Vidyo, a company that specializes in high-quality video conferencing technology for the enterprise, is betting big on bringing video conferencing to mobile devices, including tablets and smartphones. Similar to Skype, Vidyo offers a technology that allows people to connect with each other over the web via video conferencing. However, the company says that Vidyo system [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2010 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase privately-held and venture-backed ExtendMedia, a provider of software-based Content Management Systems that helps media companies and network operators manage digital video content.
Financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed, and the deal is expected to close in the first half of Cisco’s fiscal year 2011.
Based in Newton, [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2010 by admin
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4INFO CEO Zaw Thet is trying to shed the title, “King of SMS.”
The mobile advertising company dominates the US SMS market, delivering some 400 million text messages each month (its monthly rate has roughly doubled from early 2010)— but Thet is tired of his crown, or rather, he’s eyeing a different one. 4INFO is trying [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2010 by admin
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Salesforce Chatter just went live to all customers earlier today, but already it is being attacked from below by smaller social CRM players. Taking a page from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s own playbook of getting attention by going after larger incumbents, Bantam Live CEO John Rourke likens Chatter to lipstick on a pig. [...]
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 by admin
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One of the more surprising things that came out of our all-star panel of consumer software VCs was an admission that Marc Andreessen is starting to invest in a new wave of enterprise software companies. He said he’d just closed one deal he couldn’t disclose, and was expecting to do more.
I [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2010 by admin
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With the apparent lack of Flash on the iPad, video hosting platforms like Brightcove, Ooyala and Kyte are throwing their support for HTML5 playback on the device. Encoding.com, , a SaaS video encoding platform, is also announcing its support for HTTP streaming, to enable streaming of its video on iPhone and iPad devices.
HTTP streaming allows [...]
Posted on March 31st, 2010 by admin
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Doug Cutting – Cloudera
Hadoop, open source, Yahoo
Veeple Interactive Video
In the video above, Doug Cutting, the creator of the Apache Hadoop project, discusses how the technology was first developed for large web companies (like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, which all use the open-source technology). Essentially, Cutting says Hadoop was born out of need: the data landscape was [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2010 by admin
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Today, Google’s social strategy took a big step with the launch of Google Buzz — a new FriendFeed-like feature that’s integrated into Gmail, mobile search, Maps, and more (you can see our live notes from the announcement here). Shortly after the event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin fielded questions backstage from members of the press. [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by admin
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