Briefly: Adobe, Microsoft ISO; MSN Showtime Pilot

In Brief: The International Standards Organization (ISO) accepted, for review, Adobe and Microsoft's proposal to use the OpenType font file format for handling text and graphics within the MPEG-4 format.... MSN announced Friday it would stream the television pilot for Showtime's new series, "Barbershop" in QuickTime.... A MacNN reader has posted an article on the possibility of Apple's offering User Deserved Bandwidth Upgrades on DotMac, after the company recently added an high-bandwidth/larger storage upgrade option for its .Mac webservices. .... IBM developerWorks has posted a tutorial on how to make direct use of the Linux framebuffer for a Mac media player, describing how to make efficient, direct use of the framebuffer to display JPEG files and discusses the issues involved in deciding between direct framebuffer access and using the X server as a graphics driver.

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