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[VideoNuze] Interpreting comScore's January 2010 Online Video Usage Decline
Tue, 9 March 2010 17:59:13 GMT - comScore released its Jan '10 online video rankings yesterday, and while the numbers were still very strong, they did show declines from Dec '10. For example, in Jan, total monthly views were 32.4 billion, compared with 33.2 billion in Dec '09, a decline of 2.4%. To try to put this blip downward in a little more context see the chart below. I've called out the Dec-Feb period for the past 3 years. In prior years there have been slight to moderate decreases somewhere in this period. This might suggest some seasonality, based on limited historical data. It's also worth noting that over the course of the last 3 years there have been 7 monthly sequential declines in the total monthly video views. Obviously nothing grows uninterrupted forever, and nobody shou [...]
[techcrunch] Go Tribal Wants To Help Women Coordinate Social Plans
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:59:01 GMT - We've written about Plancast, a "Foursquare For The Future," that essentially broadcasts your plans to your online social circle. We're big fans of the startup, which just raised seed funding from an impressive group of investors. Startup Go Tribal is rolling out a different take on the social planning application, launching a site for a more targeted audience: women. Go Tribal has simple ambitions. The site basically aims to help women answer the question, "who's down to go out?" Users can sign set up an account and broadcast message to their friends to see who is down for going out. Of course, you can tap into your social graph via Facebook Connect, but all of the planning needs to take place on Go Tribal's site and each participant needs to sign up for an [...]
[engadget] Samsung's 2010 3DTVs priced from $1,700 to ridiculous and everywhere in between
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:59:00 GMT - Enjoy your CES peek at Samsung's ultrathin 9000 series LED-lit LCD HDTV, with its touchscreen, video displaying remote control (also available as a $350 add-on for the 7000, 8000,and 750 series televisions) and 3D capability? That's good, because bringing the 55-inch UN55C9000 home in April will cost you a cool $6,999 (the thrifty can slum it with the 46-inch version for $5,999.) Still, if you're just looking to jump in on 3D without spending the max money, the cheapest model available at first will be the standard LCD LN46C750 available in May. In between, there's all manner of LED or old-school CCFL backlit LCDs plus a healthy lineup of plasmas arriving over the next few months, so with a note that grabbing 3D Blu-ray player and display at the same time wi [...]
[engadget] Samsung prices TL500, TL350, AQ100 and SL605 shooters
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:58:00 GMT - Samsung has just visited a bunch of data sheets upon us, and we've drawn out a few as yet unknown numerals regarding pricing and availability of the shooters it showed off at PMA this year. The TL500 above, swiveling AMOLED screen and all, will set buyers back $449 this spring when it'll be joined by its junior sibling, the TL350, which will cost $349. Both shooters offer RAW support and dual image stabilization, though funnily enough the cheaper 350 model offers 1080p video recording whereas the gaudier TL500 makes do with 640 x 480. If you're after something a bit more durable, the scratch-proof and rubberized SL605 will set you back only $129, while the all-weather AQ100 gets a $199 sticker, with both expected in that same spring release window. Phew, are [...]
[engadget] Samsung E6 e-reader coming to Barnes and Noble this spring for $299
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:37:00 GMT - Samsung still hasn't committed to a formal launch date for the e-reader line it launched at CES, but the company narrowed down the launch date from "early 2010" to "this spring" this morning -- which makes sense, seeing as spring has nearly, uh, sprung. We're only hearing about the six-inch E6 at the moment, along with a new Barnes and Noble partnership -- we're not sure anyone will pick the Samsung over the the popular Nook, especially at the $399 price point we heard at CES, but at least there's a built-in content ecosystem. Interestingly, we're not hearing anything about the 10-inch E10 or QWERTY-equipped E61, both of which would fill large gaps in the B&N lineup, but we're looking out for more info -- we'll let you know. In the meantime, you can watc [...]
[techcrunch] Sony Reminds Us Of The High-Cost Of First Generation 3D TV
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:35:18 GMT - 3D TVs are coming whether we want them to or not. TV makers and content providers aren't testing the water - they're jumping head-first and pulling consumers in, too. But like high definition a few years back, early adaptors will be forced to pay a high premium and suffer through a format war of sort before it really catches on. Take a look at Sony's just-announced 3D lineup: The company announced eight 3D BRAVIA TVs for the Japanese market along with a set of necessary 3D accessories, which will compete against Panasonic and Samsung sets when they all eventually hit the market in the coming months. Nevermind that the US models might be slightly different. Let's talk about the multiple steps needed to watch 3D content on your brand new 3D TV.
[readwriteweb] Springpad Takes on Evernote with Semantic Technology, Barcode Scanner
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:23:49 GMT - Springpad, a rival to Evernote's popular cross-platform note-taking service, has just bumped the competition up a notch with a new release that integrates semantic technology to automatically enhance the notes you save with relevant info. What this means is that if you save a movie, Springpad is smart enough to know it's a movie and it will offer you showtimes. If you save a product, Springpad displays price comparisons and links to shopping sites. Save a recipe and you get menu suggestions. And the list goes on. In other words, Springpad doesn't want to just be a note-taking app, it wants to be a fully realized digital assistant. Sponsor Evernote vs Springpad: the iPhone App While Evernote is, at this point, still the more robust product when it comes to s [...]
[engadget] NFL Mobile comes to Verizon with livestreaming RedZone channel
Tue, 9 March 2010 15:09:00 GMT - We'd heard that the NFL would be bringing the RedZone channel to phones this season, and it looks like Verizon's scored the first big partnership: NFL Mobile will launch on Big Red next month with the draft, complete with live streaming video of the event, on-demand video analysis from NFL Network, a pick-by-pick draft tracker, and other content. Once the season starts, customers will get RedZone, live streams of Sunday night and Thursday night games, on-demand video highlights and analysis, live home and away radio broadcasts, fantasy info, and the usual nasty ringtones and graphics. That's a ton of content, and it certainly makes Sprint's NFL package seem a little light in comparison -- we'll have to see what pricing is like and what devices this'll run on [...]
[engadget] Ubuntu hits HTC's Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? (video)
Tue, 9 March 2010 14:43:00 GMT - If there's one thing we're pretty sure Windows Phone 7 Series will be worse at than its Windows Mobile precursor it's in the running of various and sundry other operating systems. We've seen Android running on seemingly every WinMo handset ever created and more recently Ubuntu has been receiving the mobile treatment. Last month it was on an Xperia X1, now an HTC Touch Pro2 is getting a taste. A modder who goes by the handle sebbo90 is the one responsible for this, running basically the same technique as used earlier on the X1. It looks quite easy: just download a 200MB zip, extract it to your phone, then run an exe within. A few moments later you'll be in open source heaven, and, from what we can tell looking at the video below, it works remarkably well. Now [...]
[slashdot] Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed
Tue, 9 March 2010 14:40:00 GMT - nigham writes "The EFF is publicly disclosing a version of Apple's iPhone developer program license agreement. The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself (the EFF managed to get it via the Freedom of Information Act thanks to NASA's recent app), Apple reserves the right to kill your app at any time with no reason, and Apple's liability in any circumstance is limited to 50 bucks. There's also this gem: 'You will not, through use of the Apple Software, services or otherwise create any Application or other program that would disable, hack, or otherwise interfere with the Security Solution, or any security, digital signing, digital rights management, verification or authentication mechanisms implemented in or by the iPhone operating system software, [...]
[readwriteweb] CheapTweet Wades Through the Sea of Tweet Deals
Tue, 9 March 2010 14:20:00 GMT - Whether a website sells off your email address or forces you to install some pop-up plagued toolbar just to get 10% off your next online purchase, searching for online coupons can involve treading in dangerous waters. Enter CheapTweet, which uses both algorithms and crowdsourcing to verify its content, and suddenly looking for the best deals online isn't quite so scary. The self-described "Twitter-based social deals search engine site" does precisely that - it finds tweets about deals and coupons through a custom search algorithm and then allows its users to upvote or downvote the deals on its site. Sponsor Tweeting deals, if your wondering, can be big business. In 2009, Dell made more than $6.5 million through Twitter deals and CheapTweet probably sent a fe [...]
[engadget] Spying school district update: remote webcam functionality disabled, two IT monkeys suspended
Tue, 9 March 2010 14:17:00 GMT - We're still waiting for all the legal fallout from the Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District webcam spying case, but more news is slowly trickling out about the whole thing, including the technology that the school used: a remote administration suite called LANrev. An update to the software, releasing this week, will disable the option for admins (or pervy IT workers) to remotely switch on a computer's webcam, hopefully preventing a replay of this situation. Beyond that, two unnamed (and possibly pervy) IT workers have been suspended for their involvement in this whole situation. Are they the ones who went too far, or was it their managers who ordered them to do it and are now throwing their dutiful peons to the fire? We may never know the truth, but a [...]
[techcrunch] Sobees Streamlines Native Twitter Client For Windows, Integrates Realtime Search
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:57:56 GMT - We've written about Twitter client Sobees, which is working to create the best social media client on the market, competing with both TweetDeck and Seesmic. Today Sobees is releasing a new version of its Windows native desktop app built in .NET, complete with realtime search, a redesign and more. The new client includes support for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FriendFeed and LinkedIn (which was added late last year). The most significant addition is the availability of realtime search on the client, with the ability to search Twitter, Friendfeed, OneRiot and FacteryLabs from within the application. Sobees integrated elements of its newly launched realtime web dashboard to power search in the client.
