Latest standards and regulations news.
Oracle buys compliance vendor LogicalApps, 10/09/07: Oracle plans to expand its governance and compliance offering with the acquisition of LogicalApps, announced on Tuesday.
CA bolsters records-management, e-discovery wares, 10/08/07: CA made good on its acquisitions of MDY Group International and iLumin Software Services with the announcement of an information-governance package designed to help businesses comply with the Department of Defense’s 5015.2 electronic records-management standard.
Online authentication, authorization service launched by start-up, 10/09/07: Start-up Bitkoo has launched an online identity management service that provides authentication and authorization capabilities to corporations that want to secure access to their applications without having to build infrastructure.
France breaks deadlock on patent translation accord, 10/10/07: The French Senate late on Tuesday ratified a European patent agreement that simplifies the translation requirements for all patent applicants in the Union, the European Patent Office said Wednesday.
Too early to worry about legal 802.11n holdup, 10/10/07: ArrayComm vs. Atheros. Motorola vs. Aruba Networks. Broadcom vs. Qualcomm. There has been quite a bit of recent litigation over intellectual property in the wireless industry. The latest is an injunction win by Australia’s government research organization, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO), over Buffalo Technology.
Can Energy Efficient Ethernet be applied to optical links?, 10/09/07: At last month’s meeting of the IEEE study group exploring the possibilities of Energy Efficient Ethernet, the question of whether to define a standard for fiber optics came up.
