SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Proprietary Standard Sony launches Amazon challenger  Aug 27, 2009 Earlier this month the electronics giant also announced that it would stop using a proprietary standard for e-books in favour of the ePub open format. "Enabling consumers to access free eBooks via the public library network and Google's public domain collection (which now tops 1 million volumes) - and letting consumers buy ePub books from other sources and read them on Sony's devices -greatly expands the value proposition of its devices," said Ms Rotman Epps. (BBC News -- Technology) Sony to support open ebook format  Aug 15, 2009 The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format. Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. (BBC News -- Technology) Creating a VPN appliance with Ubuntu and Openswan:  Feb 8, 2009 PPTP A Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) VPN is a proprietary standard created by Microsoft (and other companies). It uses what is widely thought to be questionable encryption to create an encrypted transport for a Point to Point Protocol (PPP) connection between two end points. (Search Enterprise Linux) Back to Telecom News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009