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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

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The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering and computer science division of the esteemed German research organization, on Tuesday announced VVC , a new video codec standard that promises to bring around 50 percent efficiency gains in streaming video compression. 264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and H.265/High

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. At issue were Autonomy’s sales of hardware and its sales of software licenses to value-added resellers rather than to end customers.

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Sumo and Pipeworks open new Vancouver-based game studio, Timbre Games, led by EA vet

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based video game developer Pipeworks announced on Tuesday that it’s expanded into Canada by opening a new studio in Vancouver. On its own, it’s most notable for developing many licensed games over the course of the sixth and seventh generations of consoles. Geoff Coates image). The Eugene, Ore.-based

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Warner Bros. roils game industry with patent on Nemesis gameplay mechanic by Kirkland’s Monolith

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patent for the Nemesis System, the signature mechanic of two hit video games set in the Lord of the Rings universe. It’s a low-key debate, but one that could have wide-ranging consequences for the already strange relationship between video games and intellectual property law. Shadow of Mordor, developed in Kirkland, Wash.,

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Video interview of Peter Russell, KPMG - Trends in the Living Networks

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The video was produced by One Minute World , which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. The video was produced by One Minute World , which specializes in one minute video content for streaming and mobile devices. in Australia event. for corporates.

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The future of video search - Trends in the Living Networks

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Social networks as an inflection point » The future of video search Ross Dawson, August 5, 2007 4:21 PM US PT One of the transformative technologies over the next 5-10 years will be improved video search. One thing that Gabriel didn’t mention in the interview was the mechanisms that Google intends to use for video search.

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Video interview of Adrian McDermott, BEA Systems - Trends in the Living Networks

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