Facebook is expanding its video capabilities and creating a new live video channel to connect with its users. Beginning today, the social media startup plans to use Facebook Live to keep users informed about new product features, giving them a deeper look into the social network. Read More »
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Erik Huggers, director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, cautions that HTML5 is not yet ready for primetime, and that certain companies — like Apple — could undermine the open nature of the standard by pushing an agenda through their own proprietary implementations. Read More »
CBS is introducing a new service called TV.com Relay that will enable users to share what they’re watching and collect virtual rewards. CBS will push the app through on-air promotions, which could be a huge advantage over other social TV apps like Miso, Philo and Tunerfish. Read More »
Today on the Net: the Knocking Live streaming video app has been updated especially for the iPhone 4, Adobe had added GPU decoding for H.264 in the Mac version of its Flash Player plugin and Sony Bravia TVs now have access to German video portal sevenload. Read More »
Social micropayment service Flattr opened up its beta test today, making it possible for anyone to give money Digg style: Flattr users can spread micropayments to online video makers and others by simply clicking on a Flattr button that is embedded into a creator’s web site. Read More »
TiVo announced a deal with Cox Communications that will place cable video-on-demand services alongside linear TV programming and online VOD choices. The deal will enable Cox subscribers to purchase TiVo Premiere DVRs at retail locations and hook the devices in to their existing cable services. Read More »
A video advertising startup called Qoof is coming to market with a platform that can dynamically serve interactive in-video advertisements for e-commerce sites and other verticals that will allow advertisers to deliver custom ads that increase user engagement and always provide the most-up-to-date product information. Read More »
Samsung announced this morning that it’s launching a contest in the U.S. to find innovative new apps for its connected TVs and Blu-ray players. Through the contest, Samsung will give away $500,000 to developers who come up with the best new TV apps. Read More »
Brightcove is announcing today that it is transitioning to Akamai’s CDN and working with it to roll out new features to clients based on Akamai’s HD network. The move will come as a blow to Limelight, which previously owned the bulk of Brightcove’s video delivery business. Read More »
Netflix is paying an estimated $200 million dollars for its newly-won rights to stream Epix content to its subscribers online. Is that too much? Some analysts are cautioning that costs could become prohibitive once other partners are going to demand the same kind of rates. Read More »
The Internet is coming to the flat-screen TV in your living room, and one of the devices that’s making this possible is the set-top box provided by your cable TV company. A new report estimates that hybrid set-top boxes will be worth $1.4 billion by 2014. Read More »
Blockbuster is adding 3,000 video games for Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, PS2 and Wii game systems to its DVD-by-mail offering, hoping to attract gamers to sign up for the subscription service. By doing so, subscribers can rent TV, movie and game discs through a single service Read More »
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