Latest standards and regulations news.
Proposed tax-relief legislation for teleworkers gathers steam, 05/23/06
Backers of a proposed bill to protect teleworkers from onerous state tax rules hope this could be the year the legislation sticks.
House panel approves ‘Net neutrality bill, 05/25/06
A House of Representatives committee has approved a bill that would prohibit broadband providers from blocking or impairing their customers’ access to Web content offered by competitors.
Telephone excise tax abolished, millions in refunds expected, 05/25/06
Score one for the little guy – and the not-so-little guy. The U.S. Treasury Department abolished a tax law Thursday, which will likely result in multimillion-dollar refunds for business users.
Poll shows nation wants stronger data security laws, 05/24/06
Fewer than one in five Americans feel that current legislation is strong enough to protect their activities on the Internet, according to poll results announced Tuesday by the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.
Microsoft maintains stance against ODF, 05/24/06
Despite the recent approval of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Microsoft remains stalwart in its decision to forego support of ODF in its Office productivity suite, a …
More clarity from standards bodies may help users, 05/24/06
Navigating through technology standards can be confusing and complex, and enterprise IT users would welcome more clarity from standards organizations.
AT&T, partners to offer RFID managed service, 05/23/06
AT&T wants to make RFID easy for enterprises, teaming up with some big-name partners on Tuesday for a managed service and technology development.
Market mass or open standards?, 05/22/06
At Interop this month, we heard keynotes from two network vendors who are not only archrivals in a business sense but also in their approach to the market. Cisco represents market power, account control. Juniper represents open standards. Who will win …
Ecma publishes first draft of OpenXML spec, 05/18/06
European standards body Ecma International Thursday published the first draft of the Office Open XML specification online, as Microsoft’s file format for office documents continues the required process to win standards approval by the International …
