All of this combined is the reason we can (with some confidence) conclude that H.264 is the “industry standard” for video. […]

o que é mais interessante na retaliação cruzada é que a medida visa a incentivar que os EUA cumpram as regras da OMC, conforme decidido pela segunda instância do Órgão. Ou seja, que os EUA retirem os subsídios ilícitos ao algodão, de forma a não mais prejudicar o produtores brasileiros (nem dos demais países da OMC). […]

A maioria das pessoas que passam por esta página já devem saber que um projeto de reforma da lei de direitos autorais está em em andamento no Brasil. O projeto vem sendo amplamente discutido no país desde 2007, e um anteprojeto, elaborado pelo Ministério da Cultura – que encabeça a discussão – vai ser posto para consulta popular até meados de abril, para só […]

The Brazilian government today announced the start of a process of public consultation on suspension of concessions or obligations of intellectual property rights from the United States. The government on 15 March published a resolution of the Chamber of External Trade (CAMEX) launching the consultation, according to a Brazilian government press release. […]

A internet reúne milhões de pessoas de forma virtual todos os dias, mas uma coisa que a rede não consegue fazer direito - ao menos, ainda não - é permitir que pessoas que falam línguas diferentes se entendam facilmente. […]

The growth of the web has also transformed the way services are delivered in Brazil. Millions of Brazilians do their banking online, buy tickets for the theatre and, most importantly perhaps, interact with government via the web. […]

Será realizado neste sábado, dia 13, em São Paulo encontro que reunirá gestores, organizações da sociedade civil, pesquisadores e educadores para debater a reforma da lei de direitos autorais, consulta pública que deve ser lançada em abril. […]

Em 2005, o futurólogo americano Ray Kurzweil lançou o livro Singularity is Near (algo como "A Singularidade Está Perto" em português), uma instigante previsão do que acontecerá em algumas décadas, quando a inteligência artificial sobrepujar a capacidade humana, afetando a vida da humanidade. Quatro anos depois, em junho de 2009, os desafios lançado […]

Segundo o ministro da Cultura, Juca Ferreira, acusações de ''intervencionismo'' visam a manter privilégios com a arrecadação […]

The mobile space has had a huge impact in the emerging economies of the less-developed world and I think that’s just getting started. I want to be part of that story and Android seems like the right software platform for it. […]

The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet's future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It's a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord's pleasure and fear his anger. […]

Shirky’s point: Abundance breaks more things than scarcity. When things are scarce, we know how to deal with them. When they’re abundant, the price goes away. Things we previously thought were scarce we don’t know how to price or value. […]

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” Shirky contended that in the case of sharing information, “The link between intrinsic motivation and private action is just a coincidence.” People can be motivated — due to their feelings about sharing — to contribute to the public greater good. […]

After Google was hacked, it was put in between a rock and a hard place. Its actions, while still bold, will not change how things are done in China. Its indecisiveness with how to proceed has made the pressure on China all but evaporate. […]

At the heart of their dispute is a sense of betrayal: Mr. Jobs believes that Google violated the alliance between the companies by producing cellphones that physically, technologically and spiritually resembled the iPhone. […]

Specifically, she focused on how users can navigate issues around online privacy and how developers can help them to do so. […]

In the enterprise, open source is often simply a more convenient way to distribute software. In mobile, it's more a matter of development: open, pooled development. This is as open source was meant to be. Google gets this, and that's why its Android platform is gaining ground so quickly on closed-source rivals. […]

For Google, open source simplifies vendor relationships. You can join the Google software ecosystem without signing a contract. You can exploit Google projects like Android and ReMail and profit from them, because they’re under an Apache license. […]

So while Flash's "CPU hogging" may be a contributing factor in Apple's decision to not support the technology on their mobile devices, that's probably not the only reason behind the block. […]

I think distributed (“evenly spread throughout an area”) is a better description than the more commonly used virtual (“nearly real or simulated to be real”) for a company that has people working from all over the place instead of a centralized office. […]

Privacy online can protect people offline whether they are organizing protests, covering the news, blowing the whistle on threats to public health, or just blogging about daily life. […]

it’s useful to look back at previous efforts to make ebooks successful, both as standalone reader products and as software for other mobile devices. […]

This month, we'll be discussing "the crowd" - particularly the way group activity, creativity, and awareness are both enhanced and exacerbated by our digital networks. […]

No mention of Android or Google was in the press release. But the actual legal complaints, which we’ve obtained and embedded below, make no bones about it. As expected, this lawsuit is about Android. […]