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OASIS Tries To Live Up To Open Standards

OASIS has revised its intellectual property policy to include a non-assertion mode, which means standards contributors must forego royalty claims or license rights

IBM Embraces Corporate Cloud

IBM is making available a new portfolio of cloud computing products and services that it claims will provide corporate users with ease of use to rival the consumer Web

Google Showcases Cloud Data Management

Google is showcasing an alpha version of a cloud-based data management system designed to make it easy for users to integrate data from tables in disparate databases. Google is calling the technology 'Fusion Tables.'

First Speech From US CTO Focuses On Health IT

The nation's first-ever chief technology officer, Aneesh Chopra, used his keynote address at the CEA Line Shows conference in New York to talk about innovations to health care IT and government IT

Cisco, Silver Spring Back Smart Grids

The project aims to help businesses and homeowners reduce their energy consumption and costs through smart metering programs that let them monitor their power use and adjust their behavior accordingly

Wolfram Alpha Gets Early Day Overhaul

The search engine's structured results are suggestive of a way that search could evolve in the future, and other search companies such as Google have been rolling out similar products for presenting search results