If authentic, a new e-mail from Steve Jobs indicates that Apple and Microsoft--of all bedfellows--could be preparing to challenge the validity of open-source video codecs. Roy had challenged Jobs on a ...

Google may have just entered a new battlefront with Apple at the "I/O" developers conference when it took the wraps off its plans for the VP8 video codec. While this battle is not as transparent, or ...

Google's apparent decision to open source the VP8 video codec will mostly be discussed today in terms of Google's ambitions, about Google TV, and about HTML5. (Image from CNET.) But there's another ...

Regardless of the merits of a case against open codecs Ogg Theora and VP8 for patent infringement a very important question remains unanswered. Who will pay the lawyer bills? NoSoftwarePatents founder ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...

Microsoft announced today that it will add support in its Edge browser for the open source VP9 video codec fostered by Google and its WebM coalition. In addition, Microsoft announced last week that it ...

Google's open source video codec VP8 is already under pressure from the group that controls the rival video codec. Larry Horn, Chief Executive of MPEG-LA, which is the consortium of companies that ...

Google may have just entered a new battlefront with Apple at the "I/O" developers conference when it took the wraps off its plans for the VP8 video codec. While this battle is not as transparent, or ...