YouTube and Hulu Optimize for TV Viewing
Online video portals YouTube and Hulu both recently launched alternative platforms, promising a viewing experience where the user can sit back and enjoy video content from the couch rather than the...
View ArticleNTCA TV: New Vehicle for Advocacy Messages
NTCA seeks new ways to tell the rural telecom story and share its advocacy messages with policy-makers and the media. The association has established a YouTube channel called Rural Telecommunity, where...
View ArticleYouTube Takes on Local News
YouTube is attempting to revolutionize local news with News Near You, a feature that senses a user’s location and offers a list of relevant videos. In time, it could essentially engineer a local...
View ArticleReal-Time Apps Double Viewer Traffic
A research study has noted a new trend: less TV and media downloading and more real-time Internet use. Sandvine, the Ontario, Canada-based broadband network company, reports that there has been...
View ArticleYouTube in Talks with Pro Sports Leagues to Stream Live Games
Following on the heels of a successful broadcast of cricket matches from the Indian Premier League last summer, Google Inc.’s YouTube is in talks with “most pro sports leagues” about streaming live...
View ArticleYouTube Adds 3,000 Movie Titles for Rent
YouTube announced May 9 that it will now offer more than 3,000 additional films from three major studios for rent, with some titles reportedly available the same day as the DVD offering. The...
View ArticleDisney, YouTube Announce Partnership
Google’s YouTube and the Walt Disney Co.’s Disney Interactive Division have agreed to a new partnership, according to a widely cited article in today’s New York Times. Under the terms of the deal, the...
View ArticleGoogle To Rate ISPs Based on YouTube Metrics
Google has announced the launch of a video quality report that is apparently intended to inform end-users about the performance of their Internet Service Provider (ISP), based on how well YouTube...
View ArticleUpdates (Tesla), Happenings (Amazon), Taxes (Netflix), and TVs (Apple) – A...
Astute readers of the New Edge may assume that this column is the product of a lack of imagination or an unwillingness to come up with a new, original topic. You are partially correct. The other...
View ArticleI’ll Have Two Large Videos, Hold the Ads, Please
In a widely anticipated move, Google announced plans to launch a YouTube subscription service that would spare viewers from the advertising that appears both before and during selected videos. (Google...
View ArticleYou Stream, I Stream, We All Stream…
It wouldn’t come as much of a surprise if I were to tell you that streaming of video and music is taking up increasingly large chunks of bandwidth. But you might be shocked to learn just how...
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