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Google delivers ad-supported video clips via AdSense Web publishers that participate in Google's AdSense ad distribution network will now be able to make money by offering ad-supported video clips from Google's YouTube video sharing site. Glitches hinder iTunes, Starbucks service Starbucks and Apple launched their iTunes partnership Tuesday in Seattle and New York, but in at least one of its 600 debut locations, the program started with an off note. Some early glitches combined with a regrettable technology decision caused a few hiccups for what could be a promising service. October 3, 9:35 a.m. PDT Web footage of slain reporter prompts outrage Dramatic footage of a Japanese journalist shot and killed during anti-government protests in Myanmar has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers on YouTube, stirring outrage among viewers in Japan and elsewhere. October 1, 5:55 a.m. PDT EchoStar to acquire Sling Media Sling Media, developer of the innovative Slingbox TV-streaming device, is set to be acquired by EchoStar Communications, which operates the Dish Network direct-to-home satellite TV service in the U.S., the companies said late Monday. September 25, 5:45 a.m. PDT U.S. online video popularity keeps climbing People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online and Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. September 13, 11:12 a.m. PDT Cyberlink kicks off NFL season with MagicSports highlight software Fans of American football who are too busy to watch every game may enjoy the latest edition of Cyberlink's MagicSports software. September 11, 5:12 a.m. PDT Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders Microsoft is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers. September 6, 3:46 a.m. PDT Google takes heat over YouTube deal in Thailand A press advocacy group is "dismayed" about Google's decision to block YouTube videos from viewers in Thailand that are considered inappropriate or illegal by that Asian government. September 5, 3:01 p.m. PDT NBC says shows will stay in iTunes Contract negotiations between Apple and NBC Universal regarding video content in iTunes are getting nastier and staying public. September 4, 2:29 p.m. PDT iTunes pricing spat with NBC seen as hurting Apple NBC Universal's pullout from the iTunes online store is more of a loss for Apple and points to fierce resistance among media companies to potential Apple dominance of online video sales, an industry analyst said. August 31, 3:42 p.m. PDT Free music site attracts wrath of industry The co-founder of a Web site that offers free streamed music from top artists said he's determined to operate his service legally despite menacing overtures from Universal Music Group. August 27, 11:12 a.m. PDT EU hopes to push mobile TV with the help of satellites A European Commission plan to simplify the licensing of Europe-wide mobile satellite services could boost the nascent market for broadcast TV services over handheld devices. August 24, 7:14 a.m. PDT YouTube vows to protect video makers in InVideo ads Google has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips they post to its YouTube video sharing Web site. August 24, 5:04 a.m. PDT YouTube fans rant, threaten to leave over new ads YouTube might need to rethink their new InVideo advertising scheme based on initial feedback to the popular video sharing Web site. August 23, 4:38 a.m. PDT Update: YouTube to launch in-video advertising scheme Google's YouTube division has launched what it hopes will be an unobtrusive way for companies to advertise on videos hosted at its popular Web site. August 22, 6:03 a.m. PDT RealNetworks, MTV join forces to compete with Apple RealNetworks and MTV Networks have formed a new company that will combine their online music services and have an exclusive deal with Verizon Wireless to be the platform for its wireless music service. The companies are joining forces to compete with Apple's enormously successful iTunes online music service. August 21, 9:27 a.m. PDT MTV, RealNetworks said to merge digital music stores MTV Networks and RealNetworks will merge their online digital music stores in the latest attempt to reduce Apple's hold on the music download market, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday morning. August 21, 6:23 a.m. PDT Google offers refunds for irked video customers Google has apologized for the way it shut down its video sales and rental service last week, leaving people unable to play videos they had paid for, and said it will refund their credit cards and allow them to watch their films for another six months. August 21, 5:19 a.m. PDT Videoconferencing for world peace Videoconferencing may have a role in world peace, especially if professor Shaul Gabbay has his way. August 15, 1:01 p.m. PDT Hacker strips DRM from streaming Netflix movies A hacker has posted instructions for how to save streamed movies from the Netflix service, undermining Microsoft's copy protection technology designed to prevent people from saving the content. August 9, 4:36 a.m. PDT FCC pans 'white space' device from MS, Google, others The 700 MHz spectrum may not be the only wireless band Google is interested in. