From: Beet.TV on Sat, Apr 26 2008 5:55 PM

Half of Internet traffic is carried on peer-to-peer networks. For Internet Service Providers handling this traffic, new network management technologies are being explored and implemented. After the highly publicized "throttling" of P2P traffic by Comcast and a subsequent FCC inquiry and Congress...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 25 2008 9:02 AM

Online viewers of the Summer Olympics, will need to download a small plug-in to their computers to watch some 2200 hours of live and on-demand video coverage from Beijing. The Web application is called Silverlight. It was introduced last year by Microsoft. To check it out, you might want to watc...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 24 2008 6:44 PM

The booming participation in social media is creating both a big opportunity and potentially a giant sink hole for media companies and marketers. How this will play out is far from being known at this stage, says Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch whom I consider a true media visionary. I cau...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 22 2008 7:20 AM

HP is readying a monitor for video post production work that has "one billion colors." The new technology was announced at the NAB show in Las Vegas last week by HP and partner DreamWorks. DreamWorks will be using the new monitor in animation post-production. DreamWorks and HP have had a long a...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Apr 21 2008 12:11 PM

For online video to be searchable in the way that text is indexed on the Web today, video will have to be transcribed and indexed in the form of transcripts or raw metadata. Not only is this critical for effective search, it will be essential in the years ahead when the Web evolves to a more orga...

From: Beet.TV on Sat, Apr 19 2008 2:53 PM

Move Networks, the little start-up in Utah, has impressed many in the industry with super high quality streaming technology that does not appear to hog too much bandwidth. To see how great it looks, check out ABC.com -- that's the Move player on the videos. Last month, Microsoft announced ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 18 2008 4:11 PM

Not sure if Segway's slow growth will be accelerated by the company's new plan for a social network which was announced this week, but a customized Segway for shooting video sure got a lot attention at NAB on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week. Not only does the de...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 18 2008 11:07 AM

Microsoft is readying the launch of its IPTV platform on the Xbox 360 in the U.K. later this year with British Telecom. This development was first announced in January. The console is doing extremely well in Europe, PC World reports tonight. I met Microsoft's Jim Baldwin at the NAB confer...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 17 2008 6:00 PM

Covering NAB, walking the halls Las Vegas Convention Center, it was striking to overhear so many attendees speaking foreign languages. About a third of the 100,000 attendees are from overseas, a record international contingent, the NAB says. I had the opportunity to interview the NAB's C...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 17 2008 3:04 PM

Mogulus, the the New York-based start-up which is empowering live online video casting of small content creators, on Monday announced a "white label" solution so broadcasters and publishers can use the platform with their own branding and customized functionality. Some other well known players ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 17 2008 3:04 PM

The big turning point in the adoption of Silverlight, the rich content, in-browser plug-in from Microsoft, could be this summer with the Beijing Olympics. As previously reported, MSN will stream some three thousand hours of video on Silverlight. (As we understand, this deal is for video casting...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 17 2008 4:14 AM

Yesterday in Las Vegas at the NAB convention, I interviewed Adobe's Ashley Still about the platform. She explained the novel monetization scheme that involves content creators sharing advertising revenue with Adobe. She also explained the issue of analytics. With iTunes publisher know the...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 16 2008 2:02 PM

l Here in Las Vegas, there is great deal of interest in creating and delivering HD video content to the home. The world's biggest content delivery network (CDN) which delivers video files around the world is Cambridge-based Akamai. They had a big presence at the show and brought out the b...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 16 2008 2:02 PM

Akamai, the world's biggest content delivery network, is expanding its offering to provide transcoding services to content creators. The news was released here at NAB. With the demand for files to be transcoded into multiple formats escalating, coupled with an increasingly competitive CDN ma...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 15 2008 9:50 PM

Here we are live on our Mogulus channel. We are NAB in Las Vegas.Andy Plesser

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 15 2008 5:16 PM

The future of effectively indexed online video is "key to the future of the Web," says Adobe's Mark Randall, chief strategist at the Dynamic Media group. Here in Las Vegas at NAB, Adobe made a big step in this direction with the announcement of a new text to speech functionality for its ed...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 11 2008 9:03 PM

Andrew J. Viterbi, the man whose technology has lead to the creation of CDMA and other forms of wireless telephony, is one of four finalists in Finland's Millennium Technology Prize, a bi-annual award for technology achievement for the betterment of humanity. The co-founder of Qualcomm was ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 11 2008 9:03 PM

Watching a video in a high quality, H.256-encoded Flash video looks pretty much the same whether it's streamed in a browser or viewed in the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) For large, high quality files, streaming is not necessary practical, given common bandwidth and processing constraints. F...