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Microsoft to scale back Soapbox video service

I think I may have been on vacation back in 2006 on the day that Microsoft announced Soapbox, a video service that was going to challenge YouTube. Soapbox was never on my radar and, it appears, it really never made it to anyone's radar. Now, Microsoft says...

Tags: CBS Interactive Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Soapbox, Video, Video Service

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Mobile Video Services: Ready for Prime Time

Video on the Internet has taken off in recent years. The rapid growth of online video has been driven by widespread broadband connectivity, a growing number of sites offering commercial video content, and the explosion of User-Generated Video UGV content. While online Internet video initially caught fire among younger users,...

Tags: Video Service, Mobile, Video, Surf Communication Solutions, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2008-07-06

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: Revenue, 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

Weather Channel rolling out video service optimized for mobiles

Want to watch a weather report for Chicago as you wait to board your plane in Atlanta? The Weather Channel has just made that a whole lot easier. At CTIA this week, The Weather Channel Interactive is showing a new mobile video service newly available through The...

Tags: Video Service, Mobile, Video, Weather Channel, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Bredbaand Nord Launches Video Service Over Cisco IP Next-Generation Network

Bredbaand Nord was established by three local utility companies wanting to invest in the development of Vendsyssel and Han Herred in Northern Jutland, Denmark. The company wanted to expand their capabilities beyond legacy services into new, complex areas such as delivering video, voice and data. Cisco along with the company...

Tags: Video Service, IP, Video, Cisco Systems Inc.

Case studies 2007-05-22

Real-Time Video Services and Distributed Architectures

This paper outlines a more effective content management strategy, in which content is distributed in real time and on demand in smaller than whole-title units of granularity. This alternative architecture benefits from a more intelligent caching approach that allows service providers to benefit from both centralized content storage (reducing content...

Tags: Video Service, Benefit, Video, Cisco Systems Inc., Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2007-05-01

Redefining IPTV With the Sun Streaming System: Video-on-Demand (VoD) and Network Personal Video Recording (nPVR) for an Open Systems World

Offering video services over existing IP networks holds considerable promise in terms of new revenue and business growth opportunities for video service providers. Home video in all of its forms is now a large and growing business, and Video on Demand VoD, networked Personal Video Recorders nPVR, and interactive video...

Tags: Video Service, VoD, Network, IP Television, Sun Microsystems Inc., Video, Video On Demand (VoD), Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Telecommunications

White papers 2007-04-01

Accelerating 3G Mobile Video Communications

Mobility, multimedia and the explosion of communities are three major trends in communications today. With the adoption of 3G phones, capturing and sharing video will be an increasingly important part of the personal and business communications in the future. There are dozens of services which permit people to communicate on...

Tags: Video Service, Hewlett-Packard Co., Video, 3G, Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

White papers 2007-04-01

High Quality Mobile TV: The Challenge for Operators to Deliver High-Quality TV to Mobiles

As with "Triple Play" and "Quad Play" offerings from operators using multiple distribution methods, the ideal is to simplify choice. Consumers should be able to access content from a single supplier and pay a single bill whether they are at home, work, or on the road. Mobile TV promises to...

Tags: Video Service, Mobile, Mobile TV, Spirent Communications, TV, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2007-02-01

T-Mobile, EMI test ad-supported video service

T-Mobile, EMI test ad-supported video serviceit's have always been the solutionAd supported media distribution. But it got lost over the years. Maybe cell phone will bring it back.

Tags: Corporate communications, advertisement, video service, EMI Group Plc., T-Mobile, video

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Senate rejects universal access for video services

The Senate is trying to pass a major bill to allow phone companies to offer video services in competition with cable. But that doesn't mean phone companies will have to be any more responsive to underprivileged neighborhoods than cable has been. An amendment, proposed by Sen. John Kerry,...

Tags: video, U.S. Senate

Blog posts 2006-06-28

Yahoo to recruit citizen video-journalists for new user-generated news video service

Yahoo News plans to launch a citizen video-journalist service at the end of June aimed at publishing user-contributed news videos, according to Red Herring: Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the...

Tags: video, Tom Glocer

Blog posts 2006-06-20

BitTorrent to power ISP's video service

BitTorrent to power ISP's video serviceNow for some real news .It's a shame ZDNET doesn't come up with these stories , MPAA gets caught doing what they tell others not to do . http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060124-6036.htmlSheddup!Man.. get a life dood! And quit cross posting your worthless blurb... perhaps zdnet missed some...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Corporate communications, video service, BitTorrent, video

Discussion threads 2006-02-11

Google adds TV interviews to video service

Google adds TV interviews to video serviceUm, what?What happened to the rest of the story? The part about Matrix and South Park episodes being found on the service? Not to mention all the comments on Talkback?

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, video service, TV, Google Inc., video

Discussion threads 2005-10-27

30 mln Americans will purchase mobile video content by 2010

With the emerging availability of mobile video, 12% of survey respondents indicated they were interested in purchasing mobile video services from their wireless carrier, reports In-Stat. However, 67% of mobile phone subscribers are not yet ready for video services on their handsets, a number that is nearly unchanged from the...

Tags: video service, video, mobile, mobile video

Blog posts 2005-07-28

Mobile Video Services: The Next Step in Mobility and Visual Gratification

Many service and content providers see mobile video services as the way to continue the wireless evolution into the era of rich multimedia services. The ability to watch a video with simultaneous audio effects is seen as a powerful form of visual communication that is now becoming available to the...

Tags: Video Service, Nokia Corp., Mobile, Mobility, Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2003-06-10

Voice and Video Services Over IP - Interoperability Challenges and Solutions

SIP is exciting because its versatility permits rapid development and deployment of new services. But this versatility can lead to implementations that don't interoperate smoothly. SBCs, firewalls and other nodes in IP networks can block packet flows, and poorly provisioned routers can slow time-sensitive traffic. This seminar will survey these...

Tags: Interoperability, Video Service, Voice, Real-time Service, IP, Video, Versatility, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Networking, Emerging Technologies

Webcasts

Additional Resources

sbFirstDay - Netbook 2.1 (Windows)

sbFirstDay-Netbook is appointment-based business software for the independent service professional Book appointments; create and send stunning, high impact marketing e-mails to your customers, track inventory, run reports (income statement, sales detail, sales tax reports, inventory reporting). Create standing appointments, e-mail appointment reminders. Complete video training fo r every window in...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Netbook, Rhino Heaven Software, sbFirstDay-Netbook, E-mail, Sales Strategy, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Sales, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Maingear Shift

With its new Shift gaming desktop, Maingear joins the ranks of Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Velocity Micro in providing its customers a distinctive-looking case you can't get anywhere else. And despite a misstep with the build and a questionable processor choice both of which should be easily remedied, we found...

Tags: Network technology, Most Unique, Maingear, cable, hard drive

Product reviews 2009-11-25

Amazon's Black Friday HDTV deals include Panasonic plasmas

Though only 6 percent of you said in our poll that you plan to shop at Amazon.com for an HDTV on Black Friday, I still thought I should point out the deals that the online retailing giant is offering. Unlike many of the other stores' Black Friday specials, Amazon has...

Tags: Panasonic, Plasma, Amazon.com Inc., 1080p, BD-P160, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-11-24