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 31 said that a prototype device built by Google, archrival Microsoft, and other technology companies doesn't work as promised. August 7, 6:21 a.m. PDT Microsoft, NASA offer 3D photos of Endeavour To highlight the launch of the U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour Tuesday, Microsoft has teamed up with NASA to provide exclusive 3D views of the craft and a look at how the space agency prepares it for launch using Microsoft's Photosynth technology. August 6, 11:21 a.m. PDT Google: YouTube tool won't block uploads Contrary to recent speculation, an antipiracy tool Google is developing for YouTube will not block uploads to the video-sharing site. July 31, 1:49 p.m. PDT BBC courts online viewers with iPlayer media player The BBC has released a public beta of its own software application for watching video online, hoping to engage younger people who are consuming more and more of their content over the Internet. July 27, 8:37 a.m. PDT Samsung preps cellphone for Net video producers Samsung Electronics is adding video editing and production functions to a new cellphone so users can shoot, edit, and upload videos to Internet video sites without using a PC. July 19, 5:04 a.m. PDT MSN streams Live Earth to 8 million people Microsoft says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend. July 10, 5:23 a.m. PDT YouTube coming to LG cellphones The ability to view and upload videos to YouTube is coming to some LG Electronics cellphones later this year. July 3, 5:21 a.m. PDT EU turns to YouTube to create EUtube The European Commission is turning to video-sharing Web site YouTube.com to disseminate information about the workings of the European Union to its citizens, through a new channel on the site called EUtube, it announced Friday. June 29, 8:12 a.m. PDT RealPlayer beta allows video downloading The growing popularity of video on the Web has prompted RealNetworks to launch a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs. June 26, 10:57 a.m. PDT Microsoft looks for space in China's living room Microsoft wants to play a bigger role in China's living rooms, and the company is willing to spend millions of dollars to get there. June 22, 4:51 a.m. PDT Google localizes YouTube for Europe Google launched versions of its video sharing service YouTube in French and other languages on Tuesday. Localized versions now exist for Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, the U.K., and the U.S. June 19, 4:58 a.m. PDT Microsoft updates, renames IPTV platform Microsoft updated and renamed its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) software, now called Mediaroom. June 18, 4:34 a.m. PDT Internet television, Apple style From a consumer electronics point of view, Apple TV pigeonholes easily: It is a set-top box, about the size of a portable DVD player, that turns a wide-screen television or monitor into a hard disk-based media player and wireless streaming media receiver. It plays the video, audio, and images stored on any iTunes-equipped Mac or PC on your LAN straight to your home theater while leaving your computer hidden away in the spare bedroom where it belongs.  June 14, 3:00 a.m. PDT Service brings iTunes music to any mobile phone Even before Apple's much anticipated iPhone hits the shelves later this month, users of many different kinds of phones can listen to their iTunes music, via a new service from Seattle company Melodeo. June 6, 7:01 a.m. PDT Joost names Cisco's Volpi CEO Former Cisco Systems executive Mike Volpi will become CEO of online video company Joost Operations, replacing founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl, the company announced Tuesday. June 5, 6:58 a.m. PDT YouTube, EMI ink video content deal EMI Group's EMI Music will begin making its music video content available on Google's YouTube, the two companies announced Friday. June 1, 4:31 a.m. PDT Porn director faces charges for online distribution A well-known director and producer of adult films has been indicted on obscenity charges for distributing his movies online and through the mail, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. May 31, 11:44 a.m. PDT Beatnik speeds mobile music downloads U.S. software company Beatnik is approaching mobile phone operators with a new music download system that compresses songs up to 10 times more than the MP3 format, allowing for faster downloads on lower-end mobile phones equipped with the company's software. May 29, 6:53 a.m. PDT Facebook launches video system Facebook became the latest entrant into the online video battle Thursday, opening its Facebook f8 platform to outside developers and partners in an effort to gain ground on social networking rivals. May 25, 5:39 a.m. PDT Noose tightens around allofmp3.com The recording industry has stepped up its battle to shut down allofmp3.com, announcing the arrest of a man who allegedly sold vouchers used to make purchases at the controversial online music store. May 21, 6:48 a.m. PDT Vodafone, RealNetworks partner as Sony exits RealNetworks will provide music streaming and download services to European customers of mobile phone operator Vodafone