If you’re breathing, you’re a winner at the Winnies Awards, an event to celebrate the world of indie Internet video, being held November 30, 2007 in Hollywood, baby. Here are the details: WHO: Online Video creators, producers, compressors and STARS WHAT: The Winnies Awards Where The Winner is YOU WHERE: Cinespace, 6356 Hollywood Blvd, Los […]

Nero and TiVo today announced that they have entered into an agreement to integrate TiVo’s television UI with Nero’s next generation of PC software. Under the agreement, Nero will develop a software solution that will bring TiVo features to the personal computer. “This agreement provides TiVo with an opportunity to deliver its interface and differentiated […]

The video-sharing Web site YouTube has reportedly suspended the account of an Egyptian anti-torture activist and journalist who posted videos of police brutality. The activist, Wael Abbas said that close to 100 images he had sent to YouTube were no longer accessible, including clips depicting purported police brutality, voting irregularities and anti-government demonstrations. “They closed […]

Sony is expanding its line of video projection systems a couple of new LCD models for larger-venues that, while not exactly impulse buys, are priced within the range of many organization. The new VPL-FW300L (7,000 lumens) and the VPL-FH300L (6,000 lumens) projector models are ideal for smaller auditoriums, large classrooms and meeting rooms, museum exhibits, […]

It looks like natural selection is starting to weed through the dozens of video sites that have sprouted up in the last few years.Yesterday, we reported that video startup Brightcove was shuttering its user-generated video offerings to focus on video publishing services for corporate clients. Now Compete has released its stats on the Top 10 […]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup. TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video […]

Read/WriteWeb reports that Internet video startup Brightcove has informed members of its Brightcove.TV site that it will no longer be accepting direct consumer uploads as of December 17, 2007. Instead, the company will be focusing on offering video publishing services for corporate clients. The move is a sign of the maturation of Internet video. A […]

Verizon Wireless today announced that it will provide customers the option to use, on its nationwide wireless network, wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company. Verizon plans to have this new choice available to customers throughout the country by the end of 2008. “This is a transformation point in the 20-year history […]

The December issue of Wired has a profile of Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris that reveals why Universal has seemed to be aimless in its reaction to the growth of Internet music. “There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist,” Morris explains. “That’s a misconception writers make all the time, that the […]

UK’s BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV plan to launch a new video-on-demand service, Kangaroo, offering more than 10,000 hours of TV programming. The project aims to be a “rich entertainment site”, where consumers can catch up with recently aired shows and older archive programming. In a joint statement, the partners said Kangaroo “will work […]