General04 Jan 2009 04:30 pm

Nintendo Announces Video Streaming for the Wii - Softpedia
Nintendo has just announced an initiative, launched together with Dentsu, which aims to bring streaming video content to the Nintendo Wii. The service is set to arrive in Japan in 2009 and if the initiative proves successful, Western launches will

We Interrupt This Program - Star News Online
My video will resume after this ad, in 26 seconds. The video is really a movie or at least it was a movie. I don t know what to call it while I m watching it on my computer screen, with my browser set to Hulu, the streaming-video site. Let

LG Electronics Announces New Streaming Content Partners for Its - Consumer Electronics Net
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. , Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ — LG Electronics today announced the expansion of network entertainment options for its Network Blu-ray Disc players through new alliances with CinemaNow and YouTube(TM). Available on new LG Network Blu

Expanded Vikings playoffs coverage today - Minneapolis Star Tribune
I get to watch the game. Maybe those who can’t will tune in to your blogging. I want to say this up front. This possible blockout is an read more embarrassment to true Viking Fans everywhere. This would not happen to the TWINS if they would have

LG bringing YouTube videos to its Blu-ray players - IT World
LG Electronics on Tuesday announced it was bringing video-on-demand to its Blu-ray Disc players through streaming video deals it has inked with major Web sites. The company announced deals with CinemaNow and YouTube to stream video directly to its

LG Electronics to deliver Streaming Video from YouTube - Freshnews
These days LG Electronics is on the cloud nine and the company declared the expansion of network entertainment options for its Network Blu-ray Disc players via YouTube and new alliances with CinemaNow. LG Electronics has also done a deal with YouTube

Matrox video decoding accelerator provides the ability to - Security Park
Matrox Graphics has announced the Matrox VDA-1164, a video decoding accelerator designed for use in workstations running video management system (VMS) software. The VDA-1164 uniquely offloads the system CPU supporting concurrent hardware decoding of

General01 Jan 2009 02:32 am

ERICSSON RACING TEAM FINISHES LEG 3 IN THIRD AND FOURTH - Asia Corporate News Network
SINGAPORE (Dec. 22, 2008) - Ericsson Racing Team’s two yachts in the Volvo Ocean Race placed third and fourth on Leg 3 to Singapore, finishing within seconds of each other. Swedish skipper Anders Lewander guided Ericsson 3 to another third-place

General31 Dec 2008 05:30 am

Intel increases share in Imagination, counters Apple move - TG Daily
Chicago (IL) The world’s largest chip maker has increased its share in graphics chipset design company Imagination to 3.04%. The announcement comes just 48 hours after it was confirmed that Apple has acquired a 3.6% stake in Imagination to secure

Shuttle X27D Barebones review - Techradar.com
The public are ckle beasts. Admittedly, the single-core Atom 230 looks a little lost as a desktop. Its lack of upgrades (given that the chip is surface mounted) and the intentional hobbling (the lack of PCI Express slots, for example), rule it

Broadcast International Secures Patent for Video Compression - TradingMarkets.com
The new patent is for multi-codec video compression in multimedia distribution and storage applications involving non-volatile memory devices such USB memory sticks, Flash drives or SD cards. This is the fourth base patent granted to Broadcast

CUDA, PhysX coming to notebooks - PC Authority
Notebook users will appreciate some good news coming out of the Nvidia camp. The company has announced it will be releasing unified drivers for the Geforce and Quadro notebook market. The new drivers will enable CUDA and Physx right out of the box

Critique My Build Please! - Toms Hardware
Introduction to overclocking, moderate gaming, (occasional FPS w/mostly RAM-intensive grand strategy), eventual use as a personal DVR (so moderate video encoding). Planned re-use of some parts (case, graphics, hard drive, power supply) for a re-build

Level 3 Bolsters Vyvx Services Platform in Europe - TradingMarkets.com
According to the company, the expansion enables more efficient distribution of North American broadcast programming to Europe and provides European customers access to broadcast video delivery over the Level 3 network. “As one of the largest and most

Archive for: December, 2008 - ZDNet Blogs
Before I sink into an eggnog and sherry induced haze I d like to take the opportunity to offer Holiday best wishes to all my readers and also wish you a very Happy New Year. Over the past 12 months we ve had extensive conversations on this blog

