Daily Archives: July 5, 2012

Paramount Movies Ultraviolet app released for Xbox 360 | www.engadget.com

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“It appears that Microsoft is picking up the pace on the addition of video streaming apps for the Xbox 360. After it took months for many of the more anticipated apps from the first wave like HBO Go, Verizon and Comcast to arrive, a new app from Paramount has been released just days after it was part of the next wave announced at E3. The Paramount Movies app is a console based version of its Ultraviolet service already unleashed on the PC and iOS, letting users stream digital copies from their cloud libraries.”

 

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Samsung Takes Smart TVs Into Microsoft’s Cloud | www.multichannel.com

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“Samsung Electronics will use Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud-based service infrastructure to manage the delivery of apps and software to its Smart TVs worldwide, the companies announced Monday.

 

The CE maker sells Smart TVs and provides Internet-connected services in 120 countries — and plans to expand even further. Compared with the cost of expanding its in-house IT services, Samsung achieved a tenfold cost reduction by choosing to run that infrastructure in Microsoft’s cloud, according to the companies. Samsung also “observed greater speed of service in Asia, where it sees most of its Smart TV traffic,” they claimed.

 

In this context, you’re looking at a classic build-versus-buy scenario. According to Microsoft, other companies using Windows Azure include General Mills, LexisNexis, NASA and Television Broadcasts Ltd. (TVB), a Hong Kong-based TV broadcaster.”

 

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Netflix streams record 1 billion hours of video in June – FierceOnlineVideo

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“Netflix Inc., the world’s largest online-video subscription service, today released its record-breaking June monthly subscriber viewing total.

 

The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company’s stock rallied on news that Netflix’s 23 million streaming-service customers, in June, watched more than 1 billion hours of movies and television shows on the Internet”

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