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BusinessWeek
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A plan to offer online video rentals could turn up the heat on Netflix and Amazon—and reinvigorate interest in Apple TV
In much the same way it upended online distribution of music, Apple may now be poised to redefine the way movies are rented online..
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CNN
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Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday. If the competit..
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BBC News
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Video advertising has started on the YouTube website, its owner - internet giant Google - has confirmed.
Google said it had designed the way the adverts work on the video-sharing website to be as unobtrusive and undisruptive as possible.
The adverts..
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BBC News
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The popular YouTube video website will soon be available directly through Apple's TV set-top box.
Apple says that starting from mid-June, Apple TV users will be able to automatically stream YouTube content onto their televisions.
At present, Apple T..
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Daily Mail
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In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all - a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-colour video.
Sony Corporation posted video of the new 2.5 inch d..
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Los Angeles Times
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As the 2008 presidential campaign gets rolling, Google Inc. wants to be every candidate's running mate.
That was clear early one morning this month, when about 80 bleary-eyed political and advocacy group consultants crowded into a college lecture hall..
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Los Angeles Times
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Most of the video clips that TV networks are willing to share with YouTube aren't the stuff people want to watch.
CBS news anchor Katie Couric's interviews attracted only a few thousand viewers, and behind-the-scenes vignettes with the cast of NBC's ne..
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BBC News
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The BBC has struck a content deal with YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website, owned by Google.
Three YouTube channels - one for news and two for entertainment - will showcase short clips of BBC content.
The BBC hopes that the deal wi..
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New York Times
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Viacom Inc., engaged in a public battle with top Internet online video service YouTube, said on Tuesday it had agreed to offer its videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype. Hundreds of hours of programming from Viaco..
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BBC News
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Viacom, the parent firm of cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, has told popular video sharing site YouTube to remove 100,000 "unauthorised" clips...
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CNET
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YouTube succeeded where Google Video didn't because users were able to see their videos posted immediately, Google executive Marissa Mayer said at the Web 2.0 Summit here on Thursday...
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PC World
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Google accidentally sent out e-mail containing a mass mailing worm to about 50,000 members of an e-mail discussion list focused on its Google Video Blog, the company said Tuesday...
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MSNBC
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U.S. sales of video game hardware and software were $1.12 billion in May, up 37 percent from a year earlier, with Take-Two Interactive Software's "Grand Theft Audio 4" the best-selling title for the month, market researcher NPD said in a report on Thursda..
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MSNBC
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Organizers of an effort to get UFO reports taken more seriously teased journalists on Friday with glimpses at dark, grainy video showing what appeared to be a face peeping up from a window.
The video was played at a downtown Denver news conference, aft..
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BBC News
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The developer of controversial video game Manhunt 2 has failed in its latest attempt to release the game in the UK.
A high court judge ruled that the Rockstar Games' title must be re-evaluated by an appeals committee.
The violent game was first bann..
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BBC News
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Online video sharing sites are reaping the benefits of the ongoing writers' strike in the US.
According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.
The new..
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MSNBC
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Who says there's nothing new on your TV?
Not video gamers.
As the Hollywood writers strike drags toward 2008, the video game industry is hoping a lack of fresh episodes in prime-time could motivate more people to pick up video game controllers inste..
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MSNBC
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Nintendo's Wii held on to its spot as the No. 1 video game console in the United States in November, selling 981,000 units, industry data showed on Thursday.
It was the Wii's best showing for the console since its November 2006 launch, topping last Dec..
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BusinessWeek
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Ubisoft and other video game outfits are asking the industry leader for help in wooing casual gamers. Nintendo's advice? Keep it simple
In late December last year, two senior executives from video game company Ubisoft made a rare pilgrimage to Kyoto. C..
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BusinessWeek
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As more professionally produced content finds a home online, user-generated video becomes less alluring to viewers—and advertisers
Amateur filmmakers hoping to win fame for amusing moments captured on camcorder ought to stick to TV's long-running Ame..
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