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News Archive - June 2013

New Firefox earns full WebRTC

June 25, 2013

WebRTC may sound like yet another Internet acronym, but what it brings to browsers could be the death knell for plugins — and it just landed in the latest version of Firefox.

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Stay away from meetings with iRobot Ava 500 telepresence bot

June 10, 2013

Trundling along on the heels — or wheels — of its RP-VITA medical robot, the AVA 500 was introduced Monday by the company as an enterprise-grade telepresence robot.

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ITU-T H.265 now available for download

June 10, 2013

The highly-anticipated video coding standard, ITU-T H.265 "High Efficiency Video Coding" (HEVC), is now available free of charge on the ITU website here.

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