Group as part of a deal linked to an acquisition. May 16, 8:25 a.m. PDT Startup's DNS server boosts VOIP and media streaming U.K. startup 3C has launched what it calls the world's fastest authoritative DNS server, capable of answering over a million queries per second on a single CPU. May 16, 7:00 a.m. PDT In Brief: NTT DoCoMo cancels I-mode plans in India NTT DoCoMo announced Monday that it will not proceed with a contract to license its I-mode branded online services and content to Indian mobile operator Hutchison Essar. DoCoMo and Hutchison Essar will not deploy I-mode in India because of changes in the business environment, NTT DoCoMo said. May 7, 9:08 a.m. PDT YouTube starts paying a few contributors YouTube is allowing some of its most popular content creators to start earning revenue from videos they post on the site. May 4, 3:13 p.m. PDT Microsoft fails to impress during Bach's keynote The last thing a company wants to do at a keynote speech is clear a room. But that's just what Microsoft succeeded in doing during Tuesday's keynote at MIX 07 in Las Vegas. May 2, 4:32 a.m. PDT Google rejects Viacom's copyright claims Google has rejected claims that it enables copyright infringement on its YouTube.com Web site, its first response to entertainment giant Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit filed in March. May 1, 4:47 a.m. PDT New scheme could boost online music services in Europe Providers of online music services in Europe should benefit from a new one-stop licensing system aimed at simplifying the complex process of obtaining music distribution rights across the continent. April 27, 6:37 a.m. PDT Mobile entertainment faces barriers Even as mobile data revenue grows and subscribers enjoy more options for entertainment on the go, a series of barriers are holding back the race toward a mobile multimedia future. April 26, 6:21 a.m. PDT Digital Home: It's the experience, not the device Consumer experience will drive the adoption of home media technology, not a particular piece of equipment, an executive of Intel's Digital Home Group said Tuesday. April 17, 6:44 a.m. PDT HD DVD, Blu-ray protection in question after attacks Next week, new HD DVD movies will hit the shelves that won't play on some players, the first countermeasure by the content and software industries to combat intensive efforts by hackers to break copy-protection technology. April 16, 6:48 a.m. PDT Adobe to show off media player Adobe Systems has developed its first desktop media player and plans to give the industry an early peek at it at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas this week. April 16, 5:58 a.m. PDT Microsoft unveils Silverlight as Flash killer Microsoft Corp. this week will reveal new technology to deliver rich media applications on the Web, part of a broader strategy to go head to head with Web and design tools powerhouse Adobe Systems Inc. April 15, 9:59 p.m. PDT CBS shows coming to MSN, Joost, AOL, and others CBS will distribute its television programs more widely over the Internet, adding new deals with Joost, Microsoft's MSN and AOL to existing agreements with Apple's iTunes and Google's YouTube. April 13, 4:57 a.m. PDT Sparring begins over high-def movie hacks A cat-and-mouse game between the guardians of the copy-protection system on next-generation DVDs and those intent on hacking it has kicked off with the first revocation of a descrambling key used in a popular software application. April 9, 5:32 a.m. PDT What the enterprise can learn from consumer technologies Today’s corporate end-users are far more tech-savvy than their productivity with IT tools indicates. After all, screen-deep in IMs, widgets, and elaborate consumer Web apps, they’re proving themselves well-versed in the production and distribution of content as facilitated by the consumer Web 2.0 craze. April 9, 3:00 a.m. PDT Update: EC sues Apple, others over pricing The European Commission has charged Apple Inc. and several big record companies with restrictive pricing practices in the European Union, a spokesman for the Commission confirmed on Tuesday. April 3, 4:41 a.m. PDT YouTube adds features, test site New services available on YouTube could reflect growing influence of its parent company Google. March 29, 6:56 a.m. PST Update: NBC, News Corp. team up on YouTube rival News Corp. and NBC Universal will challenge Google Inc.'s YouTube for online eyeballs and advertising dollars by launching a video-streaming Web site by the third quarter, News Corp. announced Thursday. March 22, 2:35 p.m. PST Tech tops the pop charts Remember the adrenaline rush when you first saw MTV in 1981? When they played “She Blinded Me With Science” in ’83? Well, if you want a fresh, geeky, thought-provoking video experience that gets your heart pumping, check out “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us,” one of the top-viewed videos on YouTube. It’ll appeal to the coder in you, as well as the futurist. March 15, 3:00 a.m. PST Viacom slaps Google with $1B YouTube lawsuit Viacom has sued Google, alleging copyright infringement from video-sharing site YouTube and seeking $1 billion in damages. March 13, 8:52 a.m. PST AppleTV, iPhone are game-changers, CFO says Talk