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BlackBerry is a brand of wireless handheld devices and services developed by Research In Motion (RIM). The first BlackBerry device, an email pager, was released in 1999; the 100 millionth BlackBerry smartphone was shipped in June quarter of 2010 and the 200 millionth smartphone was shipped in September quarter of 2012.
Most BlackBerry devices are smartphones and are primarily known for their ability to send and receive push email and instant messages while maintaining a high level of se...

Will Blackberry’s PlayBook Tablet Be What Video Fans Wanted The iPad To Be?

Last January, shortly after Apple announced the iPad, I wrote an editorial about the device and its appeal—or lack thereof—to video creators and marketers.  As you might guess, I wasn't enthusiastic about it (though everyone always seems to forget that my thoughts were specifically geared ...

Howcast Knows How To Build A Next-Generation Media Company

Learning how to do things can be challenging and complicated, but with the rise of online and mobile video, it's become easier to learn by watching instructional video content. The old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words," holds true for videos, which can ...

10 Things To Consider When Choosing An Ecommerce Product Video Solution

So, you're thinking about adding product videos to your ecommerce site. Once you've made your decision you'll quickly realize there are a fair deal of things you need to consider in terms of the implementation of your video solution. In order to help you figure ...

Google Buys Episodic - You Down With O.V.P.? Yeah You Know Me!

It was big news yesterday for Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Co-founder of Episodic, with the announcement that his company has been acquired by Google. Following a day of April Fool's Day jokes, that included Brightcove had acquired Ooyala – this deal is no joke, and was actually ...

A Baker's Dozen List of "HTML5" Video Encoding Tools

These aren't really HTML5 video encoders but they do support the two currently competing encoding/compression formats - H.264 MP4 and Ogg Theora. With that in mind it means you could use them to encode your video to formats that work with the HTML 5 video ...

Brightcove Experiences Mobile Video With Flash Player 10.1

Brightcove recently announced that they will support the upcoming release of Adobe's Flash Player 10.1. Brightcove's new optimized mobile version of the company's cloud-based online video platform, dubbed the "Mobile Experience," will utilize Adobe's Flash 10.1 player to reproduce the Brightcove player experience on smartphones.

Google and Apple Battle for The Handset Win - Let The SmartPhone Wars Begin!

Google's Android cell phones are quickly closing the gap on Apple's iPhone, according to new research from eMarketer. In the fourth quarter, the proportion of potential smartphone buyers who said they were going to purchase an Android jumped from 6% to 21%, surpassing blackberry for the ...

Web Video Hosting Is A Maturing Market - Episodic Interview

At Streaming Media West 2009, I spoke with Noam Lovinsky, CEO and Founder of Episodic, which recently launched as an online video platform in a crowded market for both live and on-demand content. The San Francisco, California-based company has been around for two years but has kept ...

Media Myth Busters: Urban Legends of User Experience

Prabakar Sundarrajan, CTO and co-founder of Ankeena Networks talks about the online video delivery experience, myths, and expectations. The new media user experience, specifically video, leaves a lot to be desired.  With the huge growth of online media, end-users are able to view their media ...

Interest In Mobile Video Content Has Increased 55% Over 2007

IBM's second global online survey of consumer digital media and entertainment habits revealed that consumers are adopting digital content services -- such as social networking and videos -- on mobile phones and personal computers at an accelerated pace, and it is impacting traditional consumption habits. ...

Next2Friends Launches The World's First Live Mobile Video Broadcasting for BlackBerry Devices (PRWeb)

Next2Friends™ free 'Live' application gives anyone the ability to broadcast video from anywhere and everywhere. Continue Reading From Source

Google Adwords Video Ads - Screenshots

Screen captures of Google's new video ads can now be seen as the product is live in the Google Search Results. Google Video Ads for Adwords was announced back in February but according to seoroundtable, they appear to have really gone live. Searches that triggered ...

Mobile Video Search Application - JuiceCaster

JuiceCaster the social networking platform has launched a Mobile Video Search application that is free and allows users to watch videos on a mobile phone. This can be done by texing a search keyword term to 84462. The search tool then send the links for ...

Video Search for Your BlackBerry Mobile Phone

vTap has just updated the blackberry community on the status of vTap, the video search and video player for mobile devices. Daren Gill, the VP of Vtap, announced that Vtap is now optimized for BlackBerry OS 4.3. This includes support for streaming video and will ...