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Online video viewing stats triple in UK

News UK traffic to online video Web sites has roughly tripled in the last year, according to the Internet monitor Hitwise. In a blog posting this week, the organisation revealed that UK visits to the top 25 online video sites had increased by 178 per...

Tags: rate, youtube, traffic, category

28 March 2008, 9:04

News.blog: YouTube, Viacom to mask user info

News YouTube user viewing histories," Google said in a statement. The move comes after a federal court earlier this month ordered Google's YouTube to hand over usernames, IP addresses and viewing histories to Viacom, parent company of Comedy Central and...

Tags: privacy, records, viewing, youtube

15 July 2008, 9:50

Ofcom reviews Web broadcasting

News With digital switchover rapidly approaching, and traditional terrestrial channels facing declining viewing figures, Ofcom will explore whether the PSB remit could be met through the Internet.Ofcom said in a statement: "The distinctions between...

Tags: services, viewing, service, television

13 September 2007, 10:33

News.blog: Yahoo Live tries livestreaming

News One of the really cool features of Yahoo Live is its multi-camera viewing panel. Yahoo-sized capacity into a new product, don't pretend that it's ready for a public viewing. Last night, Yahoo dropped a new service on the world: the livestreaming...

Tags: chat, yahoo, google, channels

8 February 2008, 9:12

UK users spend 50 days a year online

News There is no sign of the Internet disrupting total TV viewing levels. This is essentially flat year-on-year so there is no sign of the Internet disrupting total TV viewing levels," she said. Broadband users in the UK are going online for the...

9 August 2006, 10:58

News.blog: NBC tests video on Hulu

News One thing is for sure: watching full-length episodes of Heroes and King of the Hill at Hulu is far superior viewing experience than watching grainy, five-minute clips at YouTube or other video-sharing sites.

Tags: youtube, viewing, clips, watching

30 October 2007, 9:20

Photos: Apple fans dream up next iPod

News Incorporating a touchscreen into the iPod would allow the screen to take over most, if not all, of the iPod's body, allowing for a much larger viewing area. The problem with using a touchscreen, of course, is that users would inevitably end up...

12 September 2006, 11:45

Microsoft joins BT-Virgin mobile TV team

News Microsoft has been working for months with BT and Virgin Wireless to provide necessary software for packaging and viewing the TV content shown on mobile phones. But most experts agree that current 3G technology won't be sufficient to handle large...

14 February 2006, 9:56

IE 7 launch has only minor issues

News DWF viewer is an Autodesk tool for viewing and printing 2D and 3D designs in the Autodesk Design Web Format. As a result, some people who install IE 7 get an error when viewing the IE 7 start page after firing up the browser for the first time.

20 October 2006, 10:30

Site of the living dead -- cult films hit Web

News Once in a while somebody would have a viewing in some old cinema, or they'd get on the TV in the middle of the night. Anyone can upload films to the site; both posting and viewing is free. Dr. Jekyll, Bruce Lee and the hunchback of Notre Dame's are...

9 March 2006, 9:19

PC World stocking Atom mini laptop

News Fennell said netbooks -- a term initially promoted by Intel to identify low-cost, low-performance, ultraportable laptops, and epitomised by the Asus Eee -- are "far more convenient than laptops] when on the move and provide a full range of viewing...

Tags: intel, windows xp, laptops, viewing

8 July 2008, 9:50

BT and Virgin to offer UK's first mobile TV service

News According to BT, Movio's users spent an average of 60 minutes per week viewing television over their mobiles and 95 minutes listening to the digital radio. While more details on the service are expected to be announced in February at the mobile...

13 January 2006, 11:08

Will 'the beat go on' with new iPods?

News Now, Apple followers expect the company to make more radical changes that most likely involve improving the viewing experience on an iPod and introducing that capability to the iPod nano. The most persistent rumours over the past couple of months...

Tags: apple, mac os, executive, capacity

31 August 2007, 10:36

Photos: LG.Philips' tiny LCD tech

News The IPS display has a 170-degree viewing angle, which is very wide -- almost like watching an LCD TV, said Hyuk Park, of LG.Philips LCD. According to Park, most older LCD screens on mobile phones have 35-degree viewing angles, which doesn't allow...

6 October 2006, 11:00

Scanning the mobile TV landscape

News Cingular MobiTV subscribers pay $10 a month to get unlimited viewing of 25 channels but must also sign up for a data package whose options range from 1MB of data usage for $4.99 per month to a $19.99 package for unlimited data usage.

30 January 2006, 10:42