John Townley

Bertelsmann AG Tuesday announced the formation of its own digital rights management company, Digital World Services. The program is intended to provide end-to-end solutions and services in all areas of digital rights management. It will use InterTrust’s digital rights management platform technology and Reciprocal Inc for a scalable and global backend service. Among the range […]

LookSmart Friday added Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Interactive to its list of premier search partners which build integrated search and navigation solutions for their Web sites. “Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Interactive’s selection of LookSmart are two more endorsements by industry giants of the value of LookSmart’s high quality search and navigation […]

A new consumer study by ZD Labs shows digital music in the Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Format sounds more like CD-quality audio in half the size of MP3. In an experiment reminiscent of Coke and Pepsi taste tests, Ziff Davis’s (ZD) ZD Labs conducted a study that compared Windows Media- and MP3-formatted content to original […]

chinadotcom corp. Thursday announced a co-branded multimedia service with RealNetworks, Inc., bringing Internet media experiences to its Greater China portal network. RealNetworks will provide audio and video streaming on the portal network, enabling the more than 2 million registered users of chinadotcom’s portal to explore and search live and archived audio and video programming on […]

Seeking to get a leg up in what has become a critical segment of the Internet sector, Web hosting giant Verio Inc. Wednesday launched enhanced global domain name registration services. Combined with its leading Web hosting, e-commerce and Internet access solutions, Verio’s (VRIO) new service is designed for clients to work with a single service […]

C-Cube Microsystems this week released a single-chip broadcast CODEC for one and two-way video networking applications including the emerging market for streaming video. DVxpert 5120 is a single-chip MPEG CODEC (encoder and decoder) solution for streaming video over Internet Protocol (IP) and provides the potential for broadcast quality content creation and video playback over narrow, […]

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) and Ericsson announced Monday that Ericsson will use TI’s DSP-based Open Multimedia Application Platform in its next generation wireless Internet handsets, communicators and advanced mobile computing devices. The platform will enable advanced wireless Internet access, including future voice, data and video functions such as digital audio, e-commerce and real-time video streaming, […]

Vestel USA, Inc. Thursday announced the Vestel Internet.TV with built-in set-top box functionality to provide home consumers with Internet access, e-mail and shopping via their televisions. Vestel Internet.TV is based on the Microsoft TV platform. Through the TV’s remote control and a wireless keyboard, Vestel Internet.TV is designed to enable TV viewers to have one-click […]

RealNetworks Wednesday released RealPlayer 7 Basic and RealPlayer 7 Plus for Windows. “We’re thrilled to deliver Gold versions of RealPlayer 7 to consumers, providing quick, easy access to great Audio/Video content from hundreds of programming partners,” said Maria Cantwell, senior vice president, consumer and e-commerce division, RealNetworks, Inc. “With the tremendous improvements in performance and […]

Spectra.Net Communications Inc. Tuesday launched version 2.5 of its ThrottleBox Player multimedia software and version 2.5 of the ThrottleBox Assembly Tool Bronze, which allows users to create their own multimedia files that take advantage of the new Player’s features. Both applications can be downloaded here. ThrottleBox allows all types of media (video, audio, images, text, […]

Digital Origin is shipping EditDV 2.0 for Windows, its latest version of EditDV providing digital video (DV) editing capability for Windows 95/98 NT users. EditDV 2.0 for Windows supports third-party plug-ins, providing access to a host of third-party special effects. It includes native multi-processor support, enabling speed advantage on multi-processor machines, as well as productivity-enhancing […]

Tranz-Send Broadcasting Network is scheduled to announce the release of the MediaPocket and the MediaMan media appliances at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. The devices are portable handheld appliances designed to enable users to view and interact with high quality wireless video Webcasts as well as to create and broadcast multimedia productions. The MediaPocket requires […]