[engadget] Shuttle's ION 2-equipped XS35 shows off its slimline nettop credentials in hands-on video
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:53:00 GMT - In the market for a new HTPC? Then you'll probably be wanting the slimmest possible enclosure that can still fit an optical drive and the grunt to power through HD video. Set aside some of your attention for Shuttle's XS35, in that case, as this 3.3cm-thick slab of engineering contains an Atom D510 (yawn) paired with NVIDIA Ion 2 graphics (yay!), which should in concert deliver buttery smooth 1080p playback, whether through Flash or Blu-ray discs. The integrated optical drive can't run those fancy discs from what we know, but you could easily swap it out with a slimline BR burner, jack your favorite HDMI cable into the back, and have the perfect little movie box. It's passively cooled so there'll be no fan noise, and its price should be pretty endearing cons [...]
[digg] EFF: All Your Apps Are Belong to Apple
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:47:38 GMT - The entire family of devices built on the iPhone OS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) have been designed to run only software that is approved by Apple..Software developers who want Apple's approval must first agree to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement.
[engadget] Jen-Hsun Huang is 'looking forward' to court date with Intel, sees no reason to settle (video)
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:29:00 GMT - Sometimes companies spar out their differences behind closed doors, and sometimes they have guys like Jen-Hsun Huang at their helms and the whole world gets to know how they feel and what they intend to do about it. The Tegrasaurus Rex has taken a recent interview with Fortune magazine as an opportunity to eloquently lay out his side's case in the epic cross-licensing dispute between NVIDIA and Intel, and to let us all know that he sees "no reason" to settle with the Atom-making giant. Describing Intel's argumentation as "completely nonsense," NVIDIA's fearless leader tell us that he's eagerly anticipating the court clash scheduled for later this year. We can't yet confirm whether or not he finished it off with a "bring your popcorn" instruction, but all his [...]
[engadget] Dell brings next-gen Precision performance to M4500 15.6-incher
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:01:00 GMT - The super-high-end 17-inch M6500 is all well and good for giant people, but we're glad Dell's finally giving us regular-sizers a shot with the new Precision M4500. Naturally, compromises have been made, but only just barely. The new 15.6-inch laptop rocks a 16:9, 1920 x 1080 display, backed up by NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M or 880M graphics (the 6500 supports the 3800M, 2800M and ATI M7740) and your choice of Core i5 or Core i7 processors, on up to the Core i7-920XM Quad Core Extreme Edition. This being Dell, there are plenty of tweaks and perks on offer, like a HD+ sRGB LED screen with 100 percent color gamut, a 64GB SSD mini card for dual drive configs without losing the optical drive, a 3 megapixel camera, backlit keyboard, multitouch trackpad, Precision ON, a [...]
[engadget] Seven45 Studios ups the ante for music games, intros fully functional six string controller
Tue, 9 March 2010 13:00:00 GMT - We've seen "real" guitars made to "work" with existing music-band titles, and we've even seen MIDI guitars play nice with Rock Band, but we've yet to see a company design a game from the ground-up to work with a legitimate six string. Until now. Here at GDC, Seven45 Studios is making a name for itself by introducing Power Gig: Rise of the SixString (for PS3 and Xbox 360) along with a bona fide axe. The newfangled company is a sister firm to First Act -- the same guys who made that guitar sold with your '07 Jetta -- and the instrument debuting here at the show uses proprietary technology "that can distinguish and recognize gamers' input all along the guitar." Better still, the instrument includes all of the innards necessary to make noise through an amp, so y [...]
[engadget] Samsung Super AMOLED explained in pretty moving pictures (video)
Tue, 9 March 2010 12:04:00 GMT - Using "super" to describe your new display technology just begs for criticism. Especially when the word is affixed to a handheld display technology as notoriously difficult (if near impossible) to see in direct sunlight as OLED. Fortunately, Samsung's Super AMOLED appears to have licked the outdoor readability issue while bettering the features that made us fall in love with AMOLEDs in the first place. First off, it's thinner since the touch sensors are now integrated into the display; colors are more vivid due to the removal of the obfuscating touch sensor layer that sits on top of TFT LCD and traditional AMOLED touchscreen displays; and even the viewing angle has been improved. You won't find a soundtrack in the video posted after the break because the tec [...]
[digg] HP Windows 7 Slate Strikes at the iPad With Flash Demo (VID)
Tue, 9 March 2010 12:00:02 GMT - The Apple iPad's Oscar debut on millions of TVs may have been the talk of the town Monday morning, but not for long. Rival PC maker HP has launched a sneak [...]
[yahoo] Lil Wayne begins 1-year jail term in NYC gun case (AP)
Tue, 9 March 2010 11:48:35 GMT - AP - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.
[engadget] 79 percent of adults believe web access is a 'fundamental right'
Tue, 9 March 2010 11:37:00 GMT - The BBC World Service has conducted a poll of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries to answer one primary question: is internet access a fundamental human right? We can skip right past Finland and Estonia who've already made laws to that effect, and take a look at what the other nations thought. Mexico, Korea and Brazil lead the way here with all having greater than 90 percent agreement, while Pakistan, India and Kenya -- countries with a slightly different perception of what fundamental needs are -- offer the least support, though they're all still above 50 percent in agreement. Other interesting stats include the claim by 85 percent of Japanese internet users and 81 percent in Mexico that they would not be able to "cope without the internet," while 5 [...]
[engadget] Alienware M11x gets torn down, earthly components found inside
Tue, 9 March 2010 11:05:00 GMT - Having filled our business laptop lust with a T410 undressing yesterday, today we've come across a comprehensive teardown of Alienware's gamer-friendly M11x ultraportable. Touted as the world's most powerful 11-inch notebook, this is certainly one of the most tightly packed, with the battery and CPU cooling solution taking up more than half of the real estate, while the hard drive, memory, and wireless modules leave just enough room for an asymmetric speaker arrangement. From this strategic view, the examination moves into a very finely detailed investigation of the onboard components, including the particulars of the heatpipe-equipped heatsink, the SU7300 CULV processor, and the GT 335M GPU from NVIDIA. The whole thing culminates with the weighing of all th [...]
[engadget] Freescale's 7-inch tablet runs Android, Chromium OS or Linux, costs $200 (video)
Tue, 9 March 2010 10:36:00 GMT - Remember the $200 smartbook reference design that we saw at CES this year? Well, it's back, it's holding on to that same price and 7-inch enclosure, but this time it's also showing off an expanded OS compatibility. Adapting the open source Chromium OS and another Linux variant to the ARM architecture of the prototype device was apparently not much of a hurdle for Freescale, who has an Android option in the works as well and claims to be just optimizing and enhancing the user experience at this point. Presumably one of the enhancements will be the installation of a capacitive touchscreen as the present demonstration requires either a mouse and keyboard or a resistive torture test to operate, but we'll accept the company's explanation that this is just a proof [...]
[engadget] MSI serves up Core i5 within 13-inch X-Slim X360 ultraportable
Tue, 9 March 2010 10:02:00 GMT - Those lowly Core 2 Duo chips already feel like a long forgotten memory, and frankly, that's a-okay with us. MSI is helping its seductive X-Slim line get a taste of Intel's Core 2010 lineup with a Core i5-520UM processor, which sits alongside up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a 250GB / 320GB / 500GB hard drive, integrated graphics, a 13-inch (1,366 x 768 resolution) panel, HDMI / VGA outputs, a pair of USB 2.0 sockets, 4- or 8-cell battery and an SD / MMC card reader. There's also built-in WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, twin speakers and a chassis that measures under 1-inch thick. Per usual, MSI is in no hurry to out pricing and release details, but we'll be sure to keep an eye (or two) out for both.MSI serves up Core i5 within 13-inch X-Slim X360 ultr [...]
[techcrunch] Foursquares New Site Design Starts To Roll Live As Gossip Girl Pays Homage Well, Maybe
Tue, 9 March 2010 9:46:58 GMT - Since its launch almost exactly a year ago, Foursquare's website has largely had the same basic design. Tonight, it looks like that's finally getting updated. While it looks like the update is still in the process of rolling out to all the pages, Foursquare.com now clearly has new system-wide toolbars, a brand new sign-up page, as well as some new settings. You might also notice a new, name-only logo. While it's been clear for a while that Foursquare has been working on a site redesign, only in the past few days have signs started to show that it was coming. For example, a completely revamped History area showed up a few days ago, one allowing for venues to have categories as well as show which friends you checked-in with at places.
[techcrunch] Akoha Launches iPhone App To Help Users Socialize Missions
Tue, 9 March 2010 9:30:43 GMT - You may remember Akoha, a startup which launched at the 2008 TechCrunch50 conference which uses mission cards that friends pass to each other along with a mission ( i.e. give someone a book or buy someone a meal.) The idea is that users will socialize their missions, using your social graph to compete against friends and determine how your missions performed. Akoha has been played in more than 65 countries since the companys launch. Today, Akoha is launching an free iPhone app and a redesign of its site. Akoha's iPhone app. With the new app, Akoha has increased the number of missions that can be played. A now Akoha is rewarding players for completed missions with badges, similar to Foursquare's badge model. Akoha is also allowing users to socialize missions [...]
[engadget] 4N wristwatch delivers digital time in a mechanical fashion
Tue, 9 March 2010 9:24:00 GMT - Given how simple we've made timekeeping over the years, it was inevitable that luxury watches would have to move into more esoteric lands in order to exude the appropriate sense of wonder when witnessed by those who can't afford them. You might call that the Xperia Pureness effect. Ergo, quite aside from its platinum or 18-carat gold construction options, the 4N watch tries to grab the spotlight with its quirky disc-based mechanism, which rotates numbers (four numbers, hence 4N) into position to display a digital readout of the time. The fact that all three discs -- built out of aluminum or a titanium alloy -- and the MVT01 movement are exposed to the eye earns geek cred from us, while the limited run of only 16 units should ensure the desired exclusivity fo [...]
