ESPOO, FINLAND - Earlier today Nokia filed suit in a U.S. federal court alleging patent infringement by Apple and iPhone.  The Wall Street Journal reports the matter has to do with wireless standards. Back in 2007 in Espoo, the high tech suburb of Helsinki where Nokia is based, our European correspondent Mika Hentunen interviewed Tim Frain, head of intellectual property at [...]

As an online video news source, msnbc.com has the enormous advantage of the resources of NBC, but opportunities exist for video news producers who focus on a niche areas and use low cost digital news gathering. These are the comments of Charlie Tillinghast, president and publisher of msnbc.com. We spoke on Sixth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, just before we started our [...]

How far has the online video business expanded beyond its entertainment roots? So far that the secretary general of NATO is keeping a video blog to stay connected with member countries... using Kyte as a video platform, the company's chief operating officer Gannon Hall told Beet.TV during a recent interview. In addition to NATO, Kyte has landed a number of new enterprise [...]

Video-on-demand network Music Choice reported that its viewers watch 83% of all ad messages, an incredibly high completion rate suggesting VOD on cable TV could be one of the most powerful ad mediums. In my New Media Minute I analyze the numbers in this week's episode and also considers the success digital and VOD network Exercise TV is having in [...]

Personalized online video news service 1Cast has inked deals with E! and Style to bring their content to its users, marking 1Cast's expansion into the entertainment category. The Kirkland, Washington-based company also has partnered with Web-to-TV service Boxee. 1Cast is a Web and mobile video service that lets users assemble playlists on news topics of interest and then have related videos delivered to their desktop, mobile [...]

I'm very pleased to announce that Beet.TV has a syndication agreement with NBC Local Media to provide our videos to NBCBayArea for its growing technology coverage spearheaded by Owen Thomas, a veteran digital journalist who is the Editorial Director of the Bay Area site. Beginning late last month, Beet.TV videos have been surfacing on NBCBayArea including clips of Carol Bartz, Tim [...]

(Great event today -- you can watch the event on a loop right here.  Daisy's live blogging is below, Andy) We're live now at Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable, live from 30 Rock. Our Twitter hash mark is #livebeets. You can watch the roundtable at LiveStream, on PaidContent, or here by clicking on the extended entry so you can watch and follow [...]

NEW YORK --  Pre-roll ads, especially those for beauty and household products, continue to dominate online video ad inventory in 2009, according to a study from online video ad network YuMe. The Redwood City, Calif firm analyzed the more than 3 billion video ad impressions it served for in-stream video over the first nine months of 2009 and found pre-roll [...]

A Research Triangle, North Carolina company called DigitalSmiths has developed a technology to recognize faces and scenes and convert that information for publishers to index  content. The company is working with several Web publishers including theWB,com, TMZ and others.At the VideoNuze event last week in Manhattan, I caught up with DigitalSmiths CEO Ben WeinbergerAlso last week, the company announced plans to [...]

Last month, the Wall Street Journal launched an initiative around live video programming, with a twice daily, eight-minute show titled The News Hub, originating from the paper's newsroom.  Earlier this week, I visited the Journal's new midtown Manhattan newsroom for a chat with Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor who also hold the title of Executive Editor, Online.While the Journal and [...]

TV Everywhere, the big move by cable operators to put content on the Web for subscribers to watch on PC's and mobile devices, will be beneficial to many industry players, according to Will Richmond, industry consultant and editor of the authoritative site VideoNuze. We caught up with Will on Tuesday night at his industry event called VideoSchmooze at the Hudson Theater [...]

The fast growing business of online video does not revolve exclusively around media companies, but increasingly around companies and organizations who want to publish video for internal and external audiences. Brigthcove CEO and founder Jeremy Allaire says in this extended interview with Venture Beat that more than half of his companies new business is coming from corporate and institutional clients.  This [...]

The Economist, which has been quickly expanding online, is creating original online video with a weekly series entitled "Tea with the Economist." In Washington last week, I spoke with Brendan Greeley, the publication's multimedia editor.  He is based in the Washington bureau, where he supervises the series and other programs. The 10-15 minute videos are conducted by Economist reporters and editors [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- NewTeeVee, the indispensable news source about the online video revolution, will be in full tilt tomorrow, November 12 with NewTeeVee Live. We are delighted to be a media sponsor of the event and will be covering it extensively.  Our crack West Coast producers Daisy Whitney and Jeff Brooks will be on the scene. All the best to Om [...]

The Huffington Post has passed both the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times in monthly unique visitors, according to Web tracking service Compete.com.  The the fast growing HuffPo had 8.4 million uniques in September according to Compete.com.  That's up from 7 million in September.Whether or not Compete.com provides the whole picture of traffic for these properties, the upward trend of [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says that as video on the Web continues to grow, the movie industry needs evolve from a "channels" scenario to a "random access" platform, where films can be universally searched, watched, and paid for. In accomplishing this, producers need to provide much greater metadata around their content.  The [...]

After its first-ever Web series "Crossed Lives" drew more than two million views, Spanish-language network Univision, says it's planning an ambitious slate of ad-supported and original Web shows for the year ahead. In this week's New Media Minute, I report that the network is actively taking pitches from producers right now. The Spanish-language market is one of the few sectors of [...]

Hulu is number two in monthly streams to YouTube, but Yahoo! has some 30 million unique monthly users, more than double the number of Hulu, Nielsen has just reported. While Yahoo! beats Hulu in uniques, Hulu had twice the numbers of streams, some 440 million. Nielsen reports that time spent watching videos has gone up 25 percent in September 2009 [...]

Daisy and I are pleased to announce our next online video roundtable set for Tuesday, October 20th from 3-6 p.m. ET. We have a great line-up of  thought leaders from Adobe, Brightcove, CBS, Digitas, Microsoft, msnbc.com, Ogilvy, Time Inc, Transpera the Time Inc., WPP, the Wall Street Journal, and YuMe.  We will explore a number of topics including the emerging platforms for [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the "//" after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary. Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, was interviewed on stage by New York Times technology reporter Steve Lohr at a technology symposium at the [...]