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Ubuntu's marketing kick: Is Canonical the next Apple?

Another six months has passed and another version of Ubuntu Linux has been released, right? Wrong. Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ arrived today and so did a new marketing direction from its parent company and principle sponsor, Canonical. And its flavour has a hint of Apple.

By Rodney Gedda | 29 April, 2011 14:20

Tags: Apple, app stores, canonical, cloud computing, desktop linux, Linux, music, ubuntu, unity

Tivo, T-Box, Xbox, Foxtel: TV options are on the up

The media went into a frenzy this week over two announcements relating to Australian television and the ability to record it. Tivo’s corporate backer is rumoured to be pulling the plug and Telstra’s T-Box will be able to receive Foxtel in the coming months, just like an XBox 360 can now. Add to that new IP-TV technologies and services and the future of TV looks pretty good.

By Rodney Gedda | 09 February, 2011 10:37

Tags: digital tv, foxtel, IPTV, MythTV, PVR, T-Box, television, Telstra, tivo, tv, XBox 360

Ogg and friends challenge Flash

Mozilla has given US$100,000 to improve and develop Ogg Theora, an open source video codec being developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. Wikimedia will disburs funds over a six-month period. Although not the best-known video format, Ogg already has some major support from web developers. Theora will be built into Firefox 3.1, which is currently in Beta 2, as well as into Norway's homegrown browser Opera. Theora is also the video format of choice for all Wikimedia Foundation projects.

By Ian Paul | 29 January, 2009 06:09

Tags: Flash, Ogg Theora

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