RealNetworks has joined forces with Inktomi - a developer of Internet infrastructure software - to produce a cache product for media streaming. The caching platform will combine the RealPlayer G2 system with Inktomi's Traffic Server to minimise the...
The ebusiness network provider Digital Island will receive $45m in equity from Compaq, Intel and Microsoft to develop streaming media infrastructure for broadcasting globally on the internet. Research firm Jupiter communications have predicted the...
Last year's eviction of Nasty Nick for cheating was probably the first time thousands of people used, or tried to use, live video streaming technology. The content also introduces large numbers of people to the technology for the first time.
The two companies are expected to announce details on streaming media technologies to interoperate on corporate networks in the near future. The players were very much taking the field and there was comfort in numbers.
Included in those numbers are customers of Musicmatch On Demand, a subscription service that offers streaming music, and the company's online music download store. s past music strategy, which has focused on streaming audio and video through Launch...
It does not include streaming media over the net to a PC. A separate study from research company iSuppli last month predicted IPTV subscriber numbers will hit 63 million by 2010. The number of IPTV subscribers is set to hit 48.8 million worldwide...