Streaming Media - October/November 2007 - (Page 19) news bytes STREAMTICKER: Abacast announced a partnership that allows internet radio stations to sell their ad inventory through TargetSpot using the Abacast Injection System . . . Adobe announced a partnership with Cisco, which will now natively support Flash streaming; the company also announced H.264 compatibility with the Flash Player and previewed its Flash Media Server 3 at IBC . . . CacheLogic announced its Velocix 2.0 video solutions, which include both Flash and Windows Media streaming capabilities . . . Digital Rapids introduced the new StreamZ Live family of encoders at IBC, where the company also previewed its Copper C2 data delivery software . . . Inlet Technologies has partnered with Thomson to feature Thomson’s digital watermarking technology in its Fathom encoding solution . . . Maven Networks announced its intention to use the Adobe Media Player in its Maven Internet TV Platform . . . Media Excel introduced the Hera 3200m multi-codec, multi-rate batch encoder, at IBC . . . NewTek unveiled the VT[5] integrated production suite at IBC . . . RipCode announced in September that MySpace has chosen the company’s transcoding appliance for MySpaceTV . . . At IBC, Secustream introduced SecuShow, its “second-by-second” digital rights management system . . . Telestream introduced FlipScan, which automatically scans, analyzes, and validates incoming audio, video, and metadata for user-generated media platforms . . . ViewCast is now shipping its first HD-cabable encoding card, the Osprey-700 HD; the company also announced that its Niagara Pro and Niagara GoStream Plus encoding platforms will now offer live Flash encoding . . .Wowza launched Wowza Media Server Pro 1.3 in early September . . . MONEY MATTERS: Limelight Networks announced GAAP revenue of $21.2M and non-GAAP revenue of $24.7M for 2Q 2007 . . . LSI Corp. signed a definitive agreement in September to acquire hardware encoding accelerator manufacturer Tarari for $85 million cash . . . RawFlow acquired Aggregator TV, a London-based video distribution platform vendor; terms of the deal were not announced . . . Thomson acquired CDN SyncCast for an undisclosed amount in early September . . . VideoEgg secured $15 million in funding led by Focus Ventures, WPP, August Capital, and Maveron . . . PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: Jennifer Betka, former VP of interactive at Sirius Satellite Radio, is now SVP of marketing at Veoh Networks . . . Stephen Condon, formerly VP of marketing for Entriq, is now VP of worldwide marketing in the media and entertainment sector for VeriSign . . . Scott Cunningham has moved from his position as multimedia technologies manager for USA Today to become senior director of product management for ManiaTV! . . . Bart Federer is now chairman of the board of directors at The FeedRoom . . . VBrick appointed Vince Graziani CEO in August . . . Mark Hernandez has left his position as director of west coast sales at Eyeblaster and is now VP of advertising sales at Revver . . . Scott Monson, former VP of business development for Orb Networks, is now GM of business development and sales for Digital Fountain’s CDN business . . . Doug Mow, formerly VP of marketing for NaviSite, is now SVP of product management and marketing for Exigen Services . . . John Petrocelli, previously of Entriq, is now VP of internet TV sales and business development at Widevine Technologies . . . Mark Portu was appointed CEO of The FeedRoom . . . David Rice, who used to be VP of sales and marketing for Limelight, is now west coast VP of media and entertainment sales for Move Networks . . . Andrea Shannon left Adobe to become business development manager in the Silverlight group at Microsoft . . . 3G Bandwidth Consumption 2006 Total 3G subscribers (in millions) Average monthly bandwidth consumed (MB) per subscriber 2010 (projected) We’re so accustomed to thinking 90.8 652.3 mobile as the bastard midget child of the web, it may escape of our notice that the web could use some of the discipline and restraint that mobile invites. – MediaPost’s 10 55 Total annual bandwidth consumed (TB) Source: Wireless Intelligence and Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. 10,896 430,482 Steve Smith on mobile video search engine vTap.com WWW.STREAMINGMEDIA.COM 19 http://vTap.com http://WWW.STREAMINGMEDIA.COM
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