Commission welcomes new EU standards for common mobile phone charger Following a mandate from the European Commission, the European Standardisation Bodies CEN-CENELEC and ETSI have now made available ...

At the end of June, in 2009, the European Commission started a movement to make micro-USB the standardized charging port for cellphones. It was subsequently backed by roughly 90% of the cellphone ...

Today, the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC), for which the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) serves as the secretariat, has signed an agreement to become a Companion ...