Hey, here’s a thought: an free, open-source video codec that could be universally portable and playable. I’d vote for that, wouldn’t you? In other news of the day, Dash stops making hardware to focus on software, Apple brings in an IBM guy to run the iPod division (other than Steve Jobs), and BlackBerry sneaks the stores into polls today. Yeah, today. There’s got to be something wrong with that thing.

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