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• Ecma confirms Microsoft's Office Open XML format as standard
  Friday 8 December 2006 – 07:38
  Microsoft has taken the next hurdle on the way to the rollout of its next-generation software package. The approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as industry standard concludes Microsoft's often seemingly uncertain way towards a new XML file format and raises questions how the firm will approach the competing Open Document format (ODF).
• IDF 2008: New SATA Standard Expands To 600 MB/s, Enables Next Phase For SSD Performance
  Friday 22 August 2008 – 09:50
  Chicago (IL) - SATA 3.0 has made its first appearance at IDF, as peripherals are slowly but surely approaching the limits of SATA or SATA-II
• Adobe wants to make PDF an international standard
  Monday 29 January 2007 – 11:07
  Adobe plans on submitting its Portable Document Format (PDF) specification as a world standard. PDFs files have become a de-facto standard around the world because of their WYSIWYG nature both in viewing and printing. Now, Adobe wants to cement that in stone and possibly hamper the adoption of Microsoft's competing format XML Paper Specification (XPS).
• The Non-standard Powerline Networking Standard
  Thursday 30 October 2008 – 07:10
  When is a standard not really standard? When it’s the proposed IEEE P1901 standard for powerline networking, which the IEEE P1901 Working Group will once again take under consideration when it meets in San Francisco November 4-6.
• Dell selects LVDS as standard interface for 15" LCD monitor panels
  Monday 9 December 2002 – 12:49
  Dell Computer reportedly has selected low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) as its standard interface for 15" LCD monitor panels and sent documents specifying the related requirements to its monitor producers, according to Taiwanese IC design companies.
• Fibre Channel over Ethernet standard proposed
  Monday 9 April 2007 – 01:02
  San Diego (CA) - Nine IT companies, including Cisco, IBM, Intel and Sun, have asked the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to create a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard.
• Chipset designers prepared for AMD's FSB standard change
  Friday 23 August 2002 – 06:45
  Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has reportedly decided to change the FSB (front-side bus) standard of its upcoming Athlon XP 2700+ processor from the current 266MHz to 333MHz, contrary to its previous announcement that it would not alter the architecture of its K7-core Athlon XP products.
• Apache rejects sender ID standard
  Monday 6 September 2004 – 04:54
  Microsoft's bid to get its anti-thpam Sender ID accepted by the open thource community was dealt a bit of a blow when Apache rejected the idea.
• JEDEC firms up DDR 2 standard
  Friday 12 September 2003 – 05:12
  Memory standard board JEDEC said over 100 companies had agreed on the acceptance of a standard for double data rate two (DDR2) memory technology.
• New standard to speed DSL
  Monday 26 February 2001 – 06:04
  The G.991.2 DSL standard adopted this month by the International Telecommunication Union will speed DSL 35 percent to 50 percent over current versions.
• DVD standard war goes on
  Sunday 11 February 2001 – 06:00
  While most analysts agree that recordable DVD will replace VHS tape as the home recording format of choice, DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD-RW and even an improved CD technology are vying for the public's sanction.
• Carmakers choose bus standard
  Wednesday 15 November 2000 – 06:55
  The Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration (AMI-C) has announced it will adopt the MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transfer) high-speed network fiber-optic bus in the next few months.
• Samsung proposes LCD size standard
  Wednesday 25 May 2005 – 05:20
  Samsung Electronics called for the standardization of LCD glass sizes among display makers worldwide and has proposed new mother glass substrate size standard for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
• Wi-Fi Alliance moots security set-up standard
  Friday 3 September 2004 – 03:28
  The Wi-Fi Alliance is considering imposing formal certification of WLAN security set-up schemes in a bid to make it easier for non-technical users to protect their data.
• China agrees to drop WAPI standard
  Thursday 22 April 2004 – 09:24
  The government of China has agreed to suspend indefinitely its proposed proprietary national standard for wireless LANs after objections from the U.S.