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iPhone not getting a full Flash like Android
News Flash is used for YouTube's streaming video, and Lynch demonstrated a Windows Mobile phone playing a video hosted on the Google service. Lynch acknowledged that it's hard to actually run Flash... [18 Nov 2008]
Project Kangaroo makes leap to December testing
News The Office of Fair Trading referred the project to the Competition Commission in June due to concerns about its potential to create an excessive concentration of online video content. Project Kangaroo,... [18 Nov 2008]
Windows 7 aims for netbooks as well as PCs
News The company also said it will support a number of additional audio and video formats out of the box, including DivX, H.264 and unprotected AAC. For hardware makers, Microsoft has a feature called "device stage" that lets... [06 Nov 2008]
2012 Olympics 'like a digital Queen's coronation'
News The corporation laid out plans that will see it "significantly" increase its web TV capabilities - with "many more" online video streams than the six it offered during the Beijing Games - as well as supporting a greater... [23 Oct 2008]
Steve Jobs: No Apple netbook, no touchscreen laptop
News Apple is in the middle stages of building a video download business and it's clear the company wants its customers to use iTunes to watch high-definition videos, not revert to packaged media, where it can't get a slice... [15 Oct 2008]
YouTube adds click-to-buy links on videos
News Google, which owns the video-sharing site YouTube, is adding "click to buy" links to thousands of video pages of YouTube partners, the company announced on its corporate blog Tuesday afternoon. The idea... [09 Oct 2008]
2012: Embedded wi-fi in one billion devices?
News The main reason is that streaming video over wi-fi is buggy. The other issue is there isn't a lot of content that can be streamed from the internet to TVs. Embedded wi-fi chips could end up in almost... [07 Oct 2008]
Lib Dems banned from automated calling
News Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine After reviewing the calls, the ICO deemed their content to be direct marketing effectively as it was intended to promote the party. The Liberal Democrats... [26 Sep 2008]
Staff web 2.0 skills can boost work productivity
News Check out silicon.com's latest Cheat Sheets… Google Android Video: ID cards BBC iPlayer Galileo CRM Biometrics With more consumers than ever involved with social networking, user-generated... [24 Sep 2008]
Agenda Setters: Where are they now... Ashley Highfield
News Chief among his credits is the launch of the Beeb's iPlayer video-on-demand service, which has been gaining in popularity since its launch on Christmas Day last year. Content suppliers were also cagey... [16 Sep 2008]
ITV Worldwide signs up new media head
News Binks's role will be to develop the company's digital business, working across all aspects of digital rights management, including download-to-own, download-to-rent and video-on-demand. Binks will report to the company's... [12 Sep 2008]
HP dishes out research grants to academic institutions
News UK universities scored a series of grants, with the University of Bath picking up two grants for work on the artistic rendering of video and systems security modelling, while the University of Bristol also gained a pair... [18 Aug 2008]
Gates: Software innovation poses privacy challenge
News He performed a search through the video content by way of speech recognition. In a demonstration shortly after his address, a Microsoft executive showcased a TV that was pulling a video... [14 Aug 2008]
Glitches hit Downing Street website launch
News The new website contains more video content and provides the opportunity for users to interact with Downing Street by posting video questions and taking part in webchats with Gordon... [13 Aug 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) says the joint venture could create an excessive concentration of video content. Kangaroo - which is headed up by ex-BBC director of future media and technology, Ashley... [30 Jun 2008]
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