Firstly there was the fight between competing standards: WiMax and LTE (Long Term Evolution).
In the vast U.S., with its competing data standards, making even this limited improvement a reality will be an expensive and complicated proposition.
He has been working on data standards since 1999 but found that reaching agreement on a global standard proved impossible with all the competing interests among standards bodies, commercial and financial services networks combined with a lack of interest from banks which had already developed more or less satisfactory identification systems of their own.
The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.
The duopolists, China Mobile and China Unicom, are both listed in Hong Kong, are transparent at least by Chinese standards, and have been competing fiercely for customers.
He said the lawsuit was a last resort to urge competing soap manufacturers to either make their standards greener, or take the misleading "organic" label off their products.
Firms such as United got involved mainly because they did not want to get caught in another standards war that would force them to support competing technologies.
New technologies mostly start off as closed systems, because they can evolve more rapidly that way (think cell walls.) But once a technology becomes universally available the dynamic shifts, and open standards allow the growth to be consolidated with other, often competing, technologies.
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In the marketplace, even in politics, we recognize that competing interests in the long run produce a more fit economy and better livings standards, challenges in equitable distribution of benefits notwithstanding.
"I miss competing a lot, but lately my game has not measured up to the standards I would like to play so it is very difficult to compare my game to Tiger's now, " Palmer said.
Democrats want the agreements to include international labor standards to prevent the exploitation of foreign workers, thereby leveling the playing field for competing U.S. workers.
And I'm pleased to report that 48 states are now working to develop internationally competitive standards -- internationally competitive standards because these young people are going to be growing up in an international environment where they're competing not just against kids in Chicago or Los Angeles for jobs, but they're competing against folks in Beijing and Bangalore.
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