about the coming iPhone and AppleTV device dominated the discussion with the chief financial officer of Apple at an investment conference in San Francisco Tuesday. March 7, 6:20 a.m. PST France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment of eyewitnesses who film acts of police violence, or operators of Web sites publishing the images, one French civil liberties group warned on Tuesday. March 6, 9:01 a.m. PST YouTube to offer BBC news and entertainment videos Users of YouTube's online video service will soon be able to view news, TV series, documentaries, and other programs from the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC). March 2, 5:46 a.m. PST Download DVD specification gets approval A technology that allows movies to be downloaded and burned to blank DVDs using the same content-protection system as commercial discs received official approval on Thursday. March 1, 6:17 a.m. PST BitTorrent to open online store for digital media BitTorrent rolled out a paid music and movie download service on Monday, leveraging its fast distribution system infamous for the massive piracy it facilitated when it debuted in 2001. February 26, 7:12 a.m. PST Ericsson bids $1.4 billion for Norwegian TV company In a move to beef up its expertise in Internet-based TV technology, Sweden's Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has made an unsolicited offer to acquire Tandberg Television of Norway. February 26, 6:16 a.m. PST Raketu looks to combine IPTV, social networking A new application from Raketu Communications aims to integrate IPTV (Internet Protocol television) with social networking, two of the Internet's hip technologies. February 20, 3:46 p.m. PST Sirius acquires XM in satellite radio merger The U.S.'s two satellite radio operators, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio Holdings announced Monday they plan to merge, pending a potentially difficult approval process. February 20, 8:27 a.m. PST Update: Viacom, Joost enter Internet TV deal Joost, the online TV service developed by the founders of Internet telephone company Skype, has struck a licensing deal with Viacom International Inc. February 20, 7:27 a.m. PST Qualcomm chips away at mobile TV Qualcomm is offering mobile phone makers a choice of technologies to tune into mobile TV services. In addition to its MediaFlo broadcast system, the U.S. manufacturer unveiled the development of two new chips supporting alternative technologies at last week's 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. February 20, 6:53 a.m. PST Microsoft's YouTube rival enters beta Microsoft Corp. has unveiled a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service, its competitor to Google Inc.'s popular YouTube service. February 15, 8:59 a.m. PST Cingular signs on for Qualcomm mobile TV The biggest U.S. cellular company, AT&T's Cingular division, will launch mobile TV using Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology later this year. February 13, 6:20 a.m. PST CEOs: Emerging markets will pave the way Some mobile phone companies are looking to emerging markets to find early adopters and for a glimpse at services of the future, CEOs said during the opening day keynote of the 3GSM conference in Barcelona on Tuesday. February 13, 6:08 a.m. PST Vodafone launches YouTube mobile In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube. February 9, 4:59 a.m. PST Lycos adds video playlist service Lycos was set to go after a portion of the popular online video and social networking spaces Thursday by launching a service that lets users create video playlists composed of footage from several Web sites. February 8, 8:22 a.m. PST Tivo, Amazon unveil download deal Owners of Tivo's popular digital video recorders (DVR) will soon be able to download films and television shows for rental and purchase from Amazon.com, the two companies announced Wednesday. February 7, 6:12 a.m. PST YouTube offers concession to Japanese copyright group YouTube will start displaying a notice in Japanese on its Web site warning users against uploading copyright content, its two founders told representatives of a broad group of Japanese copyright holders on Tuesday in their first face-to-face meeting. February 6, 5:39 a.m. PST YouTube execs to talk copyrights in Japan Top executives from YouTube are due in Tokyo next week for talks with some of Japan's largest video content producers over copyrighted material available on the popular site. February 2, 4:59 a.m. PST Internet throws to NFL fans overseas On Feb. 5, at about 7 a.m. local time, I'll be watching the Super Bowl. For those of us living in foreign lands where football means a round ball, the NFL doesn't get primetime coverage. January 31, 7:14 a.m. PST YouTube may share revenue with users Video-sharing site YouTube may start paying users for their content, the company's cofounder said in a video displayed on the site. January 29, 4:42 a.m. PST Wii news channel debuts early Nintendo Co. has started offering a new service that feeds national and international news headlines to its recently launched Wii console. January 26, 7:13 a.m. PST France Télécom targets Web 2.0 France Télécom hopes to get more out of the 15 research