April 2007


General28 Apr 2007 03:30 am

Disney Mobile Family phones The Elmo SUV The Canon XHG1 Content
Digital Game Developer - Users can post video clips, run their own TV shows, and even advertise products or services in each personal TV channel. Leading businesses such as Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have recently launched programming on PandoraTV’s viral service

Mobile Video Booms Among Latinos
Advertising Age - Viewers of “18 & Over” and “One Nation” can log on to HolaMun2.com and post video comments, which are video versions of regular text messages posted on blogs. “We want to go beyond what everyone else is doing,” says Peter Blacker, senior VP-digital

General27 Apr 2007 06:30 am

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Will Blow Your Mind Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS
Softpedia - rich 3-D content into their 2-D compositions. Graphic and web designers can create an animation from a series of images such as time series data and export it to a wide variety of formats, including QuickTime, MPEG-4 and Adobe Flash Video

March 2007
ZDNet Blogs - skills to produce tons of compelling content for their network. PodTech is up to 36 customers, which includes large tech firms such as Seagate, Intel (Intel is an SVW sponsor) and Computer Associates. And it recently launched its own Flash video

DoubleClick Bows Ad Tool for Flash Environments
MarketingVOX - DART Motif for Flash-in-Flash integrates into any Flash video player, allowing publishers to easily insert pre- or post-roll advertising into their video content streams. Recent coverage: - DoubleClick Tool Uses Spotlight Tags to Enhance Multi-Product

5 Top Micro-Cap Stocks
Motley Fool - On2 makes the best codec for the ubiquitous FLASH video and sells encoding platforms for social networking sites and individual developers. The revenue model here is “back-end loaded” (in other words royalties, royalties, and more royalties) so

On2 joins with Widevine for Flash Video DRM
ZDNet Blogs - Earlier this week, Widevine made an announcement that they were offering DRM for Flash Video. Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee had some information, and from what I could glean from the press release, it seemed like Widevine was simply offering a

Online Video Advertising’s Breakout Moment
ClickZ - Online video can mean streaming video, downloadable video, rented video, video on your site, video on a social network, video in an ad, video before/during/after another video, Flash video, or plain, old television delivered over IP. I’m sure this

Ez2Companies Appoints Paul Vizard as Chief Technology Officer WEST
dBusinessNews.com - broadcasting tools for use in podcasting, commercials, infomercials, promotions, and online movie playback, which will be accomplished through various developer websites, numerous video delivery platforms, and software solutions such as Flash Video

Watch Video from Newscasts and More!
WTGV - Watch videoclips from our recent newscasts in our Flash Video on Demand player. Just click.the picture next to the clip you want to see first. Click here to watch the Daily Weather Video. Click here to watch the daily Newsreel from our 5:30 p.m

General22 Apr 2007 11:30 am

Camcorder perfect for kids, but not perfect
Seattle Times - All in all, the advantages of this camcorder are that it’s inexpensive, easy to use, and it’s easy to e-mail and post video clips that others can watch. Even though the video quality is not great, kids may want to share their footage with friends, and

Intelligence helps Gillis win
GolfWeek - Gillis even learned how to post video of his swing on the Internet so his coach, Sean Richardson, could see Gillis’ action on a regular basis even though the two are seven hours apart. Gillis shot a course-record 60 at Trysting Tree Golf Club, the

YouTube forced to erase 30,000 video files
CNN - It also called on Internet users not to post video clips in violation of copyright laws. YouTube, which serves more than 100 million videos a day on its free Web site, has drawn complaints from some copyright owners, as the site says it can’t track

Uncle: Abducted U.S. soldier appears in video
CNN - BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The uncle of an Iraqi-American U.S. soldier abducted last October in Baghdad identified his missing nephew Wednesday in a video posted on a militant Shiite Web site. U.S. Army Sgt. Ahmed K. Altaie was kidnapped October 23 while

Down And Out In The ‘Burbs
BusinessWeek - Set up a site incorporating the superstructure of this online age: blogs, places to post video, interactivity everywhere. Stoke audience participation, use some variant of the phrase “citizens’ media” at every opportunity, keep staffs small, sell ads

