Tag: Consortium

Multiple big firms including Meta, Microsoft, Epic Games, and Sony have joined hands to form the Metaverse Standards Forum to build upon spatial technology standards. Apple is suspiciously absent.

Usama Jawad · Jun 22, 2022 with 9 comments

A new UK-based consortium led by Skyfarer is setting out to create national infrastructure by 2022 that will enable the delivery of medical supplies such as blood for blood transfusions by drone.

Paul Hill · Mar 16, 2021 with 3 comments

Nokia has become the head of an EU research project into 6G called Hexa-X. The firm said that it expects 6G to become commercially available to consumers in a decade around the year 2030.

Paul Hill · Dec 7, 2020 with 1 comment

Huawei has sold its Honor sub-brand to a consortium of over 30 agents and dealers in China. It will no longer have any stake in Honor, with the sale being done to save Honor's industry chain.

Rajesh Pandey · Nov 17, 2020 with 3 comments

Samsung has announced that it has joined the Partnership on AI, an industry consortium that looks at various aspects of AI. Samsung wants to focus on AI's impacts on safety, societies, and economies.

Paul Hill · Nov 9, 2018 with 0 comments

Jolla has announced a Chinese consortium to help bring its open source OS to the Chinese market similarly to how it did in Russia. Several major Chinese firms have expressed an interest in joining.

Paul Hill · Feb 27, 2017 with 2 comments

Opera Software has called on its fellow browser makers and the Internet community as a whole to band together in an effort to fix the security issues related to Internationalized Domain Names. The IDN standard...

· Feb 22, 2005 with -1 comments

IBM has formed an industry consortium chartered with opening up the process of building Power processors, as used in Macs. It's a move to open up its Power microprocessor architecture. The consortium is called Power.org....

· Dec 2, 2004 with -1 comments

Novell Tuesday furthered its Linux initiative by joining the Open Source Development Labs, a consortium of companies that are accelerating Linux adoption.Novell will participate in the Data Center Linux working group, which is focused on...

· Dec 10, 2003 with -1 comments