John Townley

Digital Island announced Monday a strategic relationship with VIEWonTV to expand the global reach of its streaming media network services, enabling businesses to deliver on-demand video. VIEWonTV, a French streaming media provider, offers customized tools and services for delivering video content online and develops interactive television channels for a variety of corporations and organizations. As […]

Inflightonline.com Friday announced a strategic alliance with Lycos Inc. to provide intranet and Internet services to airline passengers. As part of the alliance, Lycos, Inc. has acquired a 10-percent stake in Inflightonline. Inflightonline will offer intranet and Internet access with Lycos content and services, including access to LYCOShop, the Internet’s most complete shopping destination. Other […]

musicmaker.com this week announced plans to debut 25 kiosks in 20 cities under test-marketing agreements with music retailers Tower Records, Transworld Entertainment and Wherehouse Music. “Conducting this test with the leading music retailers in brick and mortar confirms the continued commitment of the industry to meeting the needs of the consumer through traditional distribution channels,” […]

Information technololgy firm United Sites of America Inc. recently announced a product called “Shoshkeles,” — animated ads that, unlike static banners on top of Web sites, Shoshkeles move around and stay around even when the page is scrolled up. The company was set up in September by the U.S. International High Tech Trust with investors […]

Lycos Monday introduced Lycos Music, a powerful online music destination. The new offering combines Lycos’ music-rich content, community, navigation and commerce offerings with the latest audio technologies. Lycos Music features searchable MP3 databases; music hosting and downloading services; audio player and features; online music communities and chat rooms; music purchasing capabilities; online radio; music news, […]

Plexus Corp. has announced that its electronics engineering subsidiary, Plexus Technology Group, has successfully developed an inexpensive 5GHz radio module which can operate in any of the three U-NII bands. In development for over a year, the radio is capable of communicating at 20 Mbits/second in both directions over ten miles line of sight and […]

OSINTERNET LTD., Friday launched 1AUDIO.com, a Digital Community for artists, fans, and music industry professionals in North Asia. Presented initially in Japanese and English, 1AUDIO.com will launch its Chinese site in the coming weeks, with an eye towards the Korean market early next year. 1AUDIO.com is positioned as a premier community for fans and musicians […]

Intel Corp. this week introduced its Software Integrity System, a software solution designed to enhance the secure online distribution of premium digital content, such as music, video, documents and books. Designed for developers of content distribution platforms, the Intel (INTC) Software Integrity System is distinguished by Intel’s patented tamper-resistant software technology. The technology hides critical […]

GTMI, LLC, parent-company for TargitMail.com, and Intline.com, this week announced an agreement that would provide fully compatible streaming audio/video capabilities to direct e-mail advertisers using the TargitMail.com ad delivery system. TargitMail.com will be the exclusive e-mail ad delivery partner of Intline.com. “We will be able to deliver a streaming media presentation to literally anyone in […]

Common Internet audio features won’t be available to WebTV users until next year, even though Microsoft subsidiary WebTV previously announced they would arrive in 1999. Although WebTV struck an agreement with RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK) several months ago to bring “streaming” audio to the TV set-top service, “technical difficulties” have held up those plans, company executives […]

Digital Media Online Monday launched an industry-wide Digital Media Net Research center. DMN Research supplies third-party research studies on specific areas in the content creation marketplace. Each month, DMN Research offers contemporary research on a specific market, ranging from animation to digital video hardware and software, media streaming technologies and OpenGL acceleration. In addition to […]

Ontario’s guideCast has announced the launch of its now4.com branded Channel Guide devoted entirely to the QuickTime 4 player. The QuickTime Channel Guide, available for free download here, features regularly scheduled shows including movie clips, music videos, sport events, tech radio and celebrity interviews. Users can tune in to either live or on-demand shows. This […]