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iPad 2 lineups still hundreds long a week later
Mar 20th
Anecdotal reports from would-be iPad 2 buyers on Friday have suggested no slowdown in demand a week after the launch. Lineups at the 5th Avenue store in New York City or The Forum Shops at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas (pictured) are still ranging into the dozens or hundreds. One MacRumors reader noted that the line never appeared to shrink and that it was using the barriers to control the lineups and manage expectations for stock.
Much of the line includes legitimate buyers, but gray market dealers have been a significant problem. Apple’s decision to ship only in the US at More >
MPEG-LA makes H.264 video royalty-free forever, as long as it’s freely distributed
Aug 27th
The H.264 codec that makes a good deal of digital video possible has actually been free to use (under certain conditions) for many years, but following recent controversies over the future of web video, rightholders have agreed to extend that freedom in perpetuity. Whereas originally standards organization MPEG-LA had said it wouldn’t collect royalties from those freely distributing AVC/H.264 video until 2016, the limitless new timeframe may mean that content providers banking on WebM and HTML5 video won’t have an expensive surprise in the years to come. Then again, patent licensing is complicated stuff and we’d hate to get your More >
Long Run of Open Source Software in Business World
Jan 13th
Free and open source software has become the newest craze in business and IT world. The second question ‘is it good for my business’ now takes a secondary position. Both business owners and managers agree to the use of free and open source software.
The real buzz about open source is not hyped by any corporation or company. It is a group of self motivated IT professionals from across America and Europe are behind this newfound attraction of open source software.
The main advantage of open source software is that the users have full control over the source code of any program More >