John Townley

V-SPAN announced Wednesday the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Canada’s Vector Videoconferencing. The new entity will be called V-SPAN Canada Ltd. The acquisition of Vector Videoconferencing allows V-SPAN to further penetrate the global interactive marketplace. This strategic acquisition positions V-SPAN as the largest videoconferencing and broadband gateway service specialists in Canada, providing the […]

INTERVU Wednesday announced the INTERVU Conference family of Internet conference casting solutions. The INTERVU Conference family is a set of solutions designed for service bureaus that incorporates live audio and video streaming services into their traditional conference call offerings in a fully automated fashion. The new solutions will be commercially available in January. Part of […]

MP3.com Tuesday launched its New Music Army, a grassroots approach to promote the music of emerging MP3.com artists through the Web. The New Music Army incorporates elements of an online street team, an affiliate program and viral marketing into an innovative program that gives members the opportunity to become online music managers, build their own […]

Vuent, Inc. (formerly Adaptive Media, Inc.) Monday introduced its Envision-i real-time visual collaboration platform. Using the Internet, Envision-i is made to let multiple users in different locations easily view, interrogate and re-purpose existing rich media and supporting data throughout the extended enterprise, on any PC, regardless of connection bandwidth. Envision-i, a next-generation Internet solution for […]

Pixelon Inc. is planning a Friday launch for its new Web site which will feature 10 distinct channels of programming, including several new programming formats never before seen, such as TV “mini-runs,” video talk shows and Internet informercials. Pixelon.com’s programming at launch will feature channels featuring both video on demand and live event programming, all […]

RioPort Inc. Wednesday announced it has closed $30 million in first-round venture financing and has begun operating as a separate company. Rioport was previously operating as a subsidiary of S3 Inc., which recently acquired RioPort’s parent company, Diamond Multimedia. Oak Investment Partners and Vulcan Ventures, Inc. have provided RioPort with operating capital to further build […]

InfoLibria has announced a reseller agreement with Marubeni Solutions Corp. of Japan to re-sell InfoLibria’s content distribution and management products, including the DynaCache Web cache, MediaMall streaming media device, and Content Commander management system. The agreement, along with the company’s concomitant reseller agreement with Tokyo Electron marks InfoLibria’s entrance into the Asian market. “Japan suffers […]

Streambox Inc. recently released Streambox Ripper, a utility that converts MP3, Real Audio/G2, and CDs to Microsoft Windows Media Audio. Streambox Ripper’s decoding technology allows users of Windows Media to perform batch conversions of Real Audio and MP3 content into the WMA format, while preserving superior sound quality. “Now with Streambox’s new solution there is […]

Rich media service provider Unicast Tuesday announced that its latest rich medai advertising tool has the support of the top ad companies on the Net. Unciast will integrate its Superstitial ad tool into Flycast Communications, DoubleClick, Inc. (DCLK), Adsmart and NetGravity, Inc. (NETG) ad networks. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Superstitials are […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week announced that MusicMatch software and an EMusic.com CD-ROM will be shipped in the box with all HP Pavilion PC models that have CD-rewritable drives. The CD-ROM includes MusicMatch Jukebox software, which allows users to record, organize and play digital music, and 10 free MP3 tracks from EMusic.com. “This music software coupled […]

GIC Global Intertainment Corp., an online entertainment and marketing company, established a sudsidiary, Global-Broadcast.com, to attract Chinese users. Global-Broadcast.com, which markets online sports books and casinos, lotteries, and e-commerce Web sites including www.cyberbetz.com, www.y2klottery.com, www.sportzpage.com, intends to offer dozens of live audio and video informational and entertainment channels, covering everything from live sporting events, horse […]

In a move well-heeled major labels will relish, MP3.com Friday launched Payola, a promotional tool for MP3.com artists that provides artists the opportunity to bid for positioning on an exclusive section of a genre page at MP3.com. MP3.com (MPPP) has dubbed its new promotional feature Payola, which functions similarly to traditional online auctions. The top […]