Posted by Simon Perry on 16 June 2009 | Tagged as: Business, Industry Trends, Intel, Standards
For over forty years Moore’s Law has stood to be correct. It’s now being questioned as to whether it will continue. Named after co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore (pictured), Moore’s Law stated that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. Len Jelinek, director and chief analyst, [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 September 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Microsoft, Platforms, Standards
There’s been general surprise at Microsoft’s failure to secure their ‘Open XML’ interchangeable document standard to be accepted by the ISO – International Standards Committee – and the IEC – International Electronic Commission. It is important to Microsoft as Governments around the world are looking to allow simple document interchange between all of their systems.
Posted by Simon Perry on 8 June 2007 | Tagged as: China, IPTV, News In Brief, Standards
It’s clear that China like to do things their own way. The latest in the list is a video CoDec’s, the algorithm that is used to compress/decompress video signals. Much of the world currently uses H.264, but China has developed its own equivalent, that they call AVS, standing for Audio Video coding Standard – an [...]
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 March 2007 | Tagged as: Content Indexing & Navigation, Cross platform, Distribution, Events, Industry Trends, Standards
The Kendra Initiative is hosting a Cross-Media Summit about Content Delivery next week, on Friday 9th March in London. The full day event, running at the Frontline Club, is billed as “The Strategy, Technology and Business Case for Content Description, Visibility, Search and Discovery.” The event is aiming to tackle one of Digital-Lifestyles hobby horses [...]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 May 2006 | Tagged as: Advertising, Broadband, Distribution, Standards, UK
Advertising Standards Board declare Telewest’s broadband ad, ‘misleading’ as they don’t have 100% digital coverage.
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 November 2005 | Tagged as: Educational, Mobile, Open Source, Platforms, Standards, Wireless
A great event occurred yesterday – the first showing of the $100 One Laptop per Child. This is a project that is attempting to use technology to change the world for the better.
Posted by Simon Perry on 22 August 2005 | Tagged as: Distribution, Infrastructure, Networking, Standards
The HomePlug AV specification has finally hit the streets, promising HD video delivery through 100 Mbps at the MAC layer from your electrical home socket.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 9 June 2005 | Tagged as: Content, Industry Trends, Standards
Survey in “people prefer to talk to fellow human beings instead of a disembodied voice” shocker!
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 May 2005 | Tagged as: Cellular, Content, Cross platform, Mobile, Standards, Web
W3C serves up its Mobile Web Initiative designed to set standards for Web access from mobile devices.
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 14 April 2005 | Tagged as: Open Source, Platforms, Software, Standards, Web
Mozilla’s open source FireFox browser threatens the near-monopoly of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
