V1, the subcommittee advising the International Committee for Information
Technology Standards (INCITS) on formats, has failed by a tantalizing two
votes to endorse Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, already
standardized by ECMA, as fit for ISO standardardization even though Microsoft
reportedly packed V1 with its friends in anticipation of the vote last week.
Despite the fact that V1 had only seven voting members a few months ago and
26 last Friday, the 13th, as it happens, no two-thirds consensus was reached
and now INCITS' executive board is going to have to sort through the stack of
V1's technical comments and come up with an American position through a
30-day letter ballot. There could also be a reconsideration ballot after
that.
After the short and perhaps hurried three-hour V1 teleconference, V1 member
and IBMer Rob Weir claimed on his blog that "An i... (more)
Demonstrating the role Internet technologies (i-Technology) can play in
disaster relief and recovery, the Santa Barbara, CA-based National Institute
for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR) has launched a web site aimed at
facilitating the location of victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The web site will present a consolidated source of information about missing
persons with information collected from a number of missing persons lists and
web sites. The victim location website, http://www.niusr.org/, serves as a
place where families and loved ones can identify those missing or known to be
... (more)
"On behalf of the employees of Cisco, we send our deepest sympathy and
condolences to all of those affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath,"
said Cisco's president and CEO John Chambers (pictured) as Cisco, its
employees and the Cisco Foundation pledged to contribute financial and human
resources to aid in relief and rebuilding efforts for those affected by
Hurricane Katrina, including a donation expected to be in excess of $3
million.
"This has been a crushing blow to the residents of the Gulf Coast and we
stand by them, ready to help," Chambers continued.
"Speed is of... (more)
NeoCore Signs Agreement with X-Aware
(Colorado Springs, CO) - NeoCore has signed an OEM licensing agreement with
X-Aware that will allow NeoCore to incorporate seamless data synchronization
into its XML Commerce Server. The X-Aware technology will be available in
beta form in the XML Commerce Server in first quarter 2001.
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Sun Announces Availability of JAXM, JAXP for XML
(Washington, DC) - Sun Microsystems has announced the early access
availability of two key Java technology APIs for XML: JAXM, the API for XML
messaging, and JAXP, the API for XML parsi... (more)
(May 21, 2003) - This week at the 2003 ACORD Conference, Microsoft Corp. and
the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development (ACORD)
announced that ACORD will provide more than 500 insurance forms built using
Microsoft® Office InfoPath™ 2003, Microsoft Office System's new
information-gathering application.
InfoPath utilizes XML and XML-based Web services to enable insurance agencies
to complete forms once and then link the data to other forms, databases,
back-end systems, and applications. As part of the forms service, Microsoft
.NET Web services can be used t... (more)
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