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SYS-CON's Internet Video News Desk tracks the fast-emerging and fast-converging worlds of streaming video, IP and TV as well as latest news and updates from "iTVcon - Internet TV Conference & Expo" (www.iTVcon.com).
 Sony apparently has cloud intentions. Sony Computer Entertainment has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a trademark on the term “PS Cloud.” It’s also reportedly registered the domain name “playstationcloud.com.” The broad trademark application, filed March 24 and annoyingl...Apr. 8, 2009 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,347 |
 Motorola Aura is the latest Motorola phone that really causes a stir on its looks alone. This beautiful fashion phone comes with the sleek appearance a user would expect from a Motorola fashion conscious mobile phones. Motorola EM30 is also one of the sleek looking Motorola phones that...Apr. 4, 2009 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,657 |
 The Nokia E71 black is a professional 3G Smartphone phone, and the successor to the Nokia E61. It's a Symbian Smartphone that comes with a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.4 inch display. The E71 slim phone comes in two different colors, black and grey. It is fully loaded with many busines...Apr. 1, 2009 10:07 AM EDT Reads: 7,425 |
 EveryZing, a spin-off of BBN Technologies, the outfit that dreamt up ARPANET and the e-mail @ sign, has launched MediaCloud, the first-ever cloud-based solution for online video and media companies. Mar. 4, 2009 11:30 AM EST Reads: 4,398 |
 Adobe Systems has introduced the Adobe Scene7 eVideo Streaming Solution, a new addition to the Scene7 hosted rich media publishing platform. The new offering leverages Adobe Flash Platform technologies, enabling users to upload, transcode, edit, manage and stream content on the Web. De...Jan. 30, 2009 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,610 |
Canesta announced its collaboration with Hitachi to create a television that can be controlled by open-air hand gestures, rather than by the familiar hand-held remote control. The prototype, which uses a tiny Canesta 3D sensor for gesture recognition and a Hitachi TV can be controlled ... Jan. 14, 2009 06:58 AM EST Reads: 3,869 |
 Adobe and Intel plan to collaborate on porting Adobe’s Flash widgetry to Intel’s Media Processor CE 3100, a way to put Flash-enhanced web content and rich Flash applications on television. The chip is bound for cable set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, digital TVs and retail-connected...Jan. 6, 2009 04:05 AM EST Reads: 3,972 |
 "The BBC iPlayer Desktop beta on Adobe AIR will help extend their popular browser-based Web video broadcasts to more viewers with a high-quality, instant-on Internet TV experience outside the browser and across all major operating systems," said Jim Guerard, Vice President and General ...Dec. 19, 2008 02:00 AM EST Reads: 4,497 |
We now have the second iconic moment of the Bush presidency. This is how he'll be remembered, if only because shoes seem to be so psychologically powerful: Khrushchev is remembered in this country for pounding his shoe on the UN's lectern, and Adlai Stevenson is remembered for the hole... Dec. 15, 2008 10:17 PM EST Reads: 2,271 |
I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them alread... Nov. 17, 2008 05:00 PM EST Reads: 3,115 |
Last week Circuit City, the second-biggest electronics retailer in the US, decided to close down 25% of its stores, some 155 shops, by December 31 – in part because suppliers wanted to be paid upfront. When its suppliers heard the news it spooked them into demanding even more money upf... Nov. 10, 2008 05:54 PM EST Reads: 2,299 |
 Mark Papermaster, the ex-IBM heavyweight that IBM is suing to stop him from working at Apple, has been named senior VP of devices hardware engineering running Apple’s iPhone and iPod development. He replaces Tony Fadell, pretty much the father of the ARM-based iPod and iPhone, who now ...Nov. 6, 2008 06:00 PM EST Reads: 3,148 |
 Michael Wolff, Rupert Murdoch's authorized biographer said during a CNBC interview on September 3, 2008 that the conservative media baron is quite embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly and by his Fox Television network, and he will vote for Senator Obama in the upcoming elections. CNBC's "Power...Oct. 4, 2008 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,408 Replies: 2 |
 Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who join...Sep. 12, 2008 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 26,876 Replies: 2 |
Google and its little pal YouTube have attracted another lawsuit for copyright infringement. Rome-based Mediaset, controlled by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is demanding 500 million euros ($779.3 million) in damages. Mediaset sampled YouTube’s content on June 10 and says i... Jul. 30, 2008 01:50 PM EDT Reads: 1,241 |
The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCain and lobbyist Vicki Iseman to stay away from each other prior to his failed presidential campaign in 2000. In its own follow-up story, The Washington Post quoted longtime aide John Weaver, who split with McCain la... Jul. 23, 2008 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 8,975 Replies: 1 |
 Having peered into various crystal balls, Cisco figures global Internet traffic will grow 46% a year between now and 2012, nearly doubling every two years. The projection translates into an annual bandwidth demand of more than a half a zettabyte, the equivalent of at least 125 billion ...Jun. 23, 2008 10:15 PM EDT Reads: 3,246 |
 2008 is going to be an important year for Rich Internet Applications. Most organizations are delivering or planning to deliver Rich Internet Applications; however, at the same time, most IT managers are facing a dilemma: which Rich Internet Application technology and platform to use? T...Jun. 20, 2008 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 41,209 Replies: 2 |
 From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown ...Jun. 10, 2008 08:30 PM EDT Reads: 100,442 Replies: 2 |
Conference in San Francisco. Dvorak held forth on a number of topics, including the new AMD/Intel lawsuit, the viability of Java and Sun, the value of (or lack thereof) of corporate PR, and whether or not a new book about Silicon Valley is really worth reading. Jun. 5, 2008 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 19,067 Replies: 2 |
