The materials use a standard format and have been modularized for easy "mixing and matching".
In addition to security and speed, SWIFT offers a standard interface to reach pretty much any bank in the world with a standard message format to provide completely automated processing of payments, straight-through processing (STP) in industry terminology.
In order to get a critical mass of videos up on its site, Google may have compromised its chance at being the herald of a standard, open format--a mission the public would surely have viewed as decidedly not evil.
While both the Mobile Digital Scribe and ZPen would be more palatable if they captured natively into a more standard file format such as JPEG or PDF, both do a solid job of recording pages of notes and line drawings.
ENGADGET: Switched On: More options for getting from scribble to screen
With its own copy-protection system, Google joins the ranks of DRM-heavies Apple Computer and Microsoft, which some say hurt consumers and their own profits by not freeing up digital content into a single, standard format.
With its own copy-protection system, Google joins the ranks of DRM-heavies Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) and Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), which some say hurt consumers and their own profits by not freeing up digital content into a single, standard format.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
ENGADGET: MPEG drafts twice-as-efficient H.265 video standard, sees use in phones as soon as 2013
CDs and, once a standard for a secure format is set, let visitors download their music.
Microsoft claimed that the articles contained inaccuracies on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by the software giant.
The fingerprints are stored in a cryptic format on a standard PC, which he insists could not be reconstituted to create the actual print.
Main Features: VPC-FH1A and VPC-HD2000A These highly advanced cameras not only offer a standard 1080i (interlaced) format (recording at 60 fields per second), but with the SANYO proprietary CMOS engine, recording is also available in an impressive 1080p (progressive) format, offering ultra-smooth, professional-looking 60 frames per second.
ENGADGET: Sanyo unleashes two iFrame compatible Dual HD camcorders
Booktype can format for a series of standard book sizes, then spit out several file types, including pdf, epub, mobi, odt and html files.
The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
First, one cannot simply take a standard University course and port it to the online format.
And while widescreen televisions deliver a superior picture quality to the standard 4:3 format, they are still the exception.
The lack of data sets received on a regular basis, the lack of an industry standard format for data set composition, and the composition of data sets that were unformatted or too large for computers to process without crashing.
And if you want a new CD player, why spring for a new format when DVD is likely to become the standard?
The draft standard only covers the format of the content, not a copyright protection and distribution specification, said Kawell.
Apple had a strong hand in the formation last year of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance, an industry group that wants to create a blueprint for an open standard that would allow content developers to write for one format, instead of three or more as they now must do.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
ENGADGET: Sony says it's open to creating a single DVD standard
But then we kept reading the press release and realized that they're not exactly introducing a new format they're more or less co-opting SanDisk's TransFlash card standard.
That said, Bill Gates is touting Microsoft's own software format, Windows Media, to several online music services and hardware firms, hoping to set a rival standard with greater interoperability.
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