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Microsoft's next upgrade of its Mediaroom software will enable the fusion of live video and web streams to the TV. The "Milwaukee" upgrade is also promising improved personalization and Read more...

YouTube has launched a powerful API that enables publishers to broadcast video content using their own skin and specifications direct from their own web sites--free. The co-branded API is being Read more...

YouTube has been quietly upping its quality, testing a HD version on selected clips. According VideoHelp.com if you add &fmt=6 or Read more...

Microsoft has bid $45 billion for the Yahoo business in a unsolicited bid for the internet portal. The bid represents a  61 per cent premium to the Yahoo closing price of $31. The offer if Read more...

The device space may be white hot, but there is similar feverish collaboration under way among the content players, with numerous media brands announcing distribution and alliance deals for the new Read more...

While most focus on the IPTV space has been around the delivery of residential media a number of enterprises are now deploying a IP video solutions for internal communications and training. Read more...

California based Packet Video (PV) is to deliver the multimedia backbone for Google's Android device platform. The ten year old company is owned by NextWave and joined the open handset alliance as a Read more...

The average online video viewer in September consumed 68 videos--more than two per day--according to the latest report from comScore Video Metrix. ComScore also found nearly 136 million Americans, Read more...

At the risk of making this yet another Google watch site, it did not take long for commentators to join the dots from Google's mobile and social network plays to the mother of them all, TV. TV, of Read more...

> Online video search service blinkx is taking on Google with the launch last week of a video advertising platform to challenge Googles video units, also launched the day before. Read more...