[engadget] HTC Supersonic meets Mr. Blurrycam, leaves us wanting more (video)
Tue, 9 March 2010 8:48:00 GMT - Being drip-fed information on the HTC Supersonic is unlikely to be as pleasant an experience as actually having one, but it's all we can do to fill the time until this beast of a phone finally makes its official debut (probably on Sprint). Today's appearance shows what looks to be a majorly insecure Mr. Blurrycam sporting gloves and gingerly handling a handset purporting to be HTC's latest and greatest. We're mostly treated to a sight of the back, which is white as our first (and most trusted) tipster had seen, and gives us a grainy first look at the camera and speaker grill arrangement. Check out the video after the break. As a bonus, we've found another source for the earlier Supersonic video -- you know, the one that got yanked from YouTube twice -- and h [...]
[engadget] Sony unveils 3DTV release dates and pricing for Japan
Tue, 9 March 2010 8:23:00 GMT - Kicking off an expected repeat flood of 3DTV info over the next few days (Samsung and Panasonic both have events scheduled over the next couple of days) Sony has revealed pricing and shipping information for its new televisions and related accessories in Japan. The new sets share that sweet/ominous monolithic style of the already available NX800 series (also announced today in Japan, along with fellow 2D-only HX700 LCD and DVR-packing BX30H televisions,) with the edge-lit LED LX900 bringing the entire 3D package. With IR emitter built in and two pairs of RealD active shutter glasses, all you'll need to add is a source to the 60-, 51-, 46- and 40-inch models, ranging in price from ¥580,000 ($6,444) to ¥290,000 ($3,222.) Even if the TDG-BR100 / TDG-BR5 [...]
[digg] Comcast's Latest iPhone App Manages Your DVR From Anywhere
Tue, 9 March 2010 8:10:02 GMT - Comcast is fairly evil, to be sure. But if they're doing one thing right, it's the latest version of their free iPhone app, Comcast Mobile App 2.0.
[techcrunch] CauseWorlds Checkin For Charity Gets More Citi Money
Tue, 9 March 2010 7:58:48 GMT - CauseWorld, a mobile app that lets users check in to retail shops for credits that can be donated to charity, is clearly on a roll. The app first launched in December as the first mobile application that lets you do good deeds simply for walking into a store. CauseWorld app users earn karma points when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. No purchase is required at any store, and karma points can be redeemed nine predefined good causes. Big brands like Kraft Foods and Citi (both are on board) then turn the karmas into real dollar donations to those causes. Food for poor families, water in Sudan, trees in the Amazon, etc. are examples of the causes. The company has now donated about half of the original $500,000 donated by Kraft and Citi [...]
[engadget] 1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
Tue, 9 March 2010 7:47:00 GMT - Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, three eggheads (or Wolverines, as it were) at the University of Michigan claim they can break it simply by tweaking a device's power supply. By fluctuating the voltage to the CPU such that it generated a single hardware error per clock cycle, they found that they could cause the server to flip single bits of the private key at a time, allowing them to slowly piece together the password. With a small cluster of 81 Pentium 4 chips and 104 hours of processing time, they were a [...]
[techcrunch] Tweetshare: Fuze Boxs Take On Branded Twitter Channels
Tue, 9 March 2010 7:30:00 GMT - It's a little surprising to see a Twitter application coming out of Fuze Box (formerly CallWave), which creates visual collaboration product. The company has clearly caught the Twitter bug (albeit a little late) and today is launching Tweetshare, an third party Twitter app that allows anyone to immediately publish any type of content to the web, including HD video, presentations, images and more and automatically start Twitter conversation threads around their content. It's kind of like FriendFeed meets Twitpic or Twitvid. Tweetshare has also rolled out a companion iPhone app that allows mobile users to upload content, tweet and create discussions on the Tweetshare platform. A social alternative to static landing pages, Tweetshare aims to be a Twitterfied-Fa [...]
[techcrunch] Just Because: 8-Bit Style Map Of New York City
Tue, 9 March 2010 6:23:24 GMT - 8bitnyc is a fully interactive map of New York City that lets you drag, search and zoom in and out just like Google Maps. Except it is displayed as an 80's style 8-bit video game map. The map was created using map data from OpenStreetMap. Why? Who cares. I love it. Creator Brett Camper says "I created 8-Bit NYC, mixing the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games with the kind of geographical data that drives today's web maps and GPS navigation. It's interactive (like Google Maps), letting you zoom from a view of the whole city, down to an individual street -- any address, anywhere in the city. Here are a few highlights: Central Park, Greenwich Village, World Trade Center." [...]
[engadget] Coby intros Snapp pocket camcorders, for those with small pockets
Tue, 9 March 2010 6:17:00 GMT - In a world full of stylish pocket camcorders, there are few reasons to recommend Coby's ho-hum Snapp series, which has only just now managed the transition from cheap plastic junk to tasteful Flip knockoff with today's introduction of the CAM3001, CAM4505 and CAM5001 Snapp HD. Recording 640 x 480 footage over MJPEG, the cheaper two models are still not much better than your average VGA webcam, and with only megabytes of internal storage, all three will require a sizeable memory card to capture any real content. But when you consider the price of these things -- Amazon shows preorder prices of $30 and $50 for the budget cams and $80 for the 720p CAM5001 HD -- you might yet find yourself combing desk drawers for that spare SDHC card.Coby intros Snapp pocket ca [...]
[techcrunch] The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards
Tue, 9 March 2010 6:11:37 GMT - Every place and object in the world has a secret past: who lived there, who passed by, who touched it. The secret lives of objects are filled with such details. If only you could make them talk. But what if you could give any physical object a story simply by sticking a barcode on it and appending a message to that barcode? The message could be a photo, a text message, a video, or a voice note. All anyone would need to unlock the message is a phone with a special barcode scanning app. Stickybits is that app.
[programmableweb] US Army Launches Apps for Army Contest, Offers $30,000 in Prizes
Tue, 9 March 2010 5:08:21 GMT - The US Army has joined the ranks of government agencies courting developers by announcing a new competition called "Apps for the Army" (A4A). The competition aims to promote some fresh ideas and practical web and mobile applications for use within the military: [...]
[BizOnVid] A Detailed Look At VUDU's Streaming Technology, And What It Means To Walmart
Tue, 9 March 2010 5:01:51 GMT - When Walmart announced it had acquired VUDU, quite a few discussions were taking place on the web suggesting that Walmart would now need to setup a data center to be able to handle the delivery of videos or that Walmart wasn't going to want to support VUDU's P2P based technology. Since neither of those assumptions are accurate, I thought it...
[engadget] Dell jazzes up Vostro lineup with new look and Core 2010 processors, keeps prices in check
Tue, 9 March 2010 5:01:00 GMT - We're starting to bank on the small business-oriented Vostro for a really compelling blend of features and price. Sure, it's usually not the sexiest kit on the block (though the Vostro V13 would beg to differ), but it's hard to argue with the stellar pricetags. Dell's just thrown down a big 3000 series refresh to the Vostro lineup, with the Core i5 and Core i7 options across the line, and even a Core i7 Quad Core option for the 17-inch Vostro 3700. And it isn't just spec upgrades -- the 13-, 14-, 15- and 17-inch boxes all are available in silver, red or bronze, and are made of fairly sturdy stuff. Though the 17-inch 3700 is the mightiest of the bunch, we're particularly taken with the 13-inch 3300 which starts at $699 and boasts a rather thin chassis, onboar [...]
[engadget] AT&T's LG eXpo pico projects itself right out of stock, production problems to blame?
Tue, 9 March 2010 4:33:00 GMT - As Windows Mobile 6.5-based handsets go, LG's eXpo unquestionably stands near the top of the pile thanks to its WVGA display, 1GHz Snapdragon core, and optional pico projector hump for the rear -- but there's a problem: it's really, really hard to find. Nigh impossible, actually, especially now that AT&T has pulled it off its online store altogether (it had been showing out of stock for weeks anyway). The reason for that isn't entirely clear -- LG and AT&T are happy to cite "strong demand," naturally, but the company that supplies the eXpo's fingerprint sensor says there are actually some outstanding antenna problems that have the production line backlogged. So when's it coming back? "Soon," according to LG, but in this business we've seen "soon" mea [...]
[engadget] The iPad introduction video, as captioned by Google
Tue, 9 March 2010 4:00:00 GMT - Hey remember that feel-good iPad introduction video with the Ben Folds cover of "In Between Days" Apple posted on launch day? Yeah, well you're going to remember the hell out of it once you watch it with Google's auto-transcription enabled on YouTube. Trust us, you owe yourself these few moments of absurdity. Update: Video after the break! [Thanks, Jeff] Gallery: The iPad introduction video, as captioned by GoogleContinue reading The iPad introduction video, as captioned by GoogleThe iPad introduction video, as captioned by Google originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  YouTube  | Email this | Comments [...]
[techcrunch] Google Buzz Could Have Dominated Location. (And Snuck Up On Facebook And Twitter.)
Tue, 9 March 2010 3:36:07 GMT - Tomorrow it will be exactly one month since the launch of Google Buzz. The song remains the same: it's a mess. Normally, that wouldn't bother me so much after all, a lot of services are a mess but Buzz has a lot of potential. But again, it's been a month. I'm starting to wonder if it will ever reach that potential. I'm also starting to wonder if it shouldn't have been introduced as something entirely different. Despite its many annoyances, I've been using Buzz regularly over the past month (Gmail integration tends to shove it in your face and I hate unread counts). The one thing I keep coming back to is that Buzz on the iPhone and Android is pretty impressive. Specifically, the location functionality as run through the mobile web is impressive. In fact, th [...]
