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Despite Google patent efforts, VP8 no shoo-in for Web video
Justin Uberti, a WebRTC leader and VP8 advocate at Google, speaking at Google IO 2012.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)A Google patent-licensing deal two weeks ago dramatically improved the fortunes of its VP8 video technology, but Nokia has added a barricade to what has already been an arduous road to adoption.
VP8 is a codec -- technology to encode and decode video or audio data for compact storage and efficient network streaming. Despite passionate debates about VP8 vs. the incumbent codec, H.264, most people need never care about video codecs.
But as video becomes ever more deeply embedded in the Net -- TV entertainment, chatting with friends, videoconferences for business, online schooling for children -- the video codec issue becomes ever more important. At stake in the current debate is whether H.264 and its big-business licensing terms will prevail, or whether there also is room for an open-source, free-to-use alternative that could give an edge to cash-strapped startups, schools, and self-publishers.
Spreading VP8 Google and allies including Mozilla want to build VP8 into the workings of the Net as a royalty-free technology. The current focus for the debate is WebRTC, a technology for Web-based chat that members of the Internet Engineering Task Force are standardizing.
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Gmail for iOS adds more organizational tools
Swipe between messages
(Credit: Screenshot by Kent German/CNET)As part of a flurry of changes today, Google updated its Gmail app for iOS.
The core structure and design of the app remain largely the same, but Google added several new useful features that make browsing and organizing your messages easier. Here are the highlights.
- You now can jump between messages by swiping horizontally across your iPhone or iPad display. This new action saves you from having to close an e-mail and return to your home screen before you can move on to your next message.
- The app now supports up to five Gmail accounts.
- With the Search bar, you can scan your inbox and folders using a contact's name or a specific term. Predictive text can save time as you type.
- In a very welcome move, you'll be able to organize a group of messages simultaneously using the Action Bar. After making your selections, you then can archive the messages, delete them, mark them as unread, or report them as spam.
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Mozilla wants you to get your game on -- in your browser

SAN FRANCISCO--If you could play high-end, 3D games in your browser at the same speed as on a console, would you? Here at the annual Game Developers Conference, the maker of Firefox revealed a plan to get you to do just that.
Mozilla's current holy grail is getting the mix of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS that powers the modern Web to run apps at speeds that rival native code, the operating system-dependent languages underpinning apps on iOS, Android, Windows 8, and other proprietary systems.
The not-so-secret weapon in Mozilla's plan is something called ASM.js, said Director of Engineering Vladimir Vukicevic. "It's a dialect of JavaScript that can optimize [code] much better. It's around two times as fast," he said.
Mozilla announced here today that through a partnership with Epic Games, it's ported Epic's Unreal Engine 3 to the Web using ASM.js and the JavaScript compiler Emscripten. Mozilla said that it's working with other big-name gaming companies including Disney, Electronic Arts, and ZeptoLab.
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Some iOS 6.1.3 users hit by battery drain and Wi-Fi issues
(Credit: Image created by Josh Long/CNET) Another iOS update, another round of complaints.
Released last week, Apple's iOS 6.1.3 was designed to fix a security hole that let someone access the iPhone by sneaking past the lock screen. But the update also seems to have plagued some users with other problems, according to blog site Gotta Be Mobile.
The persistent battery drain rears its ugly head again with iOS 6.1.3. Several people posting on Apple's Support Communities forum say the battery drains faster after installing the new update. Some have tried the usual fixes, such as turning off notifications and restoring the device to factory settings, but say their battery charge still doesn't last long.
Battery drain seems to be a constant complaint with every new iOS update. Just how pervasive a problem is it?
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