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Flying the friendly skies will soon be even more entertaining as United Airlines and Verizon today announced they have become the first American companies to receive FAA approval to install cabin equipment while will enable wireless Internet access while inflight. The companies, according to a press release, received approval only after they were able to successfully demonstrate that usage of 802.11 wireless technology did not interfere… Read More

The approval came the same week as a final approval of 802.17, the Resilient Packet Ring standard. An original project authorization request (PAR) was approved in July 2001 for the EFM group to work on three areas: point-to-point copper over existing copper plant at 10-Mbit/sec speeds at distances to 750 meters; point-to-point optical fiber at speeds up to 1 Gbit/sec at distances out to 10 km; and point-to-multipoint fiber at the… Read More

The organisation, which controls the DVD format, has also approved the mandatory use of the Apple-favoured AAC for audio tracks stored in the DVD-ROM partition of future DVD Audio discs. Approval of HD DVD 1.0 follows the approval last November of version 0.9 of the spec. The specification covers the physical construction of an HD-DVD, either as a 15GB single-layer disc or a 30GB dual-layer product. An early version of HD-DVD-RW was… Read More

The steering committee for the DVD Forum on Friday announced provisional approval for Microsoft's VC-9 and two other video technologies–H.264 and MPEG-2–as mandatory for the HD-DVD video specification for playback devices. VC-9 is the reference title for the underlying video decoding technology within Windows Media Video 9. The approval is subject to several conditions, including an update in 60 days of licensing terms and… Read More