[readwriteweb] Digital Activism: An Interview with Mary Joyce
Tue, 9 March 2010 3:30:00 GMT - Digital activism is defined by the newly launched Meta-Activism Project as "the practice of using digital technology for political and social change." One of the leaders in the field of digital activism is Mary Joyce, the founder and executive director of the Meta-Activism Project. Joyce is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. She also founded DigiActive.org in 2007, a volunteer organization for grassroots activists. In 2008, she was New Media Operations Manager for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. As a lead-up to the upcoming event in New York City with Chinese digital activist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and yours truly, I interviewed Mary Joyce about the strategies and success stories of digital a [...]
[engadget] TiVo posts $10.2m loss, remains on deathwatch
Tue, 9 March 2010 3:13:00 GMT - We've had TiVo firmly on deathwatch since 2005, and although the company's shares have recently surged with the launch of the TiVo Premiere and another legal victory over Echostar, things are still looking somewhat bleak: the Q4 numbers are in, and everyone's favorite DVR company just posted a $10.2m loss. Why? For the same reason that's plagued the company for five damn years now: it's hard to sign up new subscribers when the cable company offers a similar good-enough product for less money, especially when TiVo can't access cable VOD. And let's be brutally honest here: we love TiVo and we're more than excited to get our Premiere review units, but we don't think a revised interface is going to stem the tide -- almost every feature of the Premiere is availab [...]
[engadget] Music Planet waterproof speaker ball makes bath time more melodic
Tue, 9 March 2010 2:26:00 GMT - Remember that waterproof Bluetooth speaker that you picked up last summer after none other than Billy Corgan endorsed it? Here's comes round two. Available exclusively in the Land of the Rising Sun (surprised?), the Music Planet speaker ball is IPX7-certified to shrug off water damage for up to 30 minutes at a depth of one meter, and it's designed so that the speaker itself sits just above the water line. Internally, you'll find an FM radio tuner, an SD / SDHC card slot for loading up MP3 files, a USB socket (good luck with that non-waterproof thumb drive) and an alarm clock. You know, in case you fall asleep underneath two feet of soapy water. Power comes from six AA cells, which provides enough juice for 13 straight hours of your own jams or 28 hours of wh [...]
[engadget] T-Mobile invites us to 'come experience the HTC HD2' on March 16; release on the 24th? (update: or 23rd!)
Tue, 9 March 2010 2:05:00 GMT - Like clockwork, we've just been dropped a line by T-Mobile USA asking us to join them for a very special media event to check out the HTC HD2 -- "a larger than life entertainment powerhouse" -- in fabulous New York City on the evening of March 16. That lines up nicely with the company's earlier assurances that we'd see a launch in March -- but what day in March, exactly? Well, we're hearing from a number of tipsters (including trusted sources) that the 24th is the day this thing breaks loose at retail, so set your watches and calendars accordingly -- assuming you haven't been wooed into Windows Phone 7 Series' tender, loving grasp, that is. Update: MobiTV -- which has an app bundled with T-Mobile's version of the HD2 -- says the HD2 is launching on the 23rd [...]
[readwriteweb] Location Privacy Goes to Washington
Tue, 9 March 2010 2:00:00 GMT - Testifying before a congressional hearing in late February, Mike Altschul with the Wireless Association was blunt: Federal mobile phone privacy policy is undefined and the privacy guidelines for location-based services written in 2008 are obsolete. The hearing on consumer privacy was the fifth in a series that seeks to evaluate and eventually legislate location-based privacy issues. It comes none too soon. The recent flood of location based apps and services has significantly shifted liabilities from mobile carriers to app developers and end-users. As Congressman and hearing chair Bobby Rush of Illinois said, Yesterday there was Facebook, and in the not-too-distant future we will be encountering something more akin to a "Placebook." Sponsor While the Wirele [...]
[engadget] Newegg terminates supplier relationship over counterfeit Core i7 CPUs
Tue, 9 March 2010 1:58:00 GMT - This weekend, up to 300 Newegg customers who pulled the trigger on a new Intel Core i7-920 processor found themselves puzzling over a clever fake instead. Who's to blame? It's not exactly clear -- Newegg initially said that the processors were "demo units," but has now posted a statement to Facebook saying that supplier IPEX shipped counterfeit chips and has had its contract revoked. That's good news for D&H Distributing, another Newegg supplier that responded to an initial wave of finger-pointing by issuing legal nastygrams to sites covering the story, thus ruining whatever good vibes the truth's generated. Finally, here's the statement Intel just sent us, explaining in no uncertain terms that these are counterfeit parts: "Intel has been made aware of [...]
[engadget] Another one bites the dust: Cisco steps out of the WiMAX game
Tue, 9 March 2010 1:31:00 GMT - It's still far, far too early to call WiMAX a dead technology, but with the second major infrastructure supplier moving away from it in as many months, that's a pretty damning sign, isn't it? After Alcatel Lucent's announcement that it would be scaling back WiMAX investment last month, Cisco has now pulled the plug on its own efforts, citing a desire to stay as "radio-agnostic" as possible in the 4G race. That makes sense for a company that hasn't traditionally played in the wireless game the same way stalwarts like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens have, but the move still lies in stark contrast to Cisco's 2007 acquisition of Navini Networks that brought a host of WiMAX-focused equipment into the fold. Of course, CDMA has managed just fine in the shadow of GSM's g [...]
[techcrunch] Fourface Is Foursquare As Modern Art
Tue, 9 March 2010 1:20:33 GMT - One common complaint about Foursquare is that in a increasingly crowded location-based space, it's not pretty enough when compared to the likes of Brightkite and Gowalla. The new iPhone app launching soon should help that. But for some, it still won't be enough. Those people should definitely check out Fourface. Fourface is a free iPhone app built using Foursquare's API. It takes the basic functionality of the service (check-ins, seeing who else is at a venue) and puts a stylish user interface on top of it. Specifically, you can choose from "Arcs," "Clouds," "Bubbles," and "Spots," for your new interface. Each offers a slightly different way to interact with Foursquare, and different ways to do things such a check-in. With Bubbles, for example, you simply fi [...]
[engadget] Spring Design Alex still not available for pre-order, 'early spring' ship date still planned
Tue, 9 March 2010 1:07:00 GMT - The first week of March may have brought warmer weather and an awesome episode of the Engadget Show, but unfortunately we're still missing a Spring Design Alex pre-order page. The company had promised to have its dual-screen, 3.5-inch Android and 6-inch e-ink e-Reader ready last week after the original February delay, but we've now been told that there were some slight issues with the order page and that it should be up within the "next week or two," and Spring Design still plans to have the reader in customer's hand's by "early spring." We've got no choice but to wait, but we can tell you we are looking forward to this whole spring thing in general.Spring Design Alex still not available for pre-order, 'early spring' ship date still planned originally appear [...]
[engadget] Dell Inspiron One 19 all-in-one turns up at Walmart
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:46:00 GMT - Well, here's a bit of an interesting surprise -- Dell's Inspiron One 19 all-in-one desktop, previously only announced for Japan and still not on Dell's US website, kicking back at a Walmart in the US of A. From the looks of it, the specs are more or less in line with what we've heard before, including an 18.5-inch widescreen display, a Pentium Dual Core E5400 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 640GB hard drive, along with a price said to be "around $600." Unfortunately, there's no indication of how widespread availability is right now, but feel free to let us know in comments if you happen to spot one. [Thanks, Steve]Dell Inspiron One 19 all-in-one turns up at Walmart originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use o [...]
[NewTeeVee] Will Felicia Days Online Success Transfer Offline?
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:45:14 GMT - Photo by The Bui Bros. (thebuibrothers.com) Ah, the Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Even the channel's recent name change to SyFy can't keep Saturday nights from being must-see TV for B-movie fans who like their snakes mega-sized and their spiders on ice. A pretty wide range of actors have done their time fighting CGI-rendered monsters, and today [...]
[readwriteweb] First Look at SnapGroups: A Delightful Tool For Lightweight Discussion
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:42:31 GMT - Mark Fletcher builds software, that's just what he does. He may have sold the system that became Yahoo Groups for $400 million, and then made millions selling Bloglines to Ask.com as well, but that doesn't mean he's going to stop making software. And it's not just any software he makes, either. Those two projects changed millions of peoples' lives. Tomorrow morning Fletcher will unveil his newest creation, a lightweight group communication tool called SnapGroups. We first wrote about it two weeks ago but hadn't been able to take a look until tonight. We're happy to report that you're probably going to like it a lot: it's easy, it's clear, it's got good social design and it's real time. Check out the screenshots below. Sponsor Update: Just after we posted t [...]
[engadget] Sausage stylus for the iPhone now on sale in the US
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:22:00 GMT - So you thought awesome gear never made the transition from Korea to the USA, huh? Not so in the case of the infamous sausage stylus we spotted a month ago. That cold weather peripheral -- allowing its ingenious users to operate a capacitive touchscreen with gloves on -- has made the big leap over to the Americas and can be yours for the low (seriously low) price of $0.99. Naturally, it's a sausage, so it will be compatible with not just iPhones but anything receptive to capacitive touch, although you should be cognizant of the "not for consumption" label -- compatibility with human stomachs is unlikely.Sausage stylus for the iPhone now on sale in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Pe [...]
