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22nd April 2007 Archive

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  • Why the world has lost interest in IPTV services

    Comment Is it feasible to deliver TV-quality video over IP?

    While doing the research for the very first issue of Faultline, one IPTV specialist (who shall remain nameless) told us "you can't send video across the web", and proceeded to lecture us on the finer points of Quality of Service protocols. In a way he was right, but what he was saying lacked vision. The very next day at …

    Networks 22 Apr 2007, 08:02

  • Microsoft Silverlight to copy Flash video tricks, Adobe responds

    Analysis So who has the stronger hand?

    Microsoft last week made what is likely to be a lame attempt to slam the barn door after the video horse has bolted, copying the Adobe Flash Video strategy with a product that is quite simply too late. Microsoft spectacularly blew the PC video market despite its huge global lead in Windows Media Player, with its onboard codec …

    Applications 22 Apr 2007, 08:02

  • Another postcard from Intel in Lisboa

    Second Lifer says: “It’s not a game” at Intel’s EMEA Channel Conference.

    Intel has to find something to do with all that processing power it supplies and perhaps rendering yer actual Avatar is it. Well, whatever the driver, at the Think Parallel Intel EMEA Software Conference 2.0 in Lisbon, Jonathan Erickson (Editor-in-Chief, Dr Dobb’s Journal) gave a convincing presentation of Second Life as the new …

    Developer 22 Apr 2007, 10:02

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