Video Streaming News & Articles

In an act that could possibly bring them up to par with some of the better known CDNs in the market, Amazon Web Services (news, site) has tossed cheap audio and video streaming support into the mix with CloudFront, their typically low-key service for content delivery.  

Amazon (news, site) Web Services is bursting at the seams with a raft of new features and services that will make it easier and more affordable to work in the cloud.

It may just be that in launching the Community Edition of its self-hosted online video platform Kaltura (news, site) has created a monster by giving everyone and anyone the ability to put their videos out onto the Wild Wild Web.

The announcement that the Community Edition is finally ready for download came at O’Reilly OSCON 2009 and now puts easily integrated, customizable, interactive rich-media functionality in the hands of anyone who wants it.

What’s more, Kaltura says that it is breaking the build-vs-buy and vendor lock-in conundrum by allowing users combine it with any other technology or services platform without being beholden to Kaltura.

Advertising within streaming media is now as easy as one, two, three — 3ple Media, that is.

Mobile Multimedia specialist, 3ple-Media, has enhanced its Mercury mobile multimedia platform to include embedded advertising into mobile video clips and video streams.

Using “pioneering functionality”, pre-roll, post-roll and in-stream advertising can be inserted into mobile video through a customizable and interactive platform. By linking within advertisements, users can continue to experience mobile multimedia, via mobisites, new video streams or an SMS/MMS push.

Qik, the popular mobile video streaming service, has excited BlackBerry users by releasing a client for the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Pearl. Having Qik on your mobile phone turns your phone into a mobile video streaming device.

Qik users can employ the service to show videos from conferences and events, as well as to reach out to friends and colleagues.

Mobile video fanatics rejoice! Qik, a video streaming platform that allows users to broadcast from mobile devices, has announced support for more mobile devices that will allow users to be visually connected to the world.

Users of Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices will be pleased with the latest news — we can only hope that those users will avoid being charged an arm and a leg for bandwidth usage.

Adobe has joined the ranks of the social media product suppliers with the announcement of it’s Flash Media Server 3 product line.