online video

Vowing to "forever change the Internet," Cisco today announced a new ultra-heavy-duty router that offers network speeds 12 times faster than its nearest competitor. CEO John Chambers says it's aimed at the exploding market for online video.

Later this spring, the paper will launch a daily webcast, say sources familiar with the planning. The show will be produced in the Times's offices and air around lunchtime EST, when consumption of online video peaks. Networks, watch your backs?

Retail giant Wal-Mart is wading into the digital content melee by snapping up web-video startup Vudu for a reported $100 million or more. It's the latest evidence that the still-nascent market for on-demand video is starting to heat up.

There is a lot of buzz these days over a new product called Google (GOOG) Wave. Some are under the false impression that it's the next Twitter, but this new tool from Google is very different. Think of it as a real-time collaboration tool that includes, among its many features, email on...

I will say this about the recession: At least it has a sense of humor. As I mentioned last week, I've taken on some freelance writing assignments to help pay the bills while I continue to try to excavate a second career from beneath the pile-up of 6.5 percent of people over the age of 45 who've...

Who can forget Chocolate Rain, the insanely weird, catchy song by Tay Zonday, that made him a web sensation? Even pop star Lily Allen was a fan and had him on her show, Lily Allen and Friends, in London. But when Zonday scored a deal with Dr. Pepper, starring in an overly-produced online...

Yahoo! (YHOO) may be looking with envy at the success of YouTube and Hulu, the two large video sites. It's not clear that either makes money, which may make them bad businesses for Yahoo! to emulate, but the portal wants to push up its video content anyway. According to The New York Times, "Yahoo's...

With all the gloom in the global economy, I got to wondering whether there is anything else going on in the world of business. I'm looking for growth because I think that's what will ultimately bring the economy out of the doldrums. Not surprisingly, that growth is coming from technology companies....

Call me traditional, but I like flipping through pages to get to the climax of my novels. I enjoy reading the newspaper in the morning while sipping on tea and eating Belgian waffles. And I definitely cannot get enough of watching movies on my 42-inch-screen television, curled under a blanket with...

If you take a look at financial history, you will notice that stock scams have always been around. What's more, scammers have demonstrated an innate ability to adapt to new mediums, such as mail, phones and the Internet. Now, scammers are moving into new terrain: online video. Internet security...