Tag: STANDARDS

The Grey Lady has had enough of your newfangled social networking balderdash! Phil Corbett, the new standards editor at the New York Times, declared in a memo yesterday that "tweet" is not fit to print. "Some social-media fans may disagree," Corbett writes, "but outside of ornithological contexts, 'tweet' has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should ...

This summer, officially certified 'Draft N' Wi-Fi products will begin appearing on store shelves. 'Draft N' refers to 802.11n, which is the newest, fastest and most powerful incarnation yet of 802.11 (or as it's more commonly known, 'Wi-Fi'). Earlier versions were named A, B and G. N is backward compatible with the older wireless standards while boosting speeds to up to 240 megabits per second ...