Neowin News Feed for: Standards

The first international treaty on artificial intelligence adopted by the Council of Europe

Martin Hodás — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:04:01 +0000

The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty on the use of AI. It aims to ensure respect for human rights, the rule of law, and democratic legal standards. Read more...

Microsoft, Intel, BBC and others form coalition to combat misinformation

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:26:01 +0000

Numerous entities from the technology and media sector such as BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Arm have joined forces to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA). Read more...

WebRTC becomes an official W3C and IETF standard

Paul Hill — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:10:02 +0000

The W3C and the IETF have finally made WebRTC an official standard. WebRTC has been supported by popular web browsers since 2012 and enables peer-to-peer video and audio calls on the web. Read more...

Samsung's gaming display first to be crowned DisplayHDR compliant

Paul Hill — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:42:01 +0000

Samsung's huge CHG90 super widescreen gaming monitor has been given DisplayHDR 600 compliance certification by VESA. The standard was introduced this year and the CHG90 is the first to obtain it. Read more...

Microsoft Azure is now ISO 9001:2015 certified

Paul Hill — Tue, 23 May 2017 19:06:02 +0000

Microsoft's Azure has been examined by a third party and has passed the requirements for the ISO 9001:2015 specifications. The software giant subsequently received certification for the achievement. Read more...

Ex-Mozilla Engineer: Don't use third-party antivirus software

Gurkaran Singh — Sat, 28 Jan 2017 07:32:02 +0000

Robert O'Callahan, a former Mozilla employee, has vehemently criticized antivirus software vendors for not following standard security practices while singling out Windows Defender as an exception. Read more...

Microsoft: 'Early examples' of Edge extensions are coming soon to Windows Insiders

Andy Weir — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 20:57:18 +0000

Microsoft has laid out its priorities for the development of its Edge browser this year, including extensions support, web notifications with Action Center integration, and accessibility improvements. Read more...

"Do Not Track" to be disabled by default in future Microsoft web browsers

Max Slater-Robins — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 17:46:01 +0000

In a blog post, Microsoft have said that "Do Not Track" will not be the default option in browsers going forward in accordance with new standards from the World Wide Web Consortium. Read more...

HTML5 pushed back until 2014

Alan Cone — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:35:07 +0000

HTML5 has had a big adventure so far in getting standards down, including what the official video technology will be. Microsoft used many HTML5 examples to demo the Internet Explorer 9 Beta, and other browsers... Read more...

Microsoft to snub standards compliant mode in IE8

Neowin Staff — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:37:58 +0000

Exclusive sources close to the Internet Explorer development team are reporting that latest internal builds of IE8 have deactivated the new 'super standards compliant' mode. Worse still, this change is likely to be permanent if... Read more...

Google Applauds Standards Group for Rejecting Microsoft

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:36:48 +0000

In a post on its internal Google Code blog, Open Source Programs Manager Zaheda Bhorat said that Google Incorporated agrees with the decision of the International Organization for Standardization not to approve the fast track... Read more...

U.S. Standards Committee Still Undecided on Open XML

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0000

A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming... Read more...

Red Hat demands open standards in Microsoft deal

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:02:48 +0000

Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com. "Interoperability done on closed APIs isn't... Read more...

Microsoft: IBM Standards Position Hypocritical

Steven Parker — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:44 +0000

Microsoft is calling IBM out over its opposition to Office Open XML, saying it is attempting to create a movement to prevent ISO standardization of the format. In an open letter posted to its Web... Read more...

Adobe Turns PDF Over to Standards Body

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:56:50 +0000

Adobe Systems turned over the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for publication by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Yep, that's a mouthful. Why would Adobe bother?... Read more...

Motorola, Nokia Collaborate on Mobile TV Standards

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 22:28:02 +0000

In an effort to encourage greater adoption of broadcast mobile TV services and accelerate service deployment, Motorola and Nokia on Monday said they would work together to make their Digital VideoBroadcast-Handheld (DVB-H)-enabled mobile devices and... Read more...

