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Europe Spared From Industry Standard Job Cuts
News The magazine's publisher, Standard Media International, said the job cuts will hit marketing, conference and online divisions. Standard Media International is itself a subsidiary of publishing house IDG.
[January 9, 2001, 9:12]
Industry Standard Europe Magazine Folds
News Its parent company, Standard Media International, announced last week that its European operations -- which only launched six months ago -- were up for sale. Back in January, Standard Media International announced that 36 jobs would be lost from...
[April 11, 2001, 13:31]
Q&A: Apple's Steve Jobs
News It is an international standard. The same group that created MPEG-2 created MPEG-4, which is the next, new international standard for digital video, for streaming and for other uses. How important do you think MPEG-4 will be to opening the barriers...
[June 5, 2002, 16:03]
Massachusetts To Use Both Open XML And ODF
News The company insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard. At the beginning of July, Massachusetts proposed using both ODF, which is an...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
The Industry Standard Seeks Bankruptcy Protection
News Standard Media International, the parent company for The Industry Standard, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. Standard Media representatives declined to comment on the filing. Standard Media ceased publishing the weekly The...
[August 28, 2001, 8:47]
MPEG-4 Standard Struggles For Traction
News The company closed its domestic operations last month, according to iVast executives, who said they let go about 35 people from engineering and operations.iVast continues to employ about 22 people in the United States as part of its international...
[February 23, 2004, 10:10]
The Industry Standard To Stop Publishing
News Calls to publisher Standard Media International were not returned. Standard Media Chairman John Batelle joined the company after being deputy editor and a founding staff member of Wired magazine. The Industry Standard announced several rounds of...
[August 17, 2001, 9:41]
Speedy Net Video Codec Done, But Late
News But the widely anticipated standard, known as Recommendation H.264 of the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU), won't be ready for public consumption until March -- three months behind schedule.
[December 19, 2002, 11:00]
Real's Open-source Code Lacks MPEG-4
News This is part of the long-running debate of using international standards," Sheeran said. RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the...
[January 23, 2003, 7:28]
Apple's Tunes Could Threaten Microsoft
News Apple's service uses technology known as Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), endorsed by the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) and developed by AT&T, Dolby Laboratories, Frauenhofer and Sony. At this point we see all the momentum is behind...
[April 30, 2003, 11:42]
LineOne's Future On The Line
News More recently News International's stake was bought out by United News and Media, which last week moved to close down its travel site, uTravel. LineOne was launched in 1997 as a joint venture between BT and Rupert Murdoch's News International...
[November 27, 2000, 15:59]
Prototype Holographic Storage Device Unveiled
Talkback Dataslide Ltd has been working for a number of years with a group of senior academics and international corporations on a fundamentally new design of storage technology and now has working mechanical proof of concept prototypes.
[January 10, 2005, 8:46]
Bringing 3D To The Web
News Since its ratification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1997, VRML (pronounced to rhyme with "thermal") has made little progress toward mainstream use. Parisi, who recently launched Media Machines in San Francisco to...
[February 27, 2002, 6:31]
MPEG-4 Format To Boost Digital Video
News An international standards team is close to approving a new compression format for digital video, promising improvements as well as a few uncertainties for emerging multimedia technology. Microsoft, for one, has consistently used that argument in...
[October 11, 2002, 11:53]
Apple Backs MPEG-4 Despite Fee Dispute
News The same group that created MPEG-2, created MPEG-4, which is the next, new international standard for digital video, for streaming, and for other uses. Like most current media formats, its audio and video technologies aim to condense large digital...
[June 5, 2002, 9:00]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News They worry about the computer companies taking their profit," said David Card, new-media analyst at market researcher International Data Corp. Not everyone would have adopted WebTV," said Deborah Coplin, cable TV analyst with new-media researcher...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Industry Bigwigs Near Interactive TV Deal
News They worry about the computer companies taking their profit," said David Card, new-media analyst at market researcher International Data Corp. Not everyone would have adopted WebTV," said Deborah Coplin, cable TV analyst with new-media researcher...
[January 19, 1998, 10:40]
Down With Standards
News There is ANSI (American National Standards Institute), there is ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation), the United Nations. And it will be great if we can have some more international clout -- maybe working with the standards body...
[April 28, 2004, 16:35]
Videoconferencing Via VoIP Gets Standard
News The International Telecommunication Union's H.350 standard addresses how a network stores and finds video recordings and VoIP telephone addresses, according to Tyler Johnson, a University of North Carolina systems analyst who edited the standard.
[September 8, 2003, 12:55]
DVD Standard Wins Approval
News The DVD Forum, an international association of electronics makers and movie studios, granted approval of the Toshiba and NEC format, called HD DVD, the Associated Press reported on Friday. The battles over definitions of advanced digital video...
[December 1, 2003, 8:30]
