The founder of Veoh, Dmitry Shapiro, has announced that the video sharing site will file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and liquidate. Ongoing lawsuits over copyright infringement from video uploads and the bad economy were given as the main reasons. Or as Shapiro said on his web site, “The distraction of the legal battles, and the Full Article…
Google Wants To Build a 1Gbps Fiber Network To Your Home
Google announced plans this week to start building their own high-speed, 1 gig fiber network for Internet access…a network that’s about 20 times faster than the fastest Internet connections currently available to U.S. consumers…and about 100 times faster than the average U.S. Internet connection. They are not doing it because they want to become the Full Article…
Canon Set To Release New Rebel T2i
It seems this is the week/month/quarter for news about new Canon cameras. Fresh off the heals of announcing a slew of new consumer video cameras and a new pro-level camera, Canon has also announced a new DSLR camera will be available by the end of March 2010…the Canon Rebel T2i. For video enthusiasts, there are Full Article…
Canon To Introduce New HD Video Format…And Camera
For the past few years, Canon has delivered many innovations in both the consumer video market and DSLR video market. But their professional video cameras have pretty much been left untouched. That’s about to change. They are currently developing a new