Microsoft's just promised to place H.264 video at the core of its web experiences. Why should you care? Because the tech giant is siding with Apple at Google's expense. READ»
Today at the I/O conference, Google introduced WebM, a new open-source web media format that's backed by many of the industry's web giants--though not Apple.READ»
The fuss about Flash on the iPad has now expanded to a serious discussion about Web video standards. Steve Jobs' missive about H.264 even garnered support from Microsoft. But the debate has spun on, and it's getting complicated. ...READ»
What? Microsoft and Apple seeing almost eye-to-eye on something? Yes...it's true and concerns a bit of a hot topic on the Web at the mo: Video standards. After Jobs' Adobe take-down, MS has said it'll only support H.264 video in ...READ»
My partner, Mike Deeds, has a new post on our company blog:You can’t escape the fact that it takes money to create a low cost product. It is estimated that the first version of the iPhone had COGS (cost-of-goods-sold) of around ...READ»
I thought it would be interesting to connect a network sniffer in-line with my shiny new iPad, so I could capture and analyze all the network traffic flowing to and from the device.Although I did this with the iPad, the ...READ»
Here is some good news for the consumers: MPEG LA stated that H.264 licenses for video streaming will remain free at least for the next 5 years. Seems like this is the answer to what YouTube and Vimeo made (implementing the HTML5 ...READ»
TikiLIVE is an enterprise social networking solution centered on live
and recorded streaming video. To assist you in utilizing the Live
Broadcasting capabilities to the fullest, I have decided to put
together this quick tutorial on ...READ»
Cardinal Peak recently had an unfortunate “first”: We chose to walk away from a promising engineering engagement because we couldn’t reach agreement with our customer about an indemnification clause.
Read the rest of the post ...READ»
The web is filled with
introductions
to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta
modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the
ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively ...READ»
The web is filled with introductions to Delta Sigma modulation (also sometimes referred to as Sigma Delta modulation) in the context of Delta Sigma converters. Unfortunately, the ones I’ve looked at fail to intuitively motivate how ...READ»
As all good project managers know, there are three dimensions to any engineering effort:
The features of the product: What does the product do and how does it look? (For sake of simplicity, let’s include “quality” as a product ...READ»
My partner, Mike Perkins, has a new blog post up:
The world is moving in the direction of HDTV, but NTSC “standard
def” signals are still common for many reasons and will remain so. One
important reason is that cameras that ...READ»
Recently my mom bought me a Kodak Zi8 pocket HD video camera for my birthday. Thanks, Mom! You know what an engineer likes! I love photography, and I upload my photos to the Flickr photo sharing site. But I think my ...READ»
I just spent the last three days at the IACP show in Denver—the annual conference and expo for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.For anyone who was once a 12-year-old boy, IACP is about as cool as it comes, ...READ»
