Copying, cutting, pasting, cropping, filtering, modifying, and sharing digital images is easier and arguably more popular than ever before. Many popular social media platforms have image editing capabilities built right in, so there’s little wonder as to why many web users take such features for granted. The JPEG Committee, the primary organization behind establishing the coding […]

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Standards impact every industry and every sector. Posts on the OpenStand blog are dedicated to sharing case studies, stories and policies that influence development standards across sectors.  We’ve highlighted open standards for all sorts of technologies including mobile apps, car starters, baby monitors, and even interplanetary communication!  Another non-traditional area of development that’s been garnering more […]

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Last October, the Internet Society (IS), a leading open standards advocacy group for Internet technologies (and OpenStand partner), presented its vision for a collaborative model of Internet security standards at Mobile 360, a telecommunications technology conference. The conference, held in Cape Town, South Africa, attracted a broad array of industry players; from buyers to users, to developers, […]

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OpenStand has posted one or two of our articles regarding the security challenges that are presented by the ever-expanding Internet of Things (IoT). Without question, the advantages of having a web-connected heating system or vehicle or baby monitor are attractive and obvious.  However, the reality is that the IoT creates security vulnerabilities  and hacking risks. At […]

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OpenStand readers are more than familiar with current trends and issues related to the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT).  We’ve witnessed reliable and exponential growth in the number of Internet users, especially users accessing the web via smartphones and other web-enabled mobile devices. Experts now predict that the number of internet-enabled devices will grow […]

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s foremost professional association for technology workers and a significant voice in matters of technological standards. IEEE recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the publishing of IEEE 802.11™1, the de facto standard for WiFi products. The global impact of IEEE 802.11 has been enormous; wireless […]

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  In previous OpenStand posts, we have discussed the proliferation of Internet-connectivity into every aspect of our daily lives as we approach a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) era. As we fill our homes with more and more networked devices, that are capable of relaying information to anywhere in the world in an instant, the […]

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Ever since their invention in 1937, baby monitors have afforded the parents of small children the ability to keep tabs on their child’s safety without physically being in the same room. While they are designed with safety in mind, new research has revealed that some modern, sophisticated baby monitors come with shockingly unwelcome security vulnerabilities. […]

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