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On2 acquires Hantro Products helping Flash Video on devices

Yesterday On2, the company that powers the VP6 codec that is leveraged in Flash Video, announced the acquisition of Hantro Products. Hantro is based in Finland and specializes in video players for mobile devices. According to the press release, Hantro's customers include Nokia, Freescale, LSI, Vimicro, Sanyo, and others.All of...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Online Video, On2, Mobile-Web, Flash, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-05-22

On2 joins with Widevine for Flash Video DRM

Earlier this week, Widevine made an announcement that they were offering DRM for Flash Video. Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee had some information, and from what I could glean from the press release, it seemed like Widevine was simply offering a downloadable client that would somehow encrypt Flash Video files....

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Rich Media, Online Video, On2, Flash, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-04-11

Flash video coming to mobile devices with Flash Lite 3

Some interesting news this week around video on mobile phones. Thanks to John Dowdell, I saw a press release went out that announced a new version of Flash Lite, Adobes Flash technology for devices, will be supporting Flash video. The details in the press release are kind of sketchy, but...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, Mobile-Web, Online Video, Flash Video, On2 Technologies

Blog posts 2007-02-11

Why WPF/E is a big deal: BBC on Flash Video

I caught this post by Stefan Richter about changes to the BBC website and how despite a lot of public comment, BBC chose not to use Flash Video for news stories. As Stephan notes, the reason seems to be that the cost to add Flash Video to their infrastructure was...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Online Video, Flash Video

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Brightcove brings in the big money

Brightcove announced today that they raised $59.5 million in a Series C round that includes a big list of new investors including the New York Times Company. Is the online video space getting too hot? Maybe, but Brightcoves approach is unique and seems to be attracting attention. Theyve built...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, Online Video, Brightcove

Blog posts 2007-01-17

How Brightcove is building a platform for video

After years of hit or miss, video on the web has finally hit the mainstream. YouTube showed how successful video could be when you make it easy for people to access. Its $1.65 billion acquisition by Google was vindication of video as a business and even before the sale, small...

Tags: Brightcove, Online Video, Advertising, Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Does GooTube mean anything for Rich Internet Applications?

Unless youve been hiding under a rock, or maybe following the big news on that other meme you know that Google has taken the plunge and agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. The blogosphere has, predictably, gone totally crazy and everyone is talking about what this means...

Tags: Google Inc., video

Blog posts 2006-10-10

Additional Resources

Twelve best practices for online customer communities

One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...

Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-07-25

1.4 bln Internet users in 2008

Roughly 1.4 bln people ill use the Internet on a regular basis in 2008. This number is expected to surpass 1.9 bln unique users, or 30% of the world’s population, in 2012, according to IDC. Users will access the Internet through more than 1.5 bln devices worldwide in 2008, including...

Tags: Internet User, Mobile, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-25

iPhone gas application roundup

On 18 June 2008 I published my iPhone app wishlist and I'm happy that most of my most requested applications have been released (Thank you Texas Hold'Em!). Two my most request applications dealt with fuel, specifically a fuel economy tracker and a cheap gas finder. Several iterations...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Vehicle, MPG, AccuFuel, Gas Finder, Roi/Tco, GPS, 3G, Handhelds, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Software makers may sue eBay

Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...

Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008

Worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total 65.2 bln USD in 2008, which is nearly 10% of all ad spending across all media, according to IDC. This share is expected to reach 13.6% by 2011 as Internet ad spending grows to $106.6 bln worldwide. by NB

Tags: Internet Advertising, Internet, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-25

50% of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008

China’s online population is forecast to grow from 275 mln users in 2008 to 375 mln users in 2012, according to IDC. Nearly half of all Internet users will make online purchases in 2008. By 2012, there will be more than 1 bln online buyers worldwide making business to consumer...

Tags: Internet User, B2C, Internet, B2B, E-business/E-Commerce, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users

Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...

Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-07-25

GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default

Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Rumor Mill: iPhone to get copy, paste and better navi in firmware 2.1

The most exciting thing around the watercooler today is the rumor that Apple has seeded iPhone firmware 2.1 to developers. MacNN sources tell them that they've found references to cut, copy and paste in the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj. Woot! According to the story the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Radio, Apple Inc., Firmware, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25

How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability

The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...

Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-25