Using a flexible API, Encoding.com has introduced the ability for allow online video platforms to offer its cloud encoding services as a white-label solution. A couple of major customers have already signed up for the white-label service, including Cisco Eos, Giant Realm, Kaltura and Vzaar. Read More »
Archive for June 2010
Blogger John Gruber of Daring Fireball says that he doesn’t believe that comments on most blogs add any value, and that they are often just “cacaphonous shouting matches,” which is why he doesn’t allow them. But despite the noise, we believe comments are worth having. Read More »
The Social Developer Summit, produced by mediabistro.com and Nick O’Neill, founder of All Facebook and Social Times, will be a series of technical conversations about programming the social layer of applications. It will be held June 29 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Read More »
Flock, the popular socially-based browser built on Mozilla, has a new Windows beta that rides atop Chromium, the same code base used by Google for the Chrome browser. Speed, extensions and a proven track record on mobiles are the main reasons for Flock’s browser engine swap. Read More »
Even though much of the 700 MHz spectrum has been auctioned off, a portion has already been reserved for a nationwide emergency response channel to be used by any and all public safety personnel. The proposed technology to build out network is known as LTE. Read More »
Skype, which is available on Apple’s iPhone and Nokia’s Symbian devices, today launched support for three Sony Ericsson phones that are based on the Symbian OS. Skype will be available on Satio, Vivaz and Vivaz Pro. Skype now supports “the latest version of the Symbian platform.” Read More »
With the rumored but still unexpected announcement of iMovie for iPhone 4, it begs the question of what else could be in store for Apple’s iDevices. Could we see iMovie or other iLife apps arrive for the iPad or see iWork show up for iPhone 4? Read More »
The good news for Yahoo TV Widgets is that Sony is expanding the number of markets where those widgets are available nearly seven-fold. The bad news is that Sony is also spearheading the introduction of Google TV on its connected TVs and Blu-ray players. Read More »
Add electric vehicle smart charging to the long list of products that German energy and engineering giant Siemens wants to tackle for the smart grid. Siemens says it will partner with startup Coulomb Technologies and jointly sell Siemen’s smart grid IT products with Coulomb’s EV charging… Read More »
Sony Ericsson is not sitting back on its XPERIA phone line and watching the Android parade go by. The firm unleashed a new member of the line, the X8, and promises upgrades to Android 2.1 for all XPERIA X10 phones this year. Android keeps rolling on. Read More »
Infineon, one of the top five wireless chipmakers, has hired J.P. Morgan to seek a buyer for its wireless chip business, according to the Financial Times. Will Infineon be any more successful than Freescale or Texas Instruments, which tried and failed to sell their wireless businesses? Read More »
Odds and ends from around the greentech web that we’re reading this morning. Read More »
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