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Burst Media Launches In-Page Streaming Video Ads Across Its 3,400 …
StreamingMedia.com (press release), CT - Aug 9, 2006… the nation s oldest online advertising networks, has begun to offer advertisers NetStream, a PointRoll product designed to deliver streaming video ads within …

Incited Media and Rhozet Deliver Video-On-Demand of MTV’s Video …
Yahoo! News (press release) - Aug 29, 2006… in streaming media. Incited services include on-demand encoding, live streaming, video production and DVD creation. For more information …

Laptops & Notebooks: Gateway M465-E (Intel Core 2 Duo) 
The Gateway M465-E laptop’s design and accessory compatibilities remain consistent, so all you’re upgrading are the faster partsincluding the speedy new Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

TANDBERG Television Launches Integrated Solutions for Next Generation Television at IBC 
IBC will once again see TANDBERG Television ( Nachrichten ) (OSE:TAT) setting the standard for the digital media industry as the company uses the 2006 event in Amsterdam to launch industry changing technologies for video compression, on-demand and interactive television.

EGT to Showcase HEMi, Head End Micro Edge Encoder At The Mid-America Show 2006 
EGT, delivering the world’s best digital video experience, will showcase its new HEMi (Head End Micro Edge Encoder), as well as its ENCORE and QUARTET encoders at the EGT booth, number 334 during The Mid-America Cable Show in Overland Park, Kansas, September 5 - 7, 2006.

Laptops & Notebooks: Alienware Aurora m5550 
Aside from its heat issues, the Alienware Aurora m5550 notebook is definitely cool, with blazingly fast performancethanks to its Core 2 Duo mobile processorand a design that’s out of this world.

Year After Katrina, Gulf Coast Residents Mourn, Celebrate Life 
Bells tolled Tuesday morning, marking the moment a year ago when New Orleans’ levees buckled, unleashing a torrent of water that ripped homes and sent half the city into an uncertain exile.

SCC nets state work grants of $720,000 
Seminole Community College received four state work-force grants worth more than $720,000. The Sanford school was one of 87 institutions to share $33.4 million that was doled out by the Florida Department of Education through its Succeed Florida! Career Education Grant program. The money is intended for programs in nursing and allied health, manufacturing, automotive technology and teacher

ABA Will Provide Live Coverage of the ‘Blackjack Nationals’ 
Free live-streaming coverage of the ABA “Blackjack Nationals” from Reno, Nevada. (PRWEB Aug 25, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/UHJvZi1JbnNlLVN1bW0tVGhpci1JbnNlLVplcm8=

Woman Pulled Unconscious From Seattle House Fire 
Firefighters rescued the woman from her burning North Seattle home early Tuesday.

Tracy having fun with vocal fans 
MONTREAL — Every time Paul Tracy has walked or ridden onto pit road during the Montreal Grand Prix …

BCNG Portals Page 
The 2006 Judicial Voter Pamphlet is available in Wednesday’s edition of The Journal.

Where Is The Recovery Money? 
State, local and federal governments are pointing fingers over $12 billion in missing recovery funds. So where is the money?

Sunday’s Local News 
It’s the first day of school for one northern Ohio school district, and it’s the teachers who will be absent. Teachers from Perkins Local Schools in Perkins Township, near Sandusky, will hit the picket link this morning, carrying signs reading “No Contract No Work,” and “Teachers On Strike.”

Canyons expands its cyber lineup 
VALENCIA - College of the Canyons officials had some misgivings before offering two online classes this semester: British Literature and American Literature.

Survey Says: Candidates Succeed on The Internet! 
SAN DIEGO , Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ — PointRoll, Inc., leading developer of innovative rich media technology solutions, today announced the results of its collaboration with the E-Voter Institute and HCD Research in conducting the First Annual Voter Expectations Survey.

Branding Online Video 
Marketers see gold in online video as boutique sites promote video contests.

Why post your hilarious video for free on YouTube? 
As more people have broadband connections to the Internet at home, the popularity of video sharing on sites like YouTube and Google continues to grow.

Online Video Contests Bring New Craze to the Web 
Just a few years ago, most people didn’t know what digital media was; and yet today, millions of Americans are posting personal videos on web sites like Google and YouTube that are viewed by millions around the world. Nielsen/Net Ratings recently reported an estimated 2.7 billion queries were conducted at Google.com in June 2006, and YouTube.com raised their monthly traffic 297 percent, from 4.9

Letters to the editor 
A sampling of readers’ letters, faxes and e-mail.

Internet video bloggers connect in the real world 
Internet users talk about creating virtual communities. Every day, bloggers share their intimate thoughts with people they don’t even know. Now a subset of these cyber-neighborhoods is working to make some human contact.

VitalStream Recognized as a Strong Performer by Independent Research Firm 
IRVINE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE — VitalStream, Inc. (Nasdaq:VSTH), the world leader in audio and video streaming , today announced it was named a “Strong Performer” in the Forrester Wave(TM) report, “Rich Media Content Delivery, Q2 2006″ published June 9, 2006.(a)

DemoWolf releases new Virtuozzo for Windows tutorials 
DemoWolf, provider of flash tutorials for the web hosting industry, today released a new series of tutorials for the Virtuozzo Power Panel (VZPP) for Windows VPS software by SW-Soft.

As Flash turns 10, Adobe looks ahead 
Once used mostly for animations, Flash is Adobe’s new bet for a partner “ecosystem,” high-profile Web customersand new growth.

Replay Converter 
Is an easy-to-use audio/video file converter.

Art plaza still has faint pulse 
Project is spared but is not in clear.

Adobe readies for Microsoft 
One huge, wide open, hi-tech area where Microsoft does not dominate or have a strong position relates to web site creation and design.

