Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 21 July 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Standards, Infrastructure
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has added the new TCP/IP protocol to its root servers – giving a 25,000 trillion trillion boost in capacity.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 20 July 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Cross platform, Standards, Industry Trends
Microsoft have formed an new group to drive and their relationships with the global media and entertainment industries.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 June 2004 | Tagged as: HDTV, Platforms, Standards, Software, Video piece, DVD-Centric
The DVD Forum ratifies the H.264 Advanced Video Codec for use in HD-DVDs.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 23 June 2004 | Tagged as: Cross platform, Platforms, Mobile, Wireless, Standards, Gaming
The huge leap from 2D sprites to 3D polygons created the modern games industry as we know it – mobile phones are about to make that transisiton for themselves with the release of the M3G standard. Superscape have produced Swerve, a tool to enable developers to make immersive 3D games for mobile phones. We spoke to Stephane Groud, Swerve product manager at Superscape about M3G and the advantages of turning sprites to polygons.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 23 June 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Mobile, Standards
Major network operators have launched a new company today to define the requirements for an OMTP, delivering standardised application interfaces to your mobile phone.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 21 June 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, Web, Standards, Networking, Infrastructure
The domain name service, the database you use every day to connect to sites like Digital Lifestyles and send emails, is 21.
Posted by Simon Perry on 26 May 2004 | Tagged as: User Generated Content (UGC), Content, Broadband, Legal, Standards, Industry Trends
The BBC’s plans to open up their archives to the public will be based on a Creative Commons-type licence
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 25 May 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Standards, Software
MS have a new standard that will allow users to take their identity from site to site – and no, it’s not Passport.
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 May 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Wireless, Standards, Industry Trends
In their keenness to get out the WME (Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions) in to products, the Wi-Fi Alliance are starting its certification programme before the IEEE ratify the standard.
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 April 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Cross platform, Standards
Turbolinux, a popular desktop-Linux distributor has licenced the Windows Media 9 codecs for use with their new 10F distro – but at a cost.
