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02:42 PM Saturday, September 13, 2008
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While all the bloggers crowded in the main auditorium to cover the TC50 stars, I cruised the DemoPit, chatting with VC and entrepreneurs and the DemoPit exhibitors . It was like sneaking backstage at a rock concert: great rumor mill and lots of “wanna-be’s”
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11:32 AM Thursday, August 14, 2008
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A little known company, Wavexpress, a provider of broadband media technology and services , is powering the NBC coverage of the Olympics through Microsoft’s MediaCenter for Vista. This free service, called NBC Olympics-on-the-go” enables viewers to watch
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05:02 PM Friday, June 13, 2008
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Transpera, a startup based in San Francisco, has developed technology that virtually turns Internet sites into mobile video channels. Riding current wave of “mobile content monetization”, it provides a mobile content and distribution network that links
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11:52 AM Thursday, June 12, 2008
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Any star would love to debut in Vegas—that’s what is happening to Microsoft’s newest interactive table, Surface. Six of these Surface tables are now installed at the iBar ultra-lounge located at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It enables
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10:58 AM Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Vollee’s service basically streams 3D console gaming experience to 3G phones. It enables any virtual world game and multiplayer game to be accessible from a cell phone with amazing graphics quality. I saw a demo of a shooting game set in a 3D virtual
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12:52 AM Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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The San-Francisco-based startup brings an interesting twist to the ad-supported gaming experience on cell phones: not only do gamers get to play the 850 game titles that are in Greystripe’s library for free, but they are not distracted by ads as they
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04:18 PM Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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FoneStarz, based in the UK, has developed a pubishing platform that enables them to deliver video content to 2,300 types of cell phones - an amazing number giving the variety of phone screen sizes and content formats. Their business is to aggregates,
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11:31 AM Sunday, May 18, 2008
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Accuscore, a startup based in Los Angeles, is a sports’ fan dream. It’s like an “Accuweather” for those who love to bet on upcoming games (any sport: football, basketball, Hockey, baseball etc). Accuscore’s system enables them to simulate future sporting
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06:17 PM Saturday, May 17, 2008
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Formerly known as PodShow, the company has recently re-branded its short-form video programming site with a new name, Mevio http://www.mevio.com./ As part of that re-branding , the company also launched a new site and “vertical entertainment networks”
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08:59 PM Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Online Video advertising remains an untapped revenue frontier – which Kiptronic is targeting. While some startups (like ScanScout) provide contextual video advertising for streaming content , Kiptronic’s focus is on downloadable media such as video and
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11:10 AM Thursday, March 06, 2008
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I was reminded of Queen’s song “I want it all--and I want it now” when I read a new survey about what TV viewers want to see--and what they’re willing to pay for. Findings released yesterday by Entertainment Media Research's 2008 Digital Entertainment
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04:04 PM Monday, February 25, 2008
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It was a surprise to me—but apparently, the podcast audience in the US is not only rising, its’ exploding… A recent study by eMarketer shows that it was 18.5 million in 2007 and projects that it will rise to 65 million in 2012! Aiming to surf that
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01:18 PM Thursday, February 21, 2008
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I first blogged about Jacked last year http://microsoftstartupzone.com/blogs/anne-marie_roussel/archive/2007/06/07/ool-cool-video-startup-jacked.aspx . The company was in beta — It was testing its concept of “second-screen” viewing with some sports TV
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01:02 PM Tuesday, February 19, 2008
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Since I blogged about Emotiv Systems last week, the company’s unique “brain-reading” headset – which enables gamers to control actions in games (like lifting and rotating objects, moving avatars left/right/forward/back etc) through the power of their
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11:07 AM Monday, February 18, 2008
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I first blogged about Veveo last Summer, because I found the company’s technology to search video content from “input-constrained” devices (ie, devices with small keyboards such as cell phones, MP3s etc) very cool. Their interface enables consumers to
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