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Amazon Looks to Movie Downloads
Although it has refused to confirm, Amazon has been rumored to be readying its video download service for launch in mid-August. First reported by trade magazine Advertising Age on Sunday, the service is said to offer both movies and episodes of television shows.
Judge Refuses to OK Telco Mergers
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan told lawyers representing the interests of both SBC and AT&T and of Verizon and MCI that he could not give final approval to either merger unless he received more information. While both have been given the go-ahead by the FCC, the courts have not yet decided if the mergers are in the public interest.
Warner Bros Offers TV Shows on iTunes
Intel readies WiMax chipset
Rosedale 2 is shipping in sample quantities so equipment makers can develop products while Intel continues testing
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project"
Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net
Nokia N73 Starts Shipping -- "a stunning multimedia computer with excellent photography features and integrated stereo speakers for optimized audio pleasure"
Sen. Wyden pledges to block telecom bill without Net neutrality regulations.
Intel has been spanked in the high-end server market by AMD, but in the mainstream market Intel is poised to bury the competition by setting new benchmarks in bang for the buck.
Scenarios for the digital home: Q&A with VP Doug Rasor of TI
"There’ll be multiple Da Vinci chips, but one of the first ones we announced has for instance 10/100Mbps Ethernet, on the chip. It also has USB 2.0 on the chip, and an LCD driver. So if you’re thinking of making a portable media player, for instance, and you’re thinking of giving it network connectivity, Da Vinci would allow you to do that very easily, with a minimal number of chips."
Microsoft confirms Zune rumors
BBC: Digital home 'still 10 years off'
more on AVCHD from Sony
Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked -- Popular VOIP technology, recently acquired by EBay. As a side effect, exposing the protocol makes it easier to block.
Interesting article on indecency and net neutrality in TV Technology. (Not online yet.) Frank Beacham conlcudes with this ... "In the old days, journalist like myself were taught to 'follow the money' in order to get to the truth in any story of business or government policy. If you do that in this case, it becomes inescapable that the end result of indecency policies and a lack of network neutrality protections add up to helping create an entirely new media delivery system run by the same gatekeepers who control old media."
Sony, Panasonic Launch AVCHD
New hi-def standard could be an effective competitor to HDV
New consumer video camera recording format, may find it's way into pro equipment. Uses red laser disks that should play back on both types of new HD DVD players. 20 minute record time.
Mtn. View WiFi net being tested by 100 users
GOOGLE SAYS ENTIRE CITY COULD GO ONLINE IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS
Anti-net neutrality types cite systems such as this as evidence of free competition. That's why my arguments focus on high-speed broadband. If the average S. Korean apartment can get 8 Mbps, and has service sufficient to support MPEG-2 SD video, then kinda sorta 1 Mbps under ideal conditions doesn't cut it. This capability is very cool, but should not be taken as evidence for a competitive market for high-speed broadband.
How will YouTube make money?
AD STRATEGY KEY TO TURNING MILLIONS OF CLICKS INTO CASH
TiVo To Go's gone to the PSP, iPod, and Treo