April 14, 2001
Internet World: The Standards Industry.
The rise of fast-moving consortia may not sound the death knell for organizations like ANSI and ISO, but it clearly indicates a decline in their influence. In a world where product life cycles run less than 18 months, a standards process that takes years is doomed to diminished relevance.
Interactive Week: Windows XP To Access Xdrive.
Windows XP is the upcoming consumer version of the operating system that was formerly code named Whistler. The Web Publishing Wizard that is part of Whistler appears when the user chooses to "publish this file to the Web" in the task file pane on the left-hand side of the window.
Internet World: Deconstructing RadioShack.com.
Kara Coyne and Mark Hurst. Search is adequate when you have an idea of what you want, but terrible when you know exactly what you want. A query for “gain mobile antenna” yields no more specific results than one for “antenna.”
EE Times: Windows XP will support USB 2.0, somehow.
Reports claiming that Microsoft favors Apple's 1394 technology over the Universal Serial Bus, or that Windows XP will be entirely devoid of USB 2.0 support, have begun to surface but appear to be misleading. Both Microsoft and Intel have reaffirmed that USB 2.0 drivers are ready to go...
InfoWorld: Microsoft faces Bluetooth dilemma.
The dilemma now for Microsoft is whether or not the company can ensure that Bluetooth-enabled CE devices will have Windows XP-based PC and laptop units with which to synchronize data when the CE devices begin to arrive in 2002, said Stacy Wu, an analyst at Mobile Insights...
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