STARTUP TO WATCHVeodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video
- April
- 25
What It Does
Veodia, incorporated in January 2006, started with funds from angel investors and only recently had its first round of venture financing. Its service lets organizations broadcast and manage live, on-demand, TV-quality videos using the MPEG-4/H.264 standard, and they can do this without investing heavily in personnel and infrastructure.
Take customer MIT Technology Review, for [...]
Avaya’s Jim Smith on the Advantages of SIP in the Call Center
- April
- 25
Question: You’ve positioned the announcement as allowing companies to offer “faster service with a personal touch.” Can you explain what you mean by “personal touch”?
Jim Smith: Customers interact with businesses for a variety of reasons. They could be seeking information, shopping for a new service, trying to solve a problem, seeking an update, exploring additional [...]
Texas judge holding custody hearing for polygamists kids
- April
- 21
Authorities raided the Eldorado ranch and spent a week collecting documents and disk drives that might provide evidence of underage girls being given to adult men in marriages by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which owns the ranch.The children, first taken to shelters in Eldorado, were later moved to a [...]
Funerals go online for distant mourners
- April
- 6
Association president Neil Little said technology had changed the format of services and more funeral directors were changing with the tide.
Where once people would play a song during reflection time, the song is now accompanied by a DVD slideshow of images.
Directors were asked weekly to arrange funerals that involved friends and relatives overseas, he said. [...]
YouTube Live Video Coming This Year
- March
- 21
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In a brief interview videotaped at a New York party thrown by YouTube, Chen told Sarah Meyers of Pop17.com that YouTube had always wanted to offer live video but lacked the resources. That, however, has changed, since Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006.
The video and transcript of the interview were posted by TechCrunch. In the [...]
Antiterrorist Candid Camera Network Raises Privacy Concerns
- March
- 18
Department officials call the security surveillance system “RealEyes” because it instantly broadcasts images to anyone connected to the system. It can stream the video across the country to computers and give the law enforcement agencies a front-row view of what’s going on in real time.
Terrorists, Disaster Victims, Lost Kids
If it passes a privacy test, [...]
Antiterrorist Candid Camera Network Raises Privacy Concerns
- February
- 29
Department officials call the security surveillance system “RealEyes” because it instantly broadcasts images to anyone connected to the system. It can stream the video across the country to computers and give the law enforcement agencies a front-row view of what’s going on in real time.
Terrorists, Disaster Victims, Lost Kids
If it passes a privacy test, [...]
Antiterrorist Candid Camera Network Raises Privacy Concerns
- February
- 29
Department officials call the security surveillance system “RealEyes” because it instantly broadcasts images to anyone connected to the system. It can stream the video across the country to computers and give the law enforcement agencies a front-row view of what’s going on in real time.
Terrorists, Disaster Victims, Lost Kids
If it passes a privacy test, [...]
Live From Macworld: What You Might Have Missed If You’d Been Here
- January
- 17
What Happened to A and B?
The first sign of trouble appeared weeks ago when I received my verification for a press pass.
Yes on the press pass, said IDG World Expo, the show’s organizers — but no on the keynote.
It’s all because there’s no CES overlap, IDG told me. All the tech journalists on Earth are [...]
NCR, Experticity Unveil Live Video Customer Support Kiosks
- January
- 11
In a nutshell, NCR said, the product uses NCR’s EasyPoint self-service kiosks to provide staff and consumers live video customer support in their preferred language and skill level from service agents at remote locations.
Retailers find the product especially useful for those occasions when there is a lack of retail staff, or if product information [...]
