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Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth to co-exist within device
News New Wi-Fi specs that enable direct connections won't replace Bluetooth. Instead, both wireless protocols will likely be supported in the same device, says analyst.
Tags: Bluetooth, 802.11/Wi-Fi, Development/design, Mobile processors, Specification, Wi-Fi Alliance, mobile, Gartner Inc., photograph, Bluetooth
Vodafone mobile broadband to hit top HSDPA speed
News Operator is first in U.K. to upgrade parts of its network to reach 14.4Mbps, the highest speed offered by the HSDPA specification.
Tags: Network infrastructure, Mobile, Mobile/Wireless, O2 Plc., Mobile Broadband, Speed, Broadband, HSPA, 3G, HSDPA
Google has its own plan for netbooks
News No, the search giant isn't saying it will build a netbook. But it sure knows what it would like one running Chrome OS to resemble, and that's a little different from the netbook of today.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux desktop OS, Personal Computers, Google Inc., Operating System, software, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Hardware
Sata 3.0 paves way for slimmer notebooks
News The new version of the Serial ATA specification, released on Wednesday, also promises smoother video playback from storage drives using the interface.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Components, Specification, PC Company, Video, Storage, Notebook, Serial ATA, disk, Netbook
Tech companies submit crypto standard to Oasis
News Seven technology companies have developed a specification that the group hopes will improve encryption-key management interoperability.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Business ethics, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Security, Specification, Seagate Technology LLC, Encryption, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Storage
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all
Techguide A lot has been written about full-disk encryption and its positive impact on reducing data theft. However, for a host of reasons, many organizations and data centers have yet to adopt the technology.
Tags: Personal storage, Authentication and encryption, Security, Western Digital Corp., Specification, Trusted Computing Group, Encryption, User Data, Storage, removable storage
Five HTML oddities that you may not know
Techguide Browsers are more compliant than Web developers think--find out why, as well as what other nuggets of insights from an industry observer's experience with HTML 5.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Protocols and platforms, Specification, Web Browser, HTML 4, XHTML, DOCTYPE, compliance, Microsoft Internet Explorer
USB 3.0 will not be forked
News AMD expresses satisfaction after Intel released part of the draft specification for the next version of USB.
Tags: Network standards/protocols, Personal Computers, Intel Corp., NVidia Corp., Specification, USB, USB 2.0, vice president, industry, Dell Computer Corp.
USB 3.0 is ready to go
News The final specification for so-called SuperSpeed USB has been published by the USB Implementers Forum.
Tags: Components, Hardware, NEC Corp., Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., NVidia Corp., Texas Instruments Inc., Specification, USB Flash Drive, USB
Faster FireWire on way for gigabit generation
News Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers approves a specification that gives support for bandwidth of up to 3.2Gbps.
Tags: Peripherals, Standards, Network standards/protocols, Apple Inc., Mobile, Specification, Storage, USB, multimedia, industry
Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML
News The company has admitted it had no experience or specific personnel dedicated to software standards prior to getting OOXML approved by the ISO.
Tags: Business applications, Software, Microsoft Corp., Specification, India, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office 2007, Sweden, Adobe Systems Inc., U.S.
Will HTML5 bring about better markup authoring?
Techguide HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address and the features that might be most contentious.
Tags: Web browsers, Feature, Specification, Web Browser, Google Inc., Author, Browser Company, W3C, Web Application, HTML5
Tech giants form open cloud standards group
News Companies including AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Sun and VMware are to develop open standards for private and public cloud interoperability.
Tags: Cloud computing, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Specification, Standards, VMware Inc., Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., PaaS
New Wi-Fi spec challenges Bluetooth
News The specification, called Wi-Fi Direct, turns gadgets into mini access points and could hurt Bluetooth's dominance in gadget wireless connectivity.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Device, Phone, router, Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi router, Wi-Fi access point, P2P, Wireless, Wi-Fi
Toshiba brings out business-card-size solid-state drives
News New solid-state drives, which feature capacities of up to 62GB, are designed for notebooks and Netbooks.
Tags: Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Notebook, consortium, Hardware, hardware maker, Dell Computer Corp., manufacturer, Toshiba Corp.
