John Townley

Those who need help managing their intranet system will be able to peruse the Enterprise Systems Management Competency Center currently being developed by Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. The ESMCC will deploy H-P’s OpenView VantagePoint to manage its showcase and will facilitate H-P and Microsoft (MSFT) customer visits to demonstrate enterprise management solutions, processes and […]

QSound Labs, Inc. Wednesday signed a letter of agreement to acquire StreamMagic, Inc. in a stock transaction valued at approximately $100 million. Under the terms of the letter of agreement, QSound will acquire Stream Magic, Inc. by issuing 26.5 million preferred shares for all of the outstanding stock of StreamMagic. The acquisition is expected to […]

Macromedia Inc. Wednesday released Director 8 Shockwave Studio, a solution for creating magnetic Internet destinations and powerful multimedia. Director 8 simplifies the creation and delivery of Shockwave content. Macromedia also announced the Fireworks Import Xtra, which integrates Macromedia Fireworks graphics into the Director development environment. Director 8 Shockwave Studio includes the Shockwave Multiuser Server, which […]

While PCs have always functioned as a work and play tool, the options for PC use in entertainment have ballooned over the past 12 months, according to a new study. eBrain Market Research’s 4th Annual Multimedia PC and Internet Audio study found that faster processors and Internet connections, coupled with better sound quality and richer […]

RioPort Inc. Friday released a beta version of its next generation Audio Manager 3.0, which includes new audio and video streaming capabilities, the ability to burn custom CDs for playback of music on home and car stereos, and downloading of tracks in multiple formats to the desktop or portable playback devices. The beta version of […]

White Pine Software, Inc. Thursday announced that it is shipping the first commercial package of its CU-SeeMe Web technology. The package, Videochat Your Site, is made to enable Internet Web sites to embed live, interactive audio, video, and text chat into their site. Videochat Your Site includes a software developer’s kit (SDK) for CU-SeeMe Web […]

Voquette, Inc. Thursday announced it has completed a $17.3 million equity financing led by 21st Century Internet Venture Partners and including Citigroup Investments, MP3.com, Inc. and Philips Electronics. A group of previous seed investors also participated in the round. The company had previously raised $5.1 million in seed capital from a group led by iMinds […]

RealNetworks Inc. Tuesday officially ended its war with Microsoft Corp. by agreeing to add support for its Windows Media format. With the about-face, RealNetworks (RNWK) joins a number of other companies supporting Windows Media, which Microsoft hopes will lead to the first common, secure digital media format across every major portable digital music device, digital […]

USA Video Interactive announced that it will develop a wavelet streaming video solution for Sun Microsystems, Inc.’s Solaris Operating Environment. The two companies plan to offer USA Video Interactive’s Wavelet compression for Unix on Sun server technology and Sun Ray 1 desktop appliances in the primary and secondary school education market within the next year, […]

Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced that Dow Chemical Co. has selected Microsoft Windows Media as its digital media platform for internal corporate communications. Dow will deploy Windows Media as its end-to-end digital communications solution to more than 30,000 employees via the company intranet and will make it available to clients and suppliers via its Internet Web […]

POPcast Communications Corp. has announced the completion of a licensing agreement with Click2Asia, Inc. that will offer a customized version of POPcast’s personal video sharing service to members of the Asian site. “In the process of building the premier site for the global Asian entertainment community, we are working hard to incorporate the latest technologies […]

Lycos, Inc. and Intel Corp. Tuesday announced that the companies are providing free multimedia tools to both Tripod and Intel WebOutfitter Service members. Lycos’s (LCOS) Tripod offers free streaming services to its members. Using Tripod ShowMotion, which is based on Intel (INTC) Easy Web Media software, consumers can create and publish multimedia shows for the […]