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IBM Super Computer Watson is going to play Jeopardy!

Posted: June 18, 2010, 2:05 PM by: Kieron Quigley

The New York Times reported (amongst many others) that Big Blue (IBM) has a Super Computer named "Watson" that is going to challenge former Jeopardy! champions on the television show in the coming months. This is huge news (for geeks like me...

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Google opens up with WebM

Posted: June 8, 2010, 1:24 PM by: Kieron Quigley

WebM is an "Open, royalty-free, media file format for the web" according to the WebM Project Page (see here for more details). WebM is kind of a project name at the moment. Within WebM are the details of video, audio and a container file specification...

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iPad and all that fuss.

Posted: June 8, 2010, 9:57 AM by: Kieron Quigley

I went out and got myself a swanky new iPad (16GB, WiFi) and would like to share some thoughts - full disclosure: I am an Apple fanboy.

The first thing to note is yes, it is a big iPod Touch. It runs iPhone OS 3.2 (edit: iPhone OS is now iOS)...

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Google moves to open up VP8

Posted: April 19, 2010, 3:59 PM by: Kieron Quigley

In the never ending acquisition dust of Google (I think they are on number six in 2010 and we aren't 1/2 way through!) interesting developments are all over the RumorNet that Google will release the VP8 video CODEC (COder - DECoder) to anyone, freely - via Open Source. This is exciting news...

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HTML5, Flash, Apple and Adobe

Posted: April 11, 2010, 11:36 AM by: Kieron Quigley

Being a company that seeks to bring ease to Internet publishing, with Video taking the central stage, we watch the HTML5 and Flash developments closely.  I have been involved in web development one way or another for most of my adult life...

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Looking Forward

Posted: March 23, 2010, 8:29 AM by: David Nedohin

Almost every business goes through some sort of transition stage - sometimes even more than one - in really defining the long term identity....

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Google pushes further with NaCl

Posted: March 21, 2010, 10:27 AM by: Kieron Quigley

Google is pushing further on their mission to bring a "Native Client" for Javascript to the world.  Native client promises to allow web applications to run fast, as fast as natively compiled code. Being a dinosaur of sorts, I remember when Microsoft introduced...

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Riding the wave!

Posted: March 16, 2010, 1:47 PM by: Stuart McIntyre

My 2year mark for being a Statusfirmian will be April 1 and I have to admit I came to Statusfirm being a little green in regards to the details of producing web-video and the efficiencies involved with getting it to the...

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Welcome to our website!

Posted: March 11, 2010, 3:04 PM by: Kieron Quigley

Hi, and thanks for dropping by!  Welcome to our website, we hope you like it.

Our goal of the site is to inform you of our products and services, and let you know who we are.  Statusfirm is an Edmonton, Alberta, Canada based organization that specializes in digital...

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