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Microsoft To Take On YouTube & Flickr With An All Encompassing Digital Media Hub

Hey everybody, Microsoft is making an attempt at entering the online media realm! And they’re taking on the big boys like...
Paul Glazowski
3 min read

Media Giants Want User Generated Content Principles | Blocking Copyrighted Material

A host of media companies have launched a new push to force user generated content sites such as YouTube to tighten...
Sherwin Siy
3 min read

Viacom, Disney, Microsoft and MySpace Team Up To Battle For Their Online Copyrights

Viacom, Disney, Microsoft, and MySpace all have a couple of things in common? Apart from being huge media companies with a lot...
Paul Glazowski
1 min read

Microsoft Announces Internet TV Service And Extenders Allowing HDTV Access & More

Microsoft have announced the forthcoming release of Internet TV, a feature which will allow people to enjoy a range of television...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Livestation – Interactive Live TV On Your PC | New Joost Competitor Backed By Microsoft

LiveStation is a new IPTV service that lets you watch television online using Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology. The service, which just...
Michael Garrett
1 min read

Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 & Expression Studio Now Available | An Alternative To Flash?

When trying to create cross platform media experiences for use on the web, there are only a few options open to...
Gilbert Hammer
1 min read

Microsoft’s Silverlight Almost Ready | Is This The Flash-Killer?

The release candidate (RC) of the long awaited Microsoft Silverlight multimedia authoring, encoding and user platform, a direct competitor to the...
Hal Licino
25 sec read

Live Earth Breaks Video Web Streaming Record

The Live Earth concerts were not only broadcast on television around the world but were also one of the first series...
Paul Glazowski
2 min read

Joost on Set Top Boxes? – SlingBox? Apple TV? AT&T Homezone? TiVo? Who?

Looking at the Joost interface it will be obvious to many that this is something that you could imagine on your...
Chris Tew
3 min read

BBC iPlayer given the go-ahead | Would a DVR be better?

Back in January the BBC was given a provisional approval for the BBC iPlayer that would allow BBC TV shows to...
Chris Tew
1 min read

How Microsoft’s Monopoly Could Fall Within 10 Years | Convergence of TV, Internet & PC

Summary: We will soon be replacing our TVs more often than our PCs as the television advances towards becoming a simple...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Apple TV released | How does it compare to the Xbox 360

The Apple TV was finally released last week and as I expected the reviews of the device are not that flattering....
Chris Tew
1 min read

Internet TV and Regular TV Convergence

It’s not so long away before the internet and the TV become almost the same thing. We’ll surf the web on...
Chris Tew
1 min read

Bill Gates talks about the end of TV – But it won’t be Microsoft TV

Bill Gates recently shunned current TV offerings at the World Economic Forum saying that the internet is the future. In Bill’s...
Chris Tew
2 min read

Yahoo and the Living Room

Yahoo! has had its eyes on entering the living room for some time and is in a much better position to...
Chris Tew
1 min read

Xbox 360 Internet TV features | Video from CES

Microsoft recently announced the Xbox 360 will be featuring Internet Television using Microsofts IPTV platform.
Chris Tew
7 sec read