It was only a matter of time. Nero AG, a German company responsible for the popular Nero Burning software suite that has ballooned to such incredible bloatware that it now includes integrated transcoding and a media player. Of course when video is involved that means MPEG LA is involved. MPEG LA is the licensing consortium responsible for the MPEG2 and MPEG 4 H.264 codec’s patent pools. Nero is alleging anti-trust and patent abuse violations. With MPEG LA now being assaulted on multiple fronts with the release of WebM by Google, we could be seeing the beginning of a full scale nuclear war between the major software players that, just like nuclear war in the real world, can only end in mutual destruction.
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Patent Fun
May 25th, 2010 — Apple, Google, IP, Programming, Technology
Why Google is Better Than Bing
March 29th, 2010 — Bing, Google, Search, Technology
Ignore for a minute the philosphical connotations that come to mind when discussing Google’s Search Engine and Microsoft’s Bing, ‘Decision Engine’ and just think of them in the sense of the utility of the search engine as a tool. Microsoft has admitted that they have lost the ability to crush Google because they simply lack the quality of search.
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