Archive for August, 2009
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I came back from Taipei, and instead of an Asus Eee Box I dreamt about, I got a much cheaper box with much better specs: the Acer Aspire Revo. For around 180 Euro this is what I got:
Intel Atom 230 1.6GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
250 GB HDD
nVidia ION Integrated with HDMI
Wifi b/g/draft-N
6 ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
I will be in Taiwan in a few days, and I do not plan to leave without one of these boxes. I already posted about it. The newest Asus Eee Box is a great product. Small-form that can be (VESA) mounted on the back of the TV, quiet, low power, ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Google has announced the acquisition of On2, the company that owns some of the video compression codecs widely used in online video, but that were recently losing ground in favor of h.264.
Why is Google spending $106 million in purchasing the owner of decaying codecs?
1) Google has high hopes for HTML5, ...
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