Apple, Dell, and Lenovo to Discuss Battery Standards

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:09:59 +0000

In the shadow of Dell's fire-breathing battery concerns that lead that company to call in 4.1 million laptops, and Apple's recent decision to call in MacBook Pros due to substandard batteries, companies are to meet... Read more...

IBM Sits out Office Document Standards Effort

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:25:42 +0000

IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardizing Microsoft Office document formats, an IBM company executive said on Tuesday. As a member of the Geneva,... Read more...

USB Gets Standards Boost

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:45:29 +0000

The UTMI+ low-pin interface (ULPI) industry specification for Hi-Speed USB and USB On-the-Go transceiver chips has been made public for the first time today. The standard aims to save design development time, simplify verification and... Read more...

WLAN Standards Get a Push

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:21:48 +0000

Officials from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will meet in San Francisco this week to bring the wireless LAN industry closer to standards for high throughput, mesh networking and secure management frames. Since... Read more...

Patent landrush threatens Wi-Fi standards

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:03:43 +0000

We have examined before how patent lawsuits are threatening to stifle the adoption of wireless standards. Symbol, fresh from an intellectual property victory over rival Proxim, is the latest to assert sweeping licensing rights in... Read more...

Microsoft hurls money into media standards group

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:36:38 +0000

Microsoft announced that it has formed a media entertainment group. According to The Inquirer its job is "aimed at mopping up the digital convergence market." I wonder how much money Microsoft will dish out... Read more...

Patent Suit Roils RFID Standards Groups

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:57:08 +0000

RFID vendor Intermec is suing rival Matrics for patent infringement, in a case that could impact which emerging protocols are deployed with the technology. The Everett, Wash.-based Intermec, owned by UNOVA, said Matrics'... Read more...

China seeks its own high-tech standards

Thu, 27 May 2004 17:47:46 +0000

DVD? China's trying to do it one better -- with a technology called EVD. CDMA? The digital cell phone standard is so 2003, the Chinese say. Give TD-SCDMA a try instead. Intel... Read more...

ATI Sets Standards on Apple Systems

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:38:59 +0000

ATI Technologies Inc. continues to build on its wide range of offerings for the Mac market now shipping in new Apple products, including the PowerBook®G4 professional notebook, and eMac™ desktop for consumers and education customers.... Read more...

Microsoft balances patents, standards

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:38:42 +0000

To patent or not to patent, that is the question for Microsoft. The software giant has been a prolific intellectual property mill over the past two decades, securing more than 3,000 U.S.... Read more...

Ignore standards for web services security

Darren Bolton — Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:23:08 +0000

Analysts tell firms to take proprietary route to secure web services-based transactions Companies should take the proprietary route to provide security for web services-based transactions over the next three years, according to... Read more...

QuickTime chief queries MS standards tactic

Wed, 17 Sep 2003 19:41:00 +0000

Apple's QuickTime chief Frank Casanova has criticized Microsoft's move to transform its proprietary Windows Media 9 multimedia software into a standard, telling Macworld that "when you are part of a standards organization you don't develop... Read more...

W3C Standards Meeting goes ahead without MS and IBM

Fri, 14 Mar 2003 11:48:37 +0000

The World Wide Web Consortium has been meeting to develop new standards for Web services, but Microsoft and IBM have chosen not to participate in the meeting, despite then being two of the biggest proponents... Read more...

.Net patent could stifle standards effort

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:26:37 +0000

Thanks castor_troyuk Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. If approved as... Read more...

Standards group tackles XML documents

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:36:26 +0000

An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, on Tuesday announced the Universal Business... Read more...

Gator Wants to Spearhead Standards

Darren Bolton — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:43:42 +0000

Former Internet advertising bad boy Gator says it's interested in leading the charge for standards governing ad-supported software and pop-ups. Redwood City, Calif.-based Gator's proposed guidelines essentially extend common, self-regulatory online advertising... Read more...

Open Source gets security standards

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:04:35 +0000

Now there is some good news as the Open Source body The Idea Hamster Organisation are developing industry standards for security testing with the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM). Ideahamster... Read more...