he web is more interesting when you can build apps that easily interact with your friends and colleagues. But with the trend towards more social applications also comes a growing list of site-specific APIs that developers must learn. OpenSocial provides
This page provides answers to frequently asked questions about potential patent license fees for content providers and software developers who use MPEG-4 video. The following information pertains only to the terms of MPEG LA's MPEG-4 Visual Patent Portfol
With the increasing popularity of online video comes the increasing need to maximize the accessibility of its content. If your video contains relevant information, deaf or blind people should be able to get to it. And people who use exotic browsers or pla
The global TV-Anytime Forum is an association of organizations which seeks to develop specifications to enable audio-visual and other services based on mass-market high volume digital storage in consumer platforms - simply referred to as local storage.
the DVD Forum gave formal approval to a new type of recordable disc that will accept movies encrypted with CSS, the same copy-protection system used on retail discs, for playback on set-top DVD players, reports Video Business. The step was considered cri
Will VC-1 take over? I think most hardware and software manufacturers agree that we are now in a multi-codec world and indeed many hardware manufacturers are adopting the pragmatic approach of supporting both H.264 and VC-1. I think that those creating mo
Therefore, the only way a new platform can emerge is indirectly, first by achieving ubiquity as a product or as a component in someone else’s product, and only after having achieved ubiquity, converting to a proprietary platform. How can anyone still f
