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G.729 Codec from Howler Technologies Confirmed Interoperable with Xorcom PBX
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| Xorcom, a privately-held manufacturer of
| business telephony interfaces and appliances
| based on Asterisk open source software, and
| Howler Technologies, the high definition
| voice and video transcoding company, and
| providers of a wide range of cost-effective,
| carrier-grade transcoding solutions to the
| telecoms industry, announced today that they
| have successfully completed interoperability
| testing between Xorcomâs IP-PBX models and
| Howler Technologiesâ G.729 software codec
| for Asterisk, known as âHowletâ.
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| [...]
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| âHowlet allows Xorcom integrators to avoid
| the responsibility of paying the license fee
| for the Open Source version of the G.729
| codec (for which initial license fees are
| approximately $25,000 â $30,000), since
| Howlet is GPLv2 compliant and includes the
| G.729 Patent Royalty,â notes Eran Gal, CEO,
| Xorcom. âIt supports our standard software
| platforms â Asterisk, Elastix and trixbox â
| out-of-the-box, so implementation is a
| breeze.â
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/xorcom/howlerG729transcoding/prweb3925774.htm
Behind the open codec FUD attack
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| The FUD attack launched against Ogg Theora
| and VP8, the very idea that they violate
| patents, is not aimed at the courts, but at
| the W3C, which held a conference on the
| coming HTML5 standards last week in Raleigh.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft and Apple are carrying the water
| of the content industries, which fear that
| losing control of the technology under which
| content is displayed results in losing
| control of the content itself. That control
| is expressed through the MPEG LA licensing
| body.
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| The $5 million license fee for the H.264
| codec required by MPEG LA acts as a barrier
| to entry, both a financial and moral one. A
| licensee that doesnât follow Hollywoodâs
| rules could have its license pulled, and
| thus its product.
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| The money is chump change for Microsoft, and
| the barrier a good thing. Itâs a matter of
| principle for open source.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=6393
A case of intellectual property rights
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| Texas-based DDB Technologies, an
| intellectual property-holding company, has
| sued a host of US sporting leagues and
| companies which it alleges copied its live
| simulation, play-by-play text, graphics,
| animation and other patented interactive
| media-based technologies.
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| Just last week it filed a lawsuit against
| the National Basketball Association (NBA)
| and has also brought cases against ESPN, the
| NFL and Yahoo. The company recently settled
| a case against Major League Baseball, with
| the defendants, as part of the settlement,
| agreeing to buy a patent and entering into a
| licensing agreement with another.
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http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/Paymaster-v-Grace
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