Microsoft Expands Open Initiatives and Interoperability

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 by Dawa Riley

  In a press release last week, Microsoft announced that it would increase the openness of its products by adhering to four new interoperability principles including ensuring open connections, promoting data portability, enhancing support for industry standards and fostering more open engagement with open source communities. For a company which has often ...

Open Access for 700MHz Spectrum

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw

The high bid for the much-coveted nation-wide C-block of 700 megahertz (MHz) band wireless spectrum being auctioned by the FCC stands at $4,713,823,000. Since it has exceeded the $4.6 billion reserve price, whoever wins this auction will be required to provide open access to competitors as well as all devices ...

OpenID Gets Massive Boost From Yahoo!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

As consumers are starting to live more of their lives online, managing one's "digital ID" (multiple IDs for many of us) is critical. In "Got ID?" from last year's AARF Digital Design Outlook, we took a look at many of the open Web 2.0 services that have popped-up ...