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- 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 not politically bankrupt
- California not politically bankruptInterstate CommerceActions like this really blow my mind. The Federal Government abuses the Commerce Clause to uniformly regulate nearly all products that 'can' or 'may' be sold across state lines. Why do they now decide to not enforce uniformity?To me this is just another example...
- Tags: Quality, car, standards, Computer Associates International Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-30
- Can contractors be part of health IT reform?
- Loonsk argues his case based partly on the development of Internet standards. But those standards were negotiated, not imposed. And they developed organically along with the network, in an open, transparent process by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Standards, Loonsk, Quality, Internet, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...
- Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- TANDBERG's Native Resolution: What It Does and Why It's the Clear Solution
- When the pioneers of videoconferencing were developing the first systems back in the mid 1980's, the proposition seemed easy enough: take existing television cameras and monitors and use them to enable a 2-way interactive conference. Right? Well, not so fast. The problem is videoconferencing becomes a powerful solution only if...
- Tags: Monitor, Video Conferencing, Video, Clear, Standards, Camera, Tandberg, Corporate Communications, Quality, TVs, Monitors & Displays, Marketing, Business Operations, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2009-06-18
- Video Conferencing Standards
- The International Telecommunications Union -- Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is responsible for generating worldwide "recommendations" (non-binding standards) for telecommunications. The ITU- T is divided into fourteen Study Groups. Each Study Group studies "questions" (i.e., topics for study); the results of their study define these recommendations. Study Group XVI is responsible...
- Tags: International Telecommunications Union, Video Conferencing, Recommendation, Standards, Tandberg, Study Group XVI, Telephony, Quality, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking, Business Operations
- White papers 2009-06-18
- Car makers now LIKE higher emission standards?
- So let's follow the money. The car-makers of the world are all hurting from Toyota to Chrysler. Sales are awful. The new emissions standards in the U.S. will be the toughest this country's ever seen. The new regs come with some pleasant promises for car makers:...
- Tags: Car, Automobile Company, Standards, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Is billing consolidation a good thing?
- Is billing consolidation a good thing?Billing & Rx systems should meet Fed standardsAsk any doctor about the miseries with the current billing systems and you should be able to quickly see a need to have strong standards where everyone is on the same page.I have no problems with the providers...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, billing, government, billing consolidation, duplication, standards
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Browser standards in an open source world
- Microsoft is engaged in the equivalent of a Cold War with open source, and in the end freedom carried the day in that larger war, as it will in this one. Limits are not something we want our software to impose on us, whether the origins of that software are...
- Tags: Web Browser, Standards, Limits, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
- US adopts progressive new educational standards, leaps to global forefront
- US adopts progressive new educational standards, leaps to global forefrontDamn you Chris...I pulled out of all my foreign investments and put my money into GM and Chrysler when I read that headline! ARGGG!!!That's good:-)Well if they really did...this would be the day they would do it on.RE: US adopts progressive...
- Tags: Quality, educational standard, progressive new educational standard, new educational standard, standards
- Discussion threads 2009-04-01
- US adopts progressive new educational standards, leaps to global forefront
- JK...April Fools! by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Cuecent BPMN 1.0 (Windows)
- Cuecent BPMN is a user-friendly, standards based and freely available development environment for process modeling. The Cuecent BPMN Modeler provides business managers & analysts with a graphical tool to model and document the organization's business processes. The models built on the Cuecent BPMN Modeler are compliant with BPMN and XPDL...
- Tags: Environment, Microsoft Windows, Standards, Modeling, Bahwan CyberTek, Cuecent BPMN, Cuecent BPMN Modeler, Research & Development, Quality, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-04-01
- Can you have an Open Cloud Manifesto without Amazon, Google, Salesforce and Microsoft?
- IBM and other players on Monday will launch its Open Cloud Manifesto, a call to make cloud computing "open as all other IT technologies." But the list of companies that didn't sign on to the manifesto is telling. Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce never signed on. Google was on a preliminary...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Standards, Manifesto, IT Industry, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- American cars mandated to get greener
- The Transportation Department just set federal MPG standards for the 2011 models sold in the U.S. Those requirements: 30.2 mpg for cars and for light trucks, 24.1 mpg. SUVs are still classed with the trucks. Standards beyond 2011 are still being considered. by...
- Tags: Car, Standards, Transportation, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Amazon Web Services: No Open Cloud Manifesto for us
- Update: Amazon will join Microsoft as two big cloud computing players not signing on to the Open Cloud Manifesto. The manifesto, which has raised a ruckus following a Microsoft blog post, is set to be released Monday with IBM as the ringleader. Given the hubbub it was...
- Tags: Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Standards, Cloud Computing, Quality, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Revving up the electric-car industry
- At the Green:Net conference in San Francisco, John Clark of GridPoint and Richard Lowenthal of Coulomb Technologies discuss how the largest obstacle for next-generation electric cars is standards. The executives believe that standards in IT infrastructure and the power grid are necessary for any successful large implementation.
- Tags: Business Operations, Electric Car, Quality, Standards
- Videos 2009-03-26
- An open source grab for 3D web power
- An open source grab for 3D web powerSo open source wants to "Lock in" 3D web standards. Great. How do you take a technology and make it go nowwhere for 20 years? The answer: make it open source. That is just factual history, not something I'm saying to be...
- Tags: open source, standards, 3D, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-26
- Microsoft fights the 'open' fight amid the clouds
- Cloud computing is still in its infancy, but it looks like the same kinds of political battles that plagued on-premise software development already are well along their way... by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Standards, Transparency, Quality, Wiki, Cloud Computing, Business Operations, Online Communications, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Is it too late to turn around math/science ed in the US?
- I'm reading The World is Flat for a class I'm taking and finding it remarkably doom and gloom. While the book has been updated with a couple of editions, its context largely remains the 2000-2005 timeframe. Four years, of course, is forever in the digital age,...
- Tags: Education, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Blumenthal will not give industry free hand in standards
- Blumenthal's point is that the success of health IT reform depends on changing the health care industry's business model. Blumenthal will play a key role in trying to make that happen. If critics were wondering who might replace Tom Daschle as point man for the President's health reform effort, Dr....
- Tags: Benefits, Dana Blankenhorn, David Blumenthal, E-health, Enterprise Software, Health Care, Healthcare, Human Resources, Software, Standards, Vertical Industries
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- IT service levels: Time to drop your standards?
- IT service levels: Time to drop your standards?Drop Standards?We have done the exact opposite. We are no longer relying on metrics to be the sole sum of our SLAs. Our new CIO is meeting with all management and asking two questions. 1) What are we doing well?...
- Tags: Quality, Copiers, VOIP, standards, information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-03-03

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