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Disney and YouTube to team for kid-friendly video content

Published on: 12th November, 2011

YouTube and Disney said they are cooperating on a co-branded collection of family-friendly videos that they intend to bring available online. Videos will be produced by Disney Interactive for both YouTube and Disney.com. Free online video content made for Disney’s core audiences would be made available in early 2012 on both outlets. Their first project [...]

YouTube will try ‘premium’ channels to attract viewers

Published on: 13th April, 2011

YouTube hopes turning to original content to make content for Google TV and attract viewers, as sources said. The Google video site plans to launch about twenty ‘premium’ channels with unique content of five to ten hours every week. The Wall Street Journal said YouTube would be willing to spend about $100 million in order [...]

Apple – video streaming brought to AirPlay standard?

Published on: 24th March, 2011

Apple seems to be currently considering some changes to the AirPlay standard; this could be updated with video streaming support. Anonymous sources familiar with this matter have declared for Bloomberg that Apple will continue expanding licensing agreements with hardware makers, who will have the possibility to take advantage of TV shows, streaming movies and even [...]

MPEG-LA group asks for examples of patent violation by Google’s WebM

Published on: 20th February, 2011

An MPEG-LA request recently put under renewed threat Google’s video standard WebM. The group is asking its members for eventual instances in which one of the companies considers its patents infringed by one of the WebM’s VP8 format patents. It also hopes to create a joint license to be offered for what it calls “essential” [...]

Microsoft’s patent for GPU video encoding may hurt creatives

Published on: 16th October, 2010

According to a US patent filing recently published, Microsoft could control hardware-accelerated video encoding. The continuance of an accelerated video encoding application using a GPU would include the common technique used for the calculation of motion for video processing with a video chipset rather than using the usually slower main CPU. The techniques are wide [...]

Yahoo Messenger on iPhone will have 3G video chat

Published on: 16th October, 2010

Yahoo has posted the expected update 2.0 of Yahoo Messenger, free on the App Store, adding two-way video chat. This is one of the first iOS applications that support two-way video chat through 3G. It gives owners of the fourth generation iPod touch and of the iPhone a chatting option by using the front or [...]

Yahoo Messenger to reach Android and iPhone, 3G video chat

Published on: 13th October, 2010

Yahoo’s vice president of Mobile North America, David Katz, promised a Yahoo Messenger version with 4G or 3G video chat to smartphones. People owning an iPhone 4 or Android phones with front cameras, such as the myTouch on T-Mobile or the Epic 4G from Samsung, will have a two-way chat option regardless of the network [...]

Zune Marketplace has expanded beyond US and ahead of WP 7

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Microsoft, for the first time in the run-up to its WP 7, has expanded the Zune Marketplace services beyond the United States. The unlimited Zune Pass music, video sales, MP3 downloads and movie rentals will become available in Germany, France and the United Kingdom this fall. Meanwhile, Spain will get all these services excepting video [...]

Speed and WebM video for the new Opera 10.6

Published on: 8th July, 2010

On July 1st, 2010, Opera claimed a handful of records by releasing its Opera 10.6. The company is currently trying to recover the title of the fastest browser – its JavaScript engine is said to be about 50 percent faster than the available and already quick 10.5. The application is, at the same time, the [...]

Libox service to provide photos, videos and music to any device connected to the web

Published on: 28th June, 2010

Libox service has been recently launched and intends to share music, videos and photos on portable electronic devices which are incompatible. Erez Pilosof, the founder of the service, wanted a simpler media sharing solution. Users of Android, iPhones, iPads and other devices are able to access web applications running in HTML, but Erez Pilosof works [...]

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