General30 Dec 2008 09:30 am

The 2008 viral video hits - Newsday
Thanks to YouTube, viral videos have become as much of part of our culture, as the snapshots of video it documents. This year, the presidential election, dumbfounded New Yorkers, and a puppy cam top the most viewed web video sensations. 1. Tina Fey

Web Video Hurdle: Good Recommendations - Tvweek.com
Online video sites want to get to know you better. The Sony-owned Webvideo destination Crackle is developing tools to offer personalized video recommendations to site visitors based on their past viewing history. NBC-Fox venture Hulu introduced a

Head of Production / Senior Digital Producer - web, video, interactive - New Media Age
Junction K is looking for a versatile individual to head up its Manchester team and lead delivery on a range of projects and productions. Junction K is a communications agency with a specialism in video and interactive media delivered across multiple

Hulu CEO: Overseas Access Coming, Someday - Alleyinsider.com
In a lengthy Q&A with MediaPost , Hulu CEO Jason Kilar doesn’t spill the beans on any new products or deals, but reiterates a few things we’ve known for a while: The Web video company wants to launch overseas versions — ” predicated on finding the

Top 10 Pretty Obvious Video Favorites For 2008 - CNN Money
( gigaom.com ) — As we look forward to 2009, it s important to acknowledge what worked, creatively and otherwise, over the last 12 months. So here s a list encapsulating what I thought were the obvious successes, the stuff that defined the

TheStar.com | Entertainment | Top 10 viral video time wasters - Toronto Star
Web videos? Do you really care? I mean, aren’t you too busy Twittering and updating your Facebook pages from your iPhones or BlackBerry Storms to watch this silliness? Actually, while the bloom may be off the web-video rose, those vids are still the

GalleyCat’s 2008 Year in Literary Web Video - Mediabistro.com
Receive mediabistro.com’s Daily GalleyCat Feed via email Click here to receive mediabistro.com’s Daily Media Newsfeed via email. non-fiction book for St. Martin’s Press is looking for a Research Assistant . See the next featured job . Scholastic is

Hot Web video ‘Prop 8: The Musical’ produced by an ex-Ann Arborite - MLive.com
The latest, big-thing online video is www.funnyordie.com’s “Prop 8: The Musical” - what composer Marc Shaiman (”Hairspray”) calls a “viral picket sign” that responds to California’s recent vote to disallow gay marriage, after the state’s Supreme

General28 Dec 2008 01:30 pm

The 2008 viral video hits - Newsday
Thanks to YouTube, viral videos have become as much of part of our culture, as the snapshots of video it documents. This year, the presidential election, dumbfounded New Yorkers, and a puppy cam top the most viewed web video sensations. 1. Tina Fey

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch Get Joost Wi-Fi Web Videos - Newsoxy.com
Joost has completed its Web video application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The free app enables the mobile devices to view videos over a Wi-Fi connection. Joost has deployed a new application for the Apple Inc iPhone 3G and iPod Touch to

TheStar.com | Entertainment | Top 10 viral video time wasters - Toronto Star
Web videos? Do you really care? I mean, aren’t you too busy Twittering and updating your Facebook pages from your iPhones or BlackBerry Storms to watch this silliness? Actually, while the bloom may be off the web-video rose, those vids are still the

Top 10 time wasters - Toronto Star
Web videos? Do you really care? I mean, aren’t you too busy Twittering and updating your Facebook pages from your iPhones or BlackBerry Storms to watch this silliness? Actually, while the bloom may be off the web-video rose, those vids are still the

Fey as Palin top Web video of the year - Eagle-Tribune
Nearly four years after the launch of YouTube, it’s startling just how much viral videos have come to resemble a highlight reel (or a gag reel) of recent history. In 2008, the election was constantly reflected on video-sharing sites and sometimes

Top 10 Pretty Obvious Video Favorites For 2008 - CNN Money
( gigaom.com ) — As we look forward to 2009, it s important to acknowledge what worked, creatively and otherwise, over the last 12 months. So here s a list encapsulating what I thought were the obvious successes, the stuff that defined the

