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There is a certain phrase roaming the web called “awesome but impractical” and this may very well be the epithet best suited for the newly announced PCI Express 4.0 specification.
Normally, any leap in a certain technology would be welcomed with open arms but, in the case of PCI Express 4.0, it might be... |
30 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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The jQuery Core group announced their latest initiative, a Web Standards Team which will bridge the gap between developers, standards organizations and browser manufactures.This latest initiative from the jQuery group aims to fight to good fight with all thy might, to find the true interests of web developers a... |
25 October 2011
10:40 GMT |
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SanDisk may have actually outdone itself with its latest solid state drive standard, since it isn't every day that a product, which is already praised for power efficiency, gets to become so much less energy-hungry. Solid state drives have, so far, been gaining market share thanks to their high speeds and low ... |
13 September 2011
09:56 GMT |
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The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 has already gained speed, but it may gain even more of an advantage once the USB 3.0 Promoter Group finishes their latest pet project.SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is the most recent iteration of the Universal Serial Bus standard and has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 5 Gbps (4.8 Gbps).It has alr... |
30 August 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Coming to actually offer a palpable embodiment of a certain Intel project, the new all-in-one PC from Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has been formally launched.One of the big issues that all-in-one systems are usually faced with is the fact that their prices are considerable, especially compared to regular deskto... |
24 August 2011
04:04 GMT |
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DLNA is always working towards a higher level of multimedia and entertainment, and it looks like its latest efforts have consolidated into a set of guidelines that should allow service provider content to be easily played across multiple platforms.The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is constantly working towa... |
24 May 2011
03:16 GMT |
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In its constant watch of Internet and technology trends, W3C decided yesterday, May 5th 2011, to launch a special Working Group to test and define a set of standards for real-time communications in web browsers.The group's goal will be to deliver a set of client-side APIs to enable a more uniform way of deliveri... |
6 May 2011
11:33 GMT |
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Enabling the sharing content across all sorts of consumer electronics is a goal that the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is constantly striving towards, and it seems it got some new help on the part of CableLabs. CableLabs is a non-profit consortium whose activities revolve around the research and developmen... |
5 April 2011
02:23 GMT |
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The problems with all sorts of 3D displays is that they rely on special glasses, and it looks like some makers of such solutions have had enough of the general lack of cross-compatibility between such eyewear.
3D panels, recorders, cameras and any other electronic devices have been steadily gaining traction ever ... |
29 March 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Consumers that would like to enjoy a nice 3D movie or game will likely know of that somewhat annoying element known as incompatible 3D glasses, caused by there being two types of them, but it seems CEA wants to remove this limitation once and for all.The 3D display mode is not at all a new invention, but it didn... |
10 March 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Some end-users might know that all-in-one computers come in various shapes and sizes and, practically, don't have any sort of fixed platform, something that Intel has reportedly decided to rectify.This year's CeBIT 2011 expo appears to be a tad bit less rich in new product announcements than one may expect... |
3 March 2011
11:09 GMT |
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DRAM memory is practically the type of memory that ends up in every sort of systems, whether personal computer or enterprise application, but it seems different sorts of modules may soon become standard.Memory products are the sort of hardware device that can be seen as highly specialized, as they perform a single a... |
10 February 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Considered the first step in supporting fully standard-based browser authentication, the WebID protocol was graced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with an official development group.The WebID Incubator Group was announced January 14th 2011, and will be in charge with coordinating the efforts of several entitie... |
15 January 2011
08:23 GMT |
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With solid state drives growing in popularity, and flash storage as a whole getting adopted more openly, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association decided to work on new standards for models beyond existing disk drive form factors.When speaking of SSDs, one automatically thinks of 3.5-inch, 2.5-inch and even 1.8-... |
13 January 2011
05:01 GMT |
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After some time of research and development, it seems that the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has completed its two standards for solid state drives, which define conditions of use and corresponding endurance verification requirements.The two standards that JEDEC has completed are JESD218 SSD Requirements ... |
24 September 2010
08:42 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices only yesterday finalized the OpenGL ES 2.0 driver and already the Khronos Group has announced that it completed the new update to the OpenGL specification. The Architecture Review Board (ARB) implemented the GSLS 4.10 update to the OpenGL Shading language and a number of extensions that add cut... |
27 July 2010
03:26 GMT |
