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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...
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- California adopts tough new requirements on HDTV energy use: Visionary or draconian?
- For years, California has had the nation's toughest emissions standards to counter the pollution from its massive volume of cars and trucks. Now it's turned its sites on the energy consumption coming from its residents' HDTVs. The result? Earlier this week, the California Energy Commission unanimously passed new standards to...
- Tags: California, HDTV, Standards, Quality, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-21
- Wireless Standards, Installation, Security, and More!
- In a little more than a decade, wireless has grown from an obscure and expensive curiosity into a practical and affordable networking technology. Today's most common wireless standard is 802.11g Ethernet, also often called Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity. 802.11g is fast enough to be practical and affordable enough for home networks,...
- Tags: Security, Standards, Wireless, Black Box, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2009-11-12
- How fast can remote monitoring move?
- What the remote medical monitoring industry needs to get past the analysts' hockey stick graphs are standards. Technical standards, payment standards, approval standards. This is no longer rocket science, it's not experimental. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Monitoring, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Brickbats over bricks
- Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....
- Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Report details action plan for smart grid standards
- It shouldn't surprise you to hear that the 90-page smart grid standards document released in late September by the U.S. Commerce Department lists no fewer than 80 standards that are vying for some role in the nation's smart grid infrastructure. The analysis ("NIST Framework and Roadmap for...
- Tags: Action Plan, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
- The new Dell: innovation, not just standards, to attract business customers
- Dell is unveiling a new Latitude business notebook computer today but it's a bit different from what Dell - at least the old Dell - used to represent. When Dell first hit the scene, it made a name for itself by focusing on standardized technology and the business model that...
- Tags: Innovation, Dell Computer Corp., Standards, Dell Latitude, Microsoft Windows 7, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- iPhone application for UK university fresher's
- And cue the double standards...[i]they are utilising the technologies that most people already have[/i]Standard #1: When an organization releases something that is Windows only because that is the technology that most people already have, this is evil.Standard #2: When an organization releases something that is iPhone only because that is...
- Tags: Smart phones, Apple iPhone, standards
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades now
- I would betthat not nearly as many businesses will bite as MS wants, but that more businesses than usual will bite.RE: Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades nowAs with many we are still running XP on all of our machines and Server 2003 with no money in...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, standards, Acid3 Test, compliant browser, web standard, IE 8, GNU/Linux, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- 802.11n ratified ... finally
- better......late than never i guess.Now just the "minor" task of getting all the routing and switching vendors / OEM's compliant AND most all enterprises to deploy and implement it..."..you want it when?!?";*PI'm getting tired of long standards processesI'm getting tired of long standards processes. The same is going on for...
- Tags: Quality, Draft-N, standards, IEEE 802.11n
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- SuperEasy Audio Converter 1.45 (Windows)
- The SuperEasy Audio Converter converts audio files of most different formats directly to those standards, which you require for your device or for your demands. Even better, it downloads without further ado flash videos from platforms like Youtube and MyVideo, rips sound tracks from video files and audio-CDs and converts...
- Tags: Audio, Microsoft Windows, Video, Standards, Video Format, SuperEasy Software, SuperEasy Audio Converter, Corporate Communications, Quality, Marketing, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- Telecoms want cheap spectrum, low standards
- The United States is ranked 19th in broadband speeds with an average advertised rate of 9.6 megabytes per second, Compare that to Japan with 92.8 mbps, Korea with 80.8 mbps and France with 51 mbps. The industry is calling out for more spectrum to be sold off to businesses, more...
- Tags: Telecommunications, Standards, Spectrum, Mbps, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Open Group points standards at service-orientation architecture needs and approaches
- Architecture standards are especially valuable for creating a common, shared language and understanding between service integrators, vendors and customers of all sizes. They provide a common foundation of understanding for the industry. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Open Group, Standards, Architecture Standard, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Wallaby Way - Kindergarten 1.0 (Windows)
- We designed Wallaby Way as a way to motivate our children to learn crucial concepts that were parts of the new standards-based curriculum in Georgia. The Georgia standards-based curriculum has clear criteria for success in early childhood education. The Wallaby Way learning programs engages children and gets them to enjoy...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Standards, Georgia, Melwin Enterprises, Quality, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-08-31
- Getting smarter about the smart grid. Standards group to tackle interoperability.
- OASIS aka the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is forming a new committee that will focus on creating Web services models for things such as exchanging dynamic pricing, reliability and emergency signal alerts across the smart grid. The group is called the OASIS Energy...
- Tags: The Group Inc., Interoperability, Grid, OASIS, Standards, NIST, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Key Regulations and Standards: How AirPatrol Products Can Protect Against Violations and Breaches
- To enhance productivity and efficiency, employees are increasingly turning to wireless networks to get the job done. The security experts at AirPatrol believe that a defense-indepth approach to wireless security yields the greatest results, especially when it comes to protecting corporate laptops. Armed with AirPatrol's endpoint security solution, an IT...
- Tags: Regulation, Standards, Laptop Computer, Wireless, AirPatrol, WEC, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- White papers 2009-08-27
- A Unified Parallel Radix-4 Turbo Decoder for Mobile WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE
- This paper describes the energy-efficient implementation of a high performance parallel radix-4 turbo decoder, which is designed to support multiple fourth-Generation (4G) wireless communication standards such as Mobile WiMAX and 3GPP-LTE. This paper proposes a new hardware architecture that can share hardware resources for the two standards. It mainly consists...
- Tags: Mobile, Hardware, Standards, WiMAX, Quality, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-08-26
- CA digital textbooks initiative falls flat
- Here is California's review of digital high school textbooks. As AP reports, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been promoting the idea that schools would use these free texts as a way to save money and bring education into the 21st century. First, it's interesting to...
- Tags: School District, California, Computer Associates International Inc., Hardware, Standards, Textbook, CK-12, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- EPEE 2.0 (Windows)
- EPEE is a file storage system to be used day to day in your classroom. Stored by drag and drop, your curriculum files and all resources are just a click away to open, project or print. Drag any file into an EPEE cell and a copy is stored into the...
- Tags: Curriculum, Microsoft Windows, Standards, Ed-Man, EPEE, Quality, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-08-17
- CK-12 Foundation dominates California e-textbook search
- Last month, I wrote a post on the CK-12 Foundation and their free textbook initiatives. As I suggested then, When some serious Silicon Valley heavyweights get together with Stanford academics and experienced K-12 educators to start producing high-quality, open content, chances are good that you’ll...
- Tags: California, Standards, Textbook, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- "This is not an evidence-based or even a market-based approach to standards," Dr. Kibbe adds, "It's a power-based approach to standards." by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
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