Tax goes up, tax goes down
Spokane Spokesman-Review - Speaking of West, why didn’t we post video of the entire press conference on our site? In short, we don’t have the technology to stream such a large video file (yet), and the end product would have taken users forever to download. Videographer

General21 Apr 2007 01:30 pm

Intel shows off 45nm performance gains
VNUnet - Intel used its Intel Developer Forum conference in Beijing to release additional performance metrics for its upcoming Penryn 45nm processors that are scheduled ship in the second half of this year. Gaming and video encoding applications are set to

Intel announces four PCIe platforms
The Inquirer - They demoed it with Yorkfield, and set it against a Kentsfield, both running video encoding. Since the encoder was compiled for SSE4 which Kentsfield lacks, the Yorktown finished in 18 seconds vs 29 for Kentsfield. Other less targeted apps will be

Quad-Core Chips To Boost Multimedia Apps, Server Consolidation
Information Week - Such apps include video encoding, photo processing, and complex database searches. Gaming apps are just now starting to utilize dual-core microprocessors, but in the future more effort will go into developing games that use more cores, McCaron said.

Online Press Release
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Another Monster from Intel Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Hardware
Softpedia - X6800 on video encoding. We now have what is commonly known as video cameras, efficient devices which can record and then display images through a little window (crowd goes wow ) and have the very interesting feature of recording whatever you

Alert Me for News on AMD
Marketwatch - 12:32 PM 4/11/07 CORRECTING and REPLACING Kulabyte and AMD to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Video Encoding Solution At NAB 2007 - BusinessWire 7:30 AM 4/11/07 Kulabyte and AMD to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Video Encoding Solution At NAB 2007

OLEDs in 2007
Advanced Television - Utilising advanced H.264 video encoding, the IP-9500 enables live transmission of high-quality HDTV at approximately half the bit-rate of typical MPEG-2 encoders. “Fujitsu has been active in the video encoder market in Japan

Company or Topic: Dell Computer
CNET News - The biggest improvement comes in my video encoding tests. Thanks to the Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor, video professionals should see more than a 20 percent differential.” - Edit that furry documentary you’ve been hanging on to. -”The M1710’s

Intel launches speedy quad-core chip
Infoworld - The new chip will also reduce waiting time for high-definition media editing jobs such as video encoding, said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, in a statement. Intel has unveiled a range of new

General18 Apr 2007 04:30 pm

Microsoft Aims to Outshine Adobe’s Flash
BusinessWeek - Google’s ( GOOG ) YouTube and News Corp.’s ( NWS ) MySpace are heavy Flash users, and the Flash Video format has supplanted media players from Microsoft and RealNetworks ( RNWK ) as developers’ target of choice. In a bid to extend its lead, Adobe will

Adobe Media Player preview on show
PC Advisor - However, as a player that only supports Flash video, the product isn’t as revolutionary for end users, who still need to have multiple applications for various media, such as songs, videos, and photos, he said. “That means we’re not done yet. This is

Posted by Dan Farber @ 11:35 am Categories: General , Web Technology
ZDNet Blogs - Geiser says that Keynote’s main goal was to measure the performance of user generated Flash video players. In January, Keynote looked at 18 players including YouTube, Google Video, Guba, Metacafe, Vimeo and Revver. To be sure large players such as

Recipient E-mail
DailyTech - Well, seems like you don’t know anything about Flash Video and it’s capabilities. It’s codecs are as good as any other out there (QT, WM). The small resolutions is not a limitation, but a smart choice of websites to make the bandwidth under control

General17 Apr 2007 07:30 pm

HD Update
Multichannel Online - Thomson s Grass Valley division plans to deliver a video-encoding system this fall based on an integrated chip it spent three years developing that the company claimed will deliver high

WinInfo Short Takes: Week of February 26
WinInfo - Various companies are also suing the company for violating patents related to speech, Xbox video encoding, and the Windows user interface. No, I guess it never does end. Multi-Core Chip Sales Surpass Single Core It’s unclear how this is surprising, but

