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Royalty Deadline for H.264 Extended, but It's Still Bad for the Web
As if the webs video codec issues werent complex enough, the group that controls the licensing and royalties for the H.264 video codec has announced that H.264 will remain royalty-free until the end of 2016. One the surface it sounds like a good thing at least until 2016, youre free to post H.264 videos on your ...
AOL Posts a Profit
AOL Inc posted a quarterly profit and beat Wall Street's revenue expectations, even though the weak advertising market and the Internet company's dwindling subscriber base dragged revenue down from a year ago. AOL, which became an independent company once again in December after former parent Time Warner Inc spun it off, said net income for the ...
AT&T Gives Green Light to Sling TV over 3G
Remember the Great Sling Spat? A year ago, Sling Media, a subsidiary of EchoStar, introduced a nifty application for the Apple iPhone that allowed users with a Slingbox at home to watch and control their home television signal from their handsets. The only problem: AT&T said that such a bandwidth-intensive video service would overwhelm its network, ...
Will iPad Actually Chill Development of Mobile Web Pages?
The iPhone is the face that launched a thousand mobile websites-actually, more like 326,600, according to a recent study by Taptu, a mobile search engine. That number is growing by leaps and bounds in various areas of the web, such as shopping and services, the survey concludes. By the end of 2010, we forecast that the ...
Best New Gear for Musicians, Fans
If youre a musician, walking the floor of the NAMM Show is like taking a trip to Candy Mountain. All the latest music gear gets trotted out at the massive industry expo in Anaheim, California. Were talking five or six football fields worth of the newest guitars, amps, basses, drums, mikes, keyboards, sousaphones, electric oboes think ...
Facebook Co-Founder's Asana Gives a Peek at Lunascript
Asana, the workplace productivity startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, just released a sneak peek at the new programming system underlying its product, called Lunascript. Its an in-house programming language, named after Moskovitz cat, that the company claims will cut 90 percent of the time needed to code rich web applications. Asana co-founder Justin Rosenstein explained ...
Skype New 3G iPhone App Coming Soon CD-Quality Sound
After the news last week that Apple and AT&T are now allowing VoIP apps to make phone calls over the 3G network, Skype said it's still waiting to release a new 3G-ready version of its software for the iPhone. Today the company offered a few updates on the progress of the app, which it is apparently ...
Twitter Speaks out About Hack Attacks, Tells Users to Beware
In an attempt to protect users that it feared were subject to a malicious hacker attack, Twitter has issued password-reset requests to all possibly affected accounts, the company wrote in a blog post Tuesday night. Over the last five days, Twitter noticed a few accounts had a “sudden surge in followers." Believing the activity was odd, ...
Why Chrome Will Be Your Next Browser
Google's Web browser is about to make the leap from upstart to leader of the pack. Google Chrome's market share numbers are skyrocketing, blowing past Safari and Opera to become the number three most-widely-used Web browser. That's pretty impressive, and I don't think it's going to stop there. I fully expect it to overtake Firefox and ...
Who Doesn't Like Amazon's Prices? Rupert Murdoch
Enjoy $9.99 electronic books while you canfor they soon may be a thing of the past. News Corp Chief Rupert Murdoch, who oversees a media empire than includes HarperCollins books, home to authors like Michael Crichton and Janet Evanovich, made clear on Tuesday his displeasure with the low price Amazon.com Inc has set for electronic books. ...