[gizmodo] See HP Slate. See HP Slate Run Flash. [Hp]
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:20:00 GMT - Adobe's got a video out that proves the HP Slate can run Flash and AIR just fine, thankyouverymuch. To which we say: no kidding! It's a Windows 7 device. What's of some concern might be HP's own marketing clip: More » [...]
[techcrunch] Notice the Windows alternative in HPs slate device. This is a good thing.
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:10:04 GMT - We have written repeatedly that Windows itself is one of the main reasons why touchscreen computers have never caught the general public's attention. The interface just wasn't designed for finger input. Like it or not, that's the truth. Windows was designed to be used with a mouse, and to a lesser extent, a pen or stylus. That's fine. Windows 7 works great. I'm writing this on a Win7 machine. But I hate Windows on my tablet computers for the aforementioned reason. It's also the reason I'm very apprehensive of the upcoming onslaught of slate computers. I'm afraid that wonderful hardware will be passed up in favor of the disappointing iPad because of the interface. But Adobe gave me hope today in its demo of Flash and Air on the HP slate device.
[readwriteweb] Another Nationwide Outage For The Blackberry
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:00:30 GMT - The Blackberry just doesn't seem to have the luster it once did. Today, it had another nationwide outage. According to Data Outage News: "A number of users are reporting and an escalated RIM tech support call has confirmed data issues affecting WiFi devices NOT connected to a WiFi network. The outage is sporadic and issues are confirmed on at least on Verizon and T-Mobile on both US east and west coasts. Again, if you are connected to WiFi, you likely won't notice any problems until you are out of WiFi range. This is not affecting ALL WiFi users, the reports are sporadic, but across all carriers, BIS and BES included." Sponsor What's going in with the Blackberry? Once the enterprise stalwart, it is now looking like a struggling behemoth. Its interface almost [...]
[gizmodo] TiVo Posts $10.2 Million Loss, We Contemplate Dusting Off Our Funeral Garb [TiVo]
Tue, 9 March 2010 0:00:28 GMT - We've remarked in the past that TiVo is slowly dying and the latest numbers from the company aren't making us any more optimistic: More » [...]
[engadget] Google and Dish Network testing TV search on Android-based set-top boxes
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:57:00 GMT - We've definitely heard of a few different Android-based satellite and cable boxes in the past year, but it looks like Google's exploring a real move into living room: the Wall Street Journal reports that El Goog and Dish Network are testing a TV search service on a new box that runs on "elements" of Android. (We're taking that to mean it's a stripped-down version of the OS tailored for a set-top, not some totally crazy remix.) The box features a QWERTY remote, and users can search both Dish content and other services like YouTube, which sounds like the same riff TiVo's trying to pull off with the Premiere. Unfortunately, none of this seems destined to hit consumers anytime soon -- the WSJ also says the trial "is limited to a very small number of Google emplo [...]
[techcrunch] CrunchGear Reviews the ScanSnap S1300 Portable Scanner
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:38:35 GMT - Short Version: Tax season is upon us, friends, and wouldn't those 1099s and W2s floating hither and yon would be much more accessible if they were nestled deep inside a searchable PDF? Sure. That's why Fujitsu invented the $295 ScanSnap S1300. The ScanSnap S1300 is supposed to be a mobile scanner. While I'm dubious that many of us need a portable scanner, the device is small enough to fit in a briefcase and is quite light - about 3 pounds. It is USB-powered -- it requires two ports (one for power and one for data) however, which is a pain - and the top is collapsible for portability.
[NewTeeVee] Hulu, Vevo Take A Hit As Video Views Stall
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:22:26 GMT - comScore released its Video Metrix numbers for January today, showing a decline across the board for all the major video sites. U.S. viewers watched 32.4 billion videos in January, compared to 33.2 billion views in December. The number of unique viewers also declined from 177.9 million to 173.4 million. Two of the [...]
[engadget] Android NDK hits Release 3, brings OpenGL ES 2.0 access to devs
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:17:00 GMT - We know from a brief spat of iPhone 3GS controversy that OpenGL ES 2.0 brings a new level of immersive realism to 3D gaming on mobile devices, so Android developers (and users, for that matter) should be delighted to hear that a new release of the official Native Development Kit exposes its capabilities to anyone targeting Android 2.0 or higher. As a refresher, the so-called NDK is a bolt-on to the standard Android SDK that gives folks the ability to write and compile critical pieces of functionality in native code, closer to the processor without that pesky Java virtual machine standing in the way -- in other words, it's exactly what gamers and game devs need to make Android a serious gaming platform, and better access to badass 3D capabilities are a fun li [...]
[yahoo] TiVo 4Q loss widens, 1Q to miss Street view (AP)
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:07:58 GMT - AP - Digital video recorder pioneer TiVo Inc. said Monday that its fourth-quarter loss widened as higher expenses, especially in research and development for new products, more than offset an increase in revenue.
[readwriteweb] DeadHeads and Retweeters: Crowdsourcing Influence
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:00:00 GMT - Last week the New York Historical Society opened the first large-scale exhibit of material from the Grateful Dead Archive. The archive will be managed by the University of Santa Cruz with special access to four decades worth of videotapes, recordings, fan letters and even a note from President Obama. What is surprising about the archives and the band itself, is that this classic group of rock icons is being touted as one of the first businesses to take an active role in viral marketing and brand influence building. Sponsor Beyond the iconic imagery of the Uncle Sam skull, the dancing bears and the jester, the Grateful Dead are so well known for their viral influence on fans that entire academic careers have been spent studying the band as a sociological phe [...]
[readwriteweb] 10 Principles For Not Killing Your Startup
Mon, 8 March 2010 23:00:00 GMT - Everywhere you look these days, people are attempting to start innovative businesses and nonprofits, working on putting team, product and financing together, and generally trying to change the world - or, at least, their world - through entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, I strongly suspect that the mortality rate of tech startups is as high as ever (no rigorous scientific tracking there, just common sense and observation - please do share stats if you know of some). In any case, one failed startup is one too many. Sponsor Guest author Greg Boutin helps startups and early-stage ventures defy a certain death, through strategy and marketing services. He blogs on entrepreneurship and on semantic technologies. He thanks Arnold Wytenburg, William Mougayar of Eqentia, Fa [...]
[engadget] iPad trainspotters divine e-book prices, My Documents and more from Oscar night commercial
Mon, 8 March 2010 22:51:00 GMT - Trainspotters, eagle-eyed bloggers, and tech detectives of all stripes have had a field day with last night's iPad commercial. At the very least, we got a pretty good look at some e-book prices, ranging from Ted Kennedy's True Compass: A Memoir ($14.99) to Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin ($7.99). All gripping reads, for sure, and all more expensive than Amazon. In addition to all that, TUAW has made note of a New York Times button, possibly to bring up NYT bestsellers in the iBookstore. Delving deeper into the UI, a look at the Pages iWork app has revealed a button labeled My Documents (where have we heard that one before?). But Oscar night is not the only place for iPad [...]
[readwriteweb] The Future as Platform: Mark Hendrickson's Vision for Plancast
Mon, 8 March 2010 22:34:26 GMT - Mark Hedrickson is 24 years old. He grew up in Menlo Park, California, down the street from Stanford, raised by a high-tech marketer Dad and a Mom in banking. Then he went to college and studied Nietzsche. He has now set out to build The Future - specifically your future, your intentions, your plans as a platform for analysis and software development. The story became particularly interesting today: Hendrickson's new company Plancast is submitting its much-anticipated iPhone app to Apple days before SXSW and announced on Hendrickson's alma matter tech blog TechCrunch that it has raised just short of $1m from a list of industry stars. We offer below some perspective on what Plancast aims to do: nothing less than "to be the platform for all 'intent' data," Mar [...]
[engadget] Neo SNES / SFC Myth Flash cart brings emulation magic to your aged console
Mon, 8 March 2010 22:28:00 GMT - Oh, sure -- the Wii's Virtual Console may put you in direct contact with some of the best titles from yesteryear, but for the purists in attendance, it just feels like cheating. If you've been hanging onto that Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom, as it were) and you've recently been dealing with the emulation itch, Neoflash just might have the remedy. The Neo SNES / SFC Myth cart is pretty much the most magical cart you could ever slap into your classic console, offering up ROM support for "99.5 percent" of SNES games. Better still, titles can be offloaded from your PC and onto the cart via USB, making the entire transfer process a cinch. Of course, the $169 price tag will likely offend all but the most dedicated of retro gamers, but hey, at least you'll be st [...]
[engadget] ASUS Eee PC 1005PR packs Broadcom Crystal HD and high-res screen
Mon, 8 March 2010 22:05:00 GMT - Today in Tales from ASUS we bring you the story of the 10.1-inch Eee PC 1005PR. While we didn't catch this one hiding out in the overflowing CeBIT booth, it appears big A has gone and swapped out the screen on the 1005PE for one with a 1366 x 768-resolution and tucked a Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator inside, which means the little lappie should be able to handle some YouTube HD (at least after you download 10.1 Beta 3). Nothing special apart from that, as it's standard netbook down the line: 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450, 1GB of RAM, and 320GB hard drive. No word on pricing or availability, but we're guessing it'll probably come in at under $400, like the Dell Mini 10 and HP Mini 210. It may not be a bad deal in the end, but we're still holding out for the Ion 2- [...]
