Latest standards and regulations news.
IEEE 802.20 changes rules to prevent steamrolling, 07/19/07: The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members’ real company affiliations, has changed its voting rules.
Imperva automates compliance audits, 07/16/07: Imperva is upgrading its SecureSphere appliances to automate security audits on Web applications and databases.
Podcast: Tivo uses automation to deal with compliance headaches: Tivo, maker of the popular digital video recorder, spent months out of the year dealing with compliance issues such as Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI for credit card data. Richard Rothschild, director of information technology at Tivo, explains what steps the company took to ease the burden on its staff and make compliance efforts much simpler on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (9:46)
Study: U.S. gov’t gave away billions worth of spectrum, 07/17/07: The U.S. government has given away between $140 billion and $480 billion worth of radio spectrum to wireless providers and broadcasters since 1993, according to a study released Tuesday.
Billion-dollar companies not ready for court, 07/16/07: Most information managers are not prepared to comply with federal rules requiring them to produce electronic documents relevant to litigation, says a Forrester Research study based on interviews with 25 billion-dollar companies.
V1 committee gives thumbs down to Open XML doc spec, 07/18/07: An esoteric but key U.S. technical standards committee decided last week not to endorse Microsoft’s Office Open XML document specification, increasing the odds that the U.S. will vote against approving Open XML as an open standard next month at an ISO standards body meeting.
Devicescape takes on Wi-Fi guest access problem, 07/17/07: A maker of software that simplifies getting onto public Wi-Fi hot spots is now tackling the complexity of using the network in your own home or at a friend’s house.
HP earns Common Criteria certification for Red Hat Linux on its hardware, 07/17/07: HP earns EAL4+ Common Criteria certification for red Hat Linux on its hardware.
