NBC and News Corp form Alliance to Challenge YouTube
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| Each distribution partner will feature the site's content in an
| embedded player customized with a look and feel consistent with
| each site, making the offering organic to each destination. The
| new company will offer innovative advertising sales propositions
| by being able to sell cross-platform -- on-air and on-line.
| Post-launch, sites affiliated with founding companies,
| including iVillage and IGN, will also have the opportunity
| to become distribution partners.
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http://www.bootdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=359&Itemid=59
I had to check this in many sites. Despite the distribution deal with
Microsoft, there's apparently no platform discrimination. Apparently.
Related:
AT&T IPTV now coming to your PC
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| AT&T announced Thursday that its U-verse Internet Protocol television
| service will now allow subscribers to watch live programming on their PCs.
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| [...]
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| Access to the new OnTheGo service is limited to computers running the
| Windows XP operating system with Microsoft's Internet Explorer or
| Mozilla's Firefox browser.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6169627.html
Wal-Mart to launch video downloads
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| They won't work with Macintosh or Linux-based computers or with iPods.
| The downloads can be backed up as many as three times, including to a
| DVD, but the backup DVD won't play in a conventional DVD player.
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http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=70062
BBC plans to lock viewers into Microsoft monopoly says Open Source Consortium
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| The Open Source Consortium (OSC) believes the plans are anti-competitive
| and will use public money to lock viewers into the technologies of
| a repeatedly convicted monopolist.
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http://www.publictechnology.net/article_avantgo.php?sid=7655
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