[betanews] Latest HTML5 working draft published despite claims of 'sabotage'
Mon, 8 March 2010 22:01:20 GMT - By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Should the next version of HTML, the Web standard that embodies how pages are laid out and constructed, include explicit specifications for inline, 2D dynamic graphics? There's valid arguments on both sides. One side believes that the ability to plot charts and animations would have been part of the original HTML standard anyway, had the technology existed on the back end in the beginning; giving HTML 2D graphics now, they say, plugs a hole left open for too long. Another believes the HTML5 standard should simply specify an API for plug-ins, to let separate groups of engineers evolve a methodology for plotting graphics at their own pace, and on their own track.From one angle, the debate appears as innocuous as this: Should g [...]
[NewTeeVee] Oscars Online: Twitter Traffic, Livestreaming Help Power Hollywoods Big Night
Mon, 8 March 2010 21:45:25 GMT - Television ratings may be down across the board, but it's been a good year for awards shows so far. First, the Grammys broadcast reached 23 million viewers in February, and then last night the 82nd annual Academy Awards had its best viewership in five years, with 41.3 million views. While we're still waiting to hear from [...]
[engadget] Energizer confirms software vulnerability in Duo charging software
Mon, 8 March 2010 21:19:00 GMT - Energizer's Duo USB battery charger has been around for a couple of years now, but the company has just now fessed up to a fairly significant vulnerability in the software for the device after being informed of the problem by CERT. While the software was intended to simply let you keep watch on the battery charging status, it apparently also opened up a backdoor that allowed commands to be executed remotely, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and run programs. That vulnerability is only found in the Windows version of the software, and Energizer has already discontinued the product altogether and removed the download from its website. Anyone that already has the software installed is advised to first uninstall it and then remo [...]
[techcrunch] comScore: Online Video Views Down Across The Board In January
Mon, 8 March 2010 21:18:53 GMT - comScore has just released its US online video rankings for January 2010, and the results aren't positive. Overall views dropped by around 2.5%, with 32.4 billion in January vs. 33.2 billion in December. And Hulu, which celebrated crossing the 1 billion view milestone for the first time in December, dipped back down to 903 milion views. The drop can't be blamed entirely on seasonality, either, January 2009's overall video views were up 4% over December 2008. 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.
[engadget] Intel readies 8-core Nehalem-Ex processors for a March launch
Mon, 8 March 2010 20:51:00 GMT - Intel's current generation of Xeon processors already represents some of the fastest silicon you can buy, and yet the company's forthcoming Nehalem-Ex-based Xeons are being touted as the single greatest generational jump in its history. To achieve that, Intel has strapped eight cores into each CPU, with a pair of threads per core and 24MB of shared cache, along with integrated quad-channel memory controllers, Turbo Boost, and the pretty awesome ability to scale up to eight sockets -- meaning you could have 64 processing cores in the same rig. Don't even ask whether these chips can run Crysis 2, they'll probably be showing up in the machines that are making the game... and maybe yours, provided you have the cash to splash later this month.Intel readies 8-core [...]
[engadget] PowerHouse eMonitor lets you manage power use down to the circuit
Mon, 8 March 2010 20:28:00 GMT - As energy prices increase, so does our desire to understand and actively manage household power use. Joining the fight alongside Google's PowerMeter and NEC's "dung beetle" game, PowerHouse Dynamic's eMonitor interfaces with your circuit box to tell you how much energy each individual circuit is using, and the management software seems particularly robust: users can look forward to real-time stats, customized energy saving recommendations based on your home's energy usage, and a handy read-out of your "carbon footprint" and what it would take to offset it. In addition to all that, alerts can be configured for everything from overloaded circuits to left-on appliances, individual outlets and thermostats can be controlled remotely (optional), and an iPhone app [...]
[NewTeeVee] The Financial Times Signs Up with Brightcove
Mon, 8 March 2010 20:17:21 GMT - The Financial Times will move its video assets to Brightcove, according to a report from Journalism.co.uk. The paper, which is currently publishing between 200 and 300 videos per month, had previously signed up with Maven Networks, which was bought by Yahoo in early 2008. Yahoo decided to shut down Maven merely 17 months [...]
[betanews] 10 things Microsoft did right in 2010 (so far)
Mon, 8 March 2010 20:06:00 GMT - By Joe Wilcox, Betanews It's throw-Microsoft-a-bone Monday, not that I can promise much meat on it. Microsoft may have fallen behind in mobile, been talking about a three-screen strategy off of two screens, and clumsily competedas usual, but some early 2010 actions deserve at least a little praise. So here's where I give it.First, some context. There's doing right -- and there's doing right. Some of the stuff here I'll assert Microsoft did right I previously dinged the company for getting wrong. That's because what's right for Microsoft might be wrong in a greater competitive landscape, like taking right action A too slowly or not soon enough. With that introduction, here are 10 things Microsoft has done right in 2010 (so far), presented in no order of impor [...]
[NewTeeVee] Vid-Biz: Hulu, CBS, Blockbuster
Mon, 8 March 2010 18:30:40 GMT - CBS Finds Personalized Online Video Ad Insertions Nets 95% Completion Rates; network says personalized ads fare up to 15 percent better that regular mid-roll ads. (Beet.tv) Hulu to Offer NFL Content; partnership with NFL gives Hulu viewers access to award winning shows containing historical game footage. (emailed release) Panasonic Ties With Best [...]
[VideoNuze] Will Nasty Fee Fights Fuel Consumers' Cord-Cutting Interest?
Mon, 8 March 2010 18:21:32 GMT - Another weekend, another high-stakes fee fight between a multi-billion dollar media company and a multi-billion dollar cable operator. This time around it was Disney's WABC station in the New York City market in a standoff with Cablevision, which has 3.3 million subscribers there, with the Oscars broadcast the main hostage (WABC, which was pulled late Saturday night, came back on the air at 8:44pm subject to an initial agreement between the companies). This fight, like recent ones between Time Warner Cable and News Corp, Cablevision and Scripps, plus others, is a no win PR situation for its combatants, and in my mind will lead to one inevitable result - heightened consumer disgust with the hyper-corporatized TV business, where CEOs who are paid tens of milli [...]
[NewTeeVee] TiVo Premiere UI is Heading to Europe, India
Mon, 8 March 2010 17:30:16 GMT - TiVo has struck a partnership with pay TV security provider Conax that could bring its new user interface to cable customers in Scandinavia, mainland Europe and India, the company announced today. Norway-based Conax provides security solutions to a number of cable, satellite and IPTV operators in Europe and Asia, touting a [...]
[betanews] Who should buy the iPad? Hint: People of a certain age (and that's not you)
Mon, 8 March 2010 17:11:00 GMT - By Joe Wilcox, Betanews "Who will buy?" is the question to ask now that Apple has turned on the advertising spigot. I saw the first iPad commercial three times during yesterday's Academy Awards program. No one should underestimate the power of Apple marketing for generating millions of initial iPad sales. Advertising will differentiate iPad from ebook reader or tablet competitors.For years, Apple advertised iPod unchecked. Competitors simply didn't aggressively advertise their MP3 players. So from about 2002 through end of 2004, iPod owned media player advertising -- at least in the United States. For a short time, Creative had a campaign, then nothing after 2005. No wonder so many people bought an iPod -- itseeminglywas the only choice.What other competitor [...]
[NewTeeVee] Jimmy Kimmel Recreates Trololololo Viral With Oscar Winner Christoph Waltz
Mon, 8 March 2010 16:07:33 GMT - Inglourious Basterds breakout star Christoph Waltz was one of the surest bets at this year's Academy Awards, accepting his trophy with great grace and humility. But while he enjoyed the winner's party circuit last night, Jimmy Kimmel Live ran a new video featuring the Oscar winner...humping things. The video, purported to be a featurette about one [...]
[NewTeeVee] Cablevision and ABC Reach Deal During Academy Awards
Mon, 8 March 2010 8:17:47 GMT - And the Oscar for the industry's best drama goes to... ABC. The Disney-owned broadcaster reached a tentative agreement with Cablevision minutes into the telecast of the Academy Awards, according to a New York Times report. ABC and Cablevision had been embroiled in a very public dispute over the right to carry New York's [...]
[BizOnVid] Blockbuster Won't Survive: CEO Says "Conservative Approach" Required For Digital
Mon, 8 March 2010 5:01:55 GMT - Eight months ago I wrote a post entitled "Ten Years Later, Blockbuster Still Lacks A Digital Media Strategy" where I outlined some of the ways that Blockbuster has faltered with their strategy for the digital distribution of movies. After the post, I heard from some angry shareholders who wanted to argue with me about how the company would turn it...
[yahoo] How to Navigate the Deluge of Netflix Streaming Devices (PC World)
Mon, 8 March 2010 3:00:00 GMT - PC World - Getting a movie (or an entire season of Lost) delivered in the mail used be the height of convenience, but discs are so last decade. Consumers are increasingly seeking instant satisfaction, in the form of streaming video on demand. Netflix says that 48 percent of its 12.3 million subscribers used its streaming feature in December 2009, versus just 28 percent the previous year.
[onlinevideowatch] Oscar Night Irony
Mon, 8 March 2010 1:59:39 GMT - On the heals of Livestream's open letter to the industry about piracy of live streamed content, it wasn't long before a quinticential example pops up. While ABC initially cut off access to Cablevision during their dispute (access was restored at approximately 8:45PM EST, disgruntled viewers are turning to the web for their OSCAR content. In [...]
[onlinevideowatch] Cablevision Sends Viewers to the Web on Oscar Night
Mon, 8 March 2010 0:00:35 GMT - UPDATED: Disney and ABC have apparently reached an agreement "in principle." Access to ABC was restored on the Cablevision network at approximately 8:45 PM EST approximately 30 minutes into the Oscars broadcast. The months long public battle between ABC and Cablevision over retransmission rights fees came to a head today when ABC pulled the plug [...]
