In keeping with the longstanding SYS-CON tradition of being at the very forefront of software development with all its online and offline resources, SYS-CON Media & Events jointly today announced a double whammy, launching both 'Open Web Developer's Journal' (htt p://openweb.sys-con.com

Comtrend announced it has become the first manufacturer to offer home networking adaptors that support speeds up to 400 Mbps. Comtrend's new product, called the PowerGrid 904, is an Ethernet Powerline adaptor that plugs into any standard power plug in a home. The PowerGrid 904 provides

Within minutes of my blog entry, I received the strangest email notification, alerting me to another blog written by Alan Zeichick, 'co-founder and editorial director of BZ Media, which publishes SD Times and Software Test & Performance, and which also produces the Software Security Su

My money is on targeting iPhones and WM devices until Android actually shows up live and in the wild on more than 500,000 devices. Also, don't be fooled about the Android developer challenge. That's not $10million in prize money, that's a $10 million bribe in order to obtain the critic

'Building a technical infrastructure that provides access to all our sites - large or small, newspaper or TV-based - is essential,' said Jack Williams, president of Gannett Digital, as he announced this week that the Maven Internet TV Platform will be providing enterprise-wide Internet

The great Exaflood, when modern man drowns in his online videos and other bandwidth-intensive content and the Internet grinds to a crawl with brownouts, is only two years off according to a study done by Nemertes Research. It calculates that it will take $137 billion in global infrastr

As the convergence of the four screens continues ­- PC, TV, mobile phone, and Personal Mobile Platform (PMP) - Internet video has shifted programming into the hands of Web users instead of television viewers, blurring the division between a Website and a TV channel as broadband connect

After Google's Android announcement, at least four big guys should be irritated: Sun Microsystems, Apple, Adobe and Microsoft.Google approaches telephony from the open source side - Linux-based platform, uses Java but does not care about sticking to Java ME - they are planning to use f

I asked what she did for a living. She said she was a software engineer working with SOA. I did not think about my plane ride much until I arrived in San Francisco to attend the SOA World Conference & Expo this past Monday and Tuesday. The first day of the conference as I walked into t

The author of the market-leading book Mastering Internet Video, Damien Stolarz, is featuring in the Day Two opener Q&A Conversation with Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo 2007 in San Francisco this week (12-13 November 2007). Co-founder of Blue

'With its direct ad sales force and growing publisher network combined with the depth and breadth of its library of video content, GoFish is well positioned to scale its network and its revenues,' said John Durham, CEO and managing partner of Catalyst and former president of Jumpstart

Now that broadband is available to more than 100 million households worldwide, every corporate web site must provide video content on the Internet to remain competitive, as well as live and interactive video webinars and on-demand webcasts. Internet video has shifted programming into t

Google made its first public move today to put its brand on the mobile sector, announcing an Open Handset Alliance of 33 partner companies committed to advancing an open source platform called Android. Google's partners, gathered apparently over the last year, include T-Mobile, Motorol

Richard D. Parsons, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Inc, is going to step down from the CEO role and remain only as Chairman of the filmed entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable systems and publishing giant. That, anyway, is wha

'In keeping with our vision to provide 'any video, anywhere', our partnership with RipCode is a definitive step towards furthering this strategy,' said Bill Joll, president and CEO of On2 Technologies and featured speaker at the upcoming iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo (San

'Mainstream television is moving to the Internet,' said Tony Naughtin, president and CEO of GridNetworks yesterday, as he announced $9.5 million Series A financing led by Panorama Capital and two strategic investors to be disclosed in the future. 'GridCasting is a great solution to sup

John Edwards, a frequent broadcast industry speaker and CEO of Move Networks, will speak to how major networks are navigating the unknown waters of online video distribution, and some of the forces driving their decisions. The session will explore some of the various content delivery m

The next phase of web video, whether that be prime time shows, social networking or user generated content will rely on quality to deliver full screen television like experiences. 'The next twelve months will usher in high definition (HD) web video as a key requirement,' says Bill Joll

Agilent Technologies has announced that its N2X multiservices test solution is a solution for validating Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) service quality for thousands of subscribers on IPv6 network architectures, also referred to as next-generation networks (NGNs). Network equipmen

thePlatform is an application service provider that offers Web-based media management and publishing tools that enable media and content providers to translate a single stream of content into different formats that can be delivered through different channels. It also performs digital r

