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Day: January 11, 2011

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Google Plans to End H.264 Video Support From Chrome in Favor of Open Formats

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on January 11, 2011

Google just announced that it plans to fade out support for the widely used H.264 codec from its Chrome browser “in the next few months”. Instead, Google will favor the open Theora video codec and its own open WebM (VP8) codec.

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When Will AT&T Users Get the Verizon iPhone’s Personal Hotspot Feature?

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on January 11, 2011

For the most part, today’s Verizon iPhone announcement was in line with what most pundits expected: same phone, different network. One intriguing feature of the Verizon iPhone that AT&T doesn’t yet offer, however, is the ability to turn the phone into a WiFi hotspot for up to 5 devices. Wouldn’t it be nice if AT&T also offered this feature soon?

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Show Me Your Tweets and I'll Tell You Where You're From

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on January 11, 2011

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University took a closer look at the regional dialects of Twitter users and found that they were able to pinpoint a user’s location with a reasonable confidence by simply looking at the words you use. While some reports about this study argue that this means that social networks “create their own…

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Verizon Gets the iPhone: Just the Facts

  • Frederic Lardinois
  • Posted on January 11, 2011

During a press conference in New York earlier today, Verizon announced that it will start carrying Apple’s iPhone 4 next month. Thanks to the capabilities of Verizon’s network, Apple is allowing the company to offer a few exclusive features, including the ability to use the iPhone as a WiFi hotspot for up to 5 people….

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