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Nielsen and Digimarc have unveiled a new service designed to let media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user-generated content sites monitor and manage the distribution of media content. The Nielsen Digital Media Manager will use digital watermarking and fingerprinting to provid...

Eight contenders for the Republican presidential nomination will be debating each other Wednesday night, courtesy of YouTube and CNN. To be sure, the debate itself will be quite telling, with some pundits already laying odds that front-runner Rudy Giuliani may be dislodged from his perch by the even...

MySpacers who want a little more drama in their lives will be able to get their fill from a new Web series launched on MySpace TV Monday. Sponsored by Ford Motor, "Roommates," an original scripted series, will roll out over the next nine weeks with daily weekday updates on the world's most popular s...

Armchair tourists traveling the globe via Google Earth can now watch YouTube videos related to each destination they visit, Google announced Thursday. A new YouTube layer in Google Earth's Featured Content folder allows users to zoom in on any location and view YouTube videos related to that place.

BitTorrent, the company whose Internet file-sharing technology is perhaps best known for the illegal trafficking of copyrighted content, has launched a new service designed to let media companies use its technology to blast out faster streams of online content over their legitimate channels. The ser...

The stakes are rising in the race to develop multimedia search engines capable of searching, indexing and cataloging the growing amount of music, images and video available on the Web. The challenges are substantially more involved and complicated than traditional text searching. A lack of resources...

Adobe on Thursday offered a sneak preview of its upcoming Flash Media Server 3, which will be released in the first quarter of next year. The new release will offer nearly double the performance of its predecessor, Adobe said, as it combines traditional streaming media capabilities with a flexible e...

Fears that traffic demands on the Internet are outstripping the Net's capacity to handle them may be premature, though continuous Net growth will necessitate new networking techniques and technologies in the future. According TeleGeography Research, the research division of PriMetrica, average world...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has recast Grouper, a video-sharing Web site it acquired last year for $65 million, to attract a more professional caliber of contributed content. The strategy is to differentiate Grouper, which has now been renamed "Crackle," from the more amateur video-sharing sites suc...

YouTube may be the dominant player in the video-sharing arena today, but MySpace is stepping up its own bid to compete in that realm as it relaunches and renames the video portion of its social networking site. MySpaceTV, as the company renamed it Thursday, is available to all Internet users, whethe...

YouTube is adding a local twist to its popular video-sharing site with new versions tailored specifically to the local culture in nine countries, the company announced Tuesday. Users in Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom can now enjoy fully trans...

YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to reports. In tests with Time Warner and the Walt Disney Co., the video-sharing site will assess software developed by engineers at its parent co...

Executives of Web 2.0 companies and some members of Congress are pressing for a reversal of the Pentagon's decision to block access to several popular Web sites on military networks. The decision, abruptly made this week, cuts off troops' access to such sites as YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, IFilm, St...

When Microsoft rolled out its Silverlight application platform this week, it threw down the proverbial gauntlet, so to speak, at longtime rival Adobe, whose Flash product has thus far been the dominant interactive content creation tool on the market. The availability of Silverlight will undoubtedly ...

The so-called "New Web" has been hailed as a great place for sharing and interacting, but data released Tuesday by Internet traffic researchers suggests most cybersurfers are watchers, not uploaders. In a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, Hitwise analyst Bill Tancer noted ...

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