CBS rolls out branded social media hub to engage viewers

Content owners have been attracted to social media and its potential for engaging viewers and firming up their connection with them, building loyalty–and buzz–in the process. While Facebook and Twitter offer easy access solutions, CBS Interactive Entertainment (NYSE: CBS) this week decided to launch its own social platform–CBS Connect–to allow it to make that connection a little more network specific.

EdgeCast rolls out federated CDN platform

Content delivery network EdgeCast Networks has launched its OpenCDN federation platform, allowing network operators to cache customer content in markets and regions where they have no infrastructure. The platform is an alternative to the traditional geoexpansion/network investment tradeoffs operators have struggled with. EdgeCast also announced it has recently been granted several patents on techniques relating to CDN interconnection, broadening its intellectual property portfolio to include CDN federation. Current participants in the EdgeCast federation include a large, tier-one North American operator as well as Pacnet, one of Asia’s largest carriers. Federation allows operators to scale better, offering the CDN capabilities of their network beyond their own regional customer base.

Telco CDN – Insights On Telefonica’s CDN Strategy and Deployment

At the Content Delivery Summit, taking place Monday, May 14th in NYC, hear an overview of the context, ecosystem and strategy for Telefonica's recently released CDN offering, implemented across the fourth largest telco with direct access to 300M users world wide. Hear how they handle monetization and analytics across their CDN, the impact of QoS for their customers and an…

blinkx deal with AnyClip gives users access to clips from 12,000 films

Video search engine blinkx is partnering with AnyClip for access to searchable clips from over 12,000 feature films. The deal allows blinkx users to search and watch their favorite scenes and moments from titles owned by Warner Brothers, Universal Studios, Vivendi Entertainment, First Look and Virgil Films. AnyClip tags, extracts and indexes more than 5,000 individual pieces of metadata from each full-length feature film. Users can search using snippets of dialogue, actors, props, and much more.

Reported Apple iTV prototype stirs Internet rumors

Yet another reported Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) smart TV sighting has the Internet abuzz. According to the Cult of Mac , the long-awaited connected TV is similar in appearance to existing Cinema Displays, comes with an iSight camera built in that’s capable of following a user as they move around the room, and to zoom in on their face, allowing them to make video calls and to videoconference. The unnamed source cited in the article also said the new TV brings Siri, Apple’s voice-activated virtual assistant to the living room. Paul Gagnon, director of North American TV Research for NPD DisplaySearch, said it’s likely Apple will roll out a line of TVs this year, pointing out that Apple’s Chinese supplier, Foxconn, has invested $1.6 billion in Sharp’s TV unit, which can make panels up to 60-inches. He expects two to four models ranging from 40-inches to 60-inches with 1920 x 1080p resolution

Franken presses FCC, DOJ to investigate antitrust claims against Comcast

Amid antitrust complaints to federal regulators, a leading U.S. senator this week pressed the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA), the nation’s largest cable operator, is leveraging its market power to hinder competition. Al Franken (D-Minn.) Citing complaints by an online-video distributor (OVD) and other companies, Sen.

Transparent Caching and CDN: What’s Driving the Converged Offering?

Traditionally, managed subscription services have been delivered via CDNs at the Internet edge, while unmanaged over-the-top content is delivered from transparent caches at the access network edge. Recent industry developments suggest that these two formerly separate approaches will become more coordinated, creating a unified delivery infrastructure that will bring both CDN-managed and OTT content to the network edge – improving…

Learn How To Marry CDNs with Front-End Optimization for Maximum Acceleration

Many content owners are already using a content delivery network (CDN) to cache content closer to their visitors, but CDNs don't reduce the number of requests required to render each page, and they have no impact on browser efficiency. At the Content Delivery Summit, taking place Monday, May 14th in NYC, learn how Front-end optimization (FEO) picks up where CDNs…

Hear About The Business of CDN Federation at The Content Delivery Summit

CDN federation allows participants to offer a global CDN service by pooling and sharing resources amongst major regional players and at the Content Delivery Summit, taking place Monday, May 14th in NYC, we have an entire sessions devoted to the topic of “The Business of CDN Federation”. The session will examine the business prospects of CDN federations, considering the market…

Comcast Prioritizing Their Video Content Over Competitors Traffic, Here’s The Proof

Last year, when Comcast acquired NBC Universal they had to agree to terms as set forth by the Department Of Justice and the FCC regarding how they would treat competitive content delivered over their network. One of the points in that document says that, “Comcast shall not prioritize Defendants’ Video Programming or other content over other Persons’ Video Programming or…

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