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Open Web Foundation to Keep Data 'Open'
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A coalition of individuals and corporate backers are creating the Open Web Foundation, an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications following the open-source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation.
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TechCrunchIT » Blog Archive » The New Apple Walled Garden
Geeks and enthusiasts wearing Wordpress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DRM. The irony was lost on some as they ran home, docked their new devices into a proprietary media player and downloaded closed source applications wrapped in DRM.
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Apple turns its back on mobile standards | InfoWorld | News | 2008-07-11 | By Ephraim Schwartz
Many companies may be willing to take a second or perhaps first look at Apple’s mobile wunderkind, the iPhone, now that it has access to a 3G network. A 3G version also extends the reach of the iPhone to more operators and geographies, say the experts. However, David Ginsburg, a marketing executive at InnoPath wonders aloud whether Apple will have to move to a more standards-based way of doing things to appeal to that larger audience. Ginsburg points to the specs offered by the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), which has over 300 members from the mobile industry and which offers standards for remote configuration, push e-mail, and software updates.
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PC World - ISO, IEC Leaders Recommend Rejection of OOXML Appeals
The leaders of the ISO and the IEC have recommended the rejection of appeals from four countries that protested a vote approving OOXML, an XML-based document format submitted by Microsoft as an international standard.
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Once More unto the Breach: Developing a Standards Office for Google
I've been thinking about this since I published the Standards Primer a month ago. In the next two to five years, Google will be challenged by a technology standards effort that it will need to encourage or manage in its mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Such efforts cannot be erected quickly (as demonstrated most recently by Microsoft), and preparations for that day should begin in the near future. Google is also in a unique position to turn the standards development process on its head.
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Does Google need a standards office pronto? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Google is increasingly in the middle of multiple efforts like Android and standards development. The problem: Google doesn’t have a centralized standards office to manage its efforts. According to open source consultant Stephen Walli, Google needs a standards office as its reach grows.
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Breaking the law: one-third of US residents rip DVDs
One-third of consumers in the US and UK have made a copy of a DVD within the last six months, according to a report from Futuresource Consulting. The firm surveyed 3,613 people in the US and 1,718 in the UK to discover their "home piracy" habits, and attempts to paint a somewhat ugly picture of casual copyright infringement even though a majority of users who make copies are doing so "legitimately" (for personal use).
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BSA slams EC's 'narrow-minded' interoperability vision | The Register
The Interoperable Delivery of European e-government Services to Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (IDABC) arm of the European Commission presented an outline of version two of the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) at a meeting in Brussels last week. The main crux of the new framework according to the presentation, which can be viewed here (pdf), is that European governments, firms and users should “be prepared and volunteer to share and reuse,” and “adopt open standards and specifications”.
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The Commission's incoherent approach to IP imperils Europe's economic future - Intellectual Asset Management
And now, the DG for Informatics is getting in on the act. In the recently published European Interoperability Framework for pan-European eGovernment Services - a document that “provides a series of recommendations and defines generic standards with regard to organisational, semantic and technical aspects of interoperability, offering a comprehensive set of principles for European co-operation in eGovernment” – we are specifically told that only open source software can be used in the development of interoperability systems. Any software that may be protected by patents can only be integrated if the owners agree that the “standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty free basis”. So, a go-getting and smart European SME may well have invested significant time and money in developing world-class software. It may have followed the advice of commissioners McCreevy and Verheugen to get patent protection, but when it comes to putting that software into a potentially lucrative pan-European project, it’s no can do.
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Intellectual Property Watch » European Interoperability Framework Nears Final Stage Of Revision
A unit of the European Commission has presented a new version of a proposed European framework on interoperability which it hopes will encourage member governments to further enable information sharing, such as through the promotion of open standards. The revised draft framework, expected to be made public this month, is slated for completion later this year but still faces questions.
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ACT - Protecting Small Business Innovation: European Commission's Own Goal on Standards
“The EU scores an own goal with this document. It aims to facilitate digital cooperation among European administrations, but in effect it excludes many well-established technologies from being used for e-Government services due to a narrow definition of open standards. This will hurt first and foremost innovative tech start-ups that rely on patent protection to establish themselves in the marketplace.”
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ISO - News - PDF format becomes ISO standard
The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of publishing the specifications for the current version (1.7) and for updating and developing future versions.
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CONTENT AGENDA | Studios still trying to manage copying - MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Despite myriad setbacks, the major studios remain keen on finding a way to allow consumers to transfer movies from DVD to a portable device that doesn't involve circumventing CSS and results in a copy-protected file. With Disney's August DVD release of "A Nightmare Before Christmas," complete with an embedded file suitable for transferring, all the major studios except Paramount will have embraced some form of "digital copy." Most rely on embedded files, although for longer films, or for full-season TV series compilations that eat up disc space, Warner has relied on downloads from its Web site to provide the second copy.
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Mobile Linux standards forum gives up - CNET News.com
The attempted standardization of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it is to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation.
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ReadWriteTalk » Blog Archive » Chris Saad - Co-Founder of DataPortability.org
On this episode I sit down with Chris Saad the co-founder of Data Portability.org Since being founded about 6 months ago, one of Data Portability’s primary goals was to ‘develop a narrative‘ for data portability. The group that has proven to be extremely effective in generating a ton of publicity. The topic was actively discussed at SxSW and Web 2.0 expo over the last few months. It is also worth pointing out as Chris acknowledges, that Data Portability certainly stands on the shoulders of a lot of great technology developed over a much longer time such as OpenID and various Microformats.
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UPDATE: US Appeals Court Throws Out FTC Ruling Against Rambus
A federal court of appeals on Tuesday threw out a 2007 Federal Trade Commission ruling against Rambus Inc. (RMBS), arguing the agency failed to prove "its allegation of monopolization," and ordered a new trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously vacated the agency's decision and said a new trial would have to address "serious concerns about the sufficiency of the evidence" in the case.
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Legal dispute could increase cost of digital TV - SiliconValley.com
At the core of the AAI's complaint is that Rembrandt reneged on a commitment AT&T made when it owned the patent. AT&T was a member of an industry group that agreed on a digital television standard in 1995. The FCC then mandated that standard for all digital broadcasters the following year, meaning that the networks can't use other technologies. AT&T pledged to license its patent to anyone who asked at a "reasonable and nondiscriminatory rate." Rembrandt has said in court filings that it isn't bound by that commitment. By getting the patent after it became part of a technology standard and then demanding exorbitant fees, Rembrandt is illegally abusing its monopoly, the AAI said. The FTC recently cracked down on similar practices, what lawyers call "patent ambushes." In January, it blocked Negotiated Data Solutions LLC, based in Chicago, from seeking higher royalties on patents related to the ethernet computer networking technology.
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Google mapping spec now an industry standard | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Members of an industry group called the Open Geospatial Consortium have approved Google's KML technology as an open standard for describing some geographic data. KML is used to manage the display of geospatial information in Google Earth, the company's software for flying over the surface of a virtual globe. With its 3D coordinate-based system, people can create models of city buildings, draw a line showing where they hiked, or overlay their own custom place names on a generic map.
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EETimes.com - Rambus wins memory chip patent case
Memory chip technology developer Rambus Inc has won a key case in a long-running patent lawsuit, sending its shares 39 percent higher. The jury rejected claims by three large memory-chip makers, Hynix Semiconductor Inc, Micron Technology Inc and Nanya Technology, that Rambus deliberately misled the memory chip industry in the 1990s when new standards were being hammered out.
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