interoperability - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Government seeks public safety mobile broadband network

  The Australian government has asked how best to provide mobile broadband to public safety agencies by 2020.

• Geoscience Australia opens up access to spatial data

  Geoscience Australia is embracing international geospatial standards and integrated Web platforms to share spatial data in an open environment. The focus is on interoperability, says the agency’s lead data scientist, Danielle Beaudreau.

• Telstra unveils interoperable videoconferencing service

  Businesses can communicate with each other using different videoconferencing products with a B2B service announced by Telstra.

• Public safety truck overcomes wireless interoperability problems

  Australia’s National Safety Agency (NSA) has built a mobile command centre that overcomes interoperability problems which have historically hindered coordination between different public safety and law enforcement bodies during major disasters.

• Microsoft pitches interoperability at JavaOne

  Five years after settling a bitter lawsuit with Sun Microsystems over the Java programming language, a Microsoft executive made the company's first-ever JavaOne keynote address Thursday.

• Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group

  The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name backers like Oracle, Intel, eBay's PayPal, AOL, CA, Novell, Fidelity Investments, Liberty Alliance, Boeing, Internet Society and British Telecom.

• Cloud computing needs better security, interoperability to live up to hype

  If cloud computing is to move beyond the hype cycle, vendors need to put aside their differences and agree on common principles related to security and the interoperability of cloud platforms, a growing number of industry players are saying.

Whitepapers about interoperability

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  Convergence’s early adopters: Three trends in migration

  Find out in this whitepaper what enterprises identify as the most important issues with convergence and why enterprises should choose converged systems whose vendors are not only committed to interoperability and open standards but also a high level of flexibility