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Microsoft’s resurgence: Reflecting on Satya Nadella’s leadership, a decade after he became CEO

GeekWire

While Microsoft was an early pioneer in personal computing, it missed the mobile and search waves, didn’t participate in the consumer social networking wave, and was coming from behind on cloud. Satya’s first public announcement as CEO was launching Microsoft Office across mobile platforms — even rival Apple and Android products.

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

The Verge

With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. 266/VVC makes video transmission in mobile networks (where data capacity is limited) more efficient. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video. Through a reduction of data requirements, H.266/VVC

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The Best eBook Platforms for the Post-Readium Era

Kitaboo

These are some of the recent, native Readium test apps on mobile platforms created to demonstrate the current Readium technology. A co-founder of the Readium Foundation, Bluefire helps all iOS and Android mobile apps to add ereader features to it. Anyone can also use the Readium source code without a commercial license.

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MOBI to ePUB Conversion Made Easy with These 7 Converters

Kitaboo

When it comes to MOBI eBook format, it is specialized for Kindle devices, and since Kindle is not an open-source format, the eReaders which support MOBI are not many. Among the highlights of Calibre are – It is essentially an open-source tool that supports different format conversions. Supports multiple formats.

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Finding the Best ebook Creator | 10 Best ebook creation software

Kitaboo

Sigil – Open-source application for eBook creation. Sigil is a free, open-source application that allows users to import and edit eBooks in text, HTML and ePUB format. Set license validity, defining the duration until which the user can access the eBook. Digital Publishing / May 31, 2018.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

In this episode of The Hacker Mind, Dr. Jared DeMott of VDA Labs talks about his work securing voter registration tablets and also about the prospects for downloadable, safe voting applications on your preferred mobile device in the future. Vamosi: So, open source software and more testing. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

In this episode of The Hacker Mind, Dr. Jared DeMott of VDA Labs talks about his work securing voter registration tablets and also about the prospects for downloadable, safe voting applications on your preferred mobile device in the future. Vamosi: So, open source software and more testing. Apple Podcasts. Google Podcasts.

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