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AT&T U-Verse Is Kicking AS&S
UBS’s John Hodulik, one of the best telecom analysts around, has pegged AT&T as his top pick for this earnings seasons. What was especially interesting in the note he sent out this morning was the progress made by AT&T’s IPTV effort, U-Verse. Hodulik says AT&T added about 135,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2008, up from 105,000 new subs in the fourth quarter of 2007. Read more on GigaOM.
Silverlight Goes Mobile with Nokia
Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant’s rich media development framework. This follows announcements last year of Silverlight support for Linux and Macs. With the mobile push, Microsoft is moving toward making Silverlight a truly cross-platform tool, able to compete with Adobe Flash. Continue reading at GigaOM.
P2P Start-Up AllPeers Closing Down
AllPeers, a personal P2P file-sharing startup based in Oxford, England, is down for the count. The personal P2P file-sharing space is a crowded one; not many companies can claim success. AllPeers tried to get traction by going open source back in March 2007, but that failed to boost their growth. GigaOM has the full story.
FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”
Listening to the FCC hearing today, which was called in response to Comcast throttling BitTorrent traffic on its network, it seemed like Chairman Kevin Martin may be rethinking his laissez-faire stance on Network Neutrality. Martin said that network management practices should be “open and transparent” to the end user and that the FCC would be “willing and able” to intercede in cases of abuse. Read more on GigaOM.
Bebo, Open Media & Its Broadband Advantage
Bebo, another one of the fast-growing social networks out there, might be a U.S. company, but its roots are firmly planted in broadband-heavy Europe. Taking advantage of faster broadband in its core markets — the UK and parts of Europe — the company has announced a smart new Open Media platform strategy.
While it might seem that Bebo is partnering with old media, the fact of the matter is that people like TV. So Bebo is giving them old TV — via a new distribution channel. Launch partners include CBS, MTV Networks, ESPN, the BBC, Channel Four, ITN, Yahoo! and BSkyB, as well as emerging media companies like Music Nation, Next New Networks, Crackle, Ustream, Last.fm and JibJab.
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Review: Hey! Nielsen
From our sister site, WebWorkerDaily: This week’s Monday flood of press releases brought something new: a corporation using a social network to collect your opinions. That’s the premise behind Hey! Nielsen, a site from the same Nielsen Company that brings you TV ratings and a host of other marketing products. The basic premise behind Hey! Nielsen is simple. After joining, you pick something - movie, TV show, famous person, web site - and post your opinion. The site then combines all this buzz together with external statistics (for example, traffic measurements from BlogPulse) and puts together a “Hey! Nielsen score” for each rated thing. Continue Reading.
Sling Sold To EchoStar For $380 Million
If 5% of Facebook is worth $500 million, then one can’t be surprised that place shifting pioneer SlingMedia is worth something. The Foster City, Calif.-based Sling has been acquired by EchoStar (DISH), a satellite broadcasting service company for $380 million in cash and stock. Continue Reading.
Friday Afternoon Vid-Biz Headlines
Thailand Opens Access to YouTube; Thailand says YouTube will block clips from playing within the country that the government says break local laws. Google “would not comment on whether it would also block culturally sensitive material that did not directly break laws.” (Financial Times)
Online Video Watchers are Old? Advertising.com-sponsored study finds 69 percent of viewers “are ages 35 and older with a preference for viewing news clips online.” (Advertising.com)
Comcast Says It Doesn’t Block BitTorrent; contrary to reports from last week. (Compiler)
Jacked Raises $6.5 Million for online applications to run alongside TV shows, starting with sports. (paidContent, site)
Sony Introduces First Video Walkman; to be available in September. (Reuters)
SplashCast Introduces New Player; good way to aggregated text, video, and audio into an easily distributable presentation. (company blog)
Wednesday Afternoon Vid-Biz Headlines
U.K. iTunes Now Selling TV; includes Disney and Viacom programs. (iVirtua Community, release)
YouTube to Remove Nazi Videos; follows on publicity for complaints from activist groups in Germany. (Bloomberg)
Netflix Records Strong Streaming Video Growth; sees 10 million total views since January, with 5 million of them in the last six weeks. (release)
Tuesday Afternoon Vid-Biz Headlines
Dell Sponsors CBS-Owned Wallstrip; “It’s not like we’re selling out, it’s just that, we’re selling out,” says host Lindsay Cambell. (MediaWeek, show)
CNN Signs Exclusive Deal with Google AdSense; Silicon Alley Insider’s analysis is notable: “how to make money from web video: text ads.” (announcement, Silicon Alley Insider)
WSJ on Money for Niche Video; highlights case-by-case deals brokered by Next New Networks and blip.tv. (WSJ)
Germans Angry about Nazi Content on YouTube; German Jewish organization considering pressing charges. (Reuters)
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