Major television broadcasters and leading content publishers including CBS, PBS, Yahoo! Video, Meredith Corporation, Blip.tv, Fora.tv, Motionbox, MyToons and StimTV will be collaborating with Adobe to distribute video content via the new Adobe Media Player.

'We have been evaluating Silverlight and comparing its technical as well as overall advantages over Flash Video since the first beta of the product was released, We are more confident about making the switch and convinced to go with the superior Microsoft technology at this time.'

So, picture this situation. I'm sitting in my living room poking around catching up on news feeds and reading the latest of my favorite comic strips. In the background is one of those cheezy star-watching shows like Entertainment Tonight or whatever - I usually let those shows slip into the background as 'white noise' so imagine my surprise when my geeky sense (similar to spidey sense, only instead of warning me about impending danger, it alerts me to the presence of possible technology nearby!) starts tingling. 'I must be going mad... I could've sworn that not 30 seconds after hearing the phrase Britney Spears on TV, I heard someone say Microsoft Silverlight.'

Almost 75% of US Internet users watched videos online in July, up from 71.4% in March, according to comScore Networks. The monthly time spent watching videos went up to an average of 181 minutes per viewer in July from 145 minutes per viewer in March.

Adobe's Flash Player, the de facto standard for video on the Web, now has a rival: a cross-platform Web browser plug-in from Microsoft called Silverlight. Designed to present HD video on the web, the Silverlight 1.0 was released today. Silverlight, which enables designers and developers to build rich media experiences and .NET-based RIAs for the web, was announced earlier this year by Nicrosoft at its MIX conference in Las Vegas.

SYS-CON Events announced today that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' main sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold before the end of the month. The new sponsors who joined the conference this week, and are not yet listed on the conference Website, will also be announced later in the week.

The inaugural iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (November 12-13, 2007) is building out its program and the Conference Advisory Board is busy sorting through the hundreds of proposals for technical and strategic sessions that have been coming in. Final deadline for proposals is September 10, 2007.

TV is approaching its 'iPod moment,' according to Google's Vint Cerf, in the sense that 'You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later.'

HDTV quality Web video for the masses came a step closer today as Adobe announced the latest update for Adobe Flash Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar, which includes H.264 standard video support.

A seasoned Java professional has to know more than just the syntax of the Java language. Java EE offers a set of standardized technologies for enterprise development. A number of open-source frameworks such as Spring or Hibernate are widely used in a variety of Java applications. Familiarity with new 'beyond-Java' languages and technologies will widen your horizons and make you a more valuable Java professional. Real-World Java Seminar is sponsored by CodeGear, Red Hat, Nexaweb, Farata Systems, and PushToTest.

Linspire developer of the commerical desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the community desktop Linux operating system, and SageTV, a pioneer in personal video recording and home media center technologies that combine television, music and related media into a complete, easy-to-use home media experience, today announced the availability of SageTV Media Center Version 6 for users of the Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux operating system. SageTV Media Center software lets users watch, pause and record TV programs on their desktop Linux PCs without the monthly subscription fees required by current personal video recorder (PVR) services and provides a single user interface for accessing online video as well as personal music, photos and videos stored on the personal computer.

Combining 'the best things about television with the social power of the Internet' is precisely what The Venice Project, which yesterday came out of stealth and announced itself as Joost, is all about.

At AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 (East) in New York's Roosevelt Hotel, 19-21 March 2007, SYS-CON.TV will be a major presence.

Jim Clark, co-founder of both Silicon Graphics and Netscape, has quit as chairman of Shutterfly, the digital photography web site, complaining about the restrictions Sarbanes-Oxley regulations impose. In a letter to Shutterfly management released with an SEC filing, Clark said, 'Sarbox dictates that I not chair any committee due to the size of my holdings, not be on the compensation committee because of the loan I once made to the company, not be on the governance committee. It even dictates that some other board member must carry out the perfunctory duties of the chairman. What's left is liability and constraints on stock transactions, neither of which excite me.'

BroadRelay Holdings today announced its shareholders approved a name change for the corporate entity to SIVOO, Inc. The company, which has centered efforts on expanding and enhancing its SIVOO(TM) property, the first Internet TV network of multicultural on-demand entertainment programming, feels the new name better reflects its business strategy as well as recent financial and marketplace growth, fueled largely by its flagship products SIVOO-TV(TM) and SIVOO(TM) branded IPTV Channels. The name change is effective immediately.

VeriSign and Adobe Systems yesterday announced their intent to collaborate on integrating Adobe Flash technologies with VeriSign's peer-assisted content distribution technology. The first phase of the expected collaboration consists of VeriSign incorporating Adobe Flash Media Server 2 into its new globally-deployed Intelligent Content Delivery Network (CDN).

GameZnFlix, Inc. (OTCBB: GZFX), an onlineprovider of video games and DVD movies for rent or purchase, announcedtoday that it has chosen VitalStream, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSTH), a world leaderin rich media delivery, as its content delivery provider for offering moviedownloads.

Just as 2006 was the year of streaming video and the birth of 'Internet TV,' 2007 is going to be the move beyond infancy toward the long-awaited and complete convergence of television and the Internet. Now that broadband is available to more than100 million households worldwide, every corporate Website and every media company will now provide video content, not to mention live and interactive video Webinars and on-demand Webcasts, in order to remain competitive.

NaviSite,Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI), a leading provider of application management,professional services and secure content delivery solutions forenterprises, today announced that Baeble Music, Inc. (www.baeblemusic.com)has selected NaviSite's Managed Services andContent Delivery and AccelerationServices to deliver professional-grade Indie rock videos to fans aroundthe world. By utilizing NaviSite's flexible, scalable and reliable ContentDelivery and Acceleration Services, Baeble gives Indie music lovers areal-time front row seat in the intimate venues where their favorite bandsplay. Baeble's online music community is designed to inspire theindividuality and creativity that define the Independent Music Movement.

During Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' keynote address yesterday at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), he announced a new solution that will bring together two of Microsoft's leading entertainment products: the Xbox 360 gaming console and the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform.