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Netflix To Land DreamWorks Movie Streaming Exclusive

, Jul 25th 2011 Discuss [4]

Netflix may soon be getting an exclusive deal with DreamWorks for movie streaming. According to a Bloomberg source, the two companies have been in talks and are ready to finalize the deal as soon as this week. It's believed that they are waiting for both companies to announce their quarterly earnings results before they announce the partnership. Read The Full Story

Apple eyeing Hulu purchase?

Apple is sitting on a stockpile of cash that would make Scrooge McDuck jealous. Jobs and his cohorts in Cupertino are sitting on north of $76 billion in cash and securities meaning that what Apple wants it could buy. Two sources that claim to be in the know are saying that what Apple wants it Hulu. Hulu has been pimping itself to a bunch of different companies over the last few weeks to see if anyone wants to buy. Read The Full Story

Microsoft drops out of Hulu auction according to sources

Early this month we caught wind that the popular online video streaming site Hulu might be up for sale. According to sources when the story first broke Hulu had been contacting a bunch of different major players to solicit bids for a sale. Those players were said to be Amazon, AT&T, and Verizon, Liberty Media, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Samsung. At least one of those major players is now said to be dropping out of the bidding. Read The Full Story

Google WebRTC browser voice/video chat released to take on Skype and FaceTime

Google has released a developer preview of WebRTC, its open real-time voice and video chat system that uses HTML and JavaScript to put video and audio conferencing into the browser. Billed as an easy way for developers to add video/voice chat to their products, with no royalties and little in the way of technical hurdles, WebRTC has ambitions to usurp platforms like Microsoft-owned Skype and Apple FaceTime as the open alternative. Read The Full Story

YouTube video now in WebM format

You can't be online without being familiar with YouTube and the hoards of questionably made videos that are available there for people to watch. I would wager most web users have uploaded videos to the site as well. YouTube has announced today that it is transcoding video in a new format when it is uploaded by the user. Read The Full Story

Adobe shows off HLS streaming video on iPad, we still want native Flash

I'd like to go on record saying that one of the only things from Adobe that interests me in the slightest is Flash for my iPad. Get to work on that, thanks. Adobe and Apple still have no agreement for support of Flash content on the iPad, but Adobe is touting its new streaming of Adobe Flash Media Server across multiple devices like the iPad 2, Samsung TVs, the Motorola Xoom and the Atrix smartphone. Read The Full Story

iGugu InterneTV ships in wired and wireless versions

A new media streaming solution has landed called iGugu InterneTV and the device ship sin wired and wireless versions. The device is a video streaming solution that shoots video and content from the PC to the TV allowing the PC to make a dumb TV smart. Read The Full Story

Vulkano unveils Flow for streaming TV to smartphones and more

Vulkano has some cool devices that put content from the web onto your TV for viewing. The company has announced that it has a new device called the Flow that is launching soon. The Vulkano Flow is a mobile accessory for smartphones, PCs, and Macs that can stream live TV content to the devices for viewing. Read The Full Story

netTALK TV WiFi digital video device surfaces

NetTALK has had a dirt cheap phone call device on the market for a long time now. The device is a VoIP tool that makes calling all around the country and the world very cheap. NetTALK has announced a new device called the netTALK TV that is a small WiFi digital video streaming device. It has to be combined with the netTALK Duo phone call device to work. Read The Full Story

Turkey Now on YouTube

, Nov 1st 2010 Discuss [2]

Believe it or not, I am not talking about the impending US holiday that's most often associated with our fine feathered friend. Instead, I speak of the newfound free broadcast YouTube has in the country Turkey, a place where since May of 2008 has been banned there as a result of offensive video hosted on the site. These videos were deemed insulting to Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, but now that they've been removed, Turkey once again can watch all their favorite clips. Read The Full Story

YouTube Play 2010 : 23,000 Creative Music / Video Works, 25 Finalists

, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Who would have thought that a tiny video website with the clever name "YouTube" would one day would be exhibiting works at the Guggenheim Museum in New York? That day is here, they're that fabulous. YouTube is that big of a deal. Let me tell you how they got there. YouTube Play is a call out to the public to submit their best creative video, music and visuals made moving, to be sifted through and judged. Once 25 (out of the 23,000 they received this year) are chosen, they have a magical event in New York, gigantic video projectors and everything. Read The Full Story

YouTube Live Streaming trial kicks off

, Sep 13th 2010 Discuss [0]

YouTube has flirted with live streaming before now, using the technology for some high-profile events over the past year or so, but the Google-owned company is now looking to broaden that.  They're kicking off a trial of the YouTube Live Streaming platform, initially with Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood, but - assuming all goes to plan - with wider aspirations. Read The Full Story

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