...intellectual property rights (IPRs). Competition agencies and commentators suggest specific changes to current SSO IPR policies to reduce incompleteness and favor an expanded role for antitrust law in deterring patent...
As recent studies on the evolution of a technology indicate, the role of a standard, or dominant design, is highly significant in a number of contemporary industries such as computer,...
Recognition is growing of the importance of including standardization in an academic education. Standardization committees create a defined order applied to a specific application, e.g., a safety standard, a measurement...
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than as products. It promises to dramatically simplify the development and deployment of new and very large economic, social...
Digital communications is both pervasive and vital across society. This creates a growing public interest in the technical standards that proscribe public communications. The public is demanding, “Open Standards.” The...
...be brought about by these practices should also be examined. Performing thorough and appropriate analyses will help prevent excessive intervention that could discourage practices that are potentially beneficial for consumers....
For the first time, the IT industry is widely adopting open standards – thanks to the internet...
Consumer electronics: How previous standards wars compare with today’s contest between HD-DVD and Blu-ray....
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the sort of place America’s far-right rages about. It is an arm of the dreaded United Nations; it is populated by a rainbow coalition...
For a decade or more Microsoft’s monopoly of PC operating systems gave it a stranglehold on computing. The technologies now shaping the Internet mean that a single software company is...