Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Friday, February 5th, 2010
The future of Adobe Flash is in the hands of Google.
Apple's reluctance to support Flash on the iPhone and the iPad is putting tremendous pressure on the future of Adobe's ubiquitous platform, present in 98% of browsers worldwide.
The Adobe Flash Player is the engine behind 99% of Video in the ...
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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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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
As the graph via TechCrunch perfectly illustrates, WolframAlpha has not revolutionized Search... at all. It is a very nice concept, but far from delivering any real everyday value other than being somewhat useful to find numeric facts.
By comparison Bing has resulted in a good surprise to put pressure on Google ...
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
NYT, GigaOm, and others attribute to the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen the fact that Twitter, Blogsplot, YouTube and many other sites are not accessible from China these days.
Even the brand new Microsoft search engine Bing is now blocked!!
I wonder if the cause of Bing blockage will not have anything to do ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
I am sure you have already heard about Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine that will shake the thrones of Google and Wikipedia as kings of Internet knowledge.
Soon to be launched, Wolfram Alpha defines itselft as a Computational Knowledge Engine, aiming at providing factual answers, more than a set of links ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Boxee is getting so successful that many of its users are seriously considering to stop their Pay-TV subscriptions.
Boxee is a cool open source software for Media Centers based on Mac or Ubuntu. This software transforms a Mac Mini, Apple TV or any Linux small-form PC into a social network set-top-box. ...
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
According to comScore and echoed by The Economist, China is the country with most Internet users in the World, accounting for 179.7 million users out of one billion worldwide. The United States of America, until recently the leader, has 163 million users. With a far lower Internet penetration in China ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Year 2008 will be remembered for the financial crash but also as the year when
iPhone 3G confirmed Apple's revolution of mobile phones. RIM also strengthened their corporate position with new multimedia capable models and Android saw its first handset launched, the G1.
Wireless broadband became a reality, with 3G/HSDPA/EVDO ...
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
An interesting analysis from Telco 2.0 compares the business of YouTube versus Hulu in 2008. The table summarizes the key data used in the analysis:
YouTube
Hulu
No of videos/day
1000+ million
3-4 million
Average duration
2.75 min
27.5 min
% clips with ads
3-4%
80%
Average CPM
$10
$15-20
2008 Revenues
$118 m
$52 m
2008 Loss
$91 m
$9 m
According to Telco 2.0, YouTube ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The essence of Net Neutrality is "All Packets are created Equal". No ISP should block or prioritize any traffic based on what the IP Packet carries. That is, no VoIP/Skype, YouTube video, music download or Bittorrent traffic should be processed differently based on its nature. All packets will be equally treated ...
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