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Fast Times At 2.4GHz: The Open Standards War Between Wi-Fi And Bluetooth
White Papers With an open standard inevitably comes a standards war. In the case of wireless networking, this standards war was between Wi-Fi, backed primarily by American network equipment makers, and Bluetooth, backed primarily by European mobile phone...
[November 22, 2005, 0:00]
Intel Heads For 3D Standards War
News Developers of three-dimensional rendering technology for the Web known as X3D are bracing for a standards war with Intel -- a former backer of the project -- just as their recently sundered collaboration bears fruit.
[June 21, 2004, 10:25]
GSM Group Declares Victory In Standards War
Talkback >>>For now, the adoption rate will remain higher among CDMA users for EV-DO networks. For example, operator SK Telecom in Korea has nearly 1.5 million EV-DO subscribers while Japan's NTT DoCoMo has only one third of that number on its 3GSM network...
[November 28, 2003, 11:58]
Ultrawideband Standards War Brewing, Says Intel
News We don’t want to see a standards war, but it's conceivable that it will happen". Analysts are concerned about the implications of MBOA and the Motorola/XtremeSpectrum group pursuing their own individual UWB standards.
[November 13, 2003, 10:45]
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]
GSM Group Declares Victory In Standards War
News Eighty-five percent of the world's operators have committed to WCDMA as the natural progression from voice-based GSM, said Conway, with competing standards such as CDMA2000 1X EV-DO distant runners-up in the 3G battle.
[September 25, 2003, 8:55]
Orange Takes Stance In Mobile TV Standards War
News Based on the 3G Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Standard (MBMS), TDtv is in competition with DVB-T and DAB-based standards for the nascent mobile TV market, but unlike them it uses radio spectrum that is already licensed by the majority of...
[February 16, 2006, 11:25]
Memory Standards Wage War Of Words
News The Computex computer show in Taiwan last week became a battleground between two competing formats for next-generation memory, one supported by semiconductor giant Intel, the other a less-expensive open standard.
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
US Report: Is WebTV A Puppet In Microsoft Standards War?
News WebTV Networks originally planned to add support for Java, a cross-platform programming language created by Sun. The company also used to regularly update WebTV support for new versions of RealMedia, an audio/video technology promulgated by...
[November 9, 1998, 10:05]
Wireless Networking Wars Hit Speed Bump
News This ongoing standards war pits Wi-Fi, or 802.11B -- a technology standard for both home and office networks supported by companies such as 3Com, Lucent Technologies, Apple Computer and Cisco -- against HomeRF, a technology standard for the home...
[February 27, 2001, 9:22]
Instant Messaging: Internal Servers Or Public Services?
News Thus, SIMPLE will most likely be the winner in the standards war for IM interoperability, which should really propel the corporate use of IM. However, that doesn't mean you need to wait a year until victory is declared in the standards war.
[December 15, 2002, 18:47]
Cruel Truth Surfaces In The OOXML War
Leader Instead he smiled ironically and said: "It is war. The mask has slipped and the nature of this particular war is on display. Perhaps it is a mere slip of the tongue that has Tsalis mixing up open source with open standards.
[January 30, 2008, 17:03]
Drowning In Wireless Spaghetti
News A more complex system evolved from ideas first mooted during World War II by, among others, film star Hedy Lamarr. World War II Not only do many of the standards have multiple names and multiple incarnations, but the things that really matter — how...
[November 1, 2005, 12:00]
Chairman Admits BT Is An Endangered Species
News In a keynote speech at the Telecommunications Managers Association conference in Brighton Monday, BT chairman Sir Iain Vallance described the telco he heads up as "an endangered species" and admitted BT had "lost the war" on Internet prices.
[November 30, 1999, 10:49]
Extensions Are Bugs, Not Features
Talkback Standards are about taking the feature war out of the competition game by specifying a standard product, allowing competition based on efficiencies in production expense and on customer service. They may be great for folks who want to play feature...
[February 29, 2008, 17:28]
Identity Management Could Backfire, Analysts Warn
News Companies deploying an identity-management infrastructure may save money in the short term, but analysts warn that they might find themselves on the wrong side of a standards war that would cancel their original gains.
[July 11, 2003, 10:09]
Sun Signs Up To Rivals' Security Standards
News Sun's support of WS-Security alleviates concerns about a possible standards war over Web services security. Microsoft, IBM and VeriSign have submitted a security specification for Web services to an industry standards body, a move that has won the...
[June 27, 2002, 15:52]
Progressive-MS Deal Firms Up Streaming Standards
News This prevents a standards war and lets us come up with a common standard," said John Beyer, VP of Europe for Progressive. This avoids something that we've seen in software before: like 20 months spent in standards development.
[July 21, 1997, 16:47]
Forum To Target Global Digital Standards
News The new Switzerland-based forum, dubbed the Digital Media Project, is aimed at ending what members say has been a technological civil war that has badly hampered the spread of digital media content and technologies.
[October 1, 2003, 9:55]
Web Standards Advocates Go Into Hibernation
News Toward the end of its run, as the browser war receded into computing history, the advocacy group turned its attention to the other side of the browsing equation: the code written by Web authors and Web authoring tools.
[December 17, 2001, 11:13]
