Sentences with phrase «proprietary standards»

This week's question is about universal and proprietary standards for ebooks.

We now see people wanting to use formal standards to measure sustainability rather than the previous plethora of proprietary standards.

The fear driving the consortium is that the potential growth of the market could be frustrated if different companies adopted proprietary standards.

Apple, SONY and Microsoft each developed their own proprietary standards for distributing content, and eventually everyone's moved to a shared set of standards for the majority of content.

However, internal or proprietary standards used for only one or two projects made a surprising comeback after years of consolidation, with about 12.6 MtCO2e transacted under these standards.

The best part about the Google project, the Nuzzel founder said, is that it is based on a completely open standard that any publisher can implement — as opposed to the Facebook (FB) or Apple news platforms, which are only open to a select group of sites and are based on proprietary standards.

However, this news isn't too surprising considering that China has opted for home - grown technologies in the past in lieu of more widely adopted standards — the country has implemented proprietary standards for wireless to help build out its carriers and equipment makers, for example.

The project shares many of the values we uphold in the tolino partnership: We strongly believe in the vision of books as cultural assets rather than simple consumer goods and stand against those trying to establish a monopoly via proprietary standards and closed - system vendor lock - in.

Continued insistence on separate radio frequencies, closed networks, and obscure proprietary standards mean that technology investments in transportation don't take advantage of low - cost high - volume components developed for the consumer market or advances in communications hardware and routing software.

I think Apple's role in the smart home will be limited to their own series of expensive devices featuring high end industrial design and fully proprietary standards, something that will mostly only appeal to the Apple ecosystem faithful.

There's something ironic about Microsoft being the one forcing proprietary standards, not Apple.

It's not perfect, but without Qualcomm undertaking this work behind the scenes, we may have ended up with dozens of different incompatible proprietary solutions, where Sony, Samsung, LG, and others all locked their best features away behind proprietary standards.

When it came time to build a wireless charger for the TouchPad tablet, HP kept the same proprietary standard, but dispensed with the magnets and built an easel - style stand that still positioned the tablet where it was needed to charge.

The continued spread of the nonproprietary ePub standard — which Amazon has downplayed in favor of its own proprietary standards.

The company is known for adopting proprietary standards, but that would have been a nonstarter for the iPhone 8, as Qi charging pads are already the norm in many airports and coffee shops.

Also, proprietary standards for particular platforms such as Kindle or iBooks, might hinder widespread adoption as content producers debate about what formats they want to produce to.

A proprietary standards mastery and recommendation engine facilitates acceleration, remediation, and review by automating the recommendation of resources and activities based upon standards mastery.

mobi — but are actually formatted to a proprietary standard called AZW.

They may also have an eventual advantage in their use of open standards in the form of EPUB as opposed to Amazon's proprietary standard for ebooks.

EPUB would have to be wretchedly served for me to embrace a proprietary standard.

Developers cited several reasons for this trend, including the costs of validation and verification under third - party standards, language barriers and relationships with buyers who are often unconcerned by the use of internal or proprietary standards, Goldstein said.

Microsoft is just as quick to suggest its own, proprietary standard — one model — to replace the freer open source software.

Even Microsoft, long a proponent of closed, proprietary standards, just got finished pushing and shoving its flawed OOXML document standard (hint: what you use if you use Office 2007) through ISO certification.

They don't work with non-HTC devices (minus the Huawei Mate 10... for some reason), and even worse: the phones also block the use of many 3.5 mm conversion dongles through their use of a proprietary standard.

There's also no shortage of charger options available for USB - PD devices, and if the standard can co-exist with proprietary standards, that opens up even more possibilities for device manufacturers.

But many analysts predicted that Apple would choose a proprietary standard rather than the widely used Qi (pronounced «chi») charging standard, like it did with its Lightning charging port.

Internet Explorer has historically been terrible, not supporting many web standards in favor of Microsoft's own proprietary standards.

Inductive power transfer is indeed wireless charging, whether you're using a Qi standard charger or the proprietary standard that is Touchstone (for the record, they're not compatible standards - you can't charge a Touchstone device on a Qi charger or a Qi device on a Touchstone charger).

Compared to Touchstone, even though it's a proprietary standard with no compatible hardware released in the past year, the Wireless Charger is an experience of disappointment and irritation.

(Although they appreciate Apple not incorporating a proprietary standard):

Each component connects wirelessly with around 150 feet of range, including the remote control, using a proprietary standard Damson has named JetStreamNet, and cutting down not only on cables but also addressing Dolby Atmos» setup.

As a bonus, because it's a proprietary standard, Apple makes a tidy sum licensing the technology to third parties.