The NFL is finding growing viewership to its cable network and online site. Saturday night's New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys had 10.1 million views on television and over 1 million streams of the game online, both records, the NFL announced tonight.
Last month we spoke with the NFL's Laura [...]
Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.
This would mark the first time that one of the big live Web [...]
Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.
Max told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington earlier this month that live video would comprise as much as half of the video watched in five years.
His comments came after Stokes Young, [...]
Authors and publishers have been using online video to build engagement with readers and to find new ones. With traditional book publicity opportunities and store signings on the wane, having an online strategy is a necessity.
These videos reside on destination sites, on publisher sites, on author pages, and on social [...]
Video teleconferencing, long an expensive technology, hidden inside the enterprise firewall, is becoming a pervasive social media platform.
New York-based Paltalk, a provider a live conferencing platform, allows up to 10 participants to be live on a user's page. The company claims 4 million active users around the world' [...]
David Payne, former chief of CNN.com, has been working his start-up called ShortTail Media, which aims to help publishers increase revenue by integrating television advertising the online experience.
In beta since this summer, the company is funded by powerhouse Boston venture fund General Catalyst Partners.
Payne says that traditional display [...]
Comcast's much anticipated launch of its its "TV Everywhere" service, which allows subscribers to Comcast to watch selected video on their computers, has gone live in beta, today.
The company has just announced a number of television shows and films which have not been online before including a number of shows' [...]
WASHINGTON, DC -- Creating quality, enduring online video news content doesn't need to be expensive, but it has to be done with skill and credibility.
It is the skilled video producers who will emerge in this new ecosystem of online video news, those who bring strong journalistic skills, notably editing,' [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Loomia provides recommended links and videos to visitors of big publishing sites for text content as well as links to video. The company claims its recommendation engine boosts consumption by 24 percent for video publishers.
The San Francisco-based company's program is integrated into the WSJ.com, Time.com,' [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Portland-based Elemental Technologies, a producer of video encoding hardware, sees a big opportunity in the industry's move to adaptive streaming, meaning the delivery of video to users with varying connection speeds in consistent, high quality.
The company says its processing units can process video "faster than'" [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- For the most part, the advertising model for online video is not working The ecosystem for premium content is going to be a paid-model/subscription model and Cisco is planning to be a big part of this, according to Murali Nemani.
At Cisco, the initiative around the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Whether user generated video from the new YouTube Direct will create valuable content for its launch partners including the Washington Post, NPR, Politico and the Huffington Post is too early to say.
But UGC can augment the traditional news gathering operations of big news operations, according [...]
WASHINGTON, DC -- To succeed with monetizing online video, media companies need to better understand their audiences -- but they don't, said Caroline Little, former CEO of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive who is now CEO of the Guardian News & Media, North America.
And, they need to build targeted audiences with' [...]
Saul Hansell, the veteran technology reporter and columnist for The York Times has left the paper to join AOL's new "Seed" unit, a mostly automated news site.
The site been getting some mixed notices lately from some media watchers.
Saul is the first "live" journalist to join the new venture. ' [...]
TubeMogul, the Emeryville-based video syndication and analytics company, has entered into an agreement with Brightcove to provide analytics tools to the big Boston-area video services company.
Analytics around Web video usage has become essential to many publishers and advertisers.
While TubeMogul's analytics tools are integrated with other video services' [...]
Livestream, the New York-based live video services company, is getting traction with its premium service, booking some $350,000 per month in revenue from 1,000 premium customers who pay $350 each.
CEO and founder Max Haot gave us this rundown last month in San Francisco when we interviewed him at the NewTeeVee [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Stung from the 2008 election losses, Republican members of Congress are uploading videos to YouTube in much greater numbers than Democrats.
Here's what YouTube's Olivia Ma told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington, D.C. last week. (At 2:00)
"It's been very stark to see how eager the'" [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Software giant Adobe Systems is using its new open source media framework player on Adobe.TV, the company's new video site. The site launched in September.
