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Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 436

Posted by CmdrTaco from the time-is-of-the-ess dept.
jlp2097 writes "There is a new article up on Microsoft's IEBlog explaining why IE9 will support only the H.264 codec: 'First and most important, we think it is the best available video codec today for HTML5 for our customers. Relative to alternatives, H.264 maintains strong hardware support in PCs and mobile devices as well as a breadth of implementation in consumer electronics devices around the world, excellent video quality, scale of existing usage, availability of tools and content authoring systems, and overall industry momentum – each an important factor that contributes to our point of view. H.264 also provides the best certainty and clarity with respect to legal rights from the many companies that have patents in this area.'"
Bug

MS Issues Emergency IE Security Update 114

Posted by CmdrTaco from the press-the-panic-button dept.
WrongSizeGlass writes "CNET is reporting that Microsoft has issued an emergency patch for 10 IE security holes. 'The cumulative update, which Microsoft announced on Monday, resolves nine privately reported flaws and one that was publicly disclosed. ... Software affected by the cumulative update addressing all the IE vulnerabilities includes Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008, Vista, and Windows 7.'"
Caldera

Novell Wins vs. SCO 380

Posted by CmdrTaco from the now-wait-a-minute dept.
Aim Here writes "According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO v. Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing ..." No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.
Google

Google Hacked, May Pull Out of China 687

Posted by kdawson from the now-you've-done-it dept.
D H NG writes "Following a sophisticated attack on Google infrastructure originating from China late last year, Google has decided to take 'a new approach' to China. In their investigation, Google found that more than 20 large companies had been infiltrated and dozens of Chinese human rights activists' Gmail accounts had been compromised. Google has decided to 'review the feasibility of [its] business operations in China,' no longer censoring results in Google.cn, and if necessary, to 'shut down Google.cn, and potentially [Google's] offices in China.'"
Games

Submission + - Nintendo Releases Free Wii Browser, Updates Flash

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An anonymous reader writes: Nintendo has released an update for the Wii Internet Channel (the Opera browser). It is now a free download (if you already paid for it you get a free NES game), and finally supports Flash 9 content, after being limited to Flash 7 ever since it was launched in late 2006.

Comment Re:Double-edged sword... (Score 1) 520

by eakerin (#26471933) Attached to: Breathalyzer Source Code Ruling Upheld

The issue is not that people can/can't stop at two beers. It's that they could have stopped at one beer, waited 75 minutes for it to metabolize fully, then drive home. At that point the device could still say they are over the limit, due to a programming bug. We don't know how well it was implemented, what the failure conditions are, how it handles those failure conditions, etc.

So the issue is: Would you like to be convicted of a crime you didn't commit, all because some people can't stop at two beers?
Cellphones

Submission + - Research finds effects of GSM radiation on sleep (mit.edu) 2

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An anonymous reader writes: The effects of mobile phone radiation on sleep were studied in Sweden in a laboratory experiment where subjects were exposed either to 884 MHz GSM radiation or placebo. The study finds that compared to placebo, in the radiation-exposed subjects there was a prolonged latency to reach the first cycle of deep sleep (stage 3). The amount of stage 4 sleep was also decreased. Moreover, participants that otherwise have no self-reported symptoms related to mobile phone use, appear to have more headaches during actual radiofrequency exposure as compared to sham exposure.
Businesses

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How to Compare Web Analytic Numbers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I work in the marketing and advertising department of a small US-based manufacturing company. Last year I implemented Google Analytics into our website so we could get a better idea of what users were doing while on our website. However, sometimes I'll receive reports from other websites that we advertise with, showing the amount of traffic that they have sent our way. These numbers always conflict with my own data from Google Analytics. Is this par for the course with web analytics, or can this situation be rectified? This data is supposed to provide solid information when making marketing decisions and I need to know that I can trust it. I'm interested in knowing what other Slashdotters have done with their analytical data and the anomalies they have experienced.
Security

Submission + - What's In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007 (net-security.org)

Submitted by AliG
AliG writes: McAfee released a research report that exposes how typo-squatters register domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and people in order to redirect consumers to alternative Web sites. These squatter-run sites generate click-through advertising revenues, lure unsuspecting consumers into scams and harvest email addresses to flood users with unwanted email. To quantify the scope of the study, McAfee reviewed 1.9 million variations of 2,771 of the most popular domain names.
Microsoft

Submission + - ISO Paralyzed by OOXML

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Broken Standards
Broken Standards writes: "For all intents and purposes, the ISO has been completely paralyzed. The ISO is no longer able to reach an agreement on any standard because all those new members who joined just to approve OOXML cannot be bothered to vote on anything else. Per ISO rules, any standard where more than half those eligible are non-voters, not even bothering to return an "abstain" vote, fails automatically. So the ISO is completely paralyzed, unable even to amend their voting rules, until the new members eventually get kicked out for inactivity. Hopefully, they will learn from this and forbid those inactive members from rejoining later."
The Internet

Submission + - Programmer takes action against instant coffee... (tenbuckdeal.com)

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stewiegriffinrocks
stewiegriffinrocks writes: "A programmer in Ohio is so tired of drinking instant coffee he has created a website to help him buy his dream DeLonghi ESAM3300 Espresso/Coffee Machine. The site aims to raise money for the coffee maker and a sack of coffee beans by selling downloadable products. The programmer describes himself as "not a morning person"."
Media (Apple)

Submission + - Amazon launches DRM free MP3 download service (amazon.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon has launched its MP3 download service today as a competitor to iTunes. Just looking at their start page, they seem to have more "popular" music available in MP3 than iTunes. Universal seems to have stuck it to Apple by adding their music in unprotected MP3 format to Amazon.com. However, they do not have a lot of older music yet. For example, I'm an Elvis Presley fan (having grown up in Tennessee), but I've never heard of either of the Elvis albums available on Amazon. In addition to using 256k unprotected MP3 format, Amazon also has a tiered pricing scheme (something which Apple has resisted so far). Will this spell the end of Apple's dominance in music downloads? Only time will tell, but Amazon seems to be off to a pretty strong start by having 2 million unprotected MP3s available for download right now.

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