Category: Web/Tech
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Google Chrome Rolls Out Web Audio API Support: Audio Processing in JavaScript
Continue Reading: Google Chrome Rolls Out Web Audio API Support: Audio Processing in JavaScriptFascinating news out of the Google Chrome team yesterday: the latest developer build of Google Chrome now supports audio signal processing directly in JavaScript!To say that more simply… right now to do good audio communication on the web, you have to use plugins built in Flash, QuickTime or Java. This Web Audio API aims to let you do much of that audio control via JavaScript and HTML5. From the specification intro:
Audio on the web has been fairly primitive up to this point and until very recently has had to be delivered through plugins such as Flash and QuickTime. The introduction of the audio element in HTML5 is very important, allowing for basic streaming audio playback. But, it is not powerful enough to handle more complex audio applications. For sophisticated web-based games or interactive applications, another solution is required. It is a goal of this specification to include the capabilities found in modern game audio engines as well as some of the mixing, processing, and filtering tasks that are found in modern desktop audio production applications.
The Web Audio API specification, which is a proposal for a standard being discussed in the W3C’s Audio Working Group includes a set…
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Do Cisco’s Cius and HP’s WebOS tablets stand a chance against the iPad?
Continue Reading: Do Cisco’s Cius and HP’s WebOS tablets stand a chance against the iPad?In light of the phenomenal success of the iPad, do “enterprise tablets” from Cisco and HP even remotely stand a chance? Particularly when: 1) Apple is targeting enterprises now; and 2) all signs are that Apple will soon be releasing a version 2 of the iPad with even more capabilities. Yesterday Greg Ferro took this question on in a post comparing the Cisco Cius versus HP WebOS tablets versus the iPad.His post is definitely worth a read for his comparisons… I’ll zoom in on what was for me the key point (my emphasis added at the end):
The problem with this lovely story is the Apple iPad. No doubt Cisco and HP have been working on their tablet stories for the last two or three years. I also have no doubt that the unexpected success of the iPad selling twenty or thirty million units in the first year has seriously upset their plans. But the thing really bothering them would be rise of the articles in the press about the iPad moving into the enterprise. Cisco and HP think that they own the enterprise, and it’s their right to make money out it. The idea that Apple can crossover…