July 29, 2015
The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), an organization driving global technologies for smartphone-centric car connectivity solutions, today announced that a number of U.S. market 2016 Volkswagen models will be MirrorLink® enabled. Now included in more of today’s popular vehicles and smartphones, MirrorLink is a smart way to bring select smartphone content to the dash. Large icons make apps easy to use and smart technology knows if the car is in Park or Drive.
July 15, 2015
The Green Grid® Association, the global authority on effective an accountable resource efficiency across the entire information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem, proudly announces the creation of TGG China as a non-profit organization. Officials representing The Green Grid made the announcement at a ceremony held on June 30, 2015 in Beijing, China.
June 23, 2015
The InfiniBand® Trade Association (IBTA) today announced the launch of the RoCE Initiative to further the advancement of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and promote RoCE awareness. The RoCE Initiative will provide education, case studies and resources to enable CIOs, enterprise data center architects and solutions engineers to achieve improved application performance and data center productivity.
June 17, 2015
The HDBaseT Alliance, the cross-industry group tasked with promoting and advancing HDBaseT technology, will once again be present at InfoComm International. This year, the Alliance will be showcasing new HDBaseT products and solutions at its booth (1769). HDBaseT technology, powered by Valens, enables all-in-one connectivity between high-definition video sources and remote displays, through a single cable, including uncompressed ultra-HD video & audio, Ethernet, USB, control signals, and up to 100W of power.
June 1, 2015
Today, the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and Power Matters Alliance (PMA), industry leaders in wireless charging technology, have announced the signing of the merger agreement between the two organizations. The merger positions the combined organization as the leader in wireless charging, bridging two core wireless charging technologies. The transaction establishes a core charging standard supporting a wide range of consumer, medical, military and industrial applications.
May 27, 2015
Today, the Open Interconnect Consortium, Inc. (OIC) announced the addition of 25 new member organizations thus far in 2015. These companies and nonprofits hail from regions around the world including Greater China, South Korea, North America, Western Europe and the Middle East. They offer products and services in a variety of sectors ranging from energy and engineering to gaming and education. In addition, OIC welcomed a new executive director, Mike Richmond, who has held an array of product marketing and business management leadership roles at Intel Corporation since 1981.
May 14, 2015
The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today announced, as part of its upcoming “Ethernet 104: Introduction to 2.5G/5G BASE-T Ethernet” webinar, the growing support from its membership for the standardization activity within the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group to develop a standard addressing 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet (2.5G) and 5 Gigabit Ethernet (5G) operation over today’s Cat 5e and Cat 6 cabling infrastructure. The webinar will explore the challenges, problems, and potential solutions in addressing this application space on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at 10am PDT.
May 8, 2015
On the first day of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Summit, Prof. H Nwana, Executive Director of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, along with delegates from five continents, stressed that complementary and alternative technology ecosystems – such as enabled by dynamic spectrum access –will be needed in order for the world’s governments to connect the four billion unconnected people worldwide and accommodate the emerging Internet of Things. Speaking at the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Global Summit in Manila (6-8 May), Prof. Nwana emphasized that many regulators around the globe are already taking action, however he hopes others will rapidly follow suit. The first day of the Summit featured product announcements, as well as new regulatory proceedings.
May 4, 2015
The Trusted Computing Group and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute announced today that they recently agreed to collaborate on the development of international standards for a secure global telecommunications infrastructure.
April 2, 2015
AVnu Alliance, the industry consortium driving open standards deterministic networking through certification, announced today that internationally - recognized pro audio manufacturer, L-Acoustics has joined the Alliance. The France-based company aims to make a substantial impact to the growth of the Audio Video Bridging/Time Sensitive Networking (AVB/TSN) standards in partnership with existing AVnu Alliance members.