But rather than debate this topic, Jan Ozer, a technical writer for StreamingMedia.com and encoding guru, decided to spend the time to actually test Flash versus HTML5 and published all of his testing methodology and results on his blog. While you should check out his entire post to see all the details, here are some of the highlights of what he says.

From what we can see, Google actually gained market share since then. And while Microsoft’s Bing made a huge splash initially, it appears that it was more of a statistical improvement rather than anything else.

While the whole China fiasco seemed very overblown to me, the action by the herd is what it is. Today the stock seems to be responding to a news report out that there will be "a development" in talks soon.

Business to business software can be a tough sell. Online B2B can be even a harder sell. While there is certainly money to be made, unless you’re one of the big players, the likelihood you’re going to succeed is pretty small. Now, Google (GOOG) is taking their roll as one of the big players and extending a platform to boost some smaller players.

Fiscal Q2 2010 Earnings Call

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As Google revenues continue to rise and they look to take over the world (including their position in China), they are enlisting others to assist them in Washington as well. Through three quarters of 2009, the company increased their lobbyist budget by 41% to approximately $3 million, according to the Associated Press (AP).

I buy into the hype. I do think CSCO’s CRS-3 will change the Internet. Everyone was saying they thought CSCO would put out some new iPhone-like product for consumers so that was why the market was supposedly disappointed. This is far bigger. Think about what this will eventually mean: the dream is finally beginning to come true: a world where everywhere you go you are connected to the Internet, all the time, at super high speeds. It won’t happen tomorrow, but it's getting there and the CRS-3 will be leading the charge. Here are the initial companies that I think will be long-term beneficiaries:

We expect Apple to generate ebook revenue of $400 million in 2010 by selling around 48 million ebooks at an average price of $8. You can access our full forecasts and rationale for AAPL here:

However, it's been showing up on my value screens for several reasons: large cash hoard as a percentage of its enterprise value, high return on tangible assets, and very low EV/EBIT and P/E ratios. At first glance, it seems management has the right sense of running this company to maximize cash generation and not waste shareholder value on corporate adventures.

Rankingwise, there weren’t many changes. Google Sites (which is essentially YouTube) is still the reigning champion, with Hulu and Microsoft Sites still rounding out the top three. Fox Interactive Media fell from 4th to 6th place as its views dropped from 550 million December to 293 million in January.

VeriSign (VRSN) has fought its way back to a key chart level, but traders apparently think that it will take a breather.

Online retail sales aren’t growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. Forrester Research put out a new five-year forecast today predicting that e-commerce sales in the U.S. will keep growing at a 10 percent compound annual growth rate through 2014. It forecasts online retail sales in the U.S. will be nearly $250 billion, up from $155 billion in 2009. Last year, online retail sales were up 11 percent, compared to 2.5 percent for all retail sales.

The Microsoft-Yahoo pact received regulatory approval last month. Under the 10 year deal, Microsoft will power Yahoo’s algorithm and paid search. Yahoo sells ads for the Microsoft’s search properties. Microsoft will hire Yahoo employees and the implementation will be complete in 24 months, or first quarter of 2012. Yahoo will get a $275 million boost to operating cash flow.

With all this activity in the cyber security arena, it is worth investigating which companies are at the forefront of the battle against hackers. With a wave of concern over hacking attempts, there should be some good investment candidates in the network security sector.

On February 25th Apple was at $196 and it jumped $23 in the next six trading days. The slingshots move in approximately $20 increments. At economictiming.com we reinvested in our Apple/QQQQ slingshot trade on the morning of February 25th, and the Apple January 2011 $250 call options have gone from 8.55 to 13.95 (a gain of 63 percent). The QQQQ June 2010 $41 call options have gone from 3.95 to 5.89 (a 49 percent gain). Not bad for six trading days. So what should we do now?

We are in an era of accelerating change, moving toward a future that will be profoundly different from the past we grew up in. But what will the nature of that change be? What will the future look like?

Today, Akamai still has the vast share of the market for services outside of CDN that Akamai classifies as "value added services," of which application acceleration is one of those offerings. But over time, Akamai is going to start to see some competition for these services because the other CDNs know that services like application acceleration have very high margins, aren't being sold purely on price and will enable CDNs to diversify their revenue away from video.