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Oh, good, I was worried about Arianna's retirement fund.
Intel throwing down the gauntlet in the mobile space?
opting out w/ virtual suicide: seppukoo
I've heard "AVC" doesn't mean "AVC main profile". Insert sad face. CABAC and B-frames are awesome.
Forget Your "Junk"—The TSA Wants to Feel Up Your Mind
Cory Doctorow griping about Canadian ISPs
...with some justification, it appears. A glimpse of our comcast-y future?
Comcast's platform blocks access to content not bought through their storefront. Oh, wait.
tweetpsych
Taking closed to new levels ... pentalobe screwed
Wow. Google is dropping H.264 support in Chrome.
Though H.264 plays an important role in video, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the codec will be removed and our resources directed towards completely open codec technologies.Not sure how this is going to work in terms of Android, since as far as I know there are no mobile chipsets with hardware accelerated VP8 support. I guess maybe this move will force the creation of such chipsets? Or it's just not necessary any more since chips like Arm Cortex A9 are plenty powerful? (I don't really believe that last sentence.) I can truthfully say I did not see this one coming.
Looks like the Verizon iPhone will finally be announced on January 11th. Good bet to go on sale February 3rd. Ken, your long wait is over (although now Android handsets are so good that Verizon/Apple isn't the world beating dream team it once would have been.) Still, I expect them to sell the heck out of it. I'll be curious if Apple was able to keep 100% of the power like they did with AT&T, or whether Verizon will be able to screw things up with their own software add-ons.