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Back in December, a certain consortium of companies was formed that claimed to have come up with a new interface standard that would give the HDMI specification a run for its money. Said standard is named HDBaseT and is supposedly capable of delivering a complete experience to any consumer electronics through a sing... |
3 July 2010
03:26 GMT |
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When it comes to universal connectivity, USB 3.0 is on the top of the popularity polls, with its speed of 5Gbps that lets any data transfer be accomplished ten times faster than it would be possible on USB 2.0 ports. Unfortunately, this new standard hasn't seen the widespread adoption it could have, mostly becau... |
15 April 2010
02:50 GMT |
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The World Wide Web Consortium's effort at regulating web space will be far from being final with the arrival of HTML5 and CSS3. While it will surely help make some sense from the multitude of standard variations, it will not put everyone at peace. W3C's most recent effort will be gearing toward standardizin... |
26 March 2010
11:32 GMT |
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Taking baby steps, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has constantly kept web developers very excited regarding the cutting edge new standards for HTML 5 and CSS 3. While drafts have been constantly pouring from the organization, they were never more than bite-size pieces of the standard. A few days ago, the W3C rel... |
9 March 2010
10:53 GMT |
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The WirelessHD Consortium finished defining the new WirelessHD standard that will enable unprecedented wireless data transfer for a variety of electronics, allowing for vivid and accurate content sharing and display. The specification is the standard wireless digital interface for HD consumer electronics and is suppo... |
5 January 2010
06:19 GMT |
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ISOC (Internet Society) has recently announced a $2.5 million donation to the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that will span across a period of three years, helping the organization with its recent struggles in restructuring its working groups. The donation was announced on December 11, 2009 in a joint press release.... |
14 December 2009
10:04 GMT |
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The Blu-ray stereoscopic 3D will be previewed during the 2010 Computer Electronics Show as part of a joint effort by AMD and CyberLink. This new standard will become the latest addition to the 3D graphics technologies supported by Advanced Micro Devices, such as 3D DLP televisions and dual-panel and line interleaved ... |
7 December 2009
02:46 GMT |
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The new standard set by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) now allows network client devices and host systems to establish working connections with multiple clients by using virtual channels for handling data traffic with differing priorities. In doing so, there appears to be the possibility for multi... |
3 December 2009
02:57 GMT |
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The Mini DisplayPort was originally invented by Apple and was meant for its new series of portable PCs. It is much smaller than a Digital video interface (DVI) and VGA connectors but still provides a full-function display for ultrathin notebooks and netbooks. Earlier this year, Apple gave VESA its approval for the in... |
10 November 2009
09:24 GMT |
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Recently announced by Sony as the standard web browser on its future selling PCs, Chrome has come a long way since its debut last year – such a long way, that it’s already setting the bar for speed and function, according to a person at Google. Competing web browsers, such as Safari, are faster today beca... |
7 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Applications Working Group has published updates to the Working Draft in XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest Level 2. These specifications govern the way interactive web applications are handled by developers and offer the basic API documentation for programmers wanting to spice ... |
26 August 2009
05:38 GMT |
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Women are going through what has already been labeled the most severe and potentially damaging crisis in the history of mankind. With images of perfection plastered all around them, they have come to realize that nothing short of perfection is expected from them as well, which, in turn, has led to them developing a f... |
6 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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The mobile phone world seems to be moving slowly towards the adoption of the same standards for all the handsets available on the market, as well as for those that will soon come to the shelves. We already learned a while ago that Sony Ericsson was planning on adopting the microSD memory card slot with its future han... |
9 July 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Microsoft is making consistent efforts to permit customers to test-drive its products, in order to catalyze a boost in adoption. An illustrative example in this context is the trial-version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard. Labeled as for “evaluation and testing purposes,” the bits are o... |
12 November 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. On September 15, Eric Kidd – General Manager EBS, announced that the English version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 went gold, with the promise that additional languages would follow soon. The Redmond giant is now ready to off... |
16 September 2008
06:53 GMT |
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The Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Security Standards Council announced that a revised version of the Data Security Standard (DSS) would be finished by September 8. The new 1.2 version will be presented at the upcoming meetings in Orlando (for North America) and Brussels (for Europe). A possible compliance deadl... |
30 August 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008. With the code for both the Standard and Premium SKUs of Windows Small Busin... |
