The Rising Technical Standard (3): Car Connectivity Consortium

 

In recent years, consumer electronics (CE) products with smart features have always become the hottest topic in everywhere. Apart from the already widely-spread CE products, the automotive field has also started being part of the“smart family”. For the automotive market, the Smart Car must be more functional and user-friendly to allow advanced technology adoption, such as In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and satellite navigation system.

The Rising Technical Standards (1): Continua Health Alliance

To pursue a better quality of life, people put a lot more efforts into exercise and diet today. The healthcare market is getting bigger while the rate of aging is rising, many kinds of reasons have raised the importance of medical electronics, and the increasing importance  allows healthcare industry to come up with its own technical standard.

To Look at Developing Point of Technology Standardization from New Technology – TransferJet as the Example

In our daily life, many different techniques are applied on countless electronic products to render its function. If those techniques are self-developed by each individual company, it is highly possible to limit the industry's evolvement and the technique's further advancement. To avoid the hydra-headed situation, the concept of“technology standardization”is thus given birth to universalize popular technologies in the market. The purpose of technology standardization is to formulate a usable technology to become the applicable standard for all vendors to adopt and use. Therefore it can not only make a technology to be widely adopted, but also to avoid industrial monopoly on particular technology to pursue one's own commercial interests.

Challenges of Porting Android: Hardware-Software Integration

Along with the growing of technology, consumers are expecting to get multi-tasking mobile phones with wireless Internet and multimedia entertainment applications even more. According to numbers from research firm Canalys for the fourth quarter of 2010, Android owned 32.9% of the worldwide smartphone market compared with iOS, which held 16% of the market. Google’s Android operating system has been phenomenal to be compatible with Apple iPhone currently because its growth rate of the market share and the unit sales are going up rapidly.