Week In Review 5W2010
The big news week was Symbian going open source ahead of plan. I think they’re opening the S60v5 code base but after the renaming nobody can really tell.
There seems to be a (geeky) video formats war going on with MPEG extending the H.264 royalty free period another 6 years. HTML5+Ogg seems to be viable enough to scare them into enabling HTML5+H.264 through 0 cost to end users. Btw, Flash keeps crashing with a more than year old bug and Microsoft decided SVG is something they might want to be involved with cause you know, they’re all about innovation!
It was kind of expected but a US Senator is probing into the involvement of a number of US companies with the chinese government (oddly, Microsoft isn’t mentioned). A line on the sand will be drawn at some point and CEOs better figure out what side they chose to be on.
On anti-censorship news an australian court rules ISPs are not obliged to filter content. This of course, flies in the face of the Government plans to force ISPs to block sites on a governmental blacklist. All for the children’s sake of course. Maybe the Australian Govt should get in touch with the UK Govt!
Pervs are lining up to man the naked scanner booths at Heathrow and Manchester as kiddie porn laws are no match for TERRURISM laws in UK. Every man woman and child will be seen naked in the interested of keeping you safe against terrorists stupid enough to use materials the scanners can actually see.
