Research In Motion Loses WLAN Patent Dispute To Nokia

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) just can’t seem to catch a break these days. They’ve been losing market share steadily over the last few years, their financials are looking grim, and their new BB10 operating system – which will likely make or break the company – keeps getting delayed. Now, another setback has hit [...]

New MPEG Video Compression Standard Will Be Twice As Efficient As H.264

Back in June, the group that sets the standards for many of the various video encoding formats we use today had a meeting to approve a new standard. The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) were assembled to discuss and approve a new standard called HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding). A draft of the standard has [...]