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Industry Agrees On Standardised EU Phone Charger
Elitsa Vucheva
EU-Observer – July 1, 2009: Searching for a phone charger that works with your phone will soon be
a thing of the past, as the world's ten major mobile phone manufacturers
have agreed to produce a harmonised charger for users across Europe,
with the first such chargers expected to be introduced on the EU market
next year... The companies in question -- which include Apple, LG,
Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson -- represent 90 percent of
Europe's mobile phone market. The phone manufacturers submitted a
memorandum of understanding to the commission after Brussels had called
on them to come forward with a voluntary proposal in order to avoid
legislation.
[AU: Of course, you'll still need a sack full of adapters to plug it into the wall...] ...Full Story
FreeDOS Turns 15
Thom Holwerda
OSNews – June 29, 2009: IconMS-DOS is an old piece of work, a long line of operating systems dating back to the early '80s....When Microsoft announced it would move away from MS-DOS as a stand-alone operating system, Jim Hall figured it would be a good idea to start an open source project to re-implement MS-DOS so that it would continue to exist. He announced the project on June 28 1994 as PD-DOS, later renamed to Free-DOS, which even later turned into FreeDOS. FreeDOS is GPL software....Happy 15th, FreeDOS! ...Full Story
New LEED Standards More Serious About Energy Reporting
Justin Moresco
Reuters – June 29, 2009: Starting next week, all construction projects seeking certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, must use a new version of the green building standard. One of the biggest changes to LEED with the new version has to do with energy reporting — building owners must now annually submit data about how much energy (and water) they use or get recertified every two years. ...Full Story
Is Apple 'open enough' to rule the next decade of mobile?
Matt Asay
The Open Road (blog) – June 29, 2009: For all the discussion of the importance of transparency and openness on the Web today, it's very telling that the world's fastest-growing mobile platform may also be the most proprietary.
Apple wins rave reviews (including from me) on its technology but certainly not for its commitment to sharing its innovations with the world...unless, of course, you fork over $299 and sign a two-year mobile service commitment.
Indeed, Apple has earned the dubious honor of being more closed than Microsoft....If openness matters so much, why is Apple doing so well with its uber-proprietary iPhone, just as Microsoft dominates the desktop with proprietary Windows? ...Full Story
Game Changer in Retailing, Bar Code Is 35
GERRY C. SHIH
NYTimes.com – June 26, 2009: The design was straightforward — 59 black and white bars. And the inventors' objectives were simple enough, too — to speed up the grocery checkout line and give supermarkets a new tool to track their stock....Today, bar codes are scanned more than 10 billion times a day around the world. And after 35 years, they are both the mundane minutiae of modern life and cultural icons of cold efficiency, identification and control....Mr. Laurer said neither I.B.M. nor any of its developers ever patented the bar code, though manufacturers pay a minimal annual fee to a nonprofit group, GS 1, to cover the administrative costs of overseeing the international standards. ...Full Story
New Intel/Nokia partnership a huge win for mobile Linux
Ryan Paul
Ars Technica – June 26, 2009: Intel and Nokia are joining forces in an effort to reshape the boundaries of mobile computing....Advancing the open source Linux operating system and encouraging industry-wide participation in mobile Linux development is one of the pillars of the deal....The strategic relationship consists of plans to develop new Intel chips that will power the devices and collaboration to boost Linux-based mobile software solutions.....
The actual product possibilities are vague, but the impact of their collaboration on mobile Linux will be widely felt. Intel's Linux-based Moblin platform is positioned to become one of the most prominent on Atom-based netbook devices and it has attracted strong support from a large number of popular Linux distributors....The new strategic relationship reflects Nokia's growing emphasis on Linux-based technology and the declining relevance of the company's Symbian-based S60 platform. ...Full Story
IEEE plans PoE patent pool
Rick Merritt
EETimes.com – June 25, 2009: The IEEE is ready to jump into the patent pool game, and it is starting with a call for patents on power over Ethernet.
Via Licensing Corp. will act as administer of the pool. Via announced Monday it will work with the Open Patent Alliance to set up a separate patent pool for WiMax....The IEEE has identified a handful of its technologies that may be suitable for patent pools.... ...Full Story
IEEE Ratifies 802.1Qay (PBB-TE)
Press Release
IEEE.org – June 25, 2009: The IEEE today announced that it has ratified IEEE 802.1Qay(TM), the industry's first packet-based connection-oriented Ethernet technology for next-generation service provider transport networks. By adapting Ethernet technology to the role of providing carrier-class packet transport networks, IEEE 802.1Qay incorporates determinism and resiliency, helping to improve the ability of service providers to deliver cost-effective, high-bandwidth multimedia services... [to] enterprise and residential customers... ...Full Story
Blackboard Pledges to Follow Open Standards More Closely
Wired Campus – June 25, 2009: This week Blackboard's new head of course-management software, Ray Henderson, sent a letter to customers pledging that the company will do more to follow industry software standards,...Mr. Henderson admits that the company "has not necessarily been a consistent standards leader."
Among the pledges Blackboard makes in the letter is to offer full support for the so-called Common Cartridge,...One of the stated goals of the standard is to "reduce vendor/platform lock-in," so the plug-in components will work even if a college switches to another course-management system. ...Full Story
Blackboard Pledges to Follow Open Standards More Closely
Wired Campus – June 25, 2009: This week Blackboard's new head of course-management software, Ray Henderson, sent a letter to customers pledging that the company will do more to follow industry software standards,...Mr. Henderson admits that the company "has not necessarily been a consistent standards leader."
Among the pledges Blackboard makes in the letter is to offer full support for the so-called Common Cartridge,...One of the stated goals of the standard is to "reduce vendor/platform lock-in," so the plug-in components will work even if a college switches to another course-management system. ...Full Story
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