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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe Launches "Moviestar" Version of Flash Player - HD Television Quality for Web Video — Adobe today announced the latest version of its near ubiquitous Web video software, Adobe Flash Player 9. It's codenamed Moviestar, because it includes H.264 standard video support …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Adobe bashes open-source alternatives — Adobe Systems has embraced open-source software for some products, but its core Creative Suite line looks like it'll remain proprietary. — In a blog posting Sunday, Adobe's top creative products executive, John Loiacono, made unflattering remarks …
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Flash Player supports H.264 video — Note: The actual download is coming later today, just hold tight. — We're announcing a new update to the Flash Player today code named "Moviestar" and it includes support for the widely used industry standard H.264 codec as well as High Efficiency AAC audio support.
Reuters:
DreamWorks, Paramount pick HD DVD — Animation and film studios will release movies exclusively in HD DVD format, despite higher sales of rival Blu-Ray. — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation said on Monday they will release their DVD titles exclusively …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Paramount adopts HD DVD, kicks Blu-ray to the curb — Just when many observers are beginning to believe that Blu-ray has the next-gen HD format wars all wrapped up, Paramount throws us a major curveball. The studio has announced that it is abandoning Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD. Is a shake-up in the works?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Paramount, DreamWorks commit to HD DVD — Just when it looked like Blu-ray was getting the best of HD DVD, the latter scores a combination like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation. — Both companies announced on Monday that they had agreed to release exclusively on the HD DVD format …
Luke Shepard / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Messaging just got better... If you're like most people, you may have a few stubborn friends who haven't joined Facebook...yet. This can make reaching friends complicated—there are some friends you can send a Facebook message, and others you have to email. Not anymore.
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michael parekh on IT, Rev2.org, All Facebook, Webware.com, larry borsato and muhammad.saleem
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Facebook Opens Email Up A Little; I Want More
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
The Ballmer and Chambers show-no fireworks — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Cisco CEO John Chambers are holding court with interviewer Charlie Rose in New York City, discussing how they view the market transition, Google, coopetition and industry cooperation.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Vlingo: tell your phone what to do — Mobile phone interfaces are notoriously difficult to use — hence, the hype around Apple's iPhone and its unique two-fingered method of navigating its mobile web browser. — Vlingo has a different answer to clumsy mobile interfaces …
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Wall Street Journal:
MTV, RealNetworks to Form Online Music Venture — In a bid to create a stronger competitor to Apple Inc.'s marketing-dominating iTunes Store, Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks is set to announce Tuesday that it is merging its online digital music offerings into a joint venture with RealNetworks Inc. …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
A "sea change in the computing industry" — A new startup out of MIT emerged from stealth mode today to announce that they're shipping a 64-core processor for the embedded market. The company, called Tilera, was founded by Dr. Anat Agarwal, the MIT professor behind the famous …
Skrentablog:
Some thoughts on Mahalo — I was surprised (along with many others) that Jason chose to launch a "human powered search engine" as his next venture. More so at the reported funding of $20M. — I'm a fan of Jason's antics and his promotional ability, but at first glance making …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
comScore Introduces Expanded U.S., Global Search Measurement And Methodology — The analytics firm is expanding its core search metrics product, qSearch, in a number of ways that the company says will make the measurement of search volumes and market share more accurate than it was previously.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Viacom And NBC Inject Themselves Into Online Video Litigation — Viacom and NBC aren't content with suing YouTube and other video sites for copyright infringement - they are also trying to inject their opinions into other lawsuits that they are not otherwise involved in.
Richard Baguley / wirelessinfo.com Blog:
US 3G version of Nokia N95 gets FCC approval — Busy day for Nokia on the FCC: another version of the N95 just got the nod from the feds. This version is a quad-band GSM phone which includes support for the US 3G bands. This means that it would work with the both the voice and 3G data network of AT&T …
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Engadget, jkOnTheRun, CNET News.com, Mobility Site, Gizmodo, Gadgetell and Engadget Mobile
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve — I bought a retail copy of Office 2007 today (I'm loading up the new laptop I got for the world tour, which is a Thinkpad X61s), and I must be a complete spaz, but I simply could not figure out how to open the bizarre new packaging.
Cheryl Meyer / TheDeal.com:
Redmond to spoil XenSource buy? — Citrix announced Wednesday, Aug. 15, it would buy XenSource, a Bellevue, Wash. provider of open source server and desktop virtualization software, for $500 million in cash and stock. That deal, scheduled to close in the fourth quarter this year …
