The EyeTV Mobile accessory utilizes the broadcast industry standard technology of ATSC-Mobile.
Odum, president of Shell Oil, argued that new drilling technology and industry standard-setting would allay these concerns.
While rival Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) has launched several players and other devices that use its proprietary Memory Stick storage cartridges, Matsushita has been working with several companies, including Toshiba and SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people), to make the SD Card technology and industry standard.
Powerline uses industry-standard HomePlug AV technology to turn any home wall socket into a network connection.
In a single year, without any federal funding, the X Prize had identified a problem, incentivized a solution, and produced a more efficient and cheaper technology that more than quadrupled the industry standard for cleaning oil spills.
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Likewise, this technology should be developed as an industry standard across all makes and models, with common electronics that would allow for easy serviceability or software upgrades, unlike all the poorly designed and unreliable touch control systems currently available, which by their nature will become woefully outdated and perhaps disdained by buyers in just a few years.
Due to its strong patent position, it also collects fees from 195 licensees, spanning most of the cell-phone industry for code-division, multiple-access technology, which is the standard communications technology in cellular networks.
Both companies said they will support a standard industry specification to enable broad-scale acceptance of this new high-speed technology.
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Some merchants are hesitant to upgrade their technology to embrace NFC because it isn't clear if it will become the industry standard.
Both of these acquisitions came quickly on the heels of Lenovo's announcement of a global partnership with EMC, forming a server technology development program to help drive innovation and extend Lenovo's capabilities in x86 industry-standard servers.
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In addition to the advantages described later in this release, the new technology has been defined with a goal of simplifying migration and enabling adoption of an industry-wide standard.
The consortium is looking to reach the mass market by creating an industry-supported standard, which as anyone would tell you, is the quickest way to get technology through the pipeline.
Standard essential patents are ones that are critical to industry standards, for example, the technology that allows devices such as smartphones and tablets to connect to the internet over wi-fi.
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