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Viacom v. YouTube: Finger-Pointing Turns to Mud-Slinging March 19, 2010 
Viacom's billion-dollar copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google's YouTube took a nasty turn Thursday as a series of documents were released to the public. "Fostering and countenancing piracy were central to YouTube's economic business model," Viacom's filings charge. Viacom "overtly and covertly uploaded to YouTube a vast array of their own video clips for marketing purposes," Google wrote.
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Is the Chatroulette Sleazefest Giving Video Chat a Bad Name? March 15, 2010 
It's a good bet that when "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart spends six minutes making uber-ironic fun of a particular trend or topic, it's pretty much arrived as a legitimate Mainstream Media Phenomenon. Such was the case recently with Stewart's hilarious deconstruction of Chatroulette the Web site that facilitates random video chat conversations.
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New Cisco Router Boasts Breakneck Speeds March 09, 2010 
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday the CRS-3 Carrier Routing System, a new Internet networking architecture that is designed with the huge growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services in mind. The Cisco CRS-3 provides more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, according to John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems.
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YouTube's Auto-Captioning: Accessibility, Searchability, Profitability? March 05, 2010 
YouTube on Thursday opened its previously restricted automated captioning beta program to the public, saying it will help the hearing-impaired. Currently, the feature is only available for videos that contain speech in the English language, although YouTube plans to add other languages. Ultimately, the auto-captioning feature might help YouTube monetize its videos.
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Microsoft vs. the Zombie Hordes February 26, 2010 
Microsoft did its best Woody Harrelson impression this week and set out to bag some zombies. The zombies we're talking about here are PCs infected with malware. The bad guys spread the malware around and then remotely control victims' computers as part of a botnet that can do stuff like send out spam email or carry out DDoS attacks.
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What Google Really Wants From On2 Deal February 26, 2010 
At the end of business last Friday, Google announced it had completed the transaction to acquire On2 Technologies, the maker of Web video encoding software and codecs, for a deal that was finally valued at $124.6 million. On2 was a small company that was, in recent quarters, losing small amounts of money.
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Italian Court Shoots the Messenger February 24, 2010 
In a ruling that could have profound implications for the future of the Internet, three Google executives were convicted of privacy violations over a video that aired briefly in 2006 on the now-defunct Google Video site. David Drummond, Google's SVP and chief legal officer, Peter Fleischer, the company's chief privacy counsel, and George Reyes, its CFO, were all given six-month prison sentences.
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Video Sites Dip Toes in HTML 5 Waters January 25, 2010 
Forget about the debate over whether "Avatar" or "The Hurt Locker" will win movie awards this year. The real argument among those who create and share their own Web videos -- DIY James Camerons, as it were -- centers on whether or not they should dump Adobe Flash and other plug-in players for HTML 5, the latest version of the Web's markup language.
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Berlusconi Decree Could Stifle Internet in Italy January 23, 2010 
Silvio Berlusconi is moving to extend his grip on Italy's media to the freewheeling Internet world of Google and YouTube. The premier's government has drafted a decree that would mandate the vetting of videos for pornographic or violent content uploaded by users onto such sites as YouTube, owned by Google, and the France-based Dailymotion, as well as blogs and online news media.
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YouTube Slowly Sundances Into New Rental Territory January 22, 2010 
The movie industry loves a gala premiere, with red carpets, paparazzi and Klieg lights sweeping a glittering marquee. YouTube's announcement this week of its new movie rental strategy is about as far away from that scenario as you can get. YouTube said this week that it would make available for streaming rental five movies from this year's and last year's Sundance Film Festivals.
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The Video-Enabled Talent Scout January 21, 2010 
Aberdeen's August 2009 research "Talent Acquisition Strategies 2009" found that the top strategy organizations are pursuing in the area of recruiting today is to proactively build and expand a candidate pipeline regardless of current hiring needs.
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Wii Completes Netflix's Video Game Trifecta January 13, 2010 
It's a triple crown for Netflix. Beginning in the spring, the Wii will become the last of the three current video game consoles to get instant viewing of Netflix movies and TV shows over the Internet. Wii owners who have a broadband connection and a Netflix subscription that costs at least $9 a month will be able to watch those programs with no extra charge.
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Facebook's Bossy, Cagey Privacy Maneuvers December 11, 2009 
In making a move meant to enhance user privacy, Facebook went about things in a kind of intrusive way this week. As you know, the site started out as a college-kids-only social network, and the content you'd find on Facebook at that time reflected the demographic in all its boozy glory.
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'Revolutionary' Music-Video Site Falters at Launch December 09, 2009 
Vevo, an online music video site seeded with close to 15,000 videos from 5,000 artists, has launched. Unlike other online video sites -- Joost, for example -- Vevo is launching with impressive backers, including Google and Universal Music Group, its original founders. Sony Music Entertainment joined later this year; and AT&T is providing advertising support.
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YouTube Gives More News Reporting Power to the People November 17, 2009 
News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch is threatening to divorce Google over the issue of unpaid news content. However, Google's YouTube division still wants the marriage of technology and traditional journalism to work; hence the Tuesday launch of YouTube Direct, a tool designed to bring together media organizations and citizen journalists.
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Adobe Makes Video Power Grab With Flash, Air Betas November 17, 2009 
Adobe on Tuesday announced pre-release betas of Flash Player 10.1 and Air 2. The technologies have been enhanced to enable access to online video on any platform, including smartphones. They will also help provide a single, unified application development platform for online apps. Flash Player 10.1 will support PCs, netbooks, smartbooks, smartphones and other mobile devices.
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