Nokia lands another punch on Qualcomm
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| Nokia has won another battle in its ongoing patent spat with Qualcomm, though
| neither side is claiming the war is over.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/nokia_qualcomm_london_again/
Nokia signs up to Silverlight
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| Last year Silverlight announced its support for Linux and Macs. With this
| latest mobile push, Microsoft is moving toward making Silverlight a main
| competitor to the likes of Adobe flash.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/04/nokia-signs-silverlight
Again, this is not true. Microsoft never announced such a thing for Linux.
Moonlight is no Silverlight, either. A shot at Google, LAMP, and rival
browsers. Antitrust investigation already under way.
The Rise and Rise of Mozilla
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| What's interesting about this is that Mozilla has become a kind of patron of
| smaller open source projects. It's able to do that thanks to the deal it has
| with Google whereby it gets paid for traffic directed to the latter from
| Firefox's search box, which is set to Google by default. The sums are pretty
| significant: $50 million in 2005 and $66 million in 2006. That means that
| Mozilla can not only fund lots of interesting work around its own projects –
| for example the new Mozilla Messaging subsidiary – but also spread its
| largesse more widely.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=553
Related:
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
Nokia to put Microsoft PlayReady onto S60 & S40 cellphone platforms
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| Nokia is to support Microsoft's PlayReady content access technology into the
| Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms, starting in 2008.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13884&Itemid=1055
Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
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| Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding
| video in Web pages. As long as the browsers support a video's specific codec,
| or encoding method, the browsers will then be able to play the video without
| launching third-party enabling software, said Chris Double, a Mozilla
| engineer. Mozilla and Opera are also working to support the royalty-free
| video codec Ogg Theora.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071207/tc_infoworld/93898
Does your browser do video?
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| One of the many great features it sports, which will be of interest to free
| formats enthusiastics, is the multimedia elements: <video> and <audio>.
| Imagine being able to post video and audio in your blog as easily as you do
| with images. On forums, on online shops, on office intranets, on anything. It
| really has the potentional to revolutionize the Web. No more Flash, no more
| YouTube. Independence! And all of this using Vorbis and Theora as the
| baseline codecs!
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http://spreadopenmedia.org/2007/11/18/does-your-browser-do-video/
Opera Browser and Ogg Theora in HTML5 specs
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| This is an interview I made with the Opera CTO Hakon Wium Lie at the
| Reboot 9.0 Web 2.0 conference in Copenhagen. He shows the OLPC XO beta-1 in
| the direct sunlight and explains several things about the Opera browser
| software running smoothly on it...
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http://olpc.tv/2007/06/01/opera-browser-and-ogg-theora-in-html5-specs/
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