Almost three years after Google released its WebM video encoding technology as a “free” and open alternative to the existing H.264 backed by Apple and others, it has admitted its position was wrong and that it would pay to license the patents WebM infringes.
Google got away with stealing Java code, so I guess it thought why not steal some video codecs too.
Producer and engineer Bobby Owsinski gives his list of the 10 most significant amps. Like he said, we all have our favorites that might not be on the list.
Hard to believe I know. John Moltz said everything I would have said.
Love it!
I can’t even imagine using an 8-string guitar.
Apple devices are still reigning above the clouds, following the tablet trend with the iPad being the device of choice. Among all mobile devices being used to connect through Gogo, 84 percent carry Apple’s iOS operating system while 16 percent carry the Android operating system. If you look only at the smartphones our customers are using, the iPhone makes up 73 percent and all Android devices make up 26 percent, with Blackberry and Windows based devices each making up less than 1 percent of devices being used in air.
Maybe Android users are too busy getting rid of all the Malware on their devices.
Good tip, I had no idea you could do that.
Craig Mundie, Senior Advisor to Steve Ballmer:
“We said, ‘oh the OEMs, that’s their design, they deal with it.’ We got huge diversity out of that at all possible price points, but it became hard to guarantee a uniform quality of experience that the end user had,” he explained. Pointing to the initial touchscreens in Microsoft’s first-generation phones, there were clearly devices with better hardware than others. “If you were in front of a bad one then people said that was a piece of crap; it didn’t work a damn.”
So let me get this straight. The way Apple does it, controlling hardware and software is the best way to do things. Got it.
And OEMs are to blame for everything that went wrong at Microsoft.
Perfect. Carry on Microsoft, you’re doing just fine.
Elop, hired in 2010 from Microsoft Corp to turn around the Finnish mobile phone maker, earned 4.33 million euros ($5.63 million) in 2012, down from 7.94 million euros in 2011.
While his base salary rose by 59,500 euros to 1.08 million euros, his stock and option awards fell slightly and he earned no bonus, according to the Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
I felt bad for him until I saw the numbers. How much money do you deserve for running a company into the ground?
To get around this, researchers Tilo Muller, Michael Spreitzenbarth and Felix Freiling from FAU put Android phones in a freezer for an hour until the device had cooled to below -10C.
The trio discovered that quickly connecting and disconnecting the battery of a frozen phone forced the handset into a vulnerable mode. This loophole let them start it up with some custom-built software rather than its onboard Android operating system. The researchers dubbed their custom code Frost – Forensic Recovery of Scrambled Telephones.
Not a good day for Android. Then again, not many days are good for Android.
As currently conceived, Windows RT is a lemon, and users are avoiding it in droves.
Haven’t we known this all along?
Every once in a while we hear statistics about how technology like the iPad is helping kids learn and how the device is moving education forward, but those are just numbers. It’s not until you see and hear students and teachers talking about using the iPad do you get an understanding of how much it’s really doing. […]
F-Secure:
Android malware has been strengthening its position in the mobile threat scene. Every quarter, malware authors bring forth new threat families and variants to lure more victims and to update on the existing ones. In the fourth quarter alone, 96 new families and variants of Android threats were discovered, which almost doubles the number recorded in the previous quarter.
Android accounts for 79 percent of the security threats for mobile platforms. iOS barely registers in the results, despite the fact there are hundreds of millions of users. F-Secure published a PDF with all of the results.
Good luck Android users.
Truly a sad day. Stompin’ Tom wrote what many Canadians consider to be the real national anthem — The Hockey Song.
Much Respect Stompin’ Tom.
Such a great article by Om Malik on “Doing that one thing.”
So many great new features in this version.
Google couldn’t say much, but they did give a range of how many National Security Letters they received.
Since 2004, Korg’s Legacy Collection plugins have helped thousands of users to incorporate the unique sounds of some of Korg’s most coveted synths into their productions and performances. Korg’s proprietary CMT (Component Modeling Technology) method literally models each component of the signal chain within the original synth for unparalleled realism.
Good tip if you ever wondered how to do this. It’s not elegant to setup, but it works.
Jim and Dan talk about the rumored iPhone 5s and iPad, iPhone naming, the iPod OS, jailbreaking, unlocking, bear spray, and warming your tubes.
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I could be in trouble if my neighbors here about this.
That is brutal.
Microsoft has been fined 561 million euros ($731m; £484m) for failing to promote a range of web browsers, rather than just Internet Explorer, to users in the European Union (EU).
Some big news today that Apple is dominating Samsung in the smartphone market. No doubt the Wall Street Journal is trying to figure out a way to make this bad for Apple. You can wait for that or you can watch this great video of a gorilla roll in leaves.
Eat it. EAT IT!
They must really regret saying these things now.
A new report released on Wednesday shows that Apple is dominating the smartphone market in the U.S. […]
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I am not a good photographer at all, but I enjoy this site.
Groceries is the quickest way to compose shopping lists on your iPhone and iPod touch.
Just start typing – Groceries will instantly suggest the items you are looking for, and even detect amounts and units. Got a product that Groceries doesn’t know yet? Just add it to your list once, and you’ll never have to type that product’s title again. Composing a shopping list is just a matter of a few taps!
I really like the apps that Sophia Teutschler makes, Groceries included.