News Intel Assembles a Braintrust, Patents to Go Up Against H.264 It was supposed to have been the heart of a concept called NGV - a video codec that utilized the same principles used by H.264, but produce a tighter stream by almost half. It was touted as the final "Hail Mary" pass for RealNetworks to re-enter the competitive space that was quickly being won over by Adobe, and where Microsoft and Apple still had… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Apps A Time To Shine for webOS Hewlett-Packard yesterday announced the open source roadmap for its beleaguered mobile platform webOS. This is HP's last-ditch attempt to actually turn webOS into a viable product after it acquired Palm in April 2010. It looks like the rebuilt source code for webOS will not be ready until September as HP takes the long view of the platform. Yet… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
Facebook Will Adults Become Adolescents On Google+? Today Google+ announced that it is now open to users ages 13+ (in all countries except for Spain, South Korea and the Netherlands). Until today, Google+ had been 18+. When Facebook began in 2004, it was open to college students only, most of whom are 18+ years old. In September 2006, Facebook became available to everyone, including users ages… Social Alicia Eler View comments
Twitter Twitter Will Censor Some Tweets Twitter will censor tweets in certain countries while still publishing them throughout the rest of the world, the company said Thursday on its blog. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to… Social Dave Copeland View comments
Analysis The Mac Comeback: Analysis Reveals 46% of Companies Issue Macs Over six years ago, I rounded up a group of analysts to elicit their opinions on what was then a startling trend: People who purchased iPods were then purchasing Macs. Was it a fluke, I asked? Some said maybe not: Buyers were learning to trust the Apple brand again. But there were too many mitigating factors at that time which could eventually… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments