http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/13/bbc.upgrades.to.h264.aac/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0808/bbc-iplayerH264-13.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Later this week, the BBC will update its iPlayer streaming service with H.264 and AAC+ compression schemes, the UK broadcaster has announced. The move is aimed at supporting open standards, and additionally improving steaming quality, jumping bitrates from 500 to 800Kbps, according to Macworld. The compression schemes will offer improved visuals and sound for users streaming over Flash, currently ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/08/13/bbc.upgrades.to.h264.aac/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/11/puretracks.music/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0709/blackberry8800-official.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Puretracks, with labels Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, EMI, and various independents under its belt, is offering a new DRM-free mobile music store and service for BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM). As the latest company to take a stab at Apple's music download dominance, the new music service competes directly with Apple's WiFi iTunes store for the iPhone and iPod Touch and will ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/03/11/puretracks.music/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:50:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/aac.hierarchy.patents/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/31-patent-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The US Patent and Trademark Office today published 11 of Apple's patent applications. Among the 11, a patent regarding AAC audio bit allocation, as well as one pertaining to hierarchical menus stand out. Apple has presented a concept for perceptual audio encoding, a bit allocation technique that is designed to reduce the size of a file by finding a perfect balance of quality versus compression. Wh... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/aac.hierarchy.patents/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:15:00 GMT