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Wi-Fi Roams Into Standards Battle
News The battle is about seamless roaming, otherwise Wi-Fi is just building hundreds of thousands of little islands around the world," he said. A new standards group has emerged, creating a rivalry in the business of roaming between wireless hot spots.
[June 24, 2002, 12:09]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
News One side of the ongoing recordable DVD format battle is expected to be first with products that nearly double the amount of data held on one disc. And unlike in the videotape-standard battle between VHS and Betamax, "plus" and "dash" may be able to...
[December 30, 2003, 10:20]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
Talkback Hi, Regarding double layer technology, most of people overlooked key point that is compatibility with existing DVD players and drives. Since firmware needs to be upgraded, technically most of existing DVD players and drives CAN NOT READ the disc...
[May 26, 2004, 20:12]
Double-layer DVD Heats Up Standards Battle
Talkback I love the idea of a double-layer recordable DVD, but since the industry failed to handle single-layer properly I can't say I'm too excited about using a double-layer format. The compatibility problems with DVD-R is still an issue and now they're...
[March 5, 2004, 13:51]
OASIS Looks To Make Peace In Reliable-messaging Standards Battle
News Backers of two overlapping standards submissions for reliable messaging will seek to reconcile their specifications, a standards group said Tuesday. OASIS said the vendors behind the two reliable-messaging specifications have agreed to "advance...
[May 11, 2005, 12:25]
WLAN Standards Battle Begins Again
News But smaller players, such as Aruba, are nervous that Cisco might try to throw its weight around in the standards body as it pushes its adopted proposal. Cisco's size and standing in the market has some influence in the standards process," he said.
[April 11, 2005, 9:55]
Truce Reached In Computing Standards Battle
News Intel and the three are developing the I/O specifications separately and will merge them to form the new standards for a switched fabric technology called System I/O. The Next Generation I/O Forum (NGIO) and the Future I/O group have come to terms...
[August 31, 1999, 9:06]
Java Standards Battle Nears Close
News A closely watched feud over Java standards compliance moved closer to resolution this week, but questions over the value of that standard still linger. Standards such as J2EE are designed to avoid such proprietary "lock-in" strategies, Sun has argued.
[July 31, 2003, 14:00]
Smartphone Standards Battle Heats Up
News This battle will intensify over time as Microsoft vigilantly tries to have OEM deals and Nokia tries to convince other OEMs to use its Series 60 platform, along with Symbian OS," said Vora. The world of smartphones is condensing around fewer...
[July 22, 2003, 9:53]
Intel, AMD Call Truce On 'bus War'
News Intel and AMD are moving to reassure users and manufacturers that their separate communications standards will work together, avoiding a potentially disastrous battle over the PC's nervous system. A battle over bus standards can create serious...
[August 31, 2001, 17:17]
3G: It's A Standards Thing
News While committee upon committee battle to find agreeable standards for DVD, digital music and a host of other technologies, GSM has quietly united the majority of Europe under one mobile communication umbrella.
[August 23, 2000, 13:28]
IDF: Intel's Tri-mode Future For Wireless Networking
News European standards battle The battle of the wireless standards continues to rage.g shares the same frequency band as the 11mbps 802.11b networking protocol at 2.4GHz, whereas 802.11a is in a new and much higher band at 5GHz.
[February 27, 2002, 10:07]
ISO Credibility
Talkback Consider for a moment the recent Blu-ray - HD DVD battle. Vendors, no matter which side of the battle they come from, will argue for innovation over interop. The answer is that both Ecma and OASIS are vendor driven standards consortia.
[March 3, 2008, 18:13]
Trouble Forming At The W3C
News Although XForms offers advances over current standards-based HTML forms, some W3C members worry that it faces an uphill battle because it isn't supported by the current generation of Web browsers. The battle illustrates chronic fissures in the...
[February 18, 2005, 13:40]
Eolas Hits Back At Microsoft In Patent Battle
News The University of California has hit back at Microsoft in its pitched patent battle over fundamental Web browsing technology. Microsoft has put that browser on ice pending resolution of the infringement battle.
[July 20, 2004, 8:35]
News Roundup: GSM World 2001 In Cannes
News Mobile giants battle for next generation Wed, 21 Feb International rivals get ready to battle it out over German 3G market Thu, 22 Feb Wireless era will force Microsoft to come around to an open standards world, Symbian predicts
[February 22, 2001, 10:41]
Intel Developer Forum In Pictures
News It's about more than just chip sets — wireless, virtual reality, fuel cells and new ideas in portable technology battle it out with dozens of new ideas for the attention and imagination of the people who make the industry work.
[August 26, 2005, 17:35]
Microsoft Spreads DVD-succession Bets
News Bob O'Donnell, an analyst at research firm IDC, said the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray remains too early to call, despite Blu-ray's codec news. Majidimehr said the software giant does not intend to take sides in the battle between HD DVD and...
[September 1, 2004, 10:05]
New Front Opens In Web Standards War
News Web standards advocates are declaring victory in their battle over browsers, but as they turn up the heat on their next adversary it's clear that their longstanding crusade on behalf of elegant design principles is far from over.
[July 12, 2001, 12:45]
US State Embraces Open Standards
News In what could be a major blow to Microsoft's battle against open source software, Massachusetts state said on Wednesday that all documents "created and saved" by state employees from the beginning of next year "would have to be based on open...
[September 1, 2005, 10:40]
