News - Google launches web app store and open web video format

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The first day of Google?s annual developer conference reveals the scale of its online ambitions.

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From http://blogs.arm.com/software-enable...d-webm-on-arm/

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The efficient processing is helped by the fact that the VP8 codec is already optimized for Cortex-A/v7A class processors with the NEON SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) engine. NEON allows the ARM CPU to work on multiple bits of data in parallel, and optimizations for ARM11 processors are also available. With NEON-enabled Cortex-A8 and Qualcomm Snapdragon high-end smartphones shipping today, and dual core Cortex-A9 shipping by the end of the year, there are many devices already on the market that will be able to take advantage of WebM.

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So the biggest barrier to rapid adoption seems to not exist.

This could be awesome!

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Originally Posted by Steve

So the biggest barrier to rapid adoption seems to be Microsoft.

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Fixed that for you. Only available in IE9 (out next year) with a plugin or external codec.