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Codec Capers: Google Drops H.264 Support in Chrome

John Paczkowski in News on January 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm PT

Here’s one way to spur adoption of your new video codec. End your browser’s support for a widely used rival codec. That’s what Google did today, announcing that its Chrome browser will ship without native support for H.264.

Full Disclosure About Full Disclosure in Blogs

Kara Swisher in News on December 10, 2010 at 5:02 am PT

Earlier this week, the Knight Digital Media Center penned a post on the full disclosure policy of All Things Digital. Titled “Transparency for Journalists: AllThingsD Shows What It Can Look Like,” it’s a very nice review of what we do on the site. And we just added more, so read up!

Decoding Google's Net Neutrality Proposal Blog: The Pixie Dust-Free Edition!

Kara Swisher in News on August 13, 2010 at 5:51 am PT

The opening line of the classic J.M. Barrie book “Peter Pan” reads: “All children, except one, grow up.” Actually, that one too, and now the whole Internet is angry at Google and taking shots, because of its recent joint public policy proposal with Verizon over net neutrality. They are claiming the Silicon Valley search giant–in the most cynical of ways–sold out its long-standing commitment to the open Internet to make a corporately-favorable deal. Thus, Google took to the corporate blog yesterday to explain it all away in a post titled, “Facts About Our Network Neutrality Policy.” It practically begs for translation, so BoomTown shall not disappoint!

Full D8 Demo Video: Wordnik

Kara Swisher in D8 on August 12, 2010 at 9:33 am PT

As promised, All Things Digital is posting the full videos from our eighth D: All Things Digital conference, held in early June. Today, it’s time for Wordnik, the innovative start-up aimed at, well, words. Wordnik claims to have the word’s most complete map of the language you are currently reading.

Waiting for Godot: Apple's Fall Event Is Definitely Happening, but Exactly When and What?

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Oh, it’s coming. According to several sources, and as has been widely expected, Apple will once again be holding its annual autumn special event, possibly closer to mid-September this time. Apple, which has had a fall hello-there confab every year since 2005, waited until August 31 last year to announce its “Let’s Rock” event on September 9 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Likely on the agenda this year: Blinging the iPod.

What New Features Will Google Reveal at Mobile Event Thursday? Some Think It Should Be Integrated Video Calling.

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2010 at 4:00 pm PT

Today, Google sent out a notice that it would be holding an event Thursday morning at its San Francisco offices, where the search giant would be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features.” Although it is not going to be the case, said sources, some wish one of those features coming soon would be integrated video calling in the Android mobile operating system, especially given that Apple is reportedly planning an aggressive expansion of its FaceTime software in its many devices.

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs Live at D8

John Paczkowski in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm PT

Qualcomm may not be a household name, but it probably should be. The company commercialized the CDMA mobile standard and its chips can be found in many of today’s smartphones. Though if things play out as Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs would like, they’ll soon be showing up in a wide variety of consumer electronics devices as well.

Google’s “Royalty-Free” WebM Video May Not Be Royalty-Free for Long

John Paczkowski in News on May 20, 2010 at 3:45 pm PT

The announcement of Google’s new WebM video format and release of the VP8 video codec as an open standard have been hailed by some as the move that will free the Web from the proprietary H.264 codec widely used for online video today. That seems ideal. But like many ideals, it may prove to be unattainable, particularly now that video standards group MPEG LA is mulling a patent pool for VP8.

Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 14, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe’s Flash platform. On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own. Their eight-paragraph essay, “Our Thoughts On Open Markets,” mentions Apple only once, but when it does it is to lambaste the company for its position on Flash. I spoke to Geschke Thursday afternoon about his letter, Adobe’s new “We ? Apple” ad campaign and Apple’s stance on his company’s software. After the jump, a transcript of our conversation.

Hulu Still Not Coming to Your iPad’s Web Browser

Peter Kafka in Media on May 13, 2010 at 9:38 am PT

The Hulu app, though, could show up soon–if you’re willing to pay for it.