YouTube Direct enables news companies to get access to amateur videos
YouTube has announced the launch of a new service named YouTube Direct.
This service is designed for news companies to get faster access to amateur videos posted by regular users.
News companies can get faster access to these videos and also get the ability to [...]
Microsoft and NBC in an advertisement deal
Microsoft has announced that they have signed on a deal with NBC Universal to help sell television ads for them.
Microsoft would be offering these ads through their Admira system
Microsoft Admira system is designed to use the demographic data to help potential advertisers to reach the market they are [...]
ABC television shows coming to Hulu
US based web service Hulu has announced that they are all set to add new shows from ABC on their network.
With this, only CBS is the major media network which is not broadcasting their shows through Hulu.
NBC and News Corporation are already broadcasting their content on Hulu.
Hulu is currently [...]
Quickplay to bring television programming on Blackberry
Quickplay Media has announced that they are planning to offering television programming to the owners of Blackberry smartphones.
They would provide this PrimeTime2Go service through the just launched Blackberry App World.
They would charge USD 8 a month for this new service.
The company has already signed deals with [...]
Microsoft Silverlight to power online delivery of Winter Olympics in 2010
NBC Universal has expanded their content delivery collaboration with software giant Microsoft.
Microsoft Silverlight technology would be used to power the online delivery of the Winter Olympics in 2010.
The two companies worked together to bring the online coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics using Silverlight [...]
Apple offers more HD shows on Apple iTunes
Steve Jobs recently said that Blu-Ray was a bag of hurts and they have no current plans to offer it on Apple Macs.
He also added that the company has the best of HD selections on their Apple iTunes store.
Apple has now announced that they are offering more [...]
Hulu to live stream Presidential Debates Live
Hulu has said that they would be live streaming the rest of the Presidential Debates on the internet.
The first of the debates would be streamed using the feed provided by NBC. It’s being managed by NBC’s Tom Brokaw.
The third debate would be provided by Fox.
NBC and Fox are [...]
NBC comes back on Apple iTunes
Apple has announced that they are back into collaboration with the media giant NBC.
This was announced during the event held yesterday by Steve Jobs.
As a result, Apple iTunes customers would be able to order television shows and other content supplied by NBC online.
Incidentally, it was NBC which had removed itself [...]
Sunday Night Football gets an online streaming version
NBC and the NFL have announced that they are collaborating together to stream the complete “Sunday Night Football” season on the internet in the US market.
They call this online service the Sunday Night Football Extra. It would include the Al Michaels/John Madden audio stream.
Users would also be able [...]
Redlasso to suspend some services due to copyright infringement claims
News video-sharing service Redlasso has announced that they are suspending some of their services like video search and clipping services used by bloggers.
This is a result of a copyright violation lawsuit filed against the company by media companies including NBC and Fox News Channel.
Redlasso Chief Executive [...]