TANDBERG Television Launches Integrated Solutions for Next Generation Television at IBC 
SOUTHAMPTON, England—-Aug. 9, 2006–Delivers Industry Leading Flexibility and Performance for Single

Should you upgrade to 64 bit for best scalability? 
If your company needs to buy new computer systems in the near future, you may be wondering whether it’s time to take the plunge and go 64 bit. Is the extra scalability of 64 bit hardware worth the extra cost?

Raleigh startup lands $4.4M in series B funds 
A Triangle encoding technology company said Wednesday that it has raised $4.4 million in additional series B funding.

Microsoft Honors Tarari As “Partner of the Year'’ for Technology Innovation for OEM Hardware Solutions 
Today, Tarari, Inc. proudly announced it has won the Partner of the Year Award for Technology Innovation for OEM Hardware Solutions at the 2006 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Program Awards.

Sound Advice: Choosing the right disk will yield better results 
Q: I’ve been copying some of my old audio cassette tapes to audio CDs. I’ve had perfect success using CD-Rs, but poor success using CD-RW disks. On playback the CD-RWs will usually give errors (dropouts) and sometimes the CD actually will lock up a player.

Tuesday August 1, 2006 By Peter Griffin 
An industry fight is brewing over who will get to supply the set-top boxes needed to receive digital TV when it launches next year.

YouTube expands types of advertising: report
Washington Post, United States - Aug 22, 2006NEW YORK (Reuters) - Closely held YouTube Inc., a Web video sensation, is expanding the type of advertisements it sells to include videos on its home page and …

Lasoo On-Demand IPTV Service Gives Content Providers Broadband …
PR Newswire (press release), NY - Aug 8, 2006… Traditional distribution is typically cost-prohibitive for providers of niche content and Web video generally does not have a strong revenue model nor does it …

Sony buys Web video site Grouper
Reuters.uk, UK - Aug 22, 2006SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp.’s entertainment unit said it had agreed to pay $65 million (34.4 million pounds) to buy Web video-watching site …

AOL To Test-Launch Video Search Service
InformationWeek, NY - Jul 31, 2006… Still, the lion’s share of Web video watchers have flocked to young start-up YouTube.com, which claimed a 31.2 percent market share in the week ending July 22 …

FSBO Media Holdings Enters the Billion Dollar Greeting Card …
Market Wire (press release) - Jul 26, 2006… FSBO plans to promote, market and sell its web video greeting cards to the billions of people online around the world. www.videobirthdays.com. …

Publisher to introduce 2 afternoon editions 
The British publisher Trinity Mirror said Tuesday that its Scottish Daily Record unit would introduce two afternoon editions, one in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow, in another sign that the afternoon newspaper was making a comeback in Britain.

Sony acquires online video services firm for $65m 
Sony’s entertainment unit agreed to pay $65 million to buy Web video-watching site Grouper.com, marking the growing embrace of the user-generated video craze by big media, a Reuters report said.

AOL Seeking Center Stage As Web Video Headliner 
America Online is a top player when it comes to dishing up videos on the Internet.

August 14, 2006 
A start-up Internet video-streaming company is considering filing a program-access complaint at the Federal Communications Commission in order to force C- SPAN to reach a distribution agreement.

Google Sends Legal Threats to Media Organizations 
rm69990 writes “Google, becoming more and more concerned about the growing use of the word google as a verb, has fired off warning letters to numerous media organizations warning them against using its name as a verb. This follows google (with a lowercase g) being added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary in June. According to a Google spokesperson: “We think it’s important to make the distinction

Sony buys Web video site Grouper 
Sony Corp.’s entertainment unit said it had agreed to pay $65 million to buy Web video-watching site Grouper.com, marking the growing embrace of the user-generated video craze by big media.

YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion 
Sony’s acquisition of online video market Grouper could mean big bucks to others in online video.

Sony Downgraded by Mitsubishi UFJ Re. PS3 Launch 
Sony Downgraded by Mitsubishi UFJ Re. PS3 Launch

Web briefs: Click these! 
Site of the week: So you loooove to criticize the media, eh? Well, you’re not alone, so you might as well do it in good company.

AOL Bulks Up Video, Discover Sponsors 
Ad-supported and paid film and TV content from Sony Pictures, Fox TV and others are expanding AOL Video’s offerings.

Jason Meserve
Network World Fusion - One problem with Flash video (flv) is there is no native player for viewing your videos after they’ve been created. Martijn de Visser has come to the rescue with this handy player utility . Just drag the FLV into the player and away you go. Once

What It Does
DVD Creation - FLV, or Flash Video. The easiest way to convert QuickTime files into Flash Video is, unsurprisingly, choosing the Embed Video option when importing your QuickTime movie (fig. 6) , which I alluded to earlier. You’ll then be shown options for Flash MX’s

Improve Your Home Movies
Wired - Click it to save the file to your desktop as QaQw9V4Upj4.flv or whatever. 4. Install and launch the free Super video converter ( www.erightsoft.com ). 5. Select Apple iPod from the Output Container option, and then the output video codec H.264/AVC. Set

Microsoft Honors Tarari as “Partner of the Year'’ for Technology …
Business Wire (press release), CA - Aug 3, 2006″Tarari accelerates some of the toughest algorithms used in Security, XML and Video Encoding,” said Randy Smerik, President/CEO and co-Founder of Tarari, Inc. …

ATI On DirectX 10: Unified Shading Architecture, Near-Future …
Digit-Life (press release), Russia - Jul 25, 2006… It s suitable for Heterogeneous Computing like Physics calculation, video encoding, etc., making graphic card be more applicable in different field of …