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What Google's VP8 Codec Means for the Future of Video Messaging

Since acquiring On2 Technologies in 2010, Google has been waging a battle to unseat the popular h.264 video codec with VP8, a technology it acquired with the On2 acquisition that it intends to release as open-source, royalty-free software. At issue is the cost and ubiquity of video online and in phones and mobile devices.

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Osterman Research
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Eye on Messaging
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