You knew this would be coming out of Google I/O: Tablets based on Android. This one is 8.9 inch widescreen from NVIDIA that runs a multicore ARM Cortex A9 processor. It seems to run the football game pretty well and it has a front facing camera (with two USB ports).
But it is only a demo at a tradeshow, not an actual shipping product.
Apple and Microsoft find themselves in the same corner of the web video war started today by Google with the announcement of their new VP8 video codec and WebM project.
Yes, Microsoft and Apple, vs. Google and Adobe. Ugh. How things have changed.
Google have lined up Adobe, Firefox, Opera as well as some other players behind the new format. No doubt, its YouTube property with 40% of the web video market will be a big asset. In a surprising move, Adobe said they’d update their billion Flash clients to be able to use the new VP8 HTML5 format, which would put the capability to play VP8 on Internet Explorer and Safari, even if Microsoft and Apple didn’t want to add native support.
VP8 isn’t supported widely (at all?) in hardware so it will tax the batteries of mobile devices to play the Open Source format. That might change, however.
Google’s Chrome Browser currently plays both Theora and H.264 video. It isn’t certain if Google will continue to support H.264 or if other browser vendors will support multiple formats.
Apple and Microsoft are both in the MPEG LA group and recieve very small royalities from the usage of H.264 video. It isn’t certain why Google was making the move to VP8, but the possibility that it would have to pay royalties on 40% of the web’s video might be a motivator.
First interesting bit from Google IO. It looks as if HP/Palm is going to be running the Chrome Browser. Didn’t see that one coming!
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Apple has seized almost three-quarters of Japan
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When it comes to technology decisions, the man is money…But when it comes to financial decisions, at least one big one after the dot com bust in 2003, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is anything but.
According to Marketwatch, Jobs and other Apple employees traded far riskier options in for safer ones that would be more likely to yield profits.
The cost of the swap in today’s money? $10.3 Billion. Ouchy.
Let’s keep in mind that the reason that those options were so valuable was because Jobs brought Apple back from the brink to its current prosperity. So the better he did, the more he ‘lost’.
Google opens its developer conference in San Francisco this week, setting the stage for another intensification of its battle with Apple for the future of technology.
Apple must respond to Google’s front room ploy, or run the risk of tacitly ceding control of the front room to another. This seems unlikely. Read more.
The genius of the Onion is often how close to reality they stray. Stick around for the Yahoo dig at the end.(Non Flash here)
US Mac sales climbed 39 percent (Y-o-Y) in April, the latest Piper Jaffray report based on NPD Group data explains.
Apple 2.0 tells us about the latest Gene Munster report which says that April has been an excellent month for the computer company, he says. His 39 percent Mac sales boost translates into between 3.1-3.2 million Macs for Apple
The iPad is going to take a huge slice of the netbook market — but may not quite kill the demand for low-powered, low-featured but affordable netbook devices, fresh research claims.
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Apple will see Mac sales climb at least 50 percent by 2014 on strength of an enhanced and increasing embrace of the digital home, transforming the company into a $100 billion powerhouse. Expect much, much more ahead from Cupertino. Read more.
From same source as those images from earlier.
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We live for speed. We want faster, faster, faster. Whether its speeding between destinations or exercising our creative computing muscles, we want faster file transfers, faster synching, faster wireless. One more thing, we’re really, really sick of cables.
Apple’s influence is felt in two emerging standards which together promise this faster world: Intel’s Light Peak and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig).
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Wireless Gigabit will be fast, it will be big, and version 1 of the new high-speed WiFi spec was introduced this morning. It promises a world without wires for any device.
Announced this weekend by the WiFi Alliance, the next-gen WiFi standard may make wires obsolete in your Mac and on your TV. The under development new standard transmits data at ten times the speed of today
As we approach the general release on May 12th we’re starting to see more of these videos pop up…
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Off topic, I know, but interesting and funny after some initial awkwardness.
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Also, Conan is a large man.