WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: Microsoft

H.264 Opens Up a Free & Clear Video Codec Landscape

By | August 26, 2010 | Machine Logic

Another salvo was fired in the battle for the future of Internet video today. MPEG LA is making permanent, thats forever, the royalty free use of their license portfolio for AVC/H.264 for free Internet video applications. The moratorium for payment was to be reconsidered in 2014 and recently extended to 2015 but as they say […]

Google-Verizon CoOpoly Galvanize Net Neutrality

By | August 19, 2010 | Raw Economics

If the intention of the Google-Verizon CoOpoly proposal was to provide a compromising way forward on Internet broadband policy, they may have gotten more than they bargained for as the Net Neutrality forces achieve a laser like focus. and turn their bright focus upon them. Verizon is no stranger to controversy, it strides confident across […]

Google Follows Microsoft Kin, Ends Nexus One -Lessons Learned?

By | July 19, 2010 | Machine Logic, Mobile Nature

Another smartphone is added to the mobile device graveyard with the Google announcement, “Nexus One changes in availability,” a quick interpretation, the Nexus One will not be available from Google online but will be available through carrier partners, or maybe not. The real memorial is for the web store and Google’s ill fated attempt to match […]