17 companies work on open standards for home networking.(News)

RCR Wireless News, June, 2003

Byline: SAM OMATSEYE The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices.

The group is known as the Digital Home Working Group, a nonprofit organization. "The Digital Home Networking Group has proposed a sound and fair baseline of interoperability standards, which is an important milestone toward realizing this vision,'' said Danielle Levitas, director of IDC's consumer devices and services programs. The members include Nokia, NEC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, IBM, Panasonic, Sony,...

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