Internet Video News Desk

Brightcove announced distribution partnerships with Bebo, Meebo, RockYou, Slide and Veoh, giving media companies new opportunities to expand the reach of their online video, while maintaining control over their content and advertising inventory. Now media companies using the Brig... (more)

More than 30 million mobile phone users in the Philippines now have access to the latest in mobile communications with a new video SMS service offered by Smart Communications (SMART) and built on NMS Communications’ proven Video SMS solution. SMART, the leading wireless ser... (more)

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), defender of the GPL's honor, said Monday that Xterasys Corporation, one of the companies it sued in November for not providing users with the source code to the GPL 2-protected Busybox Unix utilities as the license requires, has settled out... (more)

Limelight Networks announced that Blockbuster has exclusively selected Limelight Networks' rich media CDN and Microsoft Silverlight to provide the technical streaming capabilities for the first studio-backed feature streamed in its entirety -- JACKASS 2.5 -- to be distributed dir... (more)

Comtrend announced it has become the first manufacturer to offer home networking adaptors that support speeds up to 400 Mbps. Comtrend’s new product, called the PowerGrid 904, is an Ethernet Powerline adaptor that plugs into any standard power plug in a home. The PowerGrid ... (more)

"Building a technical infrastructure that provides access to all our sites - large or small, newspaper or TV-based - is essential," said Jack Williams, president of Gannett Digital, as he announced this week that the Maven Internet TV Platform will be providing enterprise-wide In... (more)

The great Exaflood, when modern man drowns in his online videos and other bandwidth-intensive content and the Internet grinds to a crawl with brownouts, is only two years off according to a study done by Nemertes Research. It calculates that it will take $137 billion in global in... (more)

As the convergence of the four screens continues ­- PC, TV, mobile phone, and Personal Mobile Platform (PMP) - Internet video has shifted programming into the hands of Web users instead of television viewers, blurring the division between a Website and a TV channel as broadband c... (more)

The author of the market-leading book Mastering Internet Video, Damien Stolarz, is featuring in the Day Two opener Q&A Conversation with Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco this week (12-13 November 2007). Co-founder o... (more)

"With its direct ad sales force and growing publisher network combined with the depth and breadth of its library of video content, GoFish is well positioned to scale its network and its revenues," said John Durham, CEO and managing partner of Catalyst and former president of Jump... (more)

Your video on the Internet: just how realistic is it? What about the major networks, how are they navigating the unknown waters of online video distribution? Is making HD Video for the Web a reality? How can companies monetize their Internet video audiences? These are just a hand... (more)

Richard D. Parsons, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Inc, is going to step down from the CEO role from December 31 and remain only as Chairman of the filmed entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable systems and publishing gian... (more)

"In keeping with our vision to provide 'any video, anywhere', our partnership with RipCode is a definitive step towards furthering this strategy," said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies and featured speaker at the upcoming iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo ... (more)

"Mainstream television is moving to the Internet," said Tony Naughtin, president and CEO of GridNetworks yesterday, as he announced $9.5 million Series A financing led by Panorama Capital and two strategic investors to be disclosed in the future. "GridCasting is a great solution ... (more)

'Sideloading can take mobile video advertising where it has never gone before -- directly to the consumer without the intermediation of a mobile carrier network,' said Philip John, founder and CEO of Clippz.com, as he today announced what he described as the world's first and onl... (more)

How are how major networks navigating the unknown waters of online video distribution? What are some of the forces driving their decisions? John Edwards, CEO of Move Networks and a frequent broadcast industry speaker, will address these questions at an upcoming session that forms... (more)

The next phase of web video, whether that be prime time shows, social networking or user generated content will rely on quality to deliver full screen television like experiences. "The next twelve months will usher in high definition (HD) web video as a key requirement," says Bil... (more)

Agilent Technologies has announced that its N2X multiservices test solution is a solution for validating Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service quality for thousands of subscribers on IPv6 network architectures, also referred to as next-generation networks (NGNs). Network eq... (more)

At VoiceCon San Francisco 2007 Keynote Systems (Nasdaq: KEYN), announced Keynote Voice Perspective 2.0. The new version of Keynote’s test and measurement service for assessing VoIP service quality leverages a public caller agent infrastructure that offers a geographically d... (more)

Impact Highlights Meet Service Level Agreements to deliver promised response times to customers of its media publishing system, an online application. Determine trends to proactively ensure a high degree of online performance in the long term “As a business-to-business compan... (more)