[NewTeeVee] Pirating the 2010 Oscars: District 9 Beats Avatar
Sun, 7 March 2010 8:01:20 GMT - Which movie is gonna take home the prestigious Best Picture price: Avatar or The Hurt Locker? That's the big question of tonight's Academy Awards, if we can believe Hollywood pundits. Both movies have been nominated for nine awards, and anything seems possible. Of course, Avatar has some commercial momentum on its side, given the fact that [...]
[digg] Facebook Bans 'Free iPad' Ads
Sun, 7 March 2010 7:30:03 GMT - Facebook reveals that it doesnt approve ads individually, but ads like the tailor-made iPad pitch will be deleted when theyre found.
[NewTeeVee] Weekend Vid Picks: Jon M. Chus LXD, at the Oscars and Beyond
Sun, 7 March 2010 0:16:35 GMT - Jon M. Chu's League of Extraordinary Dancers dance crew -- or, as you might know them better because you're cool like that, the LXD -- is performing live at the Academy Awards tomorrow. And to tease what will no doubt be a a pretty dazzling display of breakdancing, they've uploaded a teaser video of [...]
[NewTeeVee] Video Interview: How to Go Viral
Sat, 6 March 2010 8:01:33 GMT - Jamie Wilkinson, aka Jamie Dubs, is the go-to guy if you want to learn anything about Internet memes. He's the brain behind Know Your Meme, and until recently used to be Rocketboom's Internet Research Scientist, complete with lab coat and white board. Wilkinson looked into the origin of such seminal Internet memes [...]
[programmableweb] 28 APIs Used in 7 Days: Bing, eBay, Facebook, Fedex, Google, Salesforce, Yahoo and YouTube
Sat, 6 March 2010 5:49:42 GMT - This past week's new mashups in our mashup directory combined 28 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google OpenID, Heyzap, Menu Mania, Microsoft adCenter, RescueTime, RPX, Windows Live ID Web Authentication and Yahoo Search Marketing. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Facebook and Google Ajax Search. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Security (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 3 mashups).
[NewTeeVee] March Madness Comes to Hulu for Best In Show Showdown
Sat, 6 March 2010 1:30:19 GMT - Are you just chomping at the bit for everyone's favorite college basketball tourney to kick off? Well, you got a week or two to wait yet, buddy. In the meantime, though, Hulu is running its own bracket -- one where you get to vote on the winners, even. The five-week Best in Show campaign [...]
[onlinevideowatch] Community Gets Renewed; Announcement Goes Viral
Sat, 6 March 2010 1:04:13 GMT - NBC's Community will be back for another season and Executive Producer Dan Harmon took the opportunity to capture his announcement to the cast and upload it to yfrog. It's since been picked up by Brian Stelter in The Times Media Decoder column and the news is all over Twitter.
[NewTeeVee] Two Reasons to Love and Two Reasons to Hate The Office Webisodes
Sat, 6 March 2010 0:30:02 GMT - Yesterday NBC released the latest round of webisodes from the world of The Office -- the four-part series The Mentor, which, like previous limited series produced by the show's production team, is a well-made little look into internal Office politics. However, watching the surprisingly short series (four episodes at two minutes each = much more brief [...]
[NewTeeVee] Where to Watch the Oscars Online, On Demand & On Your Phone
Fri, 5 March 2010 23:00:45 GMT - This weekend, the stars will all be out to celebrate the 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, which will be broadcast on ABC beginning at Sunday, March 7 at 8pm EST/5pm Pacific. And while this year's Oscars ceremony won't be streamed live online, there will be plenty of additional online video streams to accompany the event [...]
[yahoo] Podcast: Apple Sues HTC, and TiVo Gets New Tricks (PC World)
Fri, 5 March 2010 22:11:00 GMT - PC World - This week on the podcast, PCWorld editors Robert Strohmeyer, Jason Cross, Ginny Mies, and Tim Moynihan talk about Apple's lawsuit against HTC and about the brand-new TiVo Series 4 Premiere and XL digital video recorders (DVRs).
[NewTeeVee] Panasonic EVP Bob Perry: Consumers Desire Choice
Fri, 5 March 2010 22:11:00 GMT - Panasonic EVP Bob Perry made it clear at this week's TV of Tomorrow Show that there's not much love lost in America for cable TV. He joked that even Wall Street bankers might be more popular than cable execs, and warned that cable companies won't survive if they continue to force consumers into [...]
[BizOnVid] CDNs Will Challenge Akamai For Value Add Services: CDNetworks The Latest
Fri, 5 March 2010 20:37:15 GMT - While many content delivery vendors continue to add new services tied into the video ecosystem, CDN vendors as a whole have been very slow to diversify their product portfolio outside of delivering video, software and small objects. For a long time, Akamai has been the only game in town for services tied to commerce and application acceleration and has dominated...
[yahoo] Dish shares climb after upgrade (AP)
Fri, 5 March 2010 20:36:10 GMT - AP - Shares of Dish Network Corp. got a boost Friday after a Collins Stewart analyst upgraded the satellite TV operator, saying the bulk of a legal defeat from TiVo Inc. is now priced into the stock.
[NewTeeVee] Why Doesnt Web Video Like the C Word?
Fri, 5 March 2010 20:30:09 GMT - Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Ramblin. Photo from the TMI Weekly blog.It's a quiet afternoon when my phone rings with an unknown number. I don't get a lot of phone calls from unknown numbers, especially from people who have been the focus of both the New York Times and fierce reblogging sites, so [...]
[VideoNuze] VideoSchmooze is Coming on April 26th - Save the Date
Fri, 5 March 2010 19:08:37 GMT - Be sure to save the date - April 26th - for the next "VideoSchmooze" Broadband Video Leadership Evening. Once again the location is the gorgeous Hudson Theater in Times Square, NYC and the time is 6-9pm. The evening will include cocktails/networking and a panel discussion I'll moderate. The topic is "Money Talks: Is Online Video Shifting to a Paid Model" in which we'll explore the trends influencing paid options (e.g. TV Everywhere, paid mobile video apps, Netflix, etc.) and how these are balanced against free ad-supported online video. I'm finalizing the panelists and early bird registration will go live soon. Once again, I expect 200-250 industry executives, making VideoSchmooze a premier networking and educational opportunity. An added bonus of this Video [...]
[VideoNuze] Comedy Central Pulls Out of Hulu - Was This Really a Surprise?
Fri, 5 March 2010 19:03:51 GMT - This week brought news that Comedy Central was pulling its programs, including its hits "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report," from Hulu on March 9th. Both had been available on Hulu since the summer of 2008 in what Comedy Central had initially positioned as a test. Both will still be freely available at ComedyCentral.com. The Daily Show in particular had been enormously popular on Hulu since launch, so in this respect losing it is a setback for Hulu. Still, Comedy Central's decision should come as a surprise to nobody. As I've been saying since I wrote "The Cable Industry Closes Ranks" in November '08, a bright line is being drawn in the broadband world between programs that consumers currently pay for and those that they don't. The ind [...]
[betanews] 'Hero' goes down: Microsoft cutbacks spell the end of Essential Business Server
Fri, 5 March 2010 18:43:51 GMT - By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Two years ago, during a private premiere event entitled "Heroes Happen Here" held at the same Nokia Theater in Los Angeles where the Emmy Awards are now staged, and introduced by none other than Tom Brokaw, Microsoft rolled out a truckload of new server software product lines to help cement the company's new prominence in businesses and enterprises. One of the "heroes" that day, as Microsoft phrased it, was Essential Business Server, an effort to market a ready-from-the-get-go three- or four-server database and mail management package for businesses that have a few dozen employees, but may not yet be enterprises.It was a solid idea. But today it was left to EBS' own product managers to announce on their team blog this mornin [...]
[VideoNuze] Magazines are Keen on Video; iPad in Central Role
Fri, 5 March 2010 18:42:09 GMT - Following up on my post last week about the Wall Street Journal's new "Digits" video series, in which I reiterated my belief that online video is a huge new opportunity for print publishers, this week brought news of new video initiatives from a number of magazines. As reported by AdAge, Sports Illustrated is launching a new 5 times per day news program called "SI Inside Report," among other video projects. Six new employees have been brought on to support the initiative, which has to be a rare instance of new hiring in the magazine industry. Elsewhere, Conde Nast is continuing to ramp up for the iPad; as the NY Times reported this week it will offer iPad versions of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour. Conde plans to experiment with different [...]
[VideoNuze] MovieClips.com is Poised to Provide Addictive Fun
Fri, 5 March 2010 18:35:08 GMT - With the Oscars coming up on Sunday night (my prediction btw: "Avatar" wins everything) - it was timely to speak earlier this week to MovieClips.com's co-founders Zach James and Richard Raddon. MovieClips.com, which launched in December, just announced that it was taking away its geo-restriction, effectively making its clips available to most of the world. It also released an API so 3rd parties (bloggers and others) can incorporate some of the site's key features. MovieClips.com is a wonderful example of how online video is unlocking value in archived assets. As its name implies, the site offers searching and browsing for your favorite movie scenes/quotes. Rich and Zach have been going through the arduous process of signing deals with studios for legitimate [...]
[yahoo] TiVo's Patent Win: What It Means For You (PC World)
Fri, 5 March 2010 16:14:00 GMT - PC World - Dish Network owner Echostar is on its last legs in a 6-year-old legal battle with TiVo over DVR technology. An appeals court has found Echostar in contempt for continuing to make and sell DVRs that violate TiVo's "multimedia time warping system" patent, which essentially lets you watch one program and record another at the same time.
