EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

Some interesting moves out of the Mozilla camp this morning with some US$100k being put towards further development of open source audio and video codec standards.

Seems the video codec, Theora, will get native support in Firefox 3.1.

If that happens, it could break the stranglehold players like Microsoft, Adobe and Apple have on web videos - and break a lucrative royalty stream, too. We watch with interest...

-- Ry Crozier

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Sylvie Barak | January 28, 2009

The Mozilla Foundation is putting its significant clout and cash behind an initiative to create an open video format on the Web which would let users watch streaming video all over the Internet without having to use a plug-in.

By Sylvie Barak | January 28, 2009

HP is going head-to-head with Cisco Systems with the launch of its ProCurve Open Network Ecosystem (ONE), a new initiative enabling applications to run inside a network blade.

By Ian Williams | January 28, 2009

Dell and Cisco have expanded on an existing partnership in a bid to help customers more easily manage datacentre infrastructures in a virtual environment.

By Phil Muncaster | January 28, 2009

The main winners in the mobile world this year will be independent iPhone developers, and handset manufacturers and developers for the Android platform, according to digital innovations consultancy Fjord.

By Sylvie Barak | January 28, 2009

The European Commission is boosting its nuclear fusion research project by allowing scientists to access Europe's consortium of supercomputing centres, and connecting them together to form a giant supercomputer network.

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