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Openness unlocking Web's power
Insight perspective Accessibility and open standards have helped build the Web and remain central to its development, says Opera executive.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Standards, Open source, Apple Inc., Patent, Web Browser, Video, Standards
LifeSize Express
Reviews As an entry point into high-definition video conferencing (telepresence), LifeSize Express is hard to beat. It's a standalone solution that occupies the middle ground between PC-plus-webcam systems and vastly expensive telepresence suite installations.
Apple Mac Pro
Reviews Apple's Mac Pro has design innovations that we hope will cross over to other systems. Its performance is as strong as you'd expect for a system in its class, and it's priced right, too. You might need more flexibility in your configuration options, especially for 3D design. But otherwise, the Mac Pro is as solid a professional-class PC as we've seen.
Tags: Apple Mac Pro, Apple Inc., CPU, Apple Macintosh, 3D, Apple Power Mac, Exterior, Number System, DivX Video Codec, Default Plan
HTML 5 drops open source video codec
News The next version of the Web-coding language will specify neither H.264 nor Ogg Theora as its native video codec, due to a lack of agreement between browser makers.
Tags: Open source, Web browsers, Web services, Vendor selection, Apple Inc., Patent, Google Inc., Video, font, video codec
Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon
News According to its video guru, the Web encyclopedia's revamped player is coming very soon. But its format is causing a stir in the open source community.
Tags: Video, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser, video player, Wikipedia, codec
Facebook worm feeds off Google's reputation
News New worm crawling Facebook accounts leads victims to "videos" on Google Reader and Google Picasa pages that in turn link to malicious server sites.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Web 2.0, Security, Phishing, Fortinet Inc., Malware, Google Inc., Worm, Video, Computer
Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta
News Mozilla developers aim to release a test version of the update to the public later this month.
Tags: Web browsers, Software, Open Source, Beta, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, video codec, Ogg Vorbis, codec, OGG
Get better multimedia support in Fedora
Techguide Find out how you can get improved support for MP3s, videos and games in Fedora Core 10.
Tags: Open source, Digital media, Linux, Repository, Fedora Project, Package, Video, RPM Fusion, DVD, Apple Mac OS
McAfee: Google developer site being used to distribute malware
News McAfee says it is finding links to fake videos that download Trojan horses on the Google Code hosting site for developers.
Tags: Network security, Web sites, Data security, Malware, Security, Google Inc., MSN Spaces, Google Code, McAfee Inc., Search Result
VC's automated Twitter feed spreads malware
News Auto-feed tweet distributed by Guy Kawasaki's Twitter account sends people to a link that installs a Trojan.
Tags: Security, Web 2.0, Twitter, Malware, Sophos Plc., Graham Cluley, Video, Account, antivirus company, co-founder
Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal
News Nikon will compensate Microsoft in the cross-licensing deal, which the companies say will improve new consumer electronics products and features.
Tags: Patents, Software, Microsoft Corp., Nikon Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, intellectual property, camera maker, JPEG, codec, blog
Macs: No longer last bastion of invulnerability
Blogs Last week, a friend of mine pointed me to an online promotion for some software for the MacBook that I own. It was a sui...
Windows 7 critical holes fixed in record Patch Tuesday
News In its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, Redmond stitches up a pair of Windows 7 holes, along with fixing up a number of zero-day flaws elsewhere.
Tags: Security Management, Network security, PC security, Server Message Block, Microsoft IIS Server, Security, Microsoft Corp., Vulnerability, Microsoft Windows 7, Server
Google speeds up Chrome
News New beta gives the browser a 30 percent speed improvement, HTML 5 functionality and visual tweak.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Document Object Model, Video, JavaScript, Web Address, blog, Automatic Update, Web, Web browsers
Microsoft's HD video moves forward
News in brief Microsoft said its high-definition Windows Media 9 technology is being used in a variety of new places, including high-definition broadcasts on the Voom satellite system and on digital broadcasts used by the start-up U.S. Digital TV network.
Tags: Digital media
