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• Google faces off against Microsoft, Apple over Web video standard

  Mozilla and Opera Software on Wednesday backed Google's new open-source, royalty-free video format, and all three browser makers issued developer builds incorporating WebM.

  By Gregg Keizer | 21 May, 2010 05:00

  Tags: Apple, Google, Microsoft, mozilla, opera, Web video

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  Google's WebM draws praise, critiques

  The news this week of Google's open-source release of the HD video codec VP8 plays into the ongoing debate over which video codec browsers can use to display high-definition video without a plug-in, such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight.

  By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2010 03:57

  Tags: codec, Google, video, VP8, WebM, Web video

• Wal-Mart buys Web video company Vudu

  Wal-Mart Stores is taking another swing at the online movie business with the acquisition of Vudu.

  By Nancy Gohring | 23 February, 2010 11:00

  Tags: digital video, Vudu, wal-Mart, Web video

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  Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement

  The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easier for people to distribute multimedia content.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 03 July, 2009 05:48

  Tags: codec, H.264, html 5, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, W3C, Web video

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  Baseball season opens with Web video problems

  Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcasts.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 April, 2009 06:40

  Tags: baseball, IP video, mlb.com, Web TV, Web video