“Alphabird announced that it has agreed to acquire Castfire ( www.castfire.com ), a leading content management and publishing platform. Castfire’s team will be joining Alphabird, delivering audio and video content solutions that provide best of breed uptime and support to its roster of customers that includes Fortune 500 publishers, international brands, and niche content creators.”
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“We recently announced initial support for Chrome in Windows 8 Metro mode. One thing that early testers may have noticed is that some existing plug-ins don’t work. These plug-ins are built using a technology called NPAPI, which, like ActiveX, is not compatible with Windows 8 Metro mode.
Note that because Adobe Flash Player and Chrome’s PDF viewer have both been bundled as Pepper plug-ins running in a sandboxed environment in Chrome, these two widely-used plug-ins will continue to work in Windows 8 Metro mode on all websites.”
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“TV Everywhere should be old hat by now, but it’s still a new concept for most cable subscribers. So here’s an explainer. Spoiler: Not all that funny.”
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“The penetration rate for connected TVs from Samsung (OTC: SSNLF), Panasonic (NYSE: PC), Sony (NYSE: SNE) and other consumer electronics manufacturers will reach 50 percent in North America and Western Europe by 2017…”
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“VidCaster was founded in 2010 to make creating video sites easier than ever, and has signed up a number of customers who use it to deliver free, or ad-supported videos online. Now it’s adding the ability for its clients to charge for access to their library of content, with the launch of VidCaster Paywall.”
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“Is it hot in here or is it just our new look?
Summer’s not quite over yet, but we just couldn’t wait until the fall TV premieres to share our brand new video player.
The new player is now a sleeker, chromeless and friendlier interface—and it puts the shows you love at center stage. We’ve been sweating the details so that you can enjoy this summer relaxing with your favorite show as you fire up that grill in the backyard.”
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