Theora がものにならなくても、VPx がロイヤリティ・フリーでオープンソースになったりして!! "The deal is still subject to approval by On2 Technologies' stockholders and review by relevant regulatory authorities, including the SEC, but we expect it to close in Q4."
iTunes ボタンを確認。日本では当然 Amazon MP3 ボタンはなし。"We're excited to announce that today we're rolling out Click-to-Buy links on music videos in 8 additional countries: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, and Sweden."
Google Book Search みたいに、スキャンしたのがそのまま出てくるみたい。"Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives."
"This is just the beginning -- Google Chrome is far from done." "We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others -- and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well."
"Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites."
"Just last December there was an interesting milestone on the web. For the first time, we found that Unicode was the most frequent encoding found on web pages, overtaking both ASCII and Western European encodings—and by coincidence, within 10 days of one another."
"although Google didn't pick up any spectrum licenses, the auction produced a major victory for American consumers." "As a result of the auction, consumers whose devices use the C-block of spectrum soon will be able to use any wireless device they wish" "new, Internet-like freedom"