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A Standardized Video Codec for Internet?

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A Standardized Video Codec for Internet?

Video conferencing software-based applications (Skype, Facetime, Lync, Vidyo, etc.) may all use different video codecs (VP8, H.264AVC, H.264SVC, H.263, RTVideo, etc.)

Now work is underway in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to standardize on a video codec designed specifically for use over the Internet: a royalty-free video codec to be mandatory in browser-based real time communication.

The requirements attempt to address the needs of the most common Internet video transmission applications and to ensure good quality when Read more...

Gartner: Big Data, Big Opportunities

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Gartner: Big Data, Big Opportunities

According to Gartner big data will make $28 billion of global IT spending in 2012-- with the majority of spending going towards the adaptation of traditional solutions to big data demands, rather than software. 

The analyst says big data will drive "only" $4.3bn in software sales. 

Big data currently takes 45% of new spending in social network analysis and content analysis, and 10% of new spending within the application infrastructure and middleware segment. 

"Despite the hype, big data is not a distinct, stand-alone market, it but represents an industrywide market force which must be addressed in products, practices and solution delivery," Gartner says. Read more...

G-speak. The Big Advance In Human-Machine Interface

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G-speak. The Big Advance In Human-Machine Interface

From the debut of its spatial interface in the movie Minority Report, Oblong’s g-speak is now a technology deployed throughout the world—and itcan be viewed at InfoComm MEA.

g-speak™ is Oblong's core technology platform. g-speak is used today to address high-value, real-time, big-data, and big-workflow challenges in applications such as military simulation, logistics and supply chain management, and energy grid management.

The g-speak platform enables the development of multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device, spatial, networked applications.

Oblong also offers full-scale g-speak development environments that include high-end hardware for multi-user gestural input and object tracking. Read more...

IDC: Q3 EMEA PC Market "Constrained"

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IDC: Q3 EMEA PC Market

The EMEA PC market remains "constrained as expected" in Q3 2012 according to IDC, as continued economic pressures within business space and competition with mobile devices within the consumer segment keep both supply chain and buyers cautious. 

The analyst says July and Agust saw low EMEA sell-in levels (due to vendors focusing on leaner inventory levels) while boosting September shipments were new Windows 8 systems and an "attractive" ultrabook and ultra slim line up. 

On a global level, the PC market continues to contract-- with Q3 2012 shipments declining by -8.6% Y-o-Y, below earlier IDC forecasts of a -3.8% drop. Contributors to the global shipment decline include pressures from mobile devices, Windows 8 uncertainties and a continually bleak economic outlook. 


"The results show the vulnerability of PCs and the loss of mindshare among buyers who until recent years have flocked to back-to-school promotions in Q3" IDC remarks. Read more...

Work Starts on HTTP/2.0

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Work Starts on HTTP/2.0

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) kicks off work on the next generation of HTTP-- HTTP/2.0, a necessary upgrade on a world wide web handling increasingly complex, bandwidth-hungry applications. 

The announcement comes through the Twitter feed of IETF Hypertext Transfer Protocol working group chairman Mark Nottingham, who says "It's official: We're working on HTTP/2.0."

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol currently stands at HTTP/1.1. It is in need of an upgrade-- HTTP was designed for simple and relatively small, static documents, whereas today Read more...

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