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Nokia backs vote delay in Apple nano-SIM battle

...the nano-SIM standard, has welcomed a decision by Europe's telecoms standards body to postpone a vote on the issue. The European Telecommunications Standards... Read more

2 April, 2012 by David Meyer

White space standard gets lukewarm reception

American standards body the IEEE has finished work on 802.22.1 and 802... Read more

29 July, 2011

HTML5 logo: steeped in confusion!

...s been a bit of confusion surrounding the launch by the web standards body the W3C of the new HTML5 logo. Originally it was for... Read more

24 January, 2011

HTML tweak puts block on web video copying

...inappropriately, and has been submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body.The proposal seeks to extend the HTMLMediaElement interface in the HTML... Read more

23 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Google defends stance on FRAND patent terms

...patents on unreasonable or discriminatory terms, the company has promised the IEEE standards body and the wider mobile industry. Google, which is buying Motorola, made... Read more

10 February, 2012

Should your next mobile app be an HTML5 web app?

...not going to go away so there's no way that a standards body like the W3C [which will ultimately ratify HTML5] is going to... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

UK start-up uses TV's white spaces for broadband

...its launch event in London, Neul said it is setting up a standards body, under the auspices of the Cambridge Wireless industry network, to ratify... Read more

14 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Google's China crisis

...Fi security was rejected by the ISO for insufficient disclosure; the Chinese standards body responded by claiming unethical and procedural faults within the ISO itself... Read more

7 June, 2011

Cloud: do you live in pilot city?

...than it is. Just as well that there's a new cloud standards body, then. The Cloud Standards Customer Council, of which CA, IBM, Kaavo... Read more

11 May, 2011

Berners-Lee: Work is needed to harmonise HTML 5

...language for the web. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a web standards body headed by Berners-Lee, is involved in standardising HTML 5 through... Read more

18 April, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Analysis: there's no killer app for LTE

It's easy to get excited about the latest whizz-bang technology but, if industry analyst Matt Walker from research... Read more

7 April, 2011

Antennae signal new qubit architecture

...realms of science fiction, but already there is an issue for a standards body to address. Researchers in Austria have come up with a totally... Read more

28 February, 2011

Oracle releases Cloud API

...Elemental Resource Model API — to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a standards body. Oracle hopes the API will be considered for integration into the... Read more

4 November, 2010

Key Java figure says 'JCP no longer credible'

...I believe that the JCP is no longer a credible specification and standards body," he added. According to Lea, where the committee could once "foster... Read more

25 October, 2010

ITU close to backing LTE and WiMax variants as 4G

...as an agency within the United Nations and acts as the international standards body that officially designates wireless technologies as 1G, 2G, 3G and now... Read more

22 October, 2010 by Marguerite Reardon

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