QUALCOMM's MediaFLO and FLO technology for mobile multimedia reached an important milestone last week when the FLO Forum, an association of industry leaders devoted to standardizing FLO technology, said it had approved version 1.0 of the FLO Device Minimum Performance Specification; the FLO Transmitter Minimum Performa

Know as ITU-T (G.933.2), the specification will support high speed Internet access of up to symmetrical 100Mb/s

A number of consumer electronics manufacturers have formed a working group to define the specifications of a proposed High-Definition Multimedia Interface for consumer electronics products. The HDMI will combine HD video and multichannel audio in one digital interface for use with future versions of products such as DT

CableLabs, the cable television industry's technology development consortium, is working on an initiative to develop cable interface specifications for receipt of off-air digital broadcast signals.

You've probably heard of Bluetooth wireless networking, but you may not have heard of "ZigBee," whose specification was finalized last week. Bluetooth works well for wireless headsets and other very short range applications, but the ZigBee Alliance sees its standard as better suited for interconnecting multiple devic

FIMS is a vendor neutral common framework that enables a best-of-breed technical architecture to serve business needs.

  The Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has released Application Specification, AS-10, “MXF for Production”. This specification, built on the Sony XDCAM HD Format (SMPTE RDD-9), allows an end-to-end workflow to use a single file.  

Meeting in Berlin this month, the Open IPTV Forum said it had finalized system and protocol specifications, which will be publicly available in November