May 31, 2013
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Wi-Fi is fine for ease of use and category 6 Ethernet cable is great for when you need real speed, but sometimes you just want to network a building without Wi-Fi’s perpetual security concerns and without dragging cable. For those … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
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Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn’t know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela “PJ” Jones and her … Continue reading
May 28, 2013
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When Google announced that it was consolidating its Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) instant messaging and video-conferencing services into Google Hangouts, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) noticed that Google had also sharply diminished “support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP … Continue reading
January 25, 2013
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4K TV sounds great, but it has this one big problem: 4K video content is honking huge. An answer may be at hand. The ITU has just given first-stage approval to a new, much more efficient video codec: High Efficiency … Continue reading
August 15, 2012
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Earlier this week, Microsoft Office standards chief Jim Thatcher quietly announced that Microsoft would add ”two additional formats for use: Strict Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2. … [and] support for opening PDF documents so they can be … Continue reading
August 1, 2012
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Portland, OR: Adobe Flash seems to be ubiquitous, and it’s used by everyone from the London Olympics to your neighborhood brewpub’s website. But in video technology circles, everyone hates Adobe Flash. Indeed, even Adobe is moving away from Flash. HTML5 … Continue reading