Thursday September 9, 2010

Vidyo Bets On The iPad And iPhone For The Future Of Video Conferencing

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 [...]

Cisco To Acquire ExtendMedia In Bid To Ramp Up Its IP Video Services

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, [...]

4INFO CEO: Expect More Acquisitions, Revenues Will Quintuple [Video]

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 [...]

Bantam CEO Tries To Position Salesforce Chatter As Lipstick On A Pig (Video)

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. [...]

A Re-Birth for Enterprise Software? [Video]

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 [...]

Encoding.com Adds HTTP Live Streaming For SaaS Video Encoding Platform

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 [...]

Video: Developer Doug Cutting Talks About The Founding Of Hadoop

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 [...]

Video: Sergey Brin On His Six Months Using Google Buzz, The China Situation, And More

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. [...]