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blasts from the past 2000 watching President Clinton’s State of the Union address tonight at 9 p.m. EST. WorldStream has teamed up with Voter.com to present an entire evening’s worth of programming. FEB. 16 AMERICA ONLINE TO USE AKAMAI FOR CONTENT AND STREAMING MEDIA DELIVERY Is there any stopping Akamai? A week after announcing its intent to acquire INTERVU, it announced a deal with America Online (www.aol.com) to deploy Akamai edge servers within AOL’s network. The financial details of the deal were not released. —JA FEB. 23 VIEWCAST.COM ANNOUNCES OSPREY-2000M MPEG-2 CARD Hardware maker ViewCast.com announced the Osprey-2000M, a new MPEG2 and MPEG1 card that can be used to create streaming video with Windows Media and RealSystem G2. ViewCast.com will publicly demonstrate the Osprey-2000M at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas in April. The new Osprey-2000M is an MPEG encoder/decoder offering bitrates from 1Mbps to 15Mbps for broadcast-quality video. —JA FEB. 29 MICROSOFT RELEASES WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER FOR PALM-SIZE PCS Microsoft released a Palm-PC version of its Windows Media Player. This gives devices from companies like Compaq, Casio, and Hewlett-Packard the ability to play CD-quality digital music. The Palm-size player includes support for Windows Media and MP3, and even includes the security features of Windows Media audio. It also allows users to change its appearance through skins, and even includes playlist functionality. —JA MARCH 14 REALNETWORKS LICENSES MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO TECHNOLOGY Is the battle between rivals Microsoft and RealNetworks over? In a surprise announcement today, Microsoft said that RealNetworks has licensed Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio technology for use in its company’s products. What this means is that secure Windows Media audio will be playable on RealNetworks’ software, like RealJukebox. Will Windows Media become the de facto standard for digital audio? Microsoft says yes. Already they have over 70 licensees for its Software Development Kit (SDK) with companies like Sonique, WinAmp, MusicMatch and Sonic Foundry supporting Microsoft technology. —JA APRIL 4 Editorial: NET ENTERTAINMENT—FACT OR FALLACY? This winter I decided to get rid of my television set and see how long I could last without one. Actually, I’ve never been a big fan of primetime TV, so it was good not staring at the boob tube every night. But I quickly tired of staring at the empty space where my TV used to be. What was becoming clear to me was that there’s lot of content out there and I could never watch it all. More importantly, I realized that I didn’t want to watch it all. I wanted things that interested me. Sure, I found some nice sites that held my interest, but the true power of the internet is niches. —JA APRIL 4 AOL LAUNCHING HIGH SPEED SERVICE WITH STREAMING America Online finally unveiled its broadband strategy today launching “AOL Plus,” which will deliver streaming audio and video content to AOL 5.0 users. AOL 5.0’s “speed detect” feature will roll out this week and will enable members to take advantage of their broadband connections. Content will be supplied from partners including CBS SportsLine, CBS MarketWatch.com, CNET, CNN, FOXNews.com, FOXSports.com, House of Blues, Launch.com, Travelocity.com, and weather.com, as well as America Online brands MovieFone and Spinner. APRIL 18 EDITORIAL: WHAT IF THE BUBBLE REALLY BURSTS? Last week was certainly a scary time for investors. But whether it signified the end of an era—the proverbial bursting of the bubble—is unclear. The new economy, the sky-high valuations, the instant millionaire dot.com guys and gals are distressing to traditionalists. But what if it all stopped? When I start to look back at the losses, I think what this could mean for all of us in the future if the markets just never recovered. How do you value a company that has negative $5-per-share earnings? Only 15 of the 57 companies followed in the Streaming Media Index have earnings at all, and only four companies have a P/E of less than 50. —Paul Kushner JUNE 28 CONVENTIONAL BROADCASTERS GETTING WISE TO THE WEB Conventional broadcasters—television and radio affiliates, television and radio syndicators, cable networks, and major radio and television networks—will argue that they are sitting in the catbird seat when it comes to the emerging broadband streaming media phenomenon. But the growing wave of internet-only streamers also have advantages to tout, and though their rivals often neglect to admit it, they pose a real threat to conventional broadcasters. Streaming content providers typically possess advanced internet expertise and savvy, and they recognize that web-based streaming is a unique and incredibly powerful new medium. —Andy Covell JUNE 28 REALNETWORKS ON YOUR CELL PHONE RealNetworks (www.realnetworks.com) and Nokia today announced a deal to bring streaming multimedia to cell phones. They will implement RealNetworks’ RealPlayer technology in Nokia’s EPOC-based smart phones, so anyone with these devices can experience Real content. The first Nokia EPOC products to be RealPlayer-enabled will be available in 2001. —JA 50 STREAMING MEDIA April/May 2008 http://Voter.com http://www.aol.com http://VIEWCAST.COM http://ViewCast.com http://ViewCast.com http://dot.com http://www.realnetworks.com

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Streaming Media - April/May 2008 Table of Contents Beyond the Bottom Line Technology and Business Trends by the Numbers (Not So) Instant Karma MSN Autos Revs Up Video Production Dow Finds the Right Streaming Chemistry Why Video Is Changing the World A Decade of StreamingMedia.com What's Your Digital Media Strategy? Blasts From the Past: A Decade (Almost) of StreamingMedia.com Headlines Analyze That A League of Their Own: Streaming Media All-Stars Where Are They Now? Wanted: Sexy HDTV That Connects to the Internet and Services All DVRs Anystream Agility Inlet Technologies Spinnaker S3000

Streaming Media - April/May 2008

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