[VideoNuze] VideoNuze Report Podcast #52 - March 5, 2010
Fri, 5 March 2010 16:12:04 GMT - Daisy Whitney and I are pleased to present the 52nd edition of the VideoNuze Report podcast, for March 5, 2010. First up this week I discuss my post from this past Monday, "ABC.com is Now Achieving 'DVR Economics' for Its Programs," in which I described how ABC is now generating roughly the same revenue per program per viewer in online as it is when its programs are watched in DVR playback mode. Albert Cheng, EVP of Digital Media at Disney-ABC had explained to me last week that ABC recently concluded that since online and DVR are both "catch-up" opportunities, it was more appropriate to compare them to each other than to on-air. Key to this logic is that ABC maintains a release window for its programs, with them being posted on the site 4-6 hours after broa [...]
[betanews] Apple iPad and first iPad-specific app hit stores on April 3
Fri, 5 March 2010 16:01:48 GMT - By Tim Conneally, Betanews Apple's iPad, which was unveiled at the end of January, will be available in US retail on Saturday April 3, the company announced today; and pre-orders will begin on March 12.The first iPads available will not be equipped with 3G radios, and will be Wi-Fi only, these models go for $499 for 16 GB, $599 for 32 GB, $699 for 64 GB. The AT&T 3G-enabled models will be available in late April for $629 for 16 GB, $729 for 32 GB and $829 for 64 GB. At that time, the device will also launch internationally in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. More countries are expected to follow later this year.An important part of this launch will be the availability of iBooks, the first app designed specific [...]
[onlinevideowatch] Jon Stewart Takes on Chatroulette
Fri, 5 March 2010 15:44:51 GMT - "This is an internet site that will very quickly become a repository of 5% curiosity seekers and 95% free floating dongs. But I'm sure you can make even that sound like news." (via) The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c [...]
[yahoo] "Up in the Air" ad tops TiVo viewing list (Reuters)
Fri, 5 March 2010 1:09:17 GMT - Reuters - If there were an Oscar for the best TV commercial for a best picture nominee, it would go to "Up in the Air." And it wouldn't even be close.
[wired] 'Hordesourced' Playlist: What's Popular On MySpace Right Now
Thu, 4 March 2010 23:10:00 GMT - A trio of nifty apps for Android, iPhone and MySpace profiles from We Are Hunted taps into the musical zeitgeist in near-real-time. It lets you listen to minute-long samples from whichever artist was most streamed on MySpace in the previous 60 seconds.
[yahoo] BigBand Networks changes executive lineup (AP)
Thu, 4 March 2010 22:45:09 GMT - AP - BigBand Networks Inc., a digital video software company, on Thursday announced that its chief operating officer and a top sales executive have resigned.
[cnet] EchoStar injunction upheld in victory for TiVo
Thu, 4 March 2010 18:20:00 GMT - Dish Network DVR owners won't see any impact just yet as EchoStar appeals the latest decision, but TiVo is a step closer to $300 million and a crippling blow against EchoStar.
[betanews] Appeals court rules redesigned EchoStar box still infringes on TiVo's DVR
Thu, 4 March 2010 18:04:34 GMT - By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews In a precedent-setting win for the company perceived as the originator of "time-shift" video recording, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has fully affirmed a lower court's judgment that satellite service provider EchoStar's software continued to infringe upon TiVo's patents even after making significant changes to address its complaints. This despite what EchoStar (whose DVR boxes are also used by former sister company Dish Network) had called "Herculean" efforts to steer clear of TiVo's intellectual property, and a preliminary US Patent Office rejection last August casting doubt on the validity of TiVo's patents.At issue was whether EchoStar modified the software for two of its recorders, called the 50X and Broadcom ser [...]
[onlinevideowatch] Breaks Richman on the Importance of Distribution
Thu, 4 March 2010 17:30:38 GMT - In the must read department, Break.com CEO Keith Richman points out in an Ad Age article that even in today's long tail, hyper-syndicated media environment distribution and marketing are still critical: At the very least, I think it is fair to say that even if content is king online, then distribution and marketing are the "crown [...]
[onlinevideowatch] VideoNuze Interviews (hey that rhymes)
Thu, 4 March 2010 16:30:41 GMT - Our good friend, Will Richmond, over at the must-read VideoNuze got the chance to interview a few industry heavy hitters at thePlatform's recent customer gathering. Courtesy of thePlatform's addition of social media tools into their player, we can bring them to you here.
[VideoNuze] mPoint Becomes Panvidea, Streamlines Video Preparation and Post Production Processes
Thu, 4 March 2010 16:16:30 GMT - Yesterday mPoint, which had been a cloud-based video encoding platform,  re-launched as Panvidea, with an expanded focus on streamlining video preparation and the post-production process for professional media companies. Panvidea also announced new customers A&E Television Networks, Fox Broadcasting and Getty Images.  Chris Cali, CEO and co-founder and Doug Heise, VP of Marketing brought me up to speed and gave me a demo last week.  Panvidea has done extensive product development to differentiate it from other on-demand, cloud-based encoding providers. The company is positioning itself as a full-scale alternative to expensive post-production house services or as an augment for customers who have some digital video preparation capabilities [...]
[programmableweb] Search Thousands of Movie Clips, Assuming You Can Get API Access
Wed, 3 March 2010 22:33:05 GMT - The self-proclaimed movie freaks behind MovieClips now have a platform that could allow for some really fun mashups. Unfortunately, even the most basic documentation is hidden behind an application form and a promise that "access to the API is granted only to approved partners." [...]
[onlinevideowatch] Livestream Issues Open Letter on Piracy
Wed, 3 March 2010 20:42:44 GMT - Today, live streaming provider Livestream issued an open letter on their blog, announcing their Zero Tolerance policy on piracy. In a nut shell, they've got a zero tolerance policy on piracy. The open letter, which we obviously support wholeheartedly, was written by CEO Max Hoat to inform their customers, advertisers, partners, policy makers and competitors [...]
[BizOnVid] SaaS Based Transcoding Company mPOINT Relaunches As Panvidea
Wed, 3 March 2010 19:12:59 GMT - This morning, SaaS based transcoding provider mPOINT announced a re-launch and re-branding of the company which is now called Panvidea. Originally founded in late 2007, the company has been pretty quiet in the space and hasn't done much talking about their solution or given out many details on the company. With today's re-launch, the company now plans to start marketing...
[VideoNuze] thePlatform Rolls Out Social Media Features; Video Interviews Available
Wed, 3 March 2010 17:53:44 GMT - This morning thePlatform is rolling out its latest Player Development Kit (PDK) which offers its media customers the option of turning on a series of video sharing/social media features for their users. Marty Roberts, thePlatform's VP of Marketing, gave me a demo last week. One of my key reactions is that interest in the PDK by thePlatform's customers shows how much media companies' executives' mindsets have evolved in a very short time. With the player enhancements, users are able to embed video into ten of the most popular social networks: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Windows Live, Yahoo! Buzz and Vodpod. All are pre-integrated by thePlatform so just a couple of clicks by the user places the video player, complete with [...]
[VideoNuze] TiVo's New Boxes are Very Cool But Old Challenges Persist
Wed, 3 March 2010 16:55:51 GMT - The two new boxes TiVo unveiled last night - the Premiere and the Premiere XL - go right to the top of my list of most impressive devices that handle both broadcast and broadband content in one seamless experience. The new boxes continue TiVo's pattern of always being one step ahead of the competition in delivering an outstanding user experience. All of that is the good news. The bad news is that unfortunately, nothing I learned in my briefing earlier this week with Jim Denney, TiVo's VP of Product Marketing, suggests that these boxes will find their way into any more than the relatively few homes that prior TiVo boxes have. First the boxes themselves. The key Premiere innovation is that TiVo now elegantly recognizes broadband sources such as Netflix, Amazo [...]
[BizOnVid] Adobe To Release Support For HTTP Flash Streaming Next Month
Tue, 2 March 2010 15:20:57 GMT - Back in October, Adobe announced that sometime in 2010 they would provide support for HTTP streaming enabling CDNs to leverage their existing HTTP infrastructure and cache technologies for video delivery. The platform, called "project Zeri", will provide support for all Flash Codecs, support adaptive bitrate switching, support live and on-demand delivery, enable the protection of content and will include full...
[wired] Netflix Eyes iPhone for Movie, TV Streaming
Tue, 2 March 2010 5:00:00 GMT - Netflix has renewed its interest in the iPhone as a video streaming platform, with a survey asking its customers how much they want an app for the iPhone (and, almost certainly, the iPad). The proposed app would allow them to watch thousands of movies and television shows for about the price of one movie ticket per month, with no need for a traditional cable or satellite subscription.
[onlinevideowatch] Doritos Canada Launches New Videos
Thu, 25 February 2010 17:03:36 GMT - Doritos Canada has launched a new series of viral videos on their YouTube channel as part of a marketing effort to name their new "unidentified" flavor. Unsurprisingly, some are funnier than others. Head over and enjoy a few. My favorite, so far, is Hot Sexy Doritos Lady.
[onlinevideowatch] White House Summit on Health Reform Live
Thu, 25 February 2010 16:38:24 GMT - WhiteHouse.gov is live streaming today's bipartisan summit on health care and making the embed code available. So watch below: JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV [...]
[onlinevideowatch] My Watershed Week of Online Video
Thu, 25 February 2010 0:07:06 GMT - Sure we gripe about quality. And advertising. And content availability. And authentication. And monetization. And... and.... and.... But today, I'm not bitching at all. Yesterday was my personal online video watershed moment. The one when you sit back - lean back, in the parlance of our time - and say, "Damn. This Really Is GOOD." I recently [...]