Flash Back and Flash Forward- The role of proprietary standards and innovation
There has been a lot of talk about the future of the Flash format especially after the launch of the iPad since both the iPad and the iPhone do not support Flash. Like many people, I am a fan of HTML5...
View ArticleVertical vs Horizontal Mobile Apps Models
In February, 24 of the world’s largest telecoms announced the formation of an alliance – the Wholesale Applications Community – to provided a unified and open platform for the rapidly growing – both in...
View ArticleWeek in Standards 3
Hello all Apologies for last week, I had to teach my course at Oxford University and so it was difficult to do the week in standards last week. But we are back this week covering both weeks, and a lot...
View ArticleH.264: Double Standards in the Standards World
The H.264 standard has been getting a lot of press recently due to the announcement that Google will drop H.264 support from Chrome in favour of WebM, and the subsequent clarification of H.264 support...
View ArticleH.264: Double Standards in the Standards World – PART 2
I posted about H.264 and WebM earlier this week and this post extends that discussion to an ecosystem perspective. The H.264 vs WebM discussion goes to the heart of how we define the term ‘standard’....
View ArticleWeek in Standards – Week 13, 2011
Welcome to the revised, new look, week in standards. Once again we will cover the latest developments in the world of standards each week, trying to keep the ideas as concise as possible so as to cover...
View ArticleWeek in Standards – Week 14, 2011
Welcome to the second in the new incarnation of the “Week in standards” series. I am always surprised by how much activity there is in the standards world in only a week, and this week is no exception....
View ArticleWeek in Standards – Week 15, 2011
This week passed was a quite surprising week in standards with a proposed scale down of the budgets for data.gov and other sites, yet another cloud standards body launched, plus other interesting...
View ArticleWeek in Standards – Week 19, 2011
It has been a long two weeks in the UK with celebrations of the Royal wedding and now we are back after a bit of a break. Again we have a wide range of standards related news and I hope you enjoy it!...
View ArticleWeek in Standards – Week 21, 2011
Here is this week’s week in standards. Web Standards Mobile Apps “May Soon Be Dead” On the day that Gartner reports the growth of the smartphone market by 85%, comes the counter intuitive suggestion...
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