It’s a simple question with a not so simple answer. For the last few years, online video has exploded. With that explosion is the need for a high quality format that can compress all of those bits to the smallest possible sizes while retaining the most pristine quality. So far, h.264 has been the crowd favorite. But in the coming years (near coming years), the free price tag on h.264 will go away as it is a proprietary format. What then? There’s only two...

Just when you think the tech field as a whole couldn’t become any more saturated with incompetent business owners and greedy anti-consumer execs, someone else steps forward to say “Hey, look at me! I’m the biggest asshole.”. That asshole would be Adobe. Usually, Adobe spends their time catching flack for their questionably relevant developer tool — flash. That’s important and all, but no where near as important as the battle over SOC...

Skyfire may be the hot stuff as of late in Android web browsing world, but there’s always someone else vying for that #1 title. For Android users whom are a bit more daredevilish, opting to try out new and obscure apps, the Dolphin browser is a worthy option. To most using Dolphin now, it doesn’t seem that obscure. But a few months back it was quite a different story. Also, a few months back, Dolphin was a much less capable browser… Today however the...

Good god, potatoes. Can you believe it! When we talk browser speed tests, it usually entails multiple passes of Javascript benchmarks that show just how much muscle a particular browser has. But leave it to Google (the one’s with the now somewhat infamous gamut of job applicant questions) to truly think outside of the box. Instead of the normal, plain jane benchmarks, the Google Chrome team used more “real-life” examples and took it up another notch...

Lala users will want to take as much streaming music in as they can these next few weeks. Today it’s been made officially known that on May 31st, the service they’ve come to know and love will cease to exist — at least as Lala.com that is… After Lala was picked up by Apple weeks back, many speculated that the obvious (Lala closing) was going to happen. Apple usually assimilates companies for their services, technology, and/or ideas. The most...