However, according to Peter Pedersen, interactive chief technology officer at Channel Four Television, developing projects purely for broadband distribution is a loss leader. One of its greatest triumphs is the Big Brother website that streams a...
It has been adopted by many businesses for voice trunking and increasingly for greenfield deployment for desktop voice. Anyone with a broadband connection - DSL or cable - can subscribe to a VoIP provider and make phone calls to anywhere in the...
RealOne charges $9.95 a month for access to a bundle of programming it calls SuperPass, which includes access to movies, news and live audio of Major League Baseball games. RealNetworks, however, which operates RealOne, the largest paid video and...
The company is also releasing a multichannel version of its RealAudio codec that can support features such as 5.1 channel audio for DVDs, and a new high-quality version of its in-house format. On the audio front, Real is substantially updating its...
We have adopted portal when we mean it. Enterprise portal is okay as a generic definition," agrees Broadvision's Hughes. Personalisation is the enterprise portal's key functionality, which involves adapting the display of information to a user's...
Media Center Edition 2005 will offer limited support for high-definition television, but only the type of high-definition signal received through an antenna - not high-definition satellite or cable. The entertainment-oriented Media Center OS is...