Adobe, Akamai, and others have been working on a open source video player, which is easily customized and deployed.
The' [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Some of the most innovative uses of online video have been pioneered by technology companies, notably Microsoft's Channel 9, the videoblog for customers and developers.
Sun Microsystems has been using video for some time. One of the latest entrants into corporate use of video is
Facebook's introduction of Ajax and an e-mail importer functionality were among key factors in Facebook's ascent over MySpace as the preeminent social network, according to this big feature published in the Financial Times, entitled "The Rise and Fall of MySpace."
Earlier this year, I interviewed Vanity Fair media columnist [...]
After 40 years, it is gratifying to connect with so many young people who are watching and commenting on my high school film in a new, mashed-up form.
There have been 150,000 views, with over 500 ratings, and 250 comments with more added daily.
The mash-up was done by a [...]
Reuters, a longtime powerhouse in providing content to the online world, is making a push as a destination site with its redesign, which went live last night.
Editor-in-chief David Schlesinger made the announcement. David Kaplan at paidContent has the story.
In May at the Wall Street Journal's All' [...]
Tom Brokaw, in one of his first comments on the just announced Comcast/NBC merger, says the prospective merger would be "a good thing."
His comment comes in at 2 minutes into this interview with Liz Glover of washingtontimes.com. She spoke with the NBC News special correspondent earlier today.
Andy [...]
In a deal just announced, Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, will buy a controlling stake in NBC. The deal will take a year to close and will surely be subject to strenuous regulatory review, notably from the FTC.
As the power of the broadcast networks has fallen and' [...]
Vizu, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a means to measure the value of online video advertising, has raised an addition round of $6.8 million in venture funding.
Here at Beet.TV, we believe that the true value of online video advertising is not properly measured by either video views [...]
MSNBC.com today introduced a new embeddable player in a move to increase consumption of news video to other locations, notably on Facebook.
The new player comes in three different sizes, making it usable on a variety of Web pages and social networks.
The features allow consumers to share clips from NBC [...]
WASHINGTON, DC -- Olivia Ma, news manager at YouTube, will be one of the media luminaries to speak at today's Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable here in Washington, D.C. See the list below:
Check out the Webcast from 4-6pm ET, right here on Beet.TV or on our Livestream channel.
Olivia [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Ooyala, the online video services company started by ex-Googlers, is developing realtime analytics for video producers to closely monitor the success of their content.
We spoke with company CTO Sean Knapp for this overview on the value and utility of analytics. Sean came from [...]
On Tuesday (12/1) in Washington, Beet.TV will gather an extraordinary group to talk about online video and its role in the evolving news environment.
The line-up for Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable includes political strategist Joe Trippi and Obama Campaign video producer Max Harper along with editors and executives from CBS [...]
SAN JOSE -- NBC Sports is demonstrating the highly interactive functionality of its online experience with Sunday Football. Much of this functionality will be part of NBC's Winter Olympics online presentation.
At Streaming Media West, we caught Bob Cowherd and Michael Moser of Vertigo, the San Francisco-based Interactive consultancy which' [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- With smart phone sales outpacing PC sales, mobile devices represent "the future of media" and video producers will soon begin to produce videos for the small screen first,
in a "total reversal" of platform-specific programming, says Kevin Lynch, Chief Technology Officer of Adobe Systems.
We caught [...]
Fashion icon Norma Kamali, the New York-based designer, is making a big retail push online with a custom page on eBay.
eBay is holding a competition for consumers to upload photos of themselves with a Kamali tunic in order to win a $500 prize.
Flash for the iPhone would be helpful to developers and programmers, but it's not essential in getting the rich interactivity of Flash on the iPhone, says Jeremy Allaire, one of the principal developers of Flash.
Allaire, who was CTO of Macromedia, the company that developed Flash and was sold to Adobe,' [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month, we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster than real time," the company says.
New York Times reporter Ashlee [...]
