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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google, Mozilla, And Opera Take On H.264 With The WebM Project, A New Royalty-Free Video Codec — Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google tries freeing Web video with WebM — Google unveiled an open-source, royalty-free video format called WebM on Wednesday, lining up commitments from Mozilla and Opera to support the encoding technology in their browsers and pledging to support it on its YouTube site.
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The WebM project blog:
Introducing WebM, an open web media project — A key factor in the web's success is that its core technologies such as HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP, etc. are open and freely implementable. Though video is also now core to the web experience, there is unfortunately no open and free video format …
Diary Of An x264 Developer:
The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 — Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones. Here's what we've discovered so far. Updating. — The default home screen is different.
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Stephanie Hannon / Google Wave Blog:
Google Wave Available for Everyone — Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave — simply visit wave.google.com and sign right in. Likewise, if you are a Google Apps administrator at a business …
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Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Apple iPhone to launch with simultaneous voice and data? — One of our Verizon guys hit us up with some pretty interesting news. We have been told that when the mythical Verizon iPhone materializes, assuming it's not a LTE unit, it might launch with VoRA; Voice over Rev. A. According to our source …
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 17 Per Cent in First Quarter 2010 — RIM Made Its Debut into the Top Five Mobile Handset Manufacturers — Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the first quarter of 2010, a 17 per cent increase from the same period in 2009 …
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Biz Stone / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for iPhone — Comprehensive analysis of the Twitter user experience in the iTunes App Store showed very plainly that people were looking for an app from Twitter—we didn't have one so they generally got confused and gave up. Obviously, we saw room for improvement.
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Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Yes folks, the official iPhone Twitter app is here
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M.I.C gadget:
The Real Truth Behind Foxconn's Suicide Cluster — The Foxconn suicide mess is all started from job stress. Within half a year, there are 9 suicides with 7 confirmed-deaths in Foxconn's factory of China, Shenzhen. In order to find out what's really going on in that factory, the Southern Weekly …
Gizmodo:
Chrome Web Store is Webapp Central In Your Browser — There's a new Chrome tag page (like the one there now that shows bookmarks) that you can “install” webapps onto your browser. Essentially, it's a shortcut center to the webapps you use. Then, there's the web store.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Bill Gates Told Steve Jobs About the iPad in 2007 — May 30, 2007. Watch Señor Bill Gates describing the future of computing, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs next to him: An iPad-like device being used alongside an iPhone-like device. Then watch Jobs saying that, actually, the future was the PC.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Proof That Google TV Will Make Its Debut Tomorrow — For the last couple months (and even before that), rumors have been swirling about a web-enabled Google TV project. Numerous reports have stated that the project will be launching this week at I/O, with the LA Times reporting …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPod touch with 2 megapixel camera leaked in Vietnam (video) — Guess who has another Apple scoop? Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam have first pics of the mythical iPod touch with a camera. The “DVT-1” stamp on the back makes it clear that this is an early design verification test unit in the evolution of product testing.
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Google Code Blog:
Introducing the Google Buzz API — With Google I/O 2010 finally upon us, what better time to introduce developers to the latest updates to the Google Buzz API? — As announced at the launch of Google Buzz, the Google Buzz API aligns itself with the ever-growing family of freely available …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Adobe Offering New HTML5 Software Tools — Adobe, the software company, showcased a new HTML5 addition to its Creative Suite software on Wednesday at the Google I/O developer conference. — The new addition, which is already available, comes in the form of a free upgrade to Dreamweaver, Adobe's Web authoring software.
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Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:
Google I/O 2010 Day 1: A more powerful web in more places — Today at Moscone West in San Francisco, we're kicking off our largest developer conference of the year, Google I/O. Over two days, 5,000 people from 66 countries will hear from 200 speakers, see 180+ developer demonstrations …
Paul Douglas / TechRadar.com:
Larry Page: Your Android battery should last a day — If it's not, then blame your apps, says Google co-founder — If your Android phone's battery doesn't make it through the day, there's “something wrong”, says Larry Page, co-founder of Google. — Speaking at Google's annual partner forum …
Sam Diaz / ZDNet:
Google I/O: mSpot streams personal music collections from the cloud — A Silicon Valley company is trying to get a jump start on what many suspect may be Apple's next music move: an online streaming music service that unleashes your personal library. — The company, called mSpot …
Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
Apple to keep the ‘pro’ in Final Cut Pro — Apple on Wednesday denied published reports that its professional-level suite of video software applications is being refocused to suit more mainstream customers. — According to an AppleInsider report, the Final Cut Studio team has been told …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sprint's Hero finally gets official Android 2.1 upgrade — Assuming you resisted the temptation to either root your Hero or update it with the recently leaked 2.1 firmware, this is your very first chance to finally slap a dash of Android future on your senescent device.
Dean Hachamovitch / Blogging Windows:
Another Follow-up on HTML5 Video in IE9 — In previous posts, we described why IE9 will support H.264-encoded HTML5 video. Microsoft and other browser providers see hardware support, customer and partner readiness, and intellectual property rights as key factors making H.264 an excellent choice for video encoding and playback.
