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MPEG LA announced today that websites streaming free H.264 video will be able to do so royalty free forever:
MPEG LA is announcing today that it will continue to offer a royalty-free license for the H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers “during the entire life of this (l)icense.” In other words: Web sites like YouTube will be free to use H.264 for its streams without having to fear they’re eventually going to have to pay massive royalties to MPEG LA.This still doesn't solve all the worries, but it's certainly a nice step and removes the most wild speculation from the equation (e.g. "I won't be able to put video I shot with my h.264 camera onto my personal website and show it to my friends without paying MPEG LA!")
The company, which has assembled a patent pool for H.264 patents, had previously said that it would offer H.264 streaming for free until 2016. That announcement was met with skepticism, with Mozilla CEO John Lilly at the time tweeting that this was “like 5 more years of free to lock you in 4ever.”
WTF? Motorola buys 280 North, creators of the Cappuccino web framework which includes the very Apple-esque programming language Objective-J (a play on Apple's Obective-C language.) Cappuccino is a very cool way to write web applications. I think Apple missed the boat here on an obviously good fit. Hopefully Motorola will be a good steward - they might really have something here for developing their own flavor of Android (or just for writing apps that run under Andriod.) It just strikes me as a strange (but good!) move by Motorola.
The dirty little secret about Google Android
tl;dr: Android is ceding control back to carriers.
No Shit -- They're Competitors
The Singularity Will Not Be a Webinar
The clock is ticking for iPad competitors -- giving Apple a 1 year head start is poor strategy
Why software patents are a joke, literally
verizon froyo != froyo
This might be big someday.
The first in-depth technical analysis of VP8
Even shorter summary of VP8: meh.
User review: HTC Incredible vs. Nexus One. If this guy is right it's a shame HTC screwed up the UI on the Incredible. My experience with AT&T hasn't been as bad as some people's, but I'd still love to be on Verizon.
any one know about boxee?
steam punk mac-mod
anybody heard anything good about vudu? an early adaptor friend is into it.
Interesting tidbit: Google doesn't understand importance of integrating multiple Bluetooth profiles. Might explain why I lost some features moving from ancient phone to Droid.
anything to this ?
Big Kindle: $489.
Cheapest iPad: $499.
Hmmm ....