Earlier this month, eBay launched Inside Source, a style/fashion/shopping guide published by the auction giant. Here's the launch story in The New York Times.
Last week we caught up with the publication's editor Meredith Barnett at the eBay store, a temporary promotional facility on 57th Street. She tells us [...]
SAN JOSE, CA - Adobe's latest version of Flash has been installed in some 98 percent of the world's computers, according to Kevin Towes who is product manager for Flash Media Server.*
We caught up with Kevin at an opening night party for the Streaming Media West hosted by Brightcove. [...]
Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up that provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media, the NBA, and now on The New York.
The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built [...]
Some media companies are spending in excess of 100% of their digital revenue on site development, management, and hosting, says Cisco's Scott Brown.
Cisco aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60% of technology costs with a hosted solution called Eos.
Launched earlier this year, the' [...]
Introduced originally as videogame console, the Xbox from Microsoft is fast becoming a powerful video viewing device with the introduction of Zune, the new video streaming platform.
The device connects to the Internet and streams high quality video. It has a number of offerings including Netflix, Last.fm, integration with social networks, [...]
RealPlayer SP, A small desktop application from RealNetworks, which allows users to save and share Flash videos, has been downloaded 100 million times, the company said today.
Earlier this year, we spoke with RealNetwork's Jeff Chasen about the new application. We have republished the interview today.
Andy Plesser, Executive Producer [...]
Adobe sees a big growth opportunity in the emerging eReader market, says Bill Rusitzky, who heads media alliances for the software company.
The company is heavily promoting the ePub format which will be used in the Nook and the Sony eReader. It is not used in the Kindle and [...]
SAN JOSE, CA -- Streaming Media West, the annual industry gathering of broadband executives, drew a bigger crowd this year then last and the focus has changed from delivery and distribution to devices and content, says Dan Rayburn, head of the show.
We caught up with Dan on Wednesday [...]
Business Week has picked TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel as its new Editor-in-Chief, Tom Lowry reported this morning.
Earlier this year, I interviewed Josh about online journalism. He said that on the Web, long form journalism on the Web is "not working." I have republished this video today.
More on today's' [...]
YouTube has introduced a solution for media sites to moderate and post video uploads from visitors. The Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, and the San Francisco Chronicle are the first media companies to use the system called YouTube Direct.
The system allows registered YouTube users to upload videos directly to a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- Comcast, the nation's biggest cable system, will launch an online offering of its television service to 14 million Comcast "double play" subscribers next month. Comcast's Interactive Media President Amy Banse told Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney in this video interview.
While the December introduction had been widely anticipated' [...]
Brightcove, the video platform services company, which has established a reputation for providing video services for big publishers and business enterprises, is launching a slimmed down version of its solution priced at $99 per month
Separately, the company is now providing support for native iPhone application development. The new offering [...]
Boxee, a software program which allows users to connect Web video to a television set, created a lot of buzz last week when the company announced it was providing a consumer electronics device, the Boxee "Box."
We caught up with CEO and founder Avner Rovner at the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- The much blogged about introduction of a higher quality playback experience at YouTube, using a 1080p shoebox sized player, was done in part to accommodate the emergence of pre-roll video advertising on the giant site.
In a related announcement this week, YouTube said it would [...]
CNET has a sit-down video interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt on social search, Android, and plans for the Chome OS , which will be initially targeted to for netbooks. Also, he provides an explanation of Google Wave.
When asked by CNET's Tom Krazit about the Google books settlement, at' [...]
Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.com
We are publishing the live feed from the NewTeeVee Live conference underway in San Francisco. A number cool stories coming out today. Here's the story about the Boxee Box. You can' [...]
Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has a new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30.
Peter wrote that Apple is in the early stages of conversation with programmers but noted there are a number of hurdles.
Last [...]
While search and display are far bigger categories than online video advertising, the digital advertising sector that is hot right now is online video advertising around premium news content.
