CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC H.264 implementation, issued an apology this morning for its recent abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that broadly prohibits circumvention of copy-protection mechanisms.
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In a DMCA takedown notice sent to Google over the weekend, CoreCodec demanded that Google cease hosting coreavc-for-linux, an open source project that provided a Linux compatibility layer for the CoreAVC codec. The DMCA notice claimed that the open-source project infringes CoreCodec's copyright and includes CoreAVC code. Although Google complied with the notice and removed the project, the allegations made by CoreCodec were entirely without merit. The coreavc-for-linux project contains no infringing code and is merely a compatibility wrapper that enables legitimately purchased copies of CoreAVC to be used by Linux users.
A new UK report on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be. For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults? Perhaps, but they also "tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine."
Google erweitert das Angebot an Web-Anwendungen, die sich auch offline nutzen lassen, um Tabellenkalkulation und Präsentationssoftware. Die Anwendungen nutzen das Browser-Plug-in Google Gears, welches Google im letzten Jahr als Open-Source-Projekt der Öffentlichkeit vorstellte. Klickt der Anwender auf den Butten "Desktop", speichert Gears online vorgehaltene Dateien lokal auf der Festplatte. Geht der Nutzer wieder online, werden die Daten synchronisiert.