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by yanw 16y ago
Given the legal complexity and politics involved Engadget shouldn't just echo the rhetoric of a notorious Microsoft lackey.
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Google’s greatest skill – and challenge(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Earnings Call(youtube.com)
1 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 16y ago
Wow. Back to the original CEO then. Eric is still around and filling an important role (basically doing what he used to mostly do, he just doesn't have to sit in on earnings calls anymore): Eric Schmidt will assume the role of Executive Ch
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Google Fighting Spanish Law Requiring It To Remove Links Based On Privacy Claims(techdirt.com)
1 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments
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The Companies Who Support Censoring The Internet(techdirt.com)
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US Patent Office Grants Massively More Patents Than Ever Before(techdirt.com)
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More nonsensical and harmful Internet regulation in Europe(searchengineland.com)
1 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments
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25 years of IETF: setting standards without kings or votes(arstechnica.com)
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Pure cyberwar? Not gonna happen(arstechnica.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
Further evidence of idiocy in Europe in regards to how the internet works, and prioritizing a ludicrous interpretation of 'privacy' before freedom of speech.
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Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China(nytimes.com)
20 points by yanw 16y ago|27 comments
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Huffington Post Writer And Google-ITA deal opponent has Microsoft ties(tnooz.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
Or release a WebM playback enabler which is more sensible and as effective: The WebM Project team will soon release plugins that enable WebM support in Safari and IE9
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by yanw 16y ago
That's just petty nitpicking, the h264 patent threat in much more immediate and substantial so an alternative is needed specially since we are at the beginning of this shift and setting open standards now will save a lot of heartache in the
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by yanw 16y ago
Evidently more of YouTube's videos are being encoded in WebM, previously it was just 720p videos uploaded after the WebM announcement in May 2010: http://imgur.com/rWIIf
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Justice Department's Top Terrorism Prosecutor Goes Patent Troll(techdirt.com)
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Highly Flawed 'Piracy' Report Used To Support Positions That Are Unrelated(techdirt.com)
3 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanw 16y ago
Much of the debate is centered around the quasi-ubiquity of h264 and accepting the royalties involved and it's proprietary nature as a compromise that we are willing to make, which is very short sighted and dangerous. Also the typical pate
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Google’s Eric Schmidt on Open Source and Health IT(blogs.wsj.com)
11 points by yanw 16y ago|7 comments
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by yanw 16y ago
I'm puzzled by the support rhetoric this patent riddled codec is receiving, is it because Apple put it's weight behind it?
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by yanw 16y ago
I'm not Google but I'll give it a go: 1. No, Flash isn't just about video playback, the technology is used in a variety of ways on a variety of sites and it's not analogouse to a video codec. 2 - 4. Transitioning the web to WebM encoded vi
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by yanw 16y ago
Not necessarily, and not in the long run. These changes will occur in the next couple months By then flash will gain WebM playback support. This move is a good one and it does make sense, I don't think there is room for compromise in rega
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by yanw 16y ago
Also Flash isn't just about video playback it's a a platform, it's not analogous to a video codec.
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by yanw 16y ago
Flash isn't just about video, it's a platform, it's not analogous to a video codec.
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Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, EMC Patent Consortium Plan Withdrawn(pcworld.com)
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1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web(nytimes.com)
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1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun by the Web(nytimes.com)
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by yanw 16y ago
What kind of weak bullshit is that?! Dismissing products that didn't have immediate traction as failures instead of recognising them as innovative attempts and experiments. Characterising a few wildly over-echoed departures as brain-drain (
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Snubbed by Google, Goldman Sachs Manages to Friend Facebook(wired.com)
1 points by yanw 16y ago|0 comments

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