The Wall Street Journal's sale of pre-roll advertising for its new show the News Hub is sold out at a rate of' [...]
Forrester has published a comparative study of six online video platform service providers. We reported on the study on Friday.
While some industry observers are taking issue with the inclusion of just six players when there are over 60 such companies in the sector, that's not the goal [...]
In report released today, Forrester analyst Bobby Tulsiani writes that Brightcove and Ooyala provide the best end-to-end online video platform.
He writes, "Brightcove separates itself from the pack with leading scores in distribution and integration while Ooyala earns its highest marks in monetization and analytics."
The report ($1749) evaluates [...]
Despite the commanding position of YouTube, with 40 percent of video streams in the U.S., the quality of the environment for advertisers is not always acceptable, according to leading digital advertising executives.
Rob Norman, CEO of WPP's giant GroupM Interaction, the digital media buying group, says that despite the availability of' [...]
msnbc.com, which had the first embeddable video player among the major video producers in the United States, will soon launch a player which provides embed codes for specific segments.
The new player will also be resizable and will carry forms of advertising, deemed acceptable on off domain sites, meaning no pre-roll [...]
NBC Universal's ten regional web sites, which are affiliated with local owned and operated television stations, has reached an audience of 12 million monthly unique viewers, according to internal numbers.
More on the results on Mediabistro's WebNewser.
Earlier this year, we spoke with Gregory Gittrich, Executive Editor of the sites and [...]
NBC Sports will announce plans today to use Microsoft Silverlight as the software for Web viewing the Winter Olympics Games in the United States.
We have been impressed with the latest use of Silverlight by NBC for Sunday Night Football. We look forward to watching the Olympics online. Although, [...]
The big challenge facing mainstream media with online video is scale; a lack of inventory of content and viewers, according Vivek Shah, head of digital news at Time Inc.
At the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, Vivek was questioned by paidContent Editor Rafat Ali, one of the event's moderators.
Vivek says estimates' [...]
Although pre-roll advertising, the 15-30 second ads seen before a video begins, is the dominate media form, the promise of online video advertising is much greater.
The opportunity is much more than simply re-purposing television ads , as a kind of "Television 2.0." It is incumbent on the industry to be [...]
"TV Everywhere," the emerging strategy of cable giants Comcast and Time Warner to allow web users to log onto cable offerings online, has broad implications for the content industry.
During the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, co-moderator Rafat Ali posed the question about the prospects of "TV Everywhere." Answering the [...]
Transpera, the largest mobile video delivery and ad network in North America, has lined up many of the industry's leading publishers including msnbc.com, CBS.com, Showtime, Disney, and MTV.
In this interview, Transpera CEO Frank Barbieri explains video advertising is working well for publishers.
He says that inventory is nearly' [...]
By most accounts, the Internet was born back on October 29, 1969 by two computer scientists, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn. Cerf is now Google's Chief Internet Evangelist.
In April 2008, I interviewed Cerf in New York at the Personal Democracy Forum. We have republished the video today. Very' [...]
While many video publishers seek the widest possible distribution of their videos through an embeddable player and Media RSS, some, like HealthiNation and Virgin Media, are using a syndicated player which is placed on specific sites.
Controlling the "off domain" strategy is important for many publishers: Some are cautioned [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk, the Internet video/social media phenomenon, is having his book "Crush It" published as a "vook," a digital version with video and text.
The multimedia product has been created by Vook and Emeryville, California-based company and HarperStudio, a unit of NewsCorp. Here is the company's press release.
These vooks' [...]
We were encouraged to read today's Wall Street Journal report about the projected uptick in technology advertising for 2010.
Journal reporters Ben Worthen and Jessica Vascellaro cite an IDC study which puts tech marketing dollars up over 3.5 percent for next year, versus the' [...]
Richards Rosenblatt, the former CEO of MySpace who launched his network of Web properties titled under Demand Media, has a big hit with eHow, a video site providing "how-to" instructional videos.
