John Townley

Astound Inc. Thursday announced a joint agreement with AT&T Canada to provide Web conferencing services to AT&T Canada customers. AT&T Canada will offer customers the opportunity to try Web conferencing at no extra cost when they sign up for audio conferencing. Existing customers need only register for the service through their AT&T Canada representative. The […]

GlobalStreams.com launched its E-Audio Ad Solutions Program recently at the Radio Ink Internet Radio Conference. The business-to-business online marketplace will bring together Internet radio stations with advertisers seeking to more effectively reach the online market segment. Advertisers and e-businesses will now have the ability to advertise on a network of Internet radio stations with more […]

Myplay Wednesday launched an online digital music service that provides consumers with centralized storage and the ability to access their music collection from anywhere in the world. The service works with multiple devices such as a laptop or desktop computer, hand-held PDA or late-model cellular phone. The company has strategic partnerships with the music download […]

Rare Ventures has invested $4 million in StreamSearch.com, adding to contributions by two other venture capital investors, Brentwood Ventures and Advantage Capital, totalling a $9 million round of funding. “The investment in StreamSearch.com has great synergies with our current portfolio of companies in streaming media,” said Glenn S. Meyers, president, chairman and chief executive officer […]

Alive.com and Mitsui Comtek Tuesday announced that Mitsui Comtek will serve as the marketing agent for Alive.com’s multimedia enabling technology during an initial test market period in Japan. The two companies will incorporate Alive.com’s e-Show EngineT and e-Show WizardsT into upcoming portal and Web projects that will be marketed and distributed in Japan by Mitsui […]

Liquid Audio Monday launched Liquid Audio Korea, a company formed with the SK Group to sell software and services for the Internet delivery of music in Korea. Based in Seoul, Liquid Audio Korea has signed digital distribution deals with many key Korean record labels. The new company is also celebrating the grand opening of its […]

MP3.com and i-drive Thursday launched a custom version of i-drive within the MP3.com site. i-drive.com’s new “sideloading” feature, available from MP3.com (MPPP), makes it easier for visitors to collect and manage MP3s. MP3.com visitors can gather, store and arrange MP3s in private Web-based folders. Storing MP3s on the Web through sideloading, rather than on a […]

Infoseek Monday announced that the GO Network Broadcast Center is now a one-stop location for streaming media from GO Network sites, including ABC Radio sites, movie trailers, and downloadable music in both the MP3 and Liquid Audio file formats. “We know that a lot of Web users are looking for these features and we wanted […]

Mslide, Inc. Monday announced the launch of Mslide Japan. In conjunction with the launch, Mslide also announced a partnership agreement with iPopcorn, a growing community Web site among Asian youths, to offer the company’s slideshow application on ipopcorn’s Web sites in the U.S., Korea, China and Japan. The “powered by Mslide” feature will enable ipopcorn […]

Listen.com Monday announced it has lured three new investors, completed a $25 million private equity placement and added new record label and portal partners. This round of funding for Listen.com, the Internet’s comprehensive directory to downloadable music, was led by the Barksdale Group and included Hambrecht & Quist’s investment arm Access Technology Partners, L.P. and […]

Mirror Image Internet this week deployed Sun Enterprise 6500 Servers on its content delivery network nodes in Frankfurt and London. The Sun servers utilized in the Mirror Image architecture are powerful enough to handle the traffic of the entire UK and German markets and are capable of scaling for future Internet traffic growth. Mirror Image’s […]

In what may be the beginning of a more formal, educational approach to the ad hoc world of streaming, the Digital Video Conference & Expo will offer the first annual Web Video Boot Camp to be held at the DV Conference & Expo in Long Beach on Oct. 18. The Web Video Boot Camp is […]