. I like this early warning they gave. No matter...; Tags: Web browsers, Web site development, Web technology, Quality, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, IE 8, Web site, standards, Mozilla Firefox, Web; Discussion threads 2008-06-12
EU to investiage Office support for ODF: EU to investiage Office support for ODFVery good to investigate early. This might be a trick to do the same thingto ODF that they did not Java. An incompatible and changing implementation would make everybody think that the problem is ODF, and that you need to use OOXML for things...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-05-22
When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?: I just bought an electric guitar, ostensibly for my 5-year old, who requested one for his birthday, but really as an early graduation and Father's Day gift for myself. I didn't spend much; I found a good deal on an Epiphone "starter pack" and had myself an amp and...; Tags: Standards, Kid, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-20

Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Microsoft's health vision is highly proprietary: As more details emerge about Microsoft's health strategy, such as its Common User Interface, one thing that becomes clear is that its vision is highly proprietary. While the result is highly attractive, dependence on technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation guarantees the benefits will...; Tags: Vision, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Design Guidance, Quality, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Who will set price and quality standards?: Did you know Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has a blog? It's a pretty good blog, in that it's evident he writes it himself, and in it deals with issues on a personal basis. For instance, he did a series of posts on a recent...; Tags: Mike Leavitt, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Still ranting about interfaces: My argument, yesterday, that how an application is to be used is more determinative of the right toolset for building it than what the application does, embeds the assumption that the people we sell our software or development ideas to, either are end users or make decisions on the basis...; Tags: Corel WordPerfect, Standards, Word Processors, Quality, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, Software, Business Operations, Office Suites, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission: Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...; Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-04-09
Edelman on Sustainability Reporting: Call in the PR Pros: It's a conundrum every company faces when thinking about sustainability reporting - who reads this stuff anyway and do these reports actually assure anyone of anything? Sustainability reporting methodologies have grown up, for better or for worse, to ape financial reporting, replete with their own standards of assurance audit and...; Tags: Sustainability, Public Relations, Standards, Financial Reporting Methodology, Edelman, Assurance Standard, James Farrar; Blog posts 2008-04-02
Mozilla blasts Acid3 as Safari and Opera grab the brass ring: Ask Mozilla co-founder Mike Shaver what he thinks about Ian Hixie's Acid3 test and he'll give you an ear full. On his blog today Shaver defended the Mozilla Firefox team as they watched both Opera and Safari/WebKit apparently achieve a 100% pass rate Wednesday. Ian's Acid 3, unlike its...; Tags: Web, Opera Software, Apple Safari, Test, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Standards, Acid3, Ian, Acid2, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Quality, Internet, Marketing, Business Operations, Ed Burnette; Blog posts 2008-03-27
Standards competition and globalization: I've been thinking a lot more about globalization and the important role standards have played in "version 3.0" of that process due to my reading of Friedman's book "The World is Flat." In a globalized world, standards are critical, as they are what keeps the digital highways...; Tags: Desktop, Web, HTML, Microsoft Silverlight, HTTP, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Standards, AJAX Application, AJAX, Quality, Tcp/Ip, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Globalization, Internet, CSS, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Business Operations, Networking, Emerging Technologies, Strategy, Management, Scripting Languages, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-26
eVoting systems come under fire: eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...; Tags: Quality, e-voting, standards, Federal Reserve Board; Discussion threads 2008-03-21
Standards support for mashups emerge: The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...; Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Standards and pragmatism in web browsers: Standards and pragmatism in web browsersJoel nailed it.Making websites at that worked cross browser has never had ANYTHING to do with standards. [b]Ever[/b]. The collective sigh of relief when Netscape was finally laid to rest was almost audible.Joel is not alone with this conviction. Every developer and GUI designer in...; Tags: Web browsers, Joel, Web browser, pragmatism, standards; Discussion threads 2008-03-20
Standards and pragmatism in web browsers: Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...; Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-20
Government endorsement of technology standards: As reported yesterday on ZDNet, the European Commission is considering whether to officially back DVB-H as the "preferred" European Union standard for mobile television. This has been percolating for quite awhile (from at least July of last year, as gleaned through a quick Google search), so it's not exactly "new"...; Tags: Phone, European Commission, Mobile, DVB-H, Verizon Communications Inc., Europe, Cell Phone, Standards, GSM, Cellular Phones, Government, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-18
EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TV: EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TVWho cares what government "backs?"Only consumer choice matters.RE: EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TVNokia is based in Finland. :oIt's a digital video fileIf everything was operated according to the engineering design standards we'd be in heaven.This is bot.Who Cares?Almost ALL countries have control...; Tags: Quality, TVs, Nokia Corp., mobile TV, standards, TV, mobile; Discussion threads 2008-03-17
Will IE 8 break the Web?: There's been one nagging question about Internet Explorer IE 8 about which I can't stop wondering: Once it finally ships, will it break the Web? It's not just because I'm an unabashed Microsoft skeptic that I am puzzling over this. It's also because right up until...; Tags: Developer, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Standards, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-03-12