According to this story and video by USA Today's Jefferson Graham, eHow has some 52 million monthly users, [...]
Having established iReport three years ago, CNN is the most established mainstream media organization publishing user generated content.
With the launch today of the newly revamped CNN.com, the role of community content has been prominently elevated. It is now a regular section of the site. Although the news generated from [...]
Microsoft's Silverlight software is powering the new videoplayer used by NBCSports.com for Sunday Sunday Night Football.
It is registering extraordinarily high "engagement" with users, Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb told me on Tuesday.
He said that engagement, meaning time watching and interacting, is 10 times normally, with 50 minute sessions per [...]
CNN.com has nearly 6 million followers on Twitter, KC Estenson, Sr. VP and General Manager of CNN.com. told Beet.TV in this video interview.
On Twittercounter, CNN.com's Breaking News Twitter alone comes in at number 4 out of the top 100 with 2.8 million followers, compared with the' [...]
The Wall Street Journal's twice-daily, 8-minute show the News Hub, expanded this week with a live report on Monday's Apple earnings. It was the first live Web video program around earnings. On Tuesday, the paper did a Webcast on Yahoo.
With the paper's television agreement with CNBC winding down, the' [...]
CNN.com has taken notice of the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast as "opinion destinations" and wants to be a "horse in that race," CNN.com General Manager KC Estenson told me last night, after the industry introduction of the revamped CNN.com site. (transcript below)
At an after-event party at the Hudson, [...]
Msnbc.com, was the first major video provider to provide an embeddable player, allowing users to play videos on their sites.
Finding widespread adoption of the player "off domain," the company is further nurturing the process by allowing its player to be resized so it can fit on Facebook, Charles [...]
Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, the influential blog about social media and technology, will be among new personalities and contributors to the new CNN.com which launches on Monday.
Also, TED Talks, the successful series of thought-leader videos from the TED conferences, will be surfaced up to the [...]
ESPOO, FINLAND - Earlier today Nokia filed suit in a U.S. federal court alleging patent infringement by Apple and iPhone. The Wall Street Journal reports the matter has to do with wireless standards.
Back in 2007 in Espoo, the high tech suburb of Helsinki where Nokia is based, our European [...]
As an online video news source, msnbc.com has the enormous advantage of the resources of NBC, but opportunities exist for video news producers who focus on a niche areas and use low cost digital news gathering.
These are the comments of Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com.
We spoke on [...]
I'm very pleased to announce that Beet.TV has a syndication agreement with NBC Local Media to provide our videos to NBCBayArea for its growing technology coverage spearheaded by Owen Thomas, a veteran digital journalist who is the Editorial Director of the Bay Area site.
Beginning late last month,' [...]
A Research Triangle, North Carolina company called DigitalSmiths has developed a technology to recognize faces and scenes and convert that information for publishers to index content.
The company is working with several Web publishers including theWB,com, TMZ and others.
At the VideoNuze event last week in Manhattan, I caught up [...]
Last month, the Wall Street Journal launched an initiative around live video programming, with a twice daily, eight-minute show titled The News Hub, originating from the paper's newsroom.
Earlier this week, I visited the Journal's new midtown Manhattan newsroom for a chat with Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor who [...]
TV Everywhere, the big move by cable operators to put content on the Web for subscribers to watch on PC's and mobile devices, will be beneficial to many industry players, according to Will Richmond, industry consultant and editor of the authoritative site VideoNuze.
We caught up with Will on' [...]
The fast growing business of online video does not revolve exclusively around media companies, but increasingly around companies and organizations who want to publish video for internal and external audiences.
Brigthcove CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire says in this extended interview with Venture Beat that more than half of his [...]
The Economist, which has been quickly expanding online, is creating original online video with a weekly series entitled "Tea with the Economist."
In Washington last week, I spoke with Brendan Greeley, the publication's multimedia editor. He is based in the Washington bureau, where he supervises the series and other' [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- NewTeeVee, the indispensable news source about the online video revolution, is getting ready to present its one-day conference in San Francisco on November 12.
