The 3-year-old Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) is being replaced with a new industry group that will establish trust and security standards for all kinds of software and hardware, from computers to handhelds and cellular phones.

In an announcement (download PDF) yesterday, the new Trusted Computing Group (TCG) said it will expand the reach of the old TCPA beyond the PC platform to bring the standards to a new range of offerings not imagined when the original group was formed in October 1999.

Anne Price, a spokeswoman for Portland, Ore.-based TCG, said the new nonprofit body will have other changes from the former alliance that it's replacing. The TCG will have membership dues and a logo program through which vendors will be able to label products that conform with the TCG's specifications on trust and security. The group will also create and adopt standards to drive consumer and business confidence in future devices.

"The idea is that security would be ubiquitous," Price said. "It's not just PCs anymore."

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