Microsoft, Cisco face off over office VOIP communications

Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. agree that work communications – whether it’s email, messaging or phone calls – will eventually come together and be delivered over Web networks. The debate begins when the two deep-pocketed technology leaders – Microsoft in software and Cisco in networking equipment – argue over whose products will [...]

Microsoft trademarks logo for on-demand IPTV service

Microsoft has filed for a trademark for software that will enable consumers to watch television and movies on-demand. The trademark itself is for a logo, described as “arrowheads diverging from disc.” That’s the boring part of the trademark, though. The goods and services described along with the trademark are what raises some eyebrows, as Microsoft hopes [...]

Joost signs Creative Artists to scout out programs

STANFORD, California (Reuters) – Joost, the Internet television service backed by global media players, said on Tuesday talent scouts Creative Artists Agency (CAA) will help it lure big-name Hollywood programming to its service.

Joost, which was founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, who also started Web telephone calling company Skype, already has signed up name-brand programming [...]

NBC coming to Joost

Today Joost added a lot of new content to is growing database (5781 programs up till now). Part of this new content was “CNBC – The Business of Innovation“. Since CNBC is the specialist sibling financial network of NBC is appears that a deal between Joost and NBC must have been concluded.

This is no [...]

Fujitsu’s H.264 chip encodes/decodes in Full 1080i

Fujitsu just announced a world’s first H.264 chip capable of encoding/decoding 1920 x 1080 (60i/50i) video in real time. The chip features 256MB of onboard FCRAM and ultra low 750mW power draw when encoding video. That means lickity quick, MPEG-2 quality processing with only a third, or half the required storage. The ¥30,000 ($247) MB86H51 [...]

Vecosys Rumour: Google to buy Feedburner

Source: http://www.vecosys.com/

Vecosys has just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying Feedburner in order to get into the rapidly evolving RSS Ad market. The delay in announcing the deal, I am told is solely due to the delay in closing out the DoubleClick deal.

If true this deal makes a lot of sense [...]

Mashable.com: Joost’s Deal Plans Hidden in PDF Presentation

Source: http://mashable.com/

PDFs can be tricky sometimes: a source of hidden data that you might not have intended to release. A source pointed out to us today that this year’s hottest startup – Joost – may have accidentally leaked 3 months’ worth of deal plans through hidden data in a PDF.

The presentation, entitled “Joost-network.pdf” can be found [...]

Joost video quality is disapointing

Tonight I was looking back at where Stage6 was at and noticed a video on the front page that happened to be also on Joost. I thought… let see how Stage6 video quality compare with Joost. After all, Joost is priding itself in providing very good video quality.

So I downloaded two Stage6 video and [...]

Steeve Bass now in the race for 10,000 Joost invites

Yesterday GigaOM and NewTeeVee announced that they had 20,000 Joost invitations to give away.

Today, Steve Bass is delighted to have been able to finagle a limited number of invitations to try out Joost, the entertainment destination that combines the best of TV with the best of the Internet.

Follow this link to get your Joost invite from [...]

Engadget responsible for temporary $4 billion Apple Market Cap loss

At 11:49 AM EST Engadget posted saying that the iPhone and Leopard operating system launches would be seriously delayed. They based the story on an internal Apple email that was forwarded to them. Here is a copy of the original post:

This one doesn’t bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority [...]