Kulabyte and On2 Technologies announce licensing of On2 VP6 for Adobe
SIGGRAPH News - KulabByte s Professional Encoding Suite provides multi-core processing enhancements to the video encoding process . KulabByte-enabled Flash video is encoded in standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) formats at at up to 16 times faster

Intel develops integrated memory controller for Nehalem processors
TG Daily - Doing any kind of video encoding or rendering eats up 100% of both cores and the majority of my ram. Even playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R, which is actually optimized for dual core cpus will keep both cores running 70%. I m also running 15k rpm SCSI drives

Adobe Announces Flash Media Solution Provider Program
Forbes - The FeedRoom provides broadband video distribution for the Web, full-service video encoding, management and delivery, performance reporting, video application design and development, rich media advertising services, and content development and

New chips will be up to 40 percent faster: Intel
Baku Today - Gelsinger added the chip would allow performance increases of about 15 percent for imaging-related applications, 25 percent for 3-D rendering, and more than 40 percent for video encoding. Intel, the world’s largest semiconductor maker, held its

Intel launches speedy quad-core chip
Infoworld - The new chip will also reduce waiting time for high-definition media editing jobs such as video encoding, said Eric Kim, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Home Group, in a statement. Intel has unveiled a range of new

DVD XPRESS DX2
PC World - Manufacturer’s Info: The DVD Xpress DX2 supports todays most popular video formats including MPEG4 and DivX video. All of the video formats are supported by an advanced video encoding chipset inside the DVD Xpress DX2 which means that DVD Xpress DX2

Recipient E-mail
DailyTech - For my university work (3D rendering and subsequently video encoding) dual core gave big performance boosts and Netbursts performance was reasonable, especially once overclocked. Power usage was high but it ticked all the right boxes for me otherwise.

Alert Me for News on AMD
Marketwatch - 12:32 PM 4/11/07 CORRECTING and REPLACING Kulabyte and AMD to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Video Encoding Solution At NAB 2007 - BusinessWire 7:30 AM 4/11/07 Kulabyte and AMD to Demonstrate World’s Fastest Video Encoding Solution At NAB 2007

General09 Apr 2007 02:30 am

Kulabyte and On2 Technologies announce licensing of On2 VP6 for Adobe
SIGGRAPH News - Kulabyte and On2 Technologies announce licensing of On2 VP6 for Adobe Flash video for Kulabyte Professional Encoding Solution 16 times faster encoding speeds possible for popular VP6 for Flash video content with KulabByte DMN Newswire–2007-4-3– On2

Can Adobe Unbox?
Forbes - Flash is the leading animation format for the Web, and Flash video’s market share has grown from nearly nothing a few years ago to almost 100% of “user-submitted” video sites like Google ’s (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) YouTube

Top News Archive
WebProNews - Internap Network Services Corporation has announced that its VitalStream Services platform has been integrated into Adobe Premiere Pro software, which allows for publishing of Flash Video content to the Web. Adobe Premiere Pro, a tool for professional

Automatic Sync Technologies Makes Captioning Easy for Adobe Flash CS3
PR Inside - This will allow organizations to bring their Flash video into accessibility compliance faster, more affordably, and easier than ever before. This caption output is available immediately at no additional cost to AST users. “Today we offer caption and

Online Press Release
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General08 Apr 2007 05:31 am

The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications … 
The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications … Keywords: Match: Sort by: Mar. 09, 2007 Netherlands-based Acropolis Automation will debut four new models in its Athena thin client series, at the CeBIT tradeshow in Hannover, Germany next week.

The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications … 
The latest news & announcements about Windows based embedded applications … Keywords: Match: Sort by: Mar. 13, 2007 Brogent Technologies and CoAsia Microelectronics have jointly developed a reference design for what they are dubbing the next “killer app” after the cameraphone.