22 August 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The standardized web development is at a crossroad as the ECMAScript 4.0 draft has been scrapped in favor of the new ECMAScript 3.1 entitled "Harmony". ECMAScript is the standard based on which popular scripting languages like JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript were implemented and ECMAScript 4.0 draft was the standar... |
16 August 2008
04:44 GMT |
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Most of the modern light sources today are still represented by incandescent light bulbs, which haven't evolved a great deal ever since they were first invented. Basically, typical incandescent light bulbs have a less than 10 percent efficiency, the remaining 90 percent of energy being dissipated in the surround... |
1 July 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the Bluetooth format backers group will move the standard to IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi specifications set for the next generation of devices. The next version of Bluetooth will be based on a hybrid technology, comprised of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, transmitting over the same 2.4 GHz radio ... |
11 February 2008
03:35 GMT |
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The PCI Special Interest Group is working on extending the current PCI 2.0 specifications. There are multiple features scheduled for implementation and the results should be available by June next year. These new features are alleged to enhance system performance as well as accelerators and storage devices that are h... |
8 December 2007
04:10 GMT |
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The WiMAX mobile communication technology is finally ready to go from the lab to the field testing phase and this fact makes all major telecommunication companies face a few important decisions that they should undertake concerning their 4G strategies.According to the news site digitimes, the research firm ABI Resear... |
8 October 2007
11:29 GMT |
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The Universal Serial Bus is probably the most popular and widely used interconnect protocol in use today that can link a high number of peripherals to a host computer system and it comes in several versions, like the legacy iterations 1.0 and 1.1, the modern 2.0 iteration and the upcoming version 3.0. On the physical... |
1 October 2007
09:43 GMT |
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While Intel and a number of other important computer hardware manufacturing companies announced at the Intel Developer Forum that a new Universal Serial Bus is in the making, just do not throw away all your USB 2.0 compliant hardware components, as the new iteration of the popular connectivity standard is still years... |
26 September 2007
05:24 GMT |
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Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p... |
20 September 2007
06:25 GMT |
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It looks like the days of glory for USB 2.0 and FireWire B are coming to an end as Intel Corporation and a number of other major computer hardware manufacturing companies are pushing ahead a new standard for connecting devices to a host computer system, the USB 3.0. This new interconnect standard should offer a huge ... |
19 September 2007
10:45 GMT |
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The Universal Plug and Play standard together with more than 76 of its security fixes just received international recognition as a worldwide standard last week, after years of use. The UpnP is a direct descendant of the older PnP, Plug and Play, standard developed by Microsoft in the good old times of Windows 95.Usua... |
17 September 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Among server builders and data center users, there is a concept that makes a lot of waves these days at which may cut energy and hardware costs dramatically, while offering a high level of performance and ease of deployment and use. This 'wonder' concept is virtualization and while it can bring a lot of goo... |
10 September 2007
03:53 GMT |
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JEDEC is an industry association which is specialized in setting the manufacturing standards and a number of technical specifications for some of the most computer hardware parts like the dynamic random access memory, DRAM for short. As the solid state drives are becoming increasingly popular and their price tags dro... |
31 August 2007
10:50 GMT |
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The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA for short) just completed the second DisplayPort standard test. VESA is the worldwide organism that develops and implements the technical specifications of open display interfaces and several other standards used by the computing industry. After the successful impleme... |
14 August 2007
08:52 GMT |
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The second PCI-Express standard is still far away from being used on large scale, on both laptop and desktop computer systems and already a new iteration of the internal computer communication protocol is already on the move. The PCI-SIG (the shorthand for PCI Special Interest Group) which controls the technical spec... |
9 August 2007
08:52 GMT |
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DisplayPort 1.1 is the new industry standard for large displays and AMD's graphics division, formerly known as the independent company ATI, announced the successful testing of a next generation graphics processor featuring a native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter that connected with no problems to a Genesis Microchi... |
2 August 2007
05:32 GMT |
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE as it is commonly known among computer hardware and software specialists, is a group centered mainly on the standardization and formalization of the different approaches to solve a particular problem in the IT world. Most protocols used by the computer in... |
24 July 2007
11:04 GMT |
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For about 10 years, the main interface for PC compatible computers has been the old PCI standard interface. It was designed and produced to replace the even older ISA standard that was reaching its limits. Now we see the PCI cards reaching and hitting the limits of this interface, while a new standard is on its way o... |
16 July 2007
06:38 GMT |
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