John Townley

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday unveiled Adobe LiveMotion software. LiveMotion allows designers to create individual dynamic Web graphics to complete pages that incorporate motion, sound and interactivity, in an object-oriented, vector-based authoring environment. Additionally, LiveMotion exports to a wide range of graphics formats including, GIF, JPEG, PNG, Adobe Photoshop, and Flash(.swf) format. LiveMotion will also support […]

Adobe Systems Inc. Monday unveiled Adobe LiveMotion software, which is designed to incorporate motion, sound and interactivity in an object-oriented, vector-based authoring environment. LiveMotion exports to a wide range of graphics formats including, GIF, JPEG, PNG, Adobe Photoshop, and Flash(.swf) format. LiveMotion will also support the W3C’s Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format in the next […]

Global Crossing Conferencing, a subsidiary of the giant network, and INTERVU Inc. Wednesday teamed to deliver audio and video streaming services to Global Crossing’s customers. The first product from the new relationship will appear in the form of Global Crossing Conferencing’s Webcast service. The service will combine INTERVU’s streaming network with Global Crossing Conferencing’s services, […]

Representatives of the U.S. motion picture, television and professional sports industries, alongside Canadian broadcasters and producers, have announced that iCraveTV has agreed to an out-of-court settlement that shuts down the iCrave Internet site. The settlement states that the named defendants will never again engage in the illegal streaming of television signals into the U.S. via […]

Finland’s Sonera and PacketVideo Monday announced that Sonera will conduct field trials of PacketVideo’s wireless multimedia services in Finland this summer. PacketVideo’s MPEG-4 compliant software-based encoding, decoding, and transmission management products enable wireless carriers to deliver a variety of content and rich media applications to mobile devices. Sonera is offering a preview at the CeBIT […]

Medium4.com, Inc. announced that it plans to launch its fifth on-demand streaming video network — Medium4Latino.com – with programming and content aimed at the Latin American and U.S. Hispanic Markets. Medium4Latino will follow the model of the company’s four existing online streaming video networks to feature a number of specific channels with programming ranging from […]

Motorola Inc. and Audible Inc. Monday agreed to bring Audible’s news, information and entertainment audio to wireless subscribers using Motorola’s iDEN technology. Customers will be able to download customized content from the audible.com Internet audio service via the iDEN wireless handset’s microbrowser. Audible’s (ADBL) spoken audio titles can then be played back using the handset’s […]

ViewCast.com Inc. this week unveiled the Osprey-2000M, a new product from its Osprey Technologies Division, which provides MPEG2 video and MPEG1 video and audio to network video applications such as streaming video on corporate intranets. ViewCast.com’s Osprey cards are used to create Internet streaming video with Microsoft’s Windows Media and RealNetworks RealSystem G2 products. The […]

Oxygen Media Wednesday selected RealNetworks Inc. as the exclusive streaming media provider of Oxygen’s online audio and video content. In return, Oxygen Media will provide women-oriented content through the Real.com Network, which includes RealPlayer and the Real.com Guide. RealNetworks’ (RNWK) Real Broadcast Network (RBN), with its distributed broadcast hubs and multicast delivery, will be the […]

MusicMatch Inc. Tuesday released its next-generation software, featuring a community-based music matching engine. The new service is based on MusicMatch’s proprietary matching engine and play records voluntarily uploaded by the MusicMatch user community. All logs are uploaded by MusicMatch Jukebox users who have chosen to “opt in” to the personalization service. The MusicMatch matching engine […]

StarMedia Network Tuesday launched StarMedia PCDJ, an MP3 player in Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to recording CD songs, playlists, and MP3 search tools, StarMedia PCDJ also includes two players — so two music files can play simultaneously — with settings to control the interplay, speed, cross-fade and other elements of the playback. The player […]

Streamies (online listeners) are highly responsive to dot-com advertisements and purchase more on the Web than Internet users who are not listening online, according to the latest Arbitron NewMedia/Edison Media Research Internet study. The study, released at the annual Radio Advertising Bureau Marketing Leadership Conference, reveals that 79 percent of online radio listeners are likely […]