centers it operates around the world by bringing them together as a single structure, Orange Labs. January 18, 9:47 a.m. PST Digital music sales double in 2006 Digital music sales doubled in 2006 thanks to better distribution, but the rise hasn't made up for the decline in CD sales, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said on Wednesday. January 17, 6:42 a.m. PST Skype founders rename their video venture Peer-to-peer technology pioneers Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have renamed their new online TV service under development and plan to open the gates to let more people test the software. January 16, 8:12 a.m. PST Netflix launches direct download service for PCs Can't wait for that copy of "Talladega Nights" to arrive from Netflix? As of Tuesday, some users will be able to watch movies they rent from Netflix directly through their PCs, the company said. January 16, 7:42 a.m. PST EMI, Baidu launch streaming music service in China EMI Group has partnered with Chinese Internet search leader Baidu.com to offer a free music streaming service in China, the companies announced on Tuesday. January 16, 3:11 a.m. PST Learning to consume We tried. We really tried. We had every intention of sticking to our knitting — reporting on a slate of enterprise computing topics, from blade servers to SOA deployment strategies. January 15, 3:00 a.m. PST UWB, Wi-Fi, and powerline vie for position While many networking vendors, both wireless and wireline, diplomatically agree that no single networking technology will prevail in the connected home of the future, they are still battling over which technology is most suitable for streaming high-definition video. January 11, 5:44 a.m. PST Bach: Wireless key to future entertainment Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates's keynote this year at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) put the company's newest power broker at center stage: Robbie Bach, president of the Entertainment and Devices division. Bach is the man behind Microsoft's Xbox, which at the time of its launch was a big risk and departure for the company. Xbox has gone on to become one of Microsoft's most successful consumer products, and Bach now is in charge of charting Microsoft's future strategy to give consumers real-time, always-available access to content over IP networks. January 9, 7:48 a.m. PST TV CEOs: Converged services aren't there yet Even as consumers are adopting high definition (HD) television and other advanced video offerings, service providers of all kinds are split on what types of services consumers want and how they want to get them. January 9, 7:18 a.m. PST Sling brings TV to Vista, Palm -- and HP notebooks Users of Sling Media Inc.'s "placeshifting" system, Slingbox, will soon be able to watch their home TVs on Palm Inc. smart phones running Palm OS, consumer laptops from Hewlett-Packard Co. or any PC running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista operating system. January 8, 10:23 a.m. PST Skype founders' TV plans could blur bandwidth picture If your provider of Internet connectivity has a strict monthly limit on bandwidth usage, you could be forced to turn the channel on the new peer-to-peer TV streaming offering planned by the founders of the Skype Internet telephone service. January 8, 7:19 a.m. PST Hi-def video to ring in digital living room A new generation of high-definition TV and DVD technology heralds the arrival of the digital living room, says Alice Chang, CEO of Taiwanese media software maker CyberLink. January 5, 6:54 a.m. PST The free multimedia opportunity As 64-bit processing becomes mainstream, the next major computing platform shift is due to arrive by 2008. If the open source community doesn't step up to the plate and address major impediments to widespread desktop adoption, Linux could be left behind. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST Podcasting gets U.K. royal seal of approval Podcasting has received the royal seal of approval from the U.K.'s reigning monarch. December 22, 10:04 a.m. PST Reports: Sony to start video download service Sony plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers. December 18, 4:28 a.m. PST In Brief: BitTorrent makes deals with major studios BitTorrent on Wednesday announced deals with several major movie studios and content producers, as the streaming software company moves towards legitimacy instead of being a tool for piracy. November 29, 4:52 a.m. PST YouTube goes mobile with Verizon Online video-sharing service YouTube is extending its reach beyond PCs to mobile phones through a deal with Verizon Wireless. November 28, 6:59 a.m. PST Akamai to buy Nine Systems for media control Online delivery service company Akamai Technologies Inc. is buying Nine Systems Corp., a multimedia management service provider, expanding its toolset for online content. November 20, 12:28 p.m. PST Hutchison 3G opens the mobile broadband faucet If content has trickled from early mobile phone data services, a service slated to launch next month in the U.K. aims to turn on the wireless broadband faucet. November 16, 9:21 a.m. PST > Applications |
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