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Adobe Premiere Elements and Photoshop 7
Jul. 03, 2009
If you're not ready or willing to drop a large chunk of change on Adobe Creative Suite 4, you may want to consider Adobe Premiere Elements 7 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.

Joost unplugs Web TV service, concentrates on selling tech
Jul. 01, 2009
Web video site Joost is restructuring, abandoning its hopes to be a successful ad-supported Web TV provider. Instead it will sell its video-serving technology to other media companies.

Interop: The cloud, applications, switching and routing
Jul. 01, 2009
One of the most frustrating byproducts of the current economic conditions is that fewer and fewer people are able to attend trade shows and conference that require significant travel.

YouTube readies redesign amid chorus of complaints
Jun. 30, 2009
YouTube plans to soon switch all of its members to a redesign of its channel pages that it has been testing for several months, although many people want the Google video-sharing site to give them the option to keep the ...

Filmlounge.com offers legal film streaming, downloading
Jun. 30, 2009
Filmlounge.com has introduced a Web based service for legal film streaming and downloading.

Network World Video Library
Jul. 01, 2009
Network World videos cover the network industry and enterprise technology with weekly videos; including the Cool Tools reviews video.

Plex media center software
Jun. 29, 2009
[Editor's note: The following review is part of Macworld's GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. ...

Network performance worries delay app deployments
Jun. 28, 2009
Apparent Networks' survey reveals IT managers put off new VoIP, video and unified communications deployments due to network performance worries.

Tips for developing multiplatform mobile video apps
Jun. 24, 2009
When it comes to designing a mobile video application that must be deployed on the leading device operating systems — including BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian — there are a huge number of ...

Enabling enterprise video surveillance with video analytics
Jun. 19, 2009
Over the past decade video surveillance has migrated from analog closed circuit television systems with point-to-point connections to modern digital systems that run on IP networks. Enterprise video surveillance systems ...

VidyoConferencing vs. video conferencing
May. 13, 2009
Following our recent newsletter about video over IP featuring a discussion with Radvision, we had a chance to get another viewpoint from Ofer Shapiro, CEO at Vidyo and Marty Hollander, SVP for Marketing, about the ...

Boxee Alpha for Windows
Jun. 25, 2009
Boxee has quickly garnered street cred for turning Mac and Ubuntu systems into good-looking media centers. Now, PC users can get in on the fun: Boxee has publicly released the free alpha version of its software for ...

Comcast, Time Warner push for more online video
Jun. 24, 2009
Comcast and Time Warner are teaming up on an initiative to make more video programming available online, free of charge, for subscribers to pay TV services.

GigaTribe Makes It Easier to Share Large Files
Jun. 23, 2009
If you like sharing files and social networking sites, welcome to the GigaTribe. This free software-and-service combo lets you share any files and folders on your PC with friends and other contacts, and it lets you get ...

iPhone 3GS users to bombard YouTube
Jun. 23, 2009
Owners of Apple's new iPhone 3GS could make use of the handset's new video functionalityby bombarding YouTube with clips, according to one analyst.

Italian court postpones trial of four Google execs
Jun. 23, 2009
The criminal trial of four senior Google executives in a court in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday was postponed until Sept. 29 because the translator failed to show up, Google said Tuesday.

Dallas Cowboys deck out new stadium with Cisco video technology
Jun. 17, 2009
The Dallas Cowboys this week signed a deal to outfit their brand new stadium with immersive and interactive video technology from Cisco.

FlashVideo Converter incorporates new engine
Jun. 16, 2009
MacVide on Tuesday announced the release of FlashVideo Converter 3.0, a new version of its Flash SWF and FLV to video conversion software for the Mac. FlashVideo Converter costs $100.

High-def video surveillance standard viewed as boon to users
Jun. 16, 2009
A new industry group officially launched Tuesday with a proposed standard for closed-circuit high-definition TV for video surveillance, and end-users applauded the effort to promote interoperability in a new generation ...

HD video hits desktops with hardware, software
Jun. 16, 2009
LifeSize Communications and Radvision are taking two different routes toward high-definition desktop videoconferencing, both aiming to bring more participants into the virtual room.

Video conference software now works with other apps
Jun. 15, 2009
ooVoo on Monday announced the release of ooVoo 2.1 for Mac, a new version of its video conferencing software. ooVoo is available for free download and runs from free to $18 per month depending on how many users you wish ...

NEC launches collaboration app
Jun. 12, 2009
NEC Unified Solutions launched UC for Enterprise Collaboration  last week, offering a video, Web conferencing and collaboration application. The company also launched its Hosted Collaboration as a Web-based service with ...

Obama's message, not social media, won the 2008 election
Jun. 10, 2009
Social media may be the flavor of the moment for corporate marketers but these tools won't work for everyone, according to the man who led the social media component of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, saying ...

Networks will offer 48/7 service by 2013, says Cisco
Jun. 09, 2009
Forget 24/7 availability: By 2013, telecommunications operators will deliver at least 48 hours of Internet connectivity to their customers, every day of the week, according to a study by Cisco Systems.

Alliance advocates standard for HDTV-based video surveillance
Jun. 09, 2009
A recently formed group has proposed a standard for high-definition video surveillance systems that allows HDTV signals to be transmitted digitally over conventional closed-circuit TV media without packetization.