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YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through...
China's Baidu expands online video business with $370 million acquisition
China's largest search engine Baidu is getting closer to becoming the country's largest online video provider with a new US$370 million...
Adobe scraps Creative Suite software licenses in favor of cloud subscriptions
In a move that should surprise no one, Adobe announced sweeping changes to its Creative Suite software line and year-old Creative Cloud subscription...
Mozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec
The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would...
Google plans video subscription service on YouTube
Google plans to offer a video subscription service on YouTube, which according to a newspaper report, the company may announce this week.
Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts
Launching a new product or business is hard. Sometimes, even computer nerds need a little tech support.
P2P piracy putting pressure on Chinese video sites
After spending millions to buy licensed TV shows and movies, China's top online video site is facing a surge in piracy from a new crop of...
Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition
Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a...
Citrix pitches cloud-based web casts with GoToWebcast
Citrix System's GoToWebcast has become generally available in North America and Europe, offering users a cloud-based webcasting tool for up to...
Vudu video service resets customer passwords after hard drives theft
Walmart's video service Vudu has reset its customers' passwords after it found that hard drives were among items stolen from its office.
Appeals court says Aereo streaming TV service doesn't infringe
Streaming television service Aereo does not appear to infringe the copyrights of over-the-air TV stations, and a request from several stations to...
With S-Translator, Samsung aims to reach an old industry goal in real time
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will be shipping in 155 countries by the end of next month, and its real-time voice translation to help people communicate...
Businesses need to explore Firefox, Chrome's WebRTC to bolster services and cut costs
Businesses need to study up now on WebRTC - the browser-based voice and video support included in the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome but that...
Cisco weds WebEx with telepresence
Cisco announced at the Enterprise Connect conference in Orlando, Fla., today that it is now possible to patch WebEx users into Cisco telepresence...
Cisco outlines how new technologies will transform video collaboration
There are three technologies that will fundamentally change the nature of video over the next few years, and these are having a significant impact on...
Orange Business Services Adds New Lync 2013 Features, Mobile Video App
Orange Business Services has had two announcements in recent weeks that are noteworthy: the company has deployed new unified communications and voice...
DoCoMo decodes new video standard without new hardware
Consumers might not have to upgrade their phones to take advantage of a new video compression system that can send high-definition images much more...
Google videos draw hits in Japan, but Niconico is preferred hangout
Japanese Internet users watched videos on YouTube and other Google sites most in December, but spent more time on the highly social local site...
Skype launches limited video messaging trial
Skype soft-launched a video messaging service on Friday that allows its subscribers to deliver recorded clips to Skype contacts for playback when...
Russian dashboard cameras, YouTube beam meteor explosion worldwide
As jumbled news reports of what appeared to be a meteor shower over Russia trickled out of the country, some of the best views of what happened were...