Problem or Opportunity? Steve Jobs on Standardizing Royalty Free Codecs
June 3, 2010 – 4:38 pm | No Comment

As readers of this blog know, I am a long-time proponent of royalty-free standardization as the best option for open Web media, preferable to informal, vendor-run open-sourcing of undocumented or unreviewed Intellectual Property Rights.
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Patent Fights Fuel US DTV’s Slide from World Stage
April 29, 2009 – 5:24 pm | One Comment
Patent Fights Fuel US DTV’s Slide from World Stage

The “FATT” is fighting back this week in comments filed at the US FCC against the “Coalition United To Terminate Financial Abuses of the Television Transition” (CUT FATT) proposal to address patent overreaching in the …

Wake-Up Call to US FCC: Argentina Looks to Follow Peru in Adopting Japanese-Brazilian Digital TV Standard
April 27, 2009 – 12:53 pm | No Comment
Wake-Up Call to US FCC: Argentina Looks to Follow Peru in Adopting Japanese-Brazilian Digital TV Standard

What a telling and timely juxtaposition.
On the day responses are due to the US FCC’s request for comments to the CUT FATT request for an official inquiry into patent overcharging in the US digital TV …

Carterfone is Not Enough: The Missing Broadband Policy Link
April 13, 2009 – 3:45 pm | No Comment
Carterfone is Not Enough:  The Missing Broadband Policy Link

Royalty-free standards, the very foundation of the Open Internet, are not even mentioned in the FCC’s 60-page Broadband Plan notice of inquiry.
Surprising?  Not really.
Bridging even first principles of the Internet era to the realities of …

Royalty-Free Brazil Java DTV Highlighted at JavaOne Conference
April 13, 2009 – 3:45 pm | No Comment

Good to see prominent billing for “Java in Brazilian Java DTV” at the upcoming JavaOne conference.
Second topic listed in the press release right after cloud computing!
SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 13, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: …

Why Did the FCC Broadcast the Broadband Plan Kickoff in a Proprietary Format?
April 9, 2009 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
Why Did the FCC Broadcast the Broadband Plan Kickoff in a Proprietary Format?

Yesterday’s kickoff of the FCC’s Broadband Plan proceedings were broadcast over the Internet in a proprietary video format.
Worse, it was likely converted from a standards-based format to a proprietary format before it was put on …