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- Internet Service Provider Boosts Performance With New Operating System
- HiNet provides media services through an advanced IT environment called the HiNet Media Platform HMP and delivers streaming media services for the hinet.net and hichannel.hinet.net Web sites. As its service offerings grow, HiNet wants to ensure that HMP will support ever-increasing bandwidth and processing requirements. In particular, the company wants...
- Tags: Performance, Operating System, Internet Service, Streaming Media, HiNet, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Digital Media, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Operating Systems, Internet, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Vantage Service Check: Driving Support Costs Out of Internet Services Delivery While Discovering New Revenue Opportunities
- As the broadband subscriber base continues to grow, demand for customer support by customer care will also grow exponentially. With new subscribers comes an upsurge in trouble calls and the need to reduce the cost of managing these calls. Introduction of full triple-play services will add significant complexity to the...
- Tags: Video Service, Revenue Opportunity, Compuware Corp., Internet Service, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Internet, Web Technology, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Telecommunications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Macromedia Flash Media Server 2 (cfm)
- Macromedia Flash Media Server 2 software offers the unique combination of traditional streaming media capabilities and a flexible development environment for creating and delivering innovative, interactive media applications to the broadest possible audience. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Note: The Download Now link will direct you...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Inc., Macromedia Flash, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Digital Media, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-08-13
- It was 8 years ago, Broadcast.com taught the Internet to play... media files
- The fact that I am using a cultural reference that dates back to a now 40-year-old Beatles album should tell you that I am no spring chicken.But in reading Mark Cuban's Blog Maverick blog, his post entitled Remembering Broadcast.com takes me back to the early days of Internet streaming.These were...
- Tags: Streaming media
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Today's Internet radio boycott won't matter
- Yes, I know its a cliche to call today's Internet music radio boycott "the day the music died," but actually that's not much of a stretch.Backgrounder: numerous Internet radio stations- from large ones operated by Yahoo and MTV to smaller ones operated out of garages- fall silent today in protest...
- Tags: Streaming media, Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- These stats offer fascinating insights into Internet music, retail use
- Internet infrastructure services provider Akamai says it delivers betwen 15 to 20 percent of the world's Web traffic on any given day.Now, Akamai has launched a fleet of free Web-based services that show real-time, last-24-hours and historical traffic pattern data on activity and demand for general Internet connections, retail transactions,...
- Tags: Streaming media, Predictions and Observations, News
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Why ABC's time-shifting of Charlie Gibson Webcast is a seminal development
- We learn from a report in Broadcasting & Cable magazine that ABC is moving its World News Webcast from 3 p.m. to 12:30 p.m Eastern Time.Interesting backstory on the move. As B&C's John Eggerton notes, the Charlie Gibson-anchored newscast was originally launched in Januaryk 2006 as a preview of that...
- Tags: trends, Streaming media, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Massive Hollywood talent strike could be boon for digital content creators, sites
- As explained in the Wall Street Journal today by prominent entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris, there could be a strike called for by the Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.Before I get to the point of this post, please don't think most who...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Streaming media, trends
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Microsoft reveals more partners, plans for Windows Home Server
- Microsoft reveals more partners, plans for Windows Home ServerA good idea deserves a pat on the backLet's just hope that we have a quality product in the end so that pat on the back doesn't turn into a kick in the butt.Gotta chuckle outta this:"Hardware partner [b]Medion[/b] is set to...
- Tags: Servers, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, streaming media, partnership, server, Microsoft Corp., Windows Home, Microsoft Windows Home Server, Linux, Microsoft Windows, WHS
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
- Get Engaged!: Using streaming media to Reach Employees in a Web 2.0 World
- Globalization has changed not only how businesses interact with each other, but how companies communicate internally with employees. With the increase in global sourcing, remote working and virtual teams, important messages are increasingly being delivered electronically - competing for attention in already congested inboxes. As the adoption of broadband Internet...
- Tags: Web, Employee, Thomson Corp., Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Globalization, Web 2.0, Digital Media, Internet, Strategy, Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2007-05-04
- How we can use rich media technology to honor the victims
- One thing about me- Im sort of a First Amendment absolutist.Yet with broadband speeds and video-compliant meaning that objectionable material is far more accessible to most of us, sometimes the pace in which decisions need to be made about whether to distribute or suppress this material must be made instantaneously.In...
- Tags: YouTube, Streaming media, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-19
- My Virginia Tech posts: apologies and clarifications
- Yesterday, in my first post on the lack of availability of indexed and searchable video about the Virginia Tech tragedy I started out by writing in part:Evil. Pure evil. The sheer numbers inform a tragedy that is so much more profound than any discussion of the technologies used to stream...
- Tags: Streaming media, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Creating and distributing streaming media will get easier this summer
- Thats because of something called Akamai Stream OS.Streaming media solutions provider Akamai Technologies will offer reference designs for this new rich-media distribution system beginning this summer.Im excited about Stream OS for two big reasons.Stream OS, which has just been released, will simultaneously output video and other rich media in multiple...
- Tags: Streaming media, Software, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Smells like stream spirit, but FCC's payola settlement is a joke
- Heres an even more apt reference than a play on the title "Smells Like Teen Spirit," by Nirvana.We go a little further back for this one: "One likes to believe in the power of music"But glitter and prizes and endless compromises, shatter the illusion of integrity""Spirit of Radio,...
- Tags: General, Streaming media, Regulatory
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Porn again: adult content's big broadband problem you never hear about
- Thats porn star Stormy Daniels.So whats an image of her doing on this blog? Ill tell you.An article on the ABC News website broaches this rather imagistic subject: are high-def cameras just a bit too, well, high-def for porn videos?After reading this article, I started to think the question...
- Tags: trends, Streaming media, General
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Here's the only broadband video encoding tool you'll ever need
- You know the drill. Take some video with your digital camera or DV cam, transfer it to your Mac or PC, maybe give it the editing treatment, and encode it for posting to your website, podcast, or favorite video sharing site.While you can skip the encoding part for many...
- Tags: General, Software, Streaming media
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Don't give up on NetFlix
- NetFlix new Watch Now service will let a select view of the DVD distributors six million customers watch movies over the Internet.Select view, meaning 250,000 or so additional subs per week, until a June target date for complete subscriber base enablement.Since this content will not be downloaded but will live...
- Tags: General, trends, Streaming media, NetFlix Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- I guess it's up to me to debunk this tv on cellphone fad
- Theres a type of strange, counterintuitive faddishness at this years Consumer Electronics Show that to me, defies all manner of logic.Since few if any other bloggers will speak out about it, I view it as my role to do so.I am referring to rampant, contagious "platformitis-" the mad rush to...
- Tags: Cellular phones, cell phone, telephone, video
- Blog posts 2007-01-08
- Mobile streaming media: Communicate, Any Time, Anywhere
- HP researchers are working on technologies to securely stream media to any device, letting people in different locations communicate as if they were in the same room.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mobile, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- TCP Vegas Performance With streaming media
- The study discussed in this paper is the use of TCP Vegas as a transport protocol for streaming media. It also considers TCP NewReno as a transport protocol for streaming media. The paper finds that: TCP is able to transport streaming media with good performance in a wide variety of...
- Tags: TCP, Streaming Media, Tcp/Ip, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Networking, Internet
- White papers 2007-01-01
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