Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new ...

Opera is faster than a potato and getting even faster. Opera has released a new build of the coming Opera 10.6, with more support for various HTML5 elements, bug fixes and speed improvements.

A Mozilla developer announced today that support for WebM has been merged into the Firefox source code and that the feature will be available in the next nightly build of the open source Web browser.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has mentioned that it is working to add support for Google's WebM video file format — ...

Google has announced that its VP8 video codec standard is now open source and available for royalty-free use for online and mobile video, among other uses. VP8 is being bundled with the Vorbis audio ...

Just when the H.264 video codec is starting to take over a large portion of new Web videos, along comes Google to shake things up again. Today, along with Mozilla and Opera, it is launching the WebM ...

Company has registered the WebM Project site, and one video industry insider has heard it will house Google's Web video efforts. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...