Just like its WebM for video, Google's WebP aims to reduce file sizes and speed up delivery of media to browsers.
WebP-formatted Image (converted into PNG)
It is a pretty daunting task that Google is proposing: change the whole web over to a new image format. .GIF then .JPG and the newer .PNG formats have standardized over the years and aren't likely to change any time soon. Google today has offered MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 30, 2010 9:57 PM ET
HP's board of directors could have taken the easy way. It could have named a CEO with a proven track record of growth or innovation. Experience that spanned the bulk of HP's revenue base would have been a plus too. It could have promoted someone from within. It might have found a young, up-and-coming executive at a major competitor who was champing at the bit to be a CEO but MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Sep 30, 2010 7:05 PM ET
The full featured app signals the rise of Android in business.
Google's (GOOG) Android platform is starting to make significant inroads into businesses. One sure-fire indicator is that Bloomberg has released an Android app for their news readers on Google's smartphone platform. Android Bloomberg users were previously able to access their information via a mobile web interface but the new app is a "richer, more interactive, and engaging experience".
One unique (and MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 30, 2010 2:57 PM ET
Apple's flagship store was shut down briefly after scalpers tussled with the other customers.
Photo: M.I.C. Gadget
The Chinese blog M.I.C. Gadget tells a bizarre story of Apple (AAPL) temporarily lifting its two-iPhones-per-customer limit Wednesday, a policy change that opened the door to gangs of scalpers that quickly took over the store.
"This is crazy," writes Chris Chang in slightly fractured English. "The real customers and the iPhone 4 scalpers had a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2010 2:55 PM ET
Apple's app reviewers haven't lost their appetite for tasteless entertainment
Screen grab: Apalon
Apalon has done it again.
The latest offering from the Belarus-based developer of such off-color iPhone apps as Drunk Sniper (toilet bowl humor) and Doodle Farter (flatulence) is 100 Nazi Scalps, a game designed to cash in on the popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.
The program is a crude but bloody horizontal scroller in which the goal is to MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2010 12:08 PM ET
Yahoo's stock price is abysmal, employee morale is low, and top-level executives are fleeing. What's left? An Internet property slowly limping to its death and a mouthy CEO with no vision. Her days are numbered.
Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
"I don't want to hear any crap about something magical that the fine people of Yahoo are supposed to do in this short time. So f*ck off." -- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, May 2010
At MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Sep 30, 2010 11:45 AM ET
Consumers future smartphone purchases have swayed heavily away from iPhone to Android.
According to recent surveys from Changewave, consumers planned to buy smartphones with Google's (GOOG)Android OS in growing numbers in the period between June and September. Seven percent more people plan on purchasing Android phones in September than the 30% who did in June. That's up from single digits last year.
The iPhone dropped 12 points from a high of MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 30, 2010 11:14 AM ET
Raises estimates, finding competitive offerings 'delayed, underwhelming or both.'
Photo: Apple Inc.
Stifel Nicolaus' Doug Reid raised his Apple (AAPL) price target modestly Thursday -- to $360 from $350 -- in a note to clients that poured praise on the company and scorn on its competitors. Specifically:
Reid sharply increased his estimate for iPad unit sales in Apple's fourth fiscal quarter to 5.4 million from 3.6 million, citing "robust demand" in MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2010 10:36 AM ET
Questions have been raised about some blueprints that surfaced earlier this week
Click to enlarge. Source: Woodside, Calif., Town Council
It wasn't quite on the level of its iPhone 4 prototype scoop last spring, but Gizmodo generated some nice buzz for itself Tuesday when it published what it claimed are the plans for Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' new house.
"You knew Steve Jobs was tearing down his old mansion," the piece MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 30, 2010 8:38 AM ET
Instead of selling the Nexus One, the Google Phone 'gallery ' displays Androids from most makers on most carriers in 12 countries. More are coming.
Re-labeled "Phone Gallery," Google.com/phone/ now points to an array of phones available on the Android platform. The former URL was used to sell the Nexus One, but was closed when Google decided to stop shipping the device.
Google (GOOG) now advertises and promotes phones from five different MORE
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