Posts by Eddy Hall

Nvidia's patent war on Samsung is a wreck – what you need to know

Why a Licensing Deal?

October 2015: Nvidia loses against Samsung, Qualcomm at the ITC... an ITC judge ruled in favor of Samsung and Qualcomm, finding no infringement.

Jan 2015: Register suggests that the "two companies will agree to a licensing deal, and all of this will end. We can only hope."

I don't understand why, if the courts are finding no infringement, Samsung and Qualcomm should agree to pay licensing to Nvidia in perpetuity rather than defending themselves now?

UK smut filter may have sent game patch to sin-bin

So, no Scunthorpe test was performed on our national filter? Difficult to believe....

Apple in shock public attack on Adobe

Open standards

I think people should convince themselves that MPEG creates open standards, and that proprietary closed source products are closed. Because they do and they are.

If you wanted to say that H.264 has associated licencing costs, then say it. That is also true. But trying to convince people that Open Standards is the same as licence free or freely-licenced is stupid and grossly misleading.

For goodness sake, if you are going to resort to polemic, at least find the actual issues in the argument. H.264 costs money, quite a lot is you buy an off-the-shelf implementation. But it is open source, as is HTML5, CSS, ECMAScript, Javascript, XHTML, XHTML Mobile Profile, XMLHTTPRequest, MPEG 4 part 2 & part 10 etc.

Orange punts quality calling

Not expensive?

I can see how "expensive" might be a relative concept... software upgrade vs hardware for example. But saying the the upgrade from EFR to AMR-WB will not be expensive is crazy. We are talking millions of £ here. This isn't some appstore update, this is playing around with the single biggest revenue generator for the Operator and the core of the software on ALL of it's basestations. This will be a long, carefully planned, expensive and risky upgrade. Or else it will be an absolute f&*^$%*( fiasco.

BTW, AMR-WB is to current call quality as Tournedos Rossini is to chuck steak.