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iPad Video From Brightcove Using HTML5
Brightcove stepped in to fill the void of a video-publishing company that would assist in publishing to the iPad. Announced today, Brightcove will support HTML5, a browser-based advance on HTML that allows the browser to natively take care of some embedding of multimedia, including video. The Brightcove HTML5 Experience for iPad Video is based solely using a no-plug-in model. Rather, HTML 5 video uses open-source codec formats, and that allows for the browsers to natively take care of the embedding and stream regulation. Right now, only 4-5 browsers support HTML 5, but one of them is the iPad’s Safari browser. This is a larger step for the HTML5 video and other use adoption as a whole, moving one step closer to a neutering of Flash as the de-facto publishing model for video, … Read entire article »
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HP Slate Tablet PC Price Set, Launch in Q4 2010
HP appears to be the great hope for Intel and Windows based tablets to take on the iPad. Reports from various sources have pegged the HP Slate at a price of $540. While this doesn’t undercut the iPad’s price, it certainly puts the HP Slate in the ballpark with Apple’s iPad Tablet PC. Hewlett Packard is hoping that the Slate and it’s features that the iPad doesn’t have such as USB, Flash Support and a built-in camera will be enough to swing the market share in their favor. Timing is everything in this industry, and as Apple reboots the tablet pc market with the launch of the iPad, we feel that the HP Slate may be too late to the party to make an immediate impact. However, with the Intel Atom … Read entire article »
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