MIPC ADOPTS IRSIMPLE AND LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE.Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium is a non-profit industry association formed to promote the usage of mobile devices with digital cameras, particularly camera phones, and the printing of photographs taken with them. (MIPC MIPC Modular Imperfect Coverage MIPC Master Ice Protection Control ), a leading industry group developing solutions and implementation guidelines for printing images captured with mobile devices, released an intermediate guideline 2.1 to adopt IrSimple(TM) as the technology protocol of choice for Infrared communication. Developed by NTT DoCoMo (NTT Mobile Communications Network, Inc., Japan) Founded in 1991, NTT DoCoMo is a spinoff of Japan's NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which provides wireless services, including cellular, paging, satellite and maritime and in-flight telephone services. , Inc., Sharp Corporation, ITX ITX Isopropylthioxanthone ITX Intermediate Text Block ITX Interactive Transaction Executive ITX Indian Text Exchange E-Globaledge Corporation, and Waseda University, IrSimple was accepted last year by IrDA (Infrared Data Association See IrDA. (standard, body) Infrared Data Association - (IrDA) A non-profit trade association providing standards to ensure the quality and interoperability of infrared (IR) hardware. ) as a global standard. By improving the efficiency of the current Infrared IrDA protocol embedded in many mobile devices, IrSimple provides faster data transmission speeds (at least 4 to 10 times faster than at present). For more information, visit http://www.irda.org. Together with IrSimple, MIPC provides implementation guidelines for mobile phones using Bluetooth, Infrared, Wi-Fi, Memory Cards and USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. (PictBridge) for home and kiosk printers. In October, 2006, MIPC also launched its newly designed website (http://www.mobileprinting.org) geared toward consumers. The new pages will help mobile device users better deal with mobile imaging and printing issues and educate them about capabilities of mobile imaging devices. The new website contains consumer-oriented information as well as developers' membership information. It features a searchable MIPC compatible camera phone and printer product database as well as the latest MIPC guideline documentation. About the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium Launched in February 2004, the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium (MIPC) is a non-profit industry association working to foster collaboration across the hardware, software and wireless technologies involved in mobile imaging and printing. The Consortium is producing standards-based solutions and printing guidelines that will provide consumers with simple and spontaneous methods for printing pictures taken with camera phones. For more information on the MIPC, visit http://www.mobileprinting.org or call 714/633-4008. MIPC member companies are as follows: Aplix Corporation, Avago Technologies, BenQ Mobile, Brother Industries, Ltd., Canon, Inc., Cerience Corporation, Eastman Kodak Company, FUJIFILM Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Konica Minolta, Lexmark International, Inc., MCCI MCCI Molten Core Concrete Interaction MCCI Molten Corium-Concrete Interaction MCCI Mandaluyong Chamber of Commerce and Industry MCCI Multi-Channel Communications Interface MCCI Motor Carrier Consultants, Inc. , Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation, Nokia, Olivetti, Olympus Imaging Corporation, Samsung Electronics, Seiko Epson Corporation |
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