Voice Perspective 2.0 will help contact centers and businesses improve the voice quality delivered to customers whether or not the call is originating either from a traditional PSTN landline-based phone or an IP-enabled phone. This is an important distinction as most VoIP calls today t

'This collaborative effort will enable a world where you can have your entertainment when you want and where you want it,' said Dr. T.C. Chen, vice president, Science & Technology, IBM Research, as he announced today that IBM and MediaTek will combine their expertise in millimeter wave

The next phase in the Internet video evolution, according to the Founder and CEO of Swarmcast, is to meet viewer expectations for video set by HDTV, and devise a way of delivering, long-form, HD-quality video on a website. At next month's iTV Internet Video Conference & Expo at the Gra

By 2011, advertiser spending on Internet video streams to PCs and TVs will approach $1.7 billion, but movie and TV downloads will generate consumer spending of $4.1 billion, according to Adams Media Research's new strategic analysis, 'Video on the Internet: Ad-Supported Streaming and D

The Media and Entertainment Product Line Director for Akamai Technologies, Tim Napoleon, will be giving the opening keynote at iTVCon - Internet Video Conference & Expo next month in San Francisco. Prior to joining Akamai, Napoleon worked closely with Adobe to launch the Flash Video

'Video downloading - particularly television - is in its infancy, and standards and business models are still emerging. We're excited to bring this innovative service to consumers,' said iTVCon Internet Video Conference & Expo speaker Kate Purnal today as Sandisk, where Purnal is senio

The Internet has made it increasingly easy for consumers to access content they want: a newly released movie, a sporting event taking place half-way around the world, or a YouTube video. Previously only available through TiVo and Slingbox consumers with Internet access now have on-dema

WhiteBlox's Make Your Audio Visual platform allows radio stations to broadcast audio and video of live and on-demand programming over the Internet. When paired with Abacast's hybrid Peer-to-Peer video streaming technology, which provides a superior quality picture for a reduced price,

Internap's Streaming Service for Windows Media tied into video production systems to transmit both live and on-demand audio and video. The streaming media solution met the Navy's rigorous security requirements and provided a smooth end-user viewing experience. Following the event, the

Video Anywhere uses VectorMAX technology to provide complete live broadcasting and video-on-demand (VOD) capabilities for the distribution of video over a network or the Internet. Video Anywhere allows any organization to create, control and distribute live or pre-recorded video conten

TV producers, cable companies, consumer electronics companies and content providers need to understand that TV will never be the same. Giants will crumble and start ups will rise in this new TV 3.1 economy. This session will explain what the future of TV will look like and how content

As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most intuitive way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 200 partners and fourteen million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, sh

Many new models of web broadcasting/programming as well as Internet TV companies by the dozens are cropping up all promising to be the next YouTube phenomenon. Ted Briscoe, CEO, Vibe Solutions Group (creator of Pyro.TV), will discuss the unique online video ecosystem that exists today

New models for successfully packaging and delivering video and Internet TV content packaged to today's busy consumer. What are the different business models and advertising strategies that will work, and why? In association, this session will offer an explanation of the convergence of

The movement towards Web TV programming gives content owners, organizations and marketers a whole new set of tools to explore interactive ways of engaging their audience. However, it also creates two core challenges: viewers are free to watch any program, any time; and these viewers ha

Important items to consider when choosing video applications for your web site are quality and download speed. In order to meet viewer expectations for video set by HDTV, content providers must re-evaluate the way video is delivered. This session will discuss the next phase in the Inte

Widely adopted by hundreds of enterprise, education and government users since its debut in 2005, the Accordent Capture Station is an easy-to-use, room-based appliance used by 150 of the Fortune 500 and hundreds of education and government clients to webcast and record high-value prese

'This is the most exciting project I've worked on in a very long time, and part of that is the level of creative autonomy we can have on the Internet. For better or worse, 'Quarterlife' is truly our own vision,' said Herskovitz. 'The business of television today makes it harder for th

From traditional media embracing social media in a new digital world, to how independent filmmakers and artists can take advantage of a safe environment (all of VMIX's content is screened by human screeners for copyright infringement violations) to build a network and a brand online, V

'The industry is ready for the next major leap in the evolution of internet TV,' said Jeremy Allaire, Chairman and CEO of Brightcove, 'and that is seamlessly extending from short video clips on sites into full-length programs and movies delivered via the internet to PCs.' Allaire was s