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Google Fiber: Can ultra-fast internet change a city?
27 February 2012
Last updated at 20:05 ET
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VIDEO: People in Kansas City discuss the arrival of Google’s super-fast internet
Google is installing super-fast fibre optic internet service in Kansas City. Will it usher in a new era in industry and society – or just enable faster web browsing and media downloads?
For technology consultant Bret Rhodus, Google’s newest venture is an amazing business opportunity.
“This can be a game-changer,” he says.… Continue reading
Google+ iOS update brings instant upload for photo and video (Appolicious)
Google updated its iOS app to add a new search tool and some minor tweaks, but the big news is the introduction of a service Android users already love: instant upload. If there’s one thing almost all smartphone users have in common, it’s that we use the camera and our social networks to share snaps and video. Doing so on Google+ is now a lot easier for iPhone users.
Apple introduced iCloud with PhotoStream last fall which shunts photos taken from any iOS device to all other associated devices and iPhoto. It’s great, but it has storage limits and the… Continue reading
Senator: Internet regulation ‘a fundamental disregard of the Constitution’ [VIDEO]
Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, told The Day-to-day Caller that the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” rules demonstrate a “fundamental disregard of the Constitution.” Hutchison stated the rules are an attempt by the Obama administration to regulate the “one financial engine in America that is thriving.”
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Net neutrality regulation demands that Internet service companies (ISP) are not able to engage in network site visitors data management that would favor their personal products and content material above other people. Supporters of the principle… Continue reading
Mozilla Reinvents Web Video With Popcorn 1.0
Video on the net has usually been a bit disappointing. Right after all, it’s quite a lot just like television, only smaller sized. Not like the rest of the internet, video is just as a lot a passive experience in your browser as it is anywhere else.
Mozilla would like to adjust that. The company’s work to bring a more interactive video experience to the web is acknowledged as Popcorn.js and it lately reached 1. status. If you’d like to play about with Popcorn, head on more than to the Mozilla site and download a copy. Popcorn employs HTML5 video… Continue reading
The Caucus: Some Viewers Frustrated With Bloomberg Debate Video on Web
It is the last word one particular desires to read when attempting to load a Web video: buffering.
But it popped up once more and once again for some folks as they tried to watch Bloomberg Television’s 1st-ever presidential debate on the Net on Tuesday.
Bloomberg anticipated a surge of Web traffic for the debate and monitored it accordingly. A channel spokeswoman said late Tuesday that “we more than quintupled our record for streaming” and that there were “zero streaming issues or outages in the course of the debate.”
But some social networking customers and message board commenters stated otherwise.… Continue reading
Magisto, for Web video editing, raises $5.5 million from Li Ka-shing
Think about all that video sitting on your hard drive, all these clips of the children, the vacations, the graduations, your karaoke parties. Now imagine truly doing a thing with it.
Enter the Internet-based video-editing service Magisto, which right now announced its public rollout, along with $ 5.five million in a series B funding round led by Horizons Ventures, the private venture firm of Li Ka-shing, the world’s 11th richest man.
Li, who has an estimated net worth of $ 26 billion, is identified for producing sensible early-stage investments in companies like Facebook and Spotify.
Magma Venture Partners, an original… Continue reading
Web video makers rake in millions
19 September 2011
Last updated at 18:59 ET
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On the internet video subject material creators are now creating significant quantities of money from a myriad of web sites
Given that the explosion of streaming video a number of years ago, hosting internet sites have turn out to be home to a crop of young video makers attracting devoted followings for almost everything from music and sketch comedy to make-up suggestions.
Meanwhile, on the… Continue reading
