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At Mobile World Congress, Nokia Siemens Networks laid out an ambitious heterogeneous network strategy, unveiling its Flexi Zone fabric of small cells. NSN, however, was missing one crucial piece Wi-Fi. NSN has now filled that hole through a deal with metro Wi-Fi vendor Ruckus Wireless. Read more »

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When it comes to live events, fewer are bigger than the Super Bowl on TV. But what about online? The Super Bowl, along with the Pro Bowl and other postseason games, will be live streamed for the first time, thanks to the NFL and NBC. Read more »

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The numbers from the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tournament are in, and March Madness’ success, both on TV and online, show that the live streams of sporting events online could actually be complementary to, and not cannibalistic of TV viewership. Read more »

Soon, folks who are interested in publishing their content in the ePub format — an open eBook standard — might just develop a taste for the iWork suite, which, using today’s update, makes it simple to export documents in the ePub format. Read more »

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The recently concluded Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, Canada were a watershed moment in the history of online video. Akamai, a Cambridge, Mass.-based content delivery network with a global footprint helped collect some of the stats about Vancouver Olympics and they are truly mind-boggling. Continue reading […] Read more »

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The first online audience numbers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are coming in, and NBC is ready to celebrate: The network served 45 million video streams from the games, according to data it obtained from Omniture, and NBCOlympics.com doubled its page views compared to the 2006 […] Read more »

Last week, one of the stranger controversies to arise during the Olympics had nothing to do with authentication, thanks to commentators on the men’s figure skating competition, who strongly insinuated that sixth-place finisher Johnny Weir might be “too gay” for the sport. Johnny Weir’s own response was […] Read more »

As I’m watching all of these events, I’m struck by one thing in particular: All of these athletes represent the consummate niche professional. They do one thing (or sometimes two or three, but all under the same basic umbrella) and they do it very, very well. Read more »

In a decision that might surprise some viewers who have become frustrated by NBC Universal’s handling of online video content, it streamed the entirety of the quarterfinal Men’s Hockey matchup between the USA and Switzerland live at 3:00 pm EST, the same time that it was […] Read more »

If ESPN were in charge of of broadcasting the Olympics to a domestic audience, what would it look like? paidContent did an interview with ESPN executive vice president of content John Skipper and executive editor John Walsh about the challenges of covering the Olympics. But contained […] Read more »

Much has been written in recent days about NBC’s ratings victory over American Idol; the network was able to glue more people to the screen last Wednesday than the singing competition airing at the same time on Fox. In fact, NBC won this one by a […] Read more »

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NBC’s decision to restrict live streaming of the Vancouver Winter Olympics to subscribers of cable, satellite or IPTV services is making many cord cutters scramble. We’ve heard anecdotes from former cable customers flocking to gyms or stop by friends for surprise visits while figure skating and […] Read more »

A Trickle of Live Streams on NBC Web Site for Olympics; NBC’s Web site is live-streaming fewer sports than it did in Beijing, marking a step backward in online access to marquee events. (NY Times) UK Online Video Service SeeSaw Goes Live; the service goes live […] Read more »

While the actual experience of using NBCOlympics.com may not be ideal, that hasn’t stopped the network’s online coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics from doing just fine stats-wise. According to a release from NBC Universal, 13.6 million unique visitors so far have come to NBCOlympics.com for […] Read more »

NBC Is Losing Money on the Olympics Because It Paid Too Much for Them; GE predicts NBCU will generate $250 million less in advertising revenue than it cost to license and produce the games. (TV by the Numbers) Hollywood Rushes Out 3-D Movies In Wake of […] Read more »

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Figure skating! Snowboarding! Curling! The Winter Olympics are about to start in Vancouver today, and sports fans of all colors are ready to tune in and count the gold medals. Of course, having the Olympics in Canada is nice, because we don’t have to get up […] Read more »

The flags, the speeds, the gates, the snow, the ice, the blades, the luge, the twirling adolescents — get psyched! The Vancouver edition of the Winter Olympics are starting today. Want to follow along online? Here are a few key resources. Read more »

Buildings, like cars, need constant tune-ups to make sure they’re running efficiently, says David Helliwell, co-founder of 4-year-old startup Pulse Energy, which makes building energy management systems. Fortunately for Pulse Energy’s customers, buildings don’t need the time-consuming, oil change-type of maintenance, and Pulse Energy can use […] Read more »

BBC to Offer Over 2,000 Hours of Winter Olympics Coverage; the Beeb’s Red Button interactive TV service will have 2,000 hours of coverage available, compared to approximately 160 hours of coverage on BBC Two. (InteractiveTV Today) Telegraph.co.uk Ditching Brightcove for Ooyala; The Telegraph has signed a […] Read more »

Is YouTube Looking at a Subscription Model?; Google vice president of content partnerships David Eun said some full-length shows would not be available to YouTube under its current advertising model (Reuters), and Sky reportedly backed out of talks to put its shows on the video site […] Read more »

Tomorrow is the big launch for NBC’s 2010 Olympics coverage. With 100 days till the opening ceremonies in Vancouver, NBC Sports is flipping the switch on a new site powered by Microsoft Silverlight with help from partners such as Vertigo (which built the player) and iStreamPlanet […] Read more »

Conviva has scored a non-exclusive multiyear deal to provide video distribution services to NBC Universal. The companies wouldn’t say which NBC properties would be involved or when, but an emailed press release had Darren Feher, NBCU executive VP and CTO, using the network’s web streaming of […] Read more »

We promised once upon a time that we could compile a side-by-side comparison of all the white-label video platform providers. Well, somehow other fun things got in the way, and we never got around to it. But recently I found a market comparison of all the […] Read more »

George Kliavkoff is done bringing digital gospel to old media. Now he wants to “start, run or invest” in an online business, he said in an internal email announcing he will leave his post as NBC Universal’s chief digital officer at the end of the year. […] Read more »

The Olympics may be fading off the radar screen, especially for anyone concerned with, say, government or finance. But they were still one of the biggest events of the year. A month out, exclusive U.S. Olympics broadcaster NBCU is releasing more numbers tallied across different distribution […] Read more »

Reports circulated over the weekend that NBCOlympics.com only made $5.75 million in video ad revenue, according to eMarketer, a drop in the bucket compared with the more than $1 billion the peacock pulled in on oldteevee. But with the NBC offering twice-delayed video coverage and a […] Read more »

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