Head of Production / Senior Digital Producer - web, video, interactive - New Media Age
Junction K is looking for a versatile individual to head up its Manchester team and lead delivery on a range of projects and productions. Junction K is a communications agency with a specialism in video and interactive media delivered across multiple

Streaming video: YouTube on TV - Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Bringing Web-based video content to the living room has been a dream of desk jockeys everywhere. Watching Hulu.com or YouTube on a laptop is fine, but sitting on the couch watching a dog on a skateboard has appeal. The Neuros Link is a device that

Hot Web video ‘Prop 8: The Musical’ produced by an ex-Ann Arborite - MLive.com
The latest, big-thing online video is www.funnyordie.com’s “Prop 8: The Musical” - what composer Marc Shaiman (”Hairspray”) calls a “viral picket sign” that responds to California’s recent vote to disallow gay marriage, after the state’s Supreme

General25 Dec 2008 01:30 pm

Yahoo idles Jumpcut, steers video users to Flickr - Zd Net Asia.com
Yahoo’s belt-tightening has led the company to shut down new uploads to its Jumpcut service for sharing and combining videos, steering people instead to its Flickr service. “We’re sorry to announce that we are no longer accepting uploads to Jumpcut

All-in-one DVD/WMV/MKV/HD video Converter on Mac - Itwire.com
Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac is the perfect solution for Mac users to convert the video clips (WMV, MKV, HD video, FLV, MP4, AVI, etc) and collected DVD to their mobile device in an easier way. Key features of Aimersoft Total Media

Mac Software-Best iPod/iPhone Converter, MP4/AVI/HD Video Converter - IT World
Best Mac Video Converter to convert video on Mac OS X (Leopard supported) for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune.. Also an All-in-one Mac MP4 Video Converter,the best Mac iPod Video Converter, Mac iPhone Video Converter, Mac PSP Video Converter and Mac Zune

WMA WMV iTunes DRM Removal - Daniusoft launches Media Converter Pro - HULIQ.com
Daniusoft launches Media Converter Pro 2.3.2.2 Xmas Edition - An ideal Product with beautiful interface in Christmas style; more stable performance and of higher quality than ever before. Daniusoft Media Converter Pro is a powerful DRM Removal&Video

How to enjoy your DVD movies and videos on your iPod/PSP/Zun - Xbitlabs.com
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2008 1:18 am Post subject: How to enjoy your DVD movies and videos on your iPod/PSP/Zun As a portable-device fan I usually enjoy my DVD movies and videos on my iPod/PSP/Zune/Zen . In fact all these devices can only accept

OJOsoft MP4 Converter 2.6.0.1220 - CNET Asia
OJOsoft MP4 Converter is a powerful and easy to use MP4 video conversion tool. It can convert into MPEG-4 video from popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MPG, DivX, 3GP, 3G2, MOV, QT, FLV, DVD(VOB), Xvid, MKV, TS, M4V, ASF, DAT, DVR

User reviews - Download.com
Reply to this review 4 stars Version: Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter 1.2 “Easy to use and gets the job done.” by bronxboy1088 on December 20, 2008 Pros: I was very impressed with the speed of large batch conversions. Cons: Initially this

OJOsoft Audio Converter 2.6.0.1220 - CNET Asia
OJOsoft Audio Converter is a powerful and professional tool for video and audio file conversion . With lots of codec built in, it can convert audio files between almost any formats, including MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, AC3, MP2, WAV, OGG etc. Also, It

Free Apple iPhone, iPod Christmas themed wallpaper from Aimersoft - MacWorld UK
Aimersoft is currently offering a Xmas Season Shopping sale with up to 50 per cent of some software along with a free YouTube download tool and free FLV Player for Mac. Macworld January on sale now! Hot tech tips for 2009 and FREE ultimate Mac

How to Edit and Rip DVD to AVI, MP4, MPEG, 3GP, FLV, MOV, et - Xbitlabs.com
What you need is iskysoft DVD Studio Pack For Mac Download it and install iskysoft DVD Studio Pack For Mac ( Intel Version or Power PC Version ) Part 1. How to convert DVD to iPhone/iPod/Apple TV/PSP/Mobile Phone for Mac Step 1. Insert your DVD disc