DivX Signs CBC 
San Diego-based DivX, a provider of video encoding and decoding products, said today that it is in a deal with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to bring CBC content to the DivX online video sharing site…. (more)

Vidient Ushers in New Era of Video Surveillance, Introduces First Intelligent Video Analytics Network Solutions 
ISC West Booth #13121 — Addressing customer demands for more scalable, powerful, interoperable and cost-effective video surveillance solutions, Vidient Systems, Inc. today announced the industry’s first family of intelligent video analytics networking solutions, ushering in a new era of network-based video surveillance that for the first time combines superior analytics with prioritized video …

LG Innotek Selects NeoMagic’s MiMagic 6+ Multimedia Processor for Its Second Wireless Camera Product 
NeoMagic Corporation announced today that LG Innotek is using NeoMagic’s MiMagic 6+ Multimedia Processor for a follow-on wireless security camera product.

Federal Judge Rules QUALCOMM’s Conduct Before U.S. Patent Office Lawful But Finds QUALCOMM Did Not Meet Unwritten IPR … 
A federal judge ruled today that “despite the jury’s advisory verdict to the contrary, the Court finds no clear and convincing evidence of inequitable conduct” by QUALCOMM Incorporated in obtaining two patents.

Kulabyte and On2 Technologies Announce Licensing of On2 VP6 for Adobe(R) Flash(R) Video for Kulabyte(TM) Professional … 
On2 Technologies, Inc., , the leading provider of video compression software and solutions, and Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, announced today a licensing agreement for On2 VP6 compression schemes for Live and On Demand encoding, used by Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, to Kulabyte for its Professional Encoding Suite.

Service Electric Cablevision Selects EGT’s Video Processors 
ATLANTA, BUSINESS WIRE — EGT, provider of the most comprehensive video processing technology for digital networks, today announced that Service Electric Cablevision has selected EGT’s QUARTET encoding systems for digital simulcast and digital program insertion (DPI) applications.

Talk About Wow Factor Super High Definition 4K Delivers 
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. Dont look now, but a production technology known as 4K is emerging that puts high definition television, Blue Ray DVDs and even IMAX to shame is emerging.

HD Voice: Can VoIP Do Better Than “Carrier Grade”? 
Motorola Completes Tut Systems Acquisition for $39 Million Motorola completed its acquisition of Tut Systems for approximately $39 million on a fully diluted basis.

General06 Apr 2007 09:30 am

Video/Audio Recorder captures RTMP Flash streams. 
Replay Media Catcher allows customers to capture digital reproductions from various websites. With one-click recording interface, software detects media stream and saves playable video/audio file on PC hard drive. Product includes FLV Player that lets users watch recorded videos and can record multiple streams simultaneously, depending on speed of Internet connection.

Kansas County Discusses New Regional Airport 
Growth Limitations, Location Compromise FLV Commissioners in Leavenworth County, KS agree additional aviation options are needed in the area… and they’re currently discussing building a new regional airport in Leavenworth County. But they still have a few questions.

General04 Apr 2007 09:30 am

Related Items 
Colorado Governor Bill Owens held a news conference from the high school in Holly, where a tornado destroyed 65 homes and killed one person Wednesday night.

downloadSquad: Linux MCE Looks Hot 
“Take the leap to watch a demonstration of the Linux MCE project running on a home TV, and a comparison to Windows Media Center Edition…” [Flash video review.]

Ongoing Innovation: Tom Malloy on Sustaining the Relevance and Impact of Adobe’s Advanced Technology Labs 
Throughout its 25-year history, Adobe Systems has introduced a series of innovations that the company has turned into successful commercial products — from its PostScript printer language to leading software applications like Illustrator, Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat. Now, Adobe may be poised to transform the next generation of web technologies. How does Adobe remain innovative? Can innovation be …

It’s Adobe’s game to lose, CEO says 
Q&A Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google.

Adobe Adds Two Editions to Photoshop Product Line 
Adobe will add to its digital imaging product line with two editions of Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 3 intended to increase adaptability and add efficiencies to the image management process across digital media.

Video: Fox News Flash 
Get caught up in a Flash. The Fox Flash video update from FoxNews.com gives you a 60-second update on the stories of the day. Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith died of an accidental drug overdose, officials said at a highly anticipated news conference in south …

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