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Hollywood's standards for digital cinema were savaged at a Monday debate at the Ficci-Frames entertainment convention in Mumbai. Rajaa Kanwar, vice chairman of UFO Moviez and chairman of the Ficci [...]

Many engineers remember the original ISA $84.01 safety standard of 1996, which stated, 'As new technology evolves and becomes available (e.g., ISA SP50 Fieldbus), it will be addressed in future [...]

The radio-broadcasting sector is at quandary over the cross-promotion stance of Office of Communications (Ofcom), which is no doubt welcome but way too short of expectation of the industry. The digital radio services licensing initiatives of Ofcom are also examined.

The Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation and PROFIBUS Nutzerorganisation e.V. (PNO) have a collaborative project to extend specifications for device description language (DDL). This is claimed to be the most [...]

Sony's two new recently-unveiled Mini DV camcorders boast wireless Internet connectivity. Using Bluetooth technology, the DCR-PC120 and MICROMV-based DCR-IP7 allow consumers to connect their camcorders directly to the Internet without [...]

Are digital communicators approved for use in proprietary systems? NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm Code, 1999 Edition, says that a Digital Alarm Communicator System (DACS) can be used to transmit [...]

What's it going to be--TCM or ECH? Digital carrier technology has been available in various forms since the mid-1960s, but little of this technology has found its way into the […]

Washington - A generation of digital-subscriber-line chip sets and service trials could be scrapped if a coalition of PC companies and local telephone providers succeeds in a bid to deploy […]

Get ready for another remote connectivity interoperability fiasco. Remember the old saying that those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it? Well, DSL modem vendors must […]

At the International Telecommunications Union's Telecom Interactive show in Geneva last week, a walk around the semiempty aisles on the exhibition floor revealed one acronym cropping up again and again: […]

Sacramento, Calif. - Three pioneers in digital-subscriber-line technology have teamed up to promote uniform specs to the American National Standards Institute for a next-generation spin. Level One Communications, PairGain Technologies […]

CAP vs. DMT continues, but does the market really care? In the evolution of the asymmetrical digital subscriber line market, industry interest has shifted in the past year from standards […]

After years of denial, the American National Standards Institute decided last week to allow the formation of an ad hoc group to explore another line code standard for asymmetrical digital […]

A consortium of process control vendors and users that includes some large chemical companies says it will issue a final standard for field instrumentation communication early this year. Called the [...]

The consumer electronics industry has arrived at a digital video disc standard, which will make technical specifications unified across different products. The new DVD standard will apply to both home entertainment and home office application products, the DVD itself will be able to hold as much data as 14 traditional CD-ROMs. The new standard ties in well with computers, and DVD players are due on the market in Sep 1996., NEW YORK--A group led by Toshiba and Sony last week agreed on common technical specifications for a unified digital video disc standard. It also settled on a name for the [...]

Seven U.S. vendors with licenses to develop Personal Communications Services (PCS) networks in the United States have formed an interest group to promote Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology. […]

SAN FRANCISCO--The hammering out of several messaging standard upgrades, as well as a sprinkling of new products and service announcements, highlighted the Electronic Messaging Association's Messaging Solutions Summit recently. The […]

Chicago-With digital wireless communications poised to take off, service providers have turned to packet data communications to distinguish themselves from analog cellular providers. At an IEEE conference on wireless technology […]

Delving into the depths of SVD technology is not for the faint of heart. As I revealed last week, neither of the two DSVD (digital simultaneous voice and data) technologies […]

Supporters of GSM have fired back loudly at critics who say the digital cellular standard, used throughout Europe and set to be adopted throughout most of Asia, will be surpassed […]