General24 Dec 2008 02:30 pm

The Download Blog - Download.com
You must have treated somebody well this year, because you’ve got a new computer to start 2009 off right. In this edition of the Download.com Windows Starter Kit, we’ve expanded our collection to include both the recommended free programs you’ve come

Receive mediabistro.com’s Daily MobileAppsToday Feed via email - Mediabistro.com
Click here to receive mediabistro.com’s Daily Media Newsfeed via email. Clear Channel Radio - L.A. is looking for a Online Coordinator - KFI AM 640 . See the next featured job . Clear Channel Online Music and Radio is looking for a Manager

Hot this Week - Express Computer India
Features : Transcend JetFlash T5 is constructed with non-breakable plastic and is rugged to resist bending, stress, vibration, shock and even full water submersion. With its attachment loop, the ultra-light T5 can be used as a mobile phone dongle or

Aunsoft Studio Releases New Version of Aunsoft SWF Converter - Newswiretoday.com
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Shanghai, China, 12/24/2008 - Aunsoft Studio releases new version of Aunsoft SWF Converter, and integrate powerful features, e.g. convert SWF to AVI alpha, AVI Divx, and MPEG for VCD, SVCD and DVD, WMV, convert SWF to HD

Nvidia to Provide Notebook Driver Updates Itself - PC Magazine
Nvidia said Thursday that it will begin providing driver updates for its notebook graphics chips directly on its Web site, bypassing the need to visit the sites owned by the notebook vendors themselves. The first release will add Nvidia’s CUDA

Joost abandons P2P client for Flash - Techradar.com
Joost has announced that it is to abandon its current P2P client, in favour of pushing its web-based Flash video service. This means that anyone who uses the service will have to revert to its internet counterpart. Joost originally launched as a

Digital Media - CNET News
The big entertainment companies refuse to give up on USB drives for media delivery. Sony announced on Monday that it was loading movies and albums on flash drives. Michael Jackson fans can obtain the 25th Anniversary edition of the album Thriller for

Register for FREE - Wall Street Journal
Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. TVs, the Internet, YouTube, TiVo, Hulu who can tell the difference between any of it at this point? Today there s news that one video

The top mobile phones of 2008 - Philippine Star Online
It s been another fast and furious year in the mobile phone scene. But while music players and cameras have always been mainstays in the feature set of our favorite gadgets, a new capability seems to have taken over this year: the touch-screen

Adobe s Other Battle: The Economy - Wall Street Journal
Adobe is battling Microsoft over the future of Internet software. But its more pressing battle might be against the economy. Adobe is fighting on two fronts The San Jose, Calif., software maker on Tuesday reported that the economic downturn has hurt

General13 Dec 2008 02:30 pm

Ascent Media Group Selects Harmonis Rhoze Transcoding Technology for - Consumer Electronics Net
Harmonic Inc. (NASDAQ:HLIT) today announced that its Rhoze universal transcoding technology has been selected by Ascent Media Group (AMG) for its Vii media services platform. AMs Viia services platform with Rhozet transcoding technology enables media

Send holiday greetings to the troops - Poughkeepsie Journal
If you ve got a family member serving in the military who won t be home for the holidays, the Journal will videotape your greeting and display it on the Journal s Web site. Each year, the Department of Defense, through its Digital Video

Maximizing digital bonus from a DVD - International Herald Tribune
Some movie studios, including Disney, 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate, have started to provide a high-quality digital-video file of a film in the same package as the traditional DVD. This extra version, often on a separate disc, is meant to be copied

BendBroadband nears all-digital date - Bend Bulletin
The FCC, spurred by Congress, has long advocated that the nation s telecommunications providers switch from analog to digital as a way to improve services and spawn innovation, FCC spokesman Clyde Ensslin said. The root for the push lies in The

Creative destruction in digital media age - Business24-7
Creative destruction often ensues in the wake of technological advances, futurists claim. In today’s age of the digital media, this phenomenon, says one such forecaster of the future, will see the slow death of CDs, DVDs, watches and print media such

General10 Dec 2008 04:30 pm

Netflix fixes streaming-video glitch - CNET News
Netflix, the Web’s top video rental store, has corrected a glitch that has plagued some customers of the company’s streaming-video service for several weeks, the company said Friday. Owners of Roku’s Netflix Player and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 began

