MPEG LA, the group who who licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) from 2016 until, well, forever. But Mozilla thinks that the better part of forever could belong to Google’s WebM format.
WiMAX isn’t even remotely ubiquitous in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped progress on its successor, the aptly named WiMAX 2.
The Wireless Power Consortium has finalised the Qi standard meant for low power devices. It’s good for gadgets up to 5 watts. And the goal is for the standard to be interoperable between chargers and gadgets from different makers. That’s the sort of openness that doesn’t always happen when standards are too vague, so I’m glad to see the right intent. [Wireless Power Consortium via Engadget]
In a blogpost titled “Flash and the HTML5 tag”, YouTube has detailed its (slightly fence-sitting) thoughts on the ever-present Adobe Flash/HTML5 issue, saying that while both offer pluses, it’s really Google’s own WebM project that we need. [YouTube]
After plenty of half-hearted attempts at mobile video from wireless carriers and Qualcomm, the ATSC has defined a standard that should, at long last, bring live streaming video to our phones. About time we got a DMB equivalent.
