i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Samsung and LG joined together to promote a unified standard for delivering local TV content via existing frequencies to mobile devices.  This highlights the continual trend towards delivering geographically context-sensitive media services.

U.S. TV Body Approves Mobile Standard

-joan

While the Book Search battle is still waging, Google enters the eReader war by providing an eReader-agnostic, browser-based solution.

Google Online Bookstore Fuels eReader War

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/travel/04pracchip.html

Good stuff that connects to today's class discussion on standards adoption and the interoperability issues presented when there is a lack of incentives to comply.

Having the chip-and-PIN technology in the US would just make us 'socialists'.  :)

Seriously though, one has to wonder what the tipping point will be when the benefits of adopting such standards will become realized.