 Friday morning the local Fox television station in New York City broke the news - Apple was suing New York City. Six out of 100 of their viewers thought Apple had the right to sue the City, but 94 out of 100 viewers are now calling for New Yorkers to drop Apple and its products, includ...May. 27, 2008 09:15 PM EDT Reads: 26,058 Replies: 2 |
 According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway ...May. 9, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 12,951 Replies: 1 |
 Weitzner brings 30 years of publishing experience to ZDE, starting in editorial at Hearst Business Communications and moving over to the business side at CMP Media. As CMP Media COO and CEO, he transformed the company from a print-centric publisher focused on multiple markets to a tech...Apr. 28, 2008 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 3,334 |
 You remember back in the early days of video games when there wasn't enough capacity on the carts themselves to support 30 hours of gameplay? What was the solution to keep you playing? They made the games unbelievably freaking difficult. Try playing Kid Icarus now after having played a...Apr. 26, 2008 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 8,687 Replies: 2 |
 Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass and I can't wait to start dropping more hardcore blog posts regarding it. Scott Guthrie's tutorials are a fantastic place to start. The issue I have, however, is that all of the tutorials assume you have installed Silverlight 2.0 tools for VS 2008. There is a ...Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 29,604 Replies: 23 |
 The mouse was the original idea of Doug Engelbart who was the head of the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute. Engelbart's philosophy is best embodied, in my opinion, in the design of another device that he invented, the five-finger keyboard - with keys li...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 27,003 Replies: 6 |
 Told ya Adobe was gonna reorganize and put its mobile/devices operation in with its platform operation in the name of moving to a single technology platform and runtime for PCs, handsets and consumer devices. Adobe's new CTO Kevin Lynch, the creator of AIR, is basically in charge of th...Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 16,348 |
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 Brightcove... Apr. 7, 2008 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 6,123 Replies: 1 |
 This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit ...Apr. 7, 2008 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,325 |
 Adobe has put an alpha pre-release of AIR for Linux up in hopes, it says, of getting feedback from the community, not to mention winning adherents. It's English-only. The company also joined the Linux Foundation to encourage the growth of RIA technologies on Linux, it said. The company...Apr. 4, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 13,254 |
 Fast-spreading rich Internet applications require new skills for development of what was known as boring-looking enterprise applications. In the past, development of the user interface was done by software developers to the best of their design abilities. A couple of buttons here, a gr...Mar. 30, 2008 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 18,558 Replies: 5 |
 I want to thank everyone who showed up to share my enthusiasm for the iPhone as it is, what I believe, the mobile development platform to target. I also want to thank those people who tolerated my evasiveness and lack of detail during the SDK session. As I've said before, just because ...Mar. 30, 2008 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 16,204 |
 The F2F meeting of OpenAjax Alliance at NYC on March 21st worked out really well in my oppinion. As a result of the last F2F meeting in October 2007, we formed a new task force called 'Runtime Advocacy Task Force' at OpenAjax. The goal of Runtime Task Force is to collect a 'wish list' ...Mar. 29, 2008 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 14,993 Replies: 1 |
 During the Q&A period after one of my sessions at the iPhone Developer Summit last Thursday, there was someone there from Microsoft Competetive Intelligence. She asked myself and some other folks who were lingering nearby to describe, in our unbiased opinions, what we thought was wrong...Mar. 25, 2008 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,873 Replies: 1 |
 Sybase iAnywhere announced availability of support for Apple iPhone during the first international iPhone Developer Summit, colocated with AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East. Information Anywhere now enables IT organizations to provide secure delivery of Lotus Domino and Microsoft E...Mar. 25, 2008 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 13,823 |
 Google said Tuesday that it's going mobile with its Google Gears technology, the stuff that's supposed to let web-based apps run unconnected to the web, beginning with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices ahead of its own nascent Android platform. Same day, Microsoft came out and made a vict...Mar. 17, 2008 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 23,138 Replies: 2 |
 IBM says it's found a way to make mashups secure enough for business. Because of inherent browser insecurity, mashups aren't really viable for widespread business adoption. But what's a little thing like viability compared to the pressure of keeping up with the Joneses - in this case t...Mar. 13, 2008 07:15 PM EDT Reads: 15,963 Replies: 1 |
 Microsoft today attempted to exorcize the interoperability bogeymen that have haunted it since it was first discovered to be using secret APIs 20 years ago, bogeymen that now quote European antitrust law at it and carry writs from the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg. To avoid fur...Feb. 21, 2008 10:00 PM EST Reads: 17,029 Replies: 2 |
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 services provid... Feb. 21, 2008 12:00 PM EST Reads: 7,977 |
 So is O'Reilly actually condoning the hacking of the phones? O'Reilly has had a long and prestigious history as being the ultimate source for *nix manuals, including many books that became so dogeared I actually bought multiple copies, including dozens of 'in a nutshell' books. Back in...Feb. 16, 2008 07:15 PM EST Reads: 15,853 Replies: 7 |
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