WebM Community Cross-License Initiative Launches

Google has announced the WebM Community Cross-License Initiative, a consortium of companies that agree to share any patents that those companies may hold that are relevant to the WebM video format, and in particular the VP8 video compression algorithm. Desktop media players like Winamp are beginning to embrace WebM. And, perhaps most crucially, chip makers like Intel are working to add WebM support at the hardware level.

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Sprint’s Nexus S 4G Will Launch on May 8th

Sprint and Samsung have finally pegged a launch date for the Nexus S 4G. It has been about or so a month since Sprint announced that they would be offering a WiMAX 4G version of Google’s flagship Android device. Now after some speculations on when the launch date would be, the 4th largest U.S based carrier went public today and announced that the Nexus S 4G would be available starting on Sunday, May 8th.

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Download CCleaner 3.06

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files from your system, allowing Windows to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. Piriform, the company behind Ccleaner, does a good job of keeping pace with the Web browsers the app is designed to clean up after. In today’s Ccleaner 3.06 update support for everyone’s non-finalized standard, HTML5, has been bolted on.

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Rumor: Android 2.3.4 Coming With FaceTime-like Video Calling

Video-calling has been available on Android for a while but only in its prime form – 3G video calls, which are charged by the minute by your carrier. Well, the latest rumor suggests that we’ll be getting Android 2.3.4 at the conference with baked-in video calling. The rumors come from a tweet from “someone who works with Samsung.

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Coulomb Technologies On The ChargePoint Network

ChargePoint lets you reserve electric charging stations, cuts down on alternative fueling fistfights and the Coulomb Technologies-run site displays charging stations on a Google Map with a colored pin letting you know in real-time whether someone is currently topping off their Tesla.The cost of charging is determined by the station’s manager and appointments can be cancelled up to 24 hours in advance, the site has some serious competition on the EV charging map, courtesy of the newly launched GeoEVSE, a collaboration between US Department of Energy, Google, and 80 other companies…….

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YouTube Ready To Renting Hollywood With New Movies on Demand Service

YouTube ready to start renting video on-demand movies from major studios and the report indicates it could launch as soon as this week with movies from majors including Sony, Warner and Universal, as well as smaller entities like Lionsgate, Kino Lorber and other independents.This doesn’t appear to be a challenge to Netflix, with the unnamed studio exec quoted in the article saying how happy they are to see a new entrant renting movies that’s not using a subscription model……….

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Sony Revealed S1 and S2 Honeycomb Tablet

Sony has just unveiled its Android 3.0 tablet plans, revealing a pair of slates that it reckons can take on the might of the Apple iPad. Both the tablets, S1 and S2, are running on Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb OS and support 3G/4G.

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Apple Sued Over iPad and iPhone Location Tracking

A lawsuit has been filed against Apple in the ongoing dust-up over its alleged tracking of the whereabouts of users of iPhones and iPads. According to report by Bloomberg two iPhone customers from Tampa, Florida has filled lawsuit against Apple.

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