Apple hit with streaming media patent infringement suit

Apple and its rival Microsoft are both the targets of lawsuits from an Israeli technology group, which has alleged that both companies infringe on patents it owns pertaining to streaming media.

Katie Marsal 16 years ago 57

Hulu to make videos available on iPad without Flash - rumor

Hulu is rumored to be working on an iPad-friendly version of its site which could be ready by the iPad's March launch date.

Brian Garner 16 years ago 189

Apple posts QuickTime video of CEO Steve Jobs' 'iPad' keynote

Apple Wednesday evening made available through its Web site a QuickTime video stream of its media event during which its new tablet device, dubbed the "iPad" was introduced to the public by CEO Steve Jobs.

Brian Garner 16 years ago 30

Snow Leopard Golden Master seeded to Apple developer community

Apple has supplied its broad developer community the presumed Golden Master build for Snow Leopard, going beyond the select group who previously had sole access, numerous sources tell AppleInsider.

Neil Hughes 16 years ago 32

Embedded content gets new look with Apple's QuickTime X

Apple is reportedly exploring a new design interface for Web-embedded content in QuickTime X, eschewing the current gray palette and adopting a sleek, black look for the controls while viewing media.

Neil Hughes 16 years ago 45

Apple launches HTTP Live Streaming standard in iPhone 3.0

One of the more overlooked features of the new iPhone 3.0 is support for a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, which promises to open up standards-based video broadcasting to a wide audience while giving mobile users an optimized picture as they roam between WiFi and mobile networks.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 56

Ogg Theora, H.264 and the HTML 5 Browser Squabble

Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification. The problem: HTML isn't supposed to define content codecs, and even if it were, Ogg Theora, commercially abandoned nearly a decade ago, doesn't have what it takes to deliver video on the increasingly mobile web.

Prince McLean 16 years ago 138

Apple releases iTunes 8.2 and QuickTime 7.6.2

Apple on Monday released iTunes 8.2, a new version of its media cataloging software with support for the upcoming iPhone Software 3.0 release. It was accompanied by a recommended maintenance update for QuickTime 7.6.

AppleInsider Staff 17 years ago 47

Apple building YouTube support into Snow Leopard

Apple will further its endorsement of YouTube and open video standards by building support for the Google-owned video sharing service into one of its flagship applications due to ship later this summer as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 87

Snow Leopard to offer screen recording via QuickTime X Player

With the introduction of Snow Leopard, QuickTime Player will assume more of a utilitarian role, with screen recording features reportedly joining the software's exiting repertoire of basic audio and video capture capabilities.

Sam Oliver 17 years ago 47

iTunes 8 users grapple with missing Dolby surround sound

Viewers hoping to hear 5.1-channel Dolby audio from movies and TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store are being frustrated by a known bug that disables the surround feature in software.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 32

A peek at Apple's new QuickTime X interface

A widely reported interface overhaul making its debut in early betas of QuickTime X Player distributed with pre-releases of Apple's Snow Leopard operating system this week is reportedly not much to write home about.

Kasper Jade 17 years ago 148

Snow Leopard's QuickTime may pack Pro features at no cost

An architectural overhaul to Apple's QuickTime media software due as part of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard may ship with a media player that bundles once-premium features at no cost.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 66

New QuickTime 7.6 addresses quality, security

Apple just released the new QuickTime 7.6, which includes updates for encoding quality, reliability, compatibility, and security enhancements.

Prince McLean 17 years ago 24

QuickTime 7.5.7 allows SD iTunes playback over DisplayPort

Calming a controversial situation, Apple on Tuesday night released a new QuickTime update that allows standard definition iTunes movies to play over the new MacBooks' DisplayPort to older displays.

Katie Marsal 17 years ago 37

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