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NewsFactor - Hosting provider Rackspace announced Monday that it's opening the software code for its cloud infrastructure. Cloud technology will never look back, the company proclaimed on its web site, adding that the OpenStack open-source cloud platform will create new technology standards and cloud interoperability. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will add its Nebula cloud technology to the initiative.

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NewsFactor - Symantec said Thursday it will pay $370 million in cash to acquire encryption technology providers PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies, with the deals expected to close during the company's June quarter. Symantec sees its acquisition of standards-based encryption capabilities from the two firms as a natural extension of its strategy for securing and managing information on any device -- across both the enterprise and consumer segments as well as in the cloud, said Symantec CEO Enrique Salem.

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Israel has banned all imports of Apple's hottest new product, the iPad, citing concerns that its wireless frequencies are incompatible with national standards.

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... to developing standards of practice for employers and employees working under the broad umbrella of motion design, including freelance directors, animators, designers, bvisual effects/b artists and other work-for-hire artists. ...

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AFP - China on Monday denied any state involvement in cyberattacks on Google and defended Internet censorship as necessary, as a row with Washington over the US firm's threat to leave the country rumbled on.

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A Danish online dating website has expelled 5,000 members, including 500 Canadians, because they no longer met the site's beauty standards.

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Ontario will consider revising its standards for flat screen televisions now that California has moved to ban power-hungry sets from its store shelves, Energy Minister Gerry Phillips said Thursday.

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Semantic Web: Can Your bComputer/b Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might. From the Post: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, ...

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AP - President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.

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Two of Canada's top television anchors added their words of admiration and respect in the wake of the death of lengendary newsman Walter Cronkite. "He set the bar very, very high," said Peter Mansbridge, anchor for the CBC's The National.

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Macworld.com - When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), the rubric that covers ATT’s two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream and HSUPA for upstream. It turns out that the iPhone 3GS is more limited than what I outlined in that article.

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Macworld.com - Apple’s stance on standards has always been a little conflicted.

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The EPA expanded the Energy Star program to provide efficiency standards for bcomputer/b servers (PDF), a complicated procedure in and of itself. Just look at the PDF-laden EPA page logging the comments of stakeholders where common ...

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The Conference Board of Canada has recalled three reports advocating tighter copyright rules, stating that the reports did not follow research standards.

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But in the modern era, where most of the “interesting” applications run on a web server rather than an end-user's bcomputer/b, and as a result (and not without good reason) a lot of hackers see open standards and open APIs as being more ...

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Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software.

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Vancouver residents and businesses would benefit if the city made the data it collects accessible to everyone wherever possible and encouraged the use of open standards and open source software, a city councillor says.

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The federal government can now set limits on the amount of power that electronic devices such as computers and televisions can draw while they're turned off.

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The bmusic/b industry's online forays have always inspired head-scratching, but this one is odd even by those standards: Project Playlist, the online bmusic/b service currently being sued by Warner bMusic/b Group and Universal bMusic/b Group, ...

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AP - Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.

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