MySpace Offers Streaming Video For Mobile Phone Users - Newsoxy.com
MySpace plans to deliver video clips from member pages to mobile phones. The social networking site will also deliver professionally produced video content to mobile devices. The free service will be supported by advertisements. News Corp’s MySpace

QuickPlay Media Announces Significant Growth in Consumer Consumption - Businesswire.com
TORONTO–( BUSINESS WIRE )–QuickPlay Media, the premier provider of mobile TV and video solutions , today unveiled the findings of its first quarterly consumer consumption analysis. The results aggregate usage statistics from 15 representative

MySpace Offers Streaming Video on Cell Phones - PC Magazine
Need more videos on-the-go? MySpace announced Wednesday that it now testing a streaming video service for mobile phones. The video beta for MySpace Mobile is now being rolled out globally, with support for streaming-enabled phones like the BlackBerry

MySpace to offer mobile streaming video - CNET News
MySpace is going mobile with streaming video. News Corp.’s social-networking site is expected to offer video clips from members’ pages, as well as professionally produced video, to video-enabled mobile devices starting Wednesday, according to a

MySpace Launches Streaming Video for Mobiles - BusinessWeek
Streaming Web video just might be one of those services that will come into its own during this economic downturn. Only a week ago, Google s YouTube launched YouTube Live, which streams video channels via the Internet. Today, social network MySpace

MySpace Bringing On Mobile Streaming Video - Eflux Media
MySpace, the social networking site owned by News Corp. is set to start offering video clips from members pages, as well as professionally produced video to mobile devices that can support video starting on Wednesday, according to a press report

MySpace to offer mobile video streaming - Techradar.com
MySpace is making streaming video available for mobiles from its members’ pages. The News Corp. owned social network is making video viewable over a host of nobile devices including the BlackBerry Bold, Palm Centro Motorola Q9 and Nokia’s popular N95

MySpace Mobile Launches Streaming Video in Beta Globally - MSN MoneyCentral
MySpace , the world s premier social network, and RipCode , an innovator of Internet and mobile video infrastructure solutions, announced today that MySpace Mobile users across the globe will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their

General05 Dec 2008 07:30 am

Fish tank light bulb causes $70,000 blaze - Daily Post
LINDSAY - A light bulb is being blamed for a $70,000 blaze that damaged a Glenelg Street apartment building early Thursday morning, forcing 15 tenants from their homes for the night. Firefighters called at 1:51 a.m. from fire halls in Lindsay, Ops

Classical Musicians Get Shot At Fame On YouTube - Post Chronicle
The video-sharing website YouTube will take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses by holding an online competition where the public chooses musicians to play at Carnegie Hall. The competition invites classical

Internet Video Magazine Holiday Issue Goes Live Flip MinoHD Review - PR Inside
Are you thinking of buying a new camcorder this season? In addition to our new and improved ‘how to buy a camcorder guides’, we have also updated our camcorder guide with dozens of new camcorder options as well as new video accessories and software

YouTube Contest Aims Classics at Carnegie Hall - PC Magazine
NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The video-sharing Web site YouTube will take classical music out of pricey concert halls and bring it to the masses by holding an online competition where the public chooses musicians to play at Carnegie Hall. The

Coming to post: Video library for wounded soldiers - Killeen Daily Herald
Fort Hood soon will be the site of an exclusive facility aimed at honoring wounded soldiers with much-needed R&R. Cause, an organization out of Washington, D.C., was founded in 2003 to provide recreational and entertainment programs for members of

Read all ‘”Restaurant reviews”‘ posts in Webware - CNET News
Despite being a fan of Zagat ’s restaurant surveys, I’ve never been overly impressed with the mobile applications for Windows Mobile Smartphone and PocketPC , BlackBerry , and Palm . Regrettably, Zagat To Go ‘09 for the iPhone and iPod Touch ($9.99

Web Winners: - Philadelphia Inquirer
Selling your services as a freelancer or contractor in this dicey economy can be daunting and lonely work. These sites provide some moral support in addition to markets for your expertise. Freelance market. Elance.com lists 130,000 “experts” - people

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