Tipsters confirm to Engadget that the next iPhone, widely expected to be unveiled on June 7, will feature two-way video chat. Actors are apparently being cast for the upcoming marketing campaign, and insiders confirm the ads will feature a mother and daughter chatting using the new front-facing camera seen on leaked iPhone prototypes. Two questions [...]
Tipsters confirm to Engadget that the next iPhone, widely expected to be unveiled on June 7, will feature two-way video chat. Actors are apparently being cast for the upcoming marketing campaign, and insiders confirm the ads will feature a mother and daughter chatting using the new front-facing camera seen on leaked iPhone prototypes. Two questions [...]
For several months there have been leaks about how Google plans to enter the set top space by offering Android-driven, broadband-powered set tops that aim to recreate the Internet experience on your television set. While Internet video is still no real threat to traditional TV, it certainly could be with the introduction of a cheap, [...]
With the goal of creating an open source video standard that competes with H.264 , Google today announced the creation of the WebM Project. The standard has the support of 38 companies and organizations, including Mozilla, Opera, Adobe, Qualcomm and many others (none of them named Microsoft or Apple). The standard won’t involve charging royalties, [...]
Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG) is enhancing its real time video and audio communications capabilities by reaching an agreement to acquire Olso, Norway-based Global IP Solutions AB (Oslo: GIPS.OL). The deal, which will be conducted via its Google Acquisitions Holdings Inc. unit, will offer $68 million in cash to acquire issued-and-to-be-issued shares of GIPS for $2.12 a [...]
Created in 1999 as little more than a placeholder for Holywood’s broadband video delivery ambitions, Cinemanow has a long history of simply not being a a very good product. The service was loaded with DRM, suffered from a limited catalog and was ridiculed for years. It was ridiculed more intensely after Cinemanow introduced a DVD [...]
Tektronix (NYSE: TEK) continues to round out its IP video network test offerings, and its acquisition of Mixed Signals is yet another proof point of that drive. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, Tektronix will be able to add Mixed Signals’ Sentry, Consul and Medius video monitoring product lines. In addition [...]
In April, Verizon decided to take LTE wireless broadband service to a Boston coffee house to show it off to those who might not be familiar with the technology. In a video just released by the company, Verizon employees highlight the technology to users who are used to clunkier and slower wireless connectivity. Speedtests in [...]
Frontier Communications’ (NYSE:FTR) first quarter 2010 report, while showing 17 percent growth in profit, saw decreases in revenue and broadband growth. For the quarter, Frontier’s net income was $42.57 million, up from $36.30 million in Q1 09. When excluding $10.4 million in acquisition and integration costs related to its Verizon line purchase, Frontier’s Q1 2010 [...]