The Council of Europe has adopted the first-ever international legally binding treaty on the use of AI. It aims to ensure respect for human rights, the rule of law, and democratic legal standards.
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Numerous entities from the technology and media sector such as BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Arm have joined forces to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
The W3C and the IETF have finally made WebRTC an official standard. WebRTC has been supported by popular web browsers since 2012 and enables peer-to-peer video and audio calls on the web.
Samsung's huge CHG90 super widescreen gaming monitor has been given DisplayHDR 600 compliance certification by VESA. The standard was introduced this year and the CHG90 is the first to obtain it.
Microsoft's Azure has been examined by a third party and has passed the requirements for the ISO 9001:2015 specifications. The software giant subsequently received certification for the achievement.
Robert O'Callahan, a former Mozilla employee, has vehemently criticized antivirus software vendors for not following standard security practices while singling out Windows Defender as an exception.
Microsoft has laid out its priorities for the development of its Edge browser this year, including extensions support, web notifications with Action Center integration, and accessibility improvements.
In a blog post, Microsoft have said that "Do Not Track" will not be the default option in browsers going forward in accordance with new standards from the World Wide Web Consortium.
HTML5 has had a big adventure so far in getting standards down, including what the official video technology will be. Microsoft used many HTML5 examples to demo the Internet Explorer 9 Beta, and other browsers...
Exclusive sources close to the Internet Explorer development team are reporting that latest internal builds of IE8 have deactivated the new 'super standards compliant' mode. Worse still, this change is likely to be permanent if...
In a post on its internal Google Code blog, Open Source Programs Manager Zaheda Bhorat said that Google Incorporated agrees with the decision of the International Organization for Standardization not to approve the fast track...
A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming...
Red Hat will only sign an interoperability agreement with Microsoft if it is based entirely on open standards, the company's executive vice president of engineering Paul Cormier told vnunet.com. "Interoperability done on closed APIs isn't...
Microsoft is calling IBM out over its opposition to Office Open XML, saying it is attempting to create a movement to prevent ISO standardization of the format. In an open letter posted to its Web...
Adobe Systems turned over the full Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.7 specification to AIIM, the Enterprise Content Management Association, for publication by the International Standards Organization (ISO). Yep, that's a mouthful. Why would Adobe bother?...
In an effort to encourage greater adoption of broadcast mobile TV services and accelerate service deployment, Motorola and Nokia on Monday said they would work together to make their Digital VideoBroadcast-Handheld (DVB-H)-enabled mobile devices and...
In the shadow of Dell's fire-breathing battery concerns that lead that company to call in 4.1 million laptops, and Apple's recent decision to call in MacBook Pros due to substandard batteries, companies are to meet...
IBM does not intend to participate in an Ecma International standards committee that is standardizing Microsoft Office document formats, an IBM company executive said on Tuesday. As a member of the Geneva,...
The UTMI+ low-pin interface (ULPI) industry specification for Hi-Speed USB and USB On-the-Go transceiver chips has been made public for the first time today. The standard aims to save design development time, simplify verification and...
Officials from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will meet in San Francisco this week to bring the wireless LAN industry closer to standards for high throughput, mesh networking and secure management frames. Since...
We have examined before how patent lawsuits are threatening to stifle the adoption of wireless standards. Symbol, fresh from an intellectual property victory over rival Proxim, is the latest to assert sweeping licensing rights in...
Microsoft announced that it has formed a media entertainment group. According to The Inquirer its job is "aimed at mopping up the digital convergence market." I wonder how much money Microsoft will dish out...
RFID vendor Intermec is suing rival Matrics for patent infringement, in a case that could impact which emerging protocols are deployed with the technology. The Everett, Wash.-based Intermec, owned by UNOVA, said Matrics'...
DVD? China's trying to do it one better -- with a technology called EVD. CDMA? The digital cell phone standard is so 2003, the Chinese say. Give TD-SCDMA a try instead. Intel...
ATI Technologies Inc. continues to build on its wide range of offerings for the Mac market now shipping in new Apple products, including the PowerBook®G4 professional notebook, and eMac™ desktop for consumers and education customers....
To patent or not to patent, that is the question for Microsoft. The software giant has been a prolific intellectual property mill over the past two decades, securing more than 3,000 U.S....
Analysts tell firms to take proprietary route to secure web services-based transactions Companies should take the proprietary route to provide security for web services-based transactions over the next three years, according to...
Apple's QuickTime chief Frank Casanova has criticized Microsoft's move to transform its proprietary Windows Media 9 multimedia software into a standard, telling Macworld that "when you are part of a standards organization you don't develop...
The World Wide Web Consortium has been meeting to develop new standards for Web services, but Microsoft and IBM have chosen not to participate in the meeting, despite then being two of the biggest proponents...
Thanks castor_troyuk Microsoft is in the process of applying for a wide-ranging patent that covers a variety of functions related to its .Net initiative. If approved as...
An e-business standards body has proposed a series of definitions for how corporations should create common business documents. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, on Tuesday announced the Universal Business...
Former Internet advertising bad boy Gator says it's interested in leading the charge for standards governing ad-supported software and pop-ups. Redwood City, Calif.-based Gator's proposed guidelines essentially extend common, self-regulatory online advertising...
Now there is some good news as the Open Source body The Idea Hamster Organisation are developing industry standards for security testing with the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM). Ideahamster...
