Firefox 4 is clocking huge download numbers ever since it was released yesterday, and that’s good news for Google’s open video format WebM: The new version of Firefox supports WebM HTML5 video playback, bringing the total market share of browsers with WebM support to 50 percent. Read More »
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Good news for HTML5 proponents: MPEG LA has announced that it will extend its royalty-free license of the H.264 video streaming format for an additional five years. In doing so, the license holder has agreed not to charge for use of the near-ubiquitous H.264 encoding format… Read More »
Earlier this week, we wrote about the tech side of open video efforts, which are poised to push forward the possibilities for use of video by making it native to web browsers. Here’s a demo we got from Mike Beltzner, director of Firefox, that shows one… Read More »
CBSSports.com Launches Countdown to Kick-off; the show will feature news, interviews and analysis with new episodes running daily from today through Saturday. (release) Hulu Held Up By Music Rights as Well; some episodes of shows go missing because the music used hasn’t been cleared for internet… Read More »
Mozilla is looking to make video on the web as open and as easy to enjoy as images are now, by eliminating the need for software plug-ins or expensive licensing fees for restricted codecs. To further that mission, Mozilla selected the free and open
The year of hope and change is certainly off to a grim start in the tech world. Last week alone saw layoff announcements from stalwarts like Intel and Microsoft, as well as Web 2.0 companies like Digg, just to name a few. If… Read More »
Major League Baseball signed a new agreement making Adobe Flash the provider of the MLB’s live and on-demand video. Read More »
The FCC’s inquiry into Comcast’s blocking of BitTorrent has resulted in a new wave of unity among P2P companies, with competitors like BitTorrent, Vuze and Miro demanding enforceable rules against interference with P2P traffic. Representatives of all three ventures joined
For the first panel at our NewTeeVee Live conference, JibJab co-founder Gregg Spiridellis led a spirited conversation between Douglas Cheney of Big Fantastic, Kevin Cohen of Turner Broadcasting System, Lisa Donovan of LisaNova, Ty Ahmad-Taylor of MTV Networks, and Gary Wang of Tudou. Part… Read More »