There is a great speaker and panel line-up for the event and Daisy and Jeff will extensively cover it for Beet.TV. We wouldn't' [...]
The Huffington Post has passed both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in monthly unique visitors, according to Web tracking service Compete.com.
The the fast growing HuffPo had 8.4 million uniques in September according to Compete.com. That's up from 7 million in September.
Whether or not Compete.com provides' [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says that as video on the Web continues to grow, the movie industry needs evolve from a "channels" scenario to a "random access" platform, where films can be universally searched, watched, and paid for.
In accomplishing this, producers [...]
Hulu is number two in monthly streams to YouTube, but Yahoo! has some 30 million unique monthly users, more than double the number of Hulu, Nielsen has just reported.
While Yahoo! beats Hulu in uniques, Hulu had twice the numbers of streams, some 440 million.
Nielsen reports that time [...]
Daisy and I are pleased to announce our next online video roundtable set for Tuesday, October 20th from 3-6 p.m. ET.
We have a great line-up of thought leaders from Adobe, Brightcove, CBS, Digitas, Microsoft, msnbc.com, Ogilvy, Time Inc, Transpera the Time Inc., WPP, the Wall Street Journal, and YuMe.
We [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the "//" after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary.
Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was interviewed on stage by New [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.
He told me yesterday in Washington that this year his vision is [...]
NBC Local, the network of 10 regional U.S. Web sites created around television stations, is expanding its microblogging platform called SoMyCity to the iPhone with a new app which launched this week.
The SoMyCity, which allows users to surface up comments and photos to the NBC sites, as well [...]
MediaVest, the big media buying firm, is making a "multi-million dollar" ad buy on Hulu, it was reported on ClickZ and on MediaPost yesterday.
Daisy caught up with MediaVest digital chief Amanda Richman earlier this year. She speaks about the opportunities for marketeers with online video. We have [...]
5min, a company that produces and distributes how-to videos, has evolved as a sort of video-ad network, inserting relevant videos and advertising into over 320 different sites with some 250,000 unique monthly visitors.
Yesterday, the company announced its latest deal with Scripps.
Here's the report and analysis by Liz Gannes' [...]
Unlike many video content producers who seek to widely syndicate embeddable video players or provide Media RSS feeds, HealthiNation, the big producer of consumer medical online videos, wants to keep its videos on their own video player so the experience is the same across the Web.
Last week, we caught [...]
Flash, the pervasive rich media application, will finally be available on a range of mobile devices with the release of Flash Player 10.1, the company has announced.
The new player will work on several mobile operating systems including Google Android, Blackberry, Palm webOS, Symbion, and Windows Mobile. (No iPhone)
This appears [...]
Late last month, the Amsterdam-based museum Ann Frank House launched a channel on YouTube.
A video showing the 11-year-old for a mere 10 seconds, the first moving image of the young diarist who died in a German concentration camp in 1944, has become widely [...]
Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn't accept that his company is a sort of "vampire," sucking blood out of our newspapers. He says that because Google plays such a central role in the Internet, "we've been somewhat used to being blamed for everything."
His comments were made in an extensive interview about [...]
BigThink, the video site featuring stylized video clips of leading thinkers in culture, politics, the economy, and academia, is expanding its scope in the academic world, Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO told me.
The site has established content relationships with Duke, Emery, Vanderbilt, and Georgetown and will expand considerably [...]
Cisco is greatly expanding its capabilities in the video conferencing business with the acquisition of Norway's Tandberg for $3 billion in cash, in a deal announced earlier today.
The big trend to watch here is that expensive corporate teleconferencing will become less expensive and more pervasive. Earlier this year,' [...]
NEW YORK -- In the fast-changing landscape of digital book publishing there is now something called a vook, a product and company which is a hybrid of text and video, delivered on the Web and as an iPhone download .
Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, is working with Vook, a' [...]
