Archive for the ‘Standards’ Category
Friday, May 26th, 2006 958 Views
A while back I wrote about the Forgent JPEG patent and how they are sending demand letters to small companies (I posted a copy here). Now comes word from GrokLaw that most of the patent has been thrown out by the Patent Office as invalid.
No word on whether any of ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006 389 Views
Wired ran an article today by Lawrence Lessing singing the praises of a new Microsoft protocol called "InfoCard". I took a quick look at the technical reference and it seems very straight forward AND is all build on a bunch of OASIS and W3C standards for web services. So far, ...
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Friday, October 28th, 2005 517 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
All posts in this blog will be merged with my main blog under a new category. I will try to preserve comments. You can point to my main blog feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/NetwizardsBlog or use this ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2005 503 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
One of the recurring themes in standards development is the inevitable tug of war between standards bodies and the industry. Many times, specific companies may come up with different ways to solve the same ...
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2005 621 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
About a month ago I wrote about the Forgent JPEG Patent saga. Recently a faithful reader sent me a copy of a demand letter sent on behalf of Forgent (to a company that shall ...
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Friday, May 13th, 2005 478 Views
The final draft (-01) is here (HTML and TXT). Diffs are also available (HTML and TXT). As always comments are always welcome either to the mailing list or to me.
One of these days I am going to get around to writing a more complete background of this draft and the ...
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 823 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
For quite some time, Mozilla-based browsers such as FireFox, Netscape and Galeon had a feature called "pre-fetching". What this feature does is that it enabled browsers to "pre-fetch" any webpage link marked with a ...
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 626 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Slashdot posted a story about the approval of the new OpenDocument standard by OASIS. The actual standard is available in PDF and OpenOffice formats. The obvious focus of this activity is against Microsoft and ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2005 464 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 584 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog)
Last April a company called Forgent Networks initiated 31 lawsuits against various companies using the JPEG format based on an old US Patent # 4,698,672 which Forgent acquired by buying up some other company. ...
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005 598 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog.)
Quite a few news outlets are carrying the story of Microsoft inventing a new technology called "Metro" intended to replace Adobe's PDF format. According to Microsoft Watch " Metro is a "new fixed ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005 537 Views
(This post was part of a separate "Standards Blog" which has been merged into my main blog.)
Welcome to "The Internet Standards Blog" - the newest discussion place for everything revolving around Internet standards. After searching far and wide for a site that would keep me upto date on standards activities ...
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005 471 Views
I started a new blog covering Internet Standards and related topics - The Standards Blog.
UPDATE: All entries from this blog have been merged into my main blog here.
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