Andy Plesser

LAS VEGAS–HP, the world biggest computer maker is making its HP SkyRoom video conferencing software and service available for free on its new line of business notebooks and workstations.  The announcement was made at CES.

Later today at CES, Cisco is expected to announce a sophisticated consumer teleconferencing product, a slimmer extension of the very pricey TelePresence system for big businesses and governments, according to a report by Maggie Reardon of CNET News.com.

LAS VEGAS–At CES, HP announced a new line of PC's and netbooks, their inexpensive and powerful mini PC's that come with storage drive mapped to an external "cloud." 

At CES this week, Intel will unveil the new integrated GPU called Intel HD Graphics.  

Twitter has become a useful reporting tool as well as a big driver of traffic to paidContent, the influential digital media blog.

For several years, digital executives in Hollywood have been developing a format to allow consumers to purchase digital files of films and watch them on various devices.

KickApps, social media platform provider, has begun to offer publishers a premium services tool for video publishing. The New York-based company is among the first companies to use Adobe's new open source media framework.

With a rich trove of demographic data and e-mail addresses, the Obama campaign leveraged the power of video by producing and distributing content to its targeted constituents. 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Google recently introduced real-time search functionality to Google searches on PC's, the iPhone, and Android devices.  

In 2010, online advertising will modestly recover, content "farms" will grow,  the IPO pipeline will open a crack and media M&A will increase as media companies look to buy and targets have "rational" valuations, says Rafat Ali, Editor & Publisher of paidContent.

Our very own Daisy Whitney will be covering the NATPE annual B2B video platform event in Las Vegas from January 25-27, 2010. 

Getting site visitors to click on videos is a challenge for publishers.  Many, including the Atlantic Monthly, are finding better success when videos are embedded in stories, rather than in separate video sections.

Just as Google Maps allows users to put images onto their sites, there will be an open API for Google's "Fast Flip," Google's Josh Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview.

The fast-changing media landscape, topics spanning the emerging "content farms," payment schemes for online video, micro-payments for news content, and the impact of mobile and e-books, will be addressed at the paidContent media summit in New York on February 19.

Earlier this year, Justin.tv, the San Francisco-based live video site, dialed back its relationship with Akamai to serve its enormous live video traffic in-house, Evan Solomon tells Beet.TV in this interview. 

The NFL is finding growing viewership to its cable network and online site.  Saturday night's New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys had 10.1 million views on television and over 1 million streams of the game online, both records, the NFL announced tonight.

Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2.

Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot.

Authors and publishers have been using online video to build engagement with readers and to find new ones.   With traditional book publicity opportunities and store signings on the wane, having an online strategy is a necessity.

Video teleconferencing, long an expensive technology, hidden inside the enterprise firewall, is becoming a pervasive social media platform.