Regular users of streaming audio and video in key age groups spend up to 67% more time online than average Internet users, according to new research by Knowledge Networks/SRI’s MultiMedia Mentor. Comparing those who use audio/video online streaming at least once a week (“streamies”) to all past-month Web users, MultiMedia Mentor found that: Teen “streamies” […]

A new Internet video shows dumpster-diving activists digging into trash bags from a New York JPMorgan Chase bank and finding individuals’ social security numbers, bank account balances and other sensitive information. The information, found on the street in Chinatown, Queens, the Upper East Side, and in two Brooklyn locations, could be used to steal customers’ […]

Sling Media today announced the availability of SlingPlayer for Mac, a software client for Slingbox customers who want to view their home TV or Apple TV on their Apple Macintosh desktop or laptop computer. With this software release, Slingbox owners can now view their television directly on their Macintosh computer screen. With full remote control, […]

SplashCast today introduced a new service, MyPodcastNetwork, that lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, is that it’s not static audio or video that gets embedded, but a customized channel of podcast content […]

The New York Times has a breathy overview of Vudu, a new set-top box that lets users download and view on their TV any of 5,000 movies. The selling point for the device is its speed, which, according to reports, uses P2P technology to allow almost immediate viewing. “This is something that is going to […]

Magazine publisher Marie Claire’s podcast series, The Masthead With Marie Claire, is getting the magazine attention….but for the wrong reasons. The podcast is raising questions about the blurring of advertising and editorial content in podcasts. The video podcasts, which are produced in collaboration with Podshow.com, are sponsored by Unilever and Diesel. The video podcasts feature […]

Sony has introduced three new high-definition camcorders that are making shooting 1080 HD video more affordable than ever. The Handycam HDR-CX7 model is the world‚Äôs smallest and lightest AVCHD high-definition camcorder. It can record nearly three hours of full HD 1080 video on an 8-GB Memory Stick PRO Duo media card (LP mode). The HDR-SR7 […]

Sun Microsystems is introducing a new platform for streaming on-demand video over IP networks that promises to deliver 160,000 streams of Internet television. Sun Streaming, with a suite of Sun software to manage the system, delivers 160,000 video streams, or 40,000 high-definition TV streams, simultaneously at 2M bps (bits per second). Fifteen of these systems, […]

At the 2007 National Association of Broadcasters show, ComVu Media demonstrated live video transmitting at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution from a mobile phone over a wireless data network.¬† ComVu used its PocketCaster software to broadcast full screen video from a Nokia N95 multimedia device, transmitting over HSDPA data connection.¬†Anyone using a Nokia […]

Middio is a new site, currently in beta, that hopes to carve out a niche by making it easier to find music videos published on YouTube. Here‚Äôs the description from their site: Middio is a simple website that organizes music videos uploaded by the public to YouTube. In other words, Middio goes through the trouble […]