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- Google launches open WebM web video format based on VP8
- Google unveils Chrome web store – I/O event
- Official Twitter iPhone app now live in App store
- MacBook refresh gets official with 10-hour battery
- Apple iPod Touch 64 GB with 2MP Camera Leaked in Vietnam
| Google launches open WebM web video format based on VP8 Posted: 19 May 2010 04:41 PM PDT Remember Google had purchased the company named On2 which dealt with the VP8 video codec.Google on the first day of the Google I/O event i.e today decided to make the VP8 codec open source and finally made it official as part of a new format called WebM.The WebM container is based on Matroska, with VP8 video and Ogg Vorbis audio streams packed inside — Google says the format is efficient enough to support playback on lower-power devices like netbooks, tablets, and handhelds, while the encoding profiles are simple enough to limit complexity when you’re trying to create WebM files.
WebM is open-sourced and licensed royalty-free under a BSD-style license. Mozilla is supporting WebM with support in Firefox nightly builds as of today.Chromium nightlies will also support WebM as of today, with Chrome early access builds getting support on May 24 — and Opera is listed as “coming soon.” Google’s also going to be supporting the format as an option for YouTube playback, so that should drive adoption in a big way. The big question, of course, is whether Apple and Microsoft will roll WebM support into Safari and IE and onto their mobile platforms.Industry support announced at I/O — includes Adobe, who’ll be rolling VP8 support into Flash Player. The list of hardware partners include ones like AMD, ARM, Broadcom, Freescale, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and TI, among others. Missing in action? Intel.Mary Jo We will have to wait for confirmation.
Microsoft’s made an official statement on its blog — while the company is “all in” with HTML5, IE9 will only come with H.264 installed be default due to technical and IP concerns. HTML5 / VP8 playback will be supported, but users will have to download and install the codec separately, which doesn’t bode well for widespread adoption. Here is the quote
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| Google unveils Chrome web store – I/O event Posted: 19 May 2010 04:13 PM PDT In the Google I/O keynote which started today Google discussed about the Web HTML5 in particular and its impact on the web videos.YouTube will soon be supporting HTML5, that means to say that there will be no need for any 3rd part codecs or plug-ins.In addition to this they also gave more info on the new open source web format WebM, igniting Google wave to public which was over hyped but never really gave every one a wave. The main announcement which came was that of Google app store.You would wonder how were you gonna fill up the Chrome OS app store.Google just announced its new online web app store at I/O.In the event Google showcase Dark room for image editing, pretty slick version of Tweetdeck and some games like Plants. vs. Zombies and Lego Star Wars.
This also included a demo of Sports Illustrated’s interactive magazine, which was mighty impressive with a embedded video, fully searchable, and some pretty clever tricks with geolocation.The web store — for Chrome and Chrome OS — will hit the dev channel “soon.” Start Slide Show with PicLens LiteRelated Posts : |
| Official Twitter iPhone app now live in App store Posted: 19 May 2010 03:39 PM PDT Finally Twitter for iPhone app is live now. After the removal of Tweetie 2 app, Apple was in process of developing the page for official Twitter app and today the official Twitter iPhone app is finally live.If you remember Twitter acquired Tweetie 2, a Twitter client for iPhone back in April but now since the official app became ready, they removed the page(previously page was under construction).This app can be downloaded free from the iTunes store. Download Official Twitter iPhone App here.
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| MacBook refresh gets official with 10-hour battery Posted: 19 May 2010 03:13 PM PDT Remember the leaked Macbook refresh from Vietnam, now its official.The 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo refresh with NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics and a longer 10-hour battery life (up from 7 hours) is sitting up, nice and pretty on Apple’s very own store in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, and a few other sites. It’s still $999 making it a better deal for the moment than the similarly spec’d 13-inch MacBook Pro listing for $1,199.Check out some sites for prices.It’s live for purchase in the US, as well as the US education store (starts at $950). So who’s buying it ?
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| Apple iPod Touch 64 GB with 2MP Camera Leaked in Vietnam Posted: 19 May 2010 10:55 AM PDT Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam are creating whole lot of buzz these days not only when Apple’s Macbook specs were leaked but also to the iPhone 4G prototype.Now they 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. As of now nothing is sure, as this might not be the final design and we would get a clear idea only in Apple developer’s conference on June 7. A check of the device’s serial number identifies a late 2009 third generation iPod touch could be that this device was one of those eBay prototypes that never made to production. The Foxconn label appears to indicate a 64GB model (“64G” using a pair of Samsung 32GB Flash modules presumably) in addition to a 2 megapixel, backside illuminated sensor manufactured by Omnivision (part OV2665-6s).
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