The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format.
Ask most people about the FA Cup and you'll hear that the open format is good for the game.
"From the beginning, we have said that an open format means more choice for consumers, " says Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division.
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.
The retailer is also looking to open smaller format stores in the urban areas, and has increased its focus on social media and technology to attract more customers.
Meanwhile, seven-times world champion Stephen Hendry said he would have liked to have seen the championship move around the country on an annual basis - similar to The Open golf format.
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Sony has also said it will adopt the open EPub format in a move that allows consumers to purchase or download books from the Sony store and read them on any EPub-compatible device.
Nearly a third of YouTube's archives have already made the transition to the open source format, though if you think that's a small proportion, you should probably know that those 30 percent account for 99 percent of all views on the site.
Some believe Nook is as good as Kindle (or even better if one values an open e-book format), but not enough if one goes by market share.
The Activity Streams Project is being implemented in two ways: by extending the Atom Syndication format and by adding a JSON-based format to the Open Social 2.0 standards.
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Microsoft claimed that the articles contained inaccuracies on an open-source document standard and a rival format put forward by the software giant.
Anywho, he goes on to note that there's really no progress made on actually having those discussions towards creating a single format, but that Sony is open to doing so.
This event is following the popular hackathon format where people come together in an open source type of way to solve problems, in this case, in American cities, communities, and states.
"(It's) not clear so far whether Apple's new textbooks will be open formats (ePub etc.) or only in Apple format, " Mathew Ingram, a senior writer for the blog GigaOm, posted on Twitter after the event.
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.
But while we wait until the end of July for the last previously Red studio to go Blu brining just about all of Hollywood together behind one format -- Fox, Warner, and MGM open the classics flood gates with some very famous titles like the Dirty Harry franchise and Patton.
Insert a floppy disk, then open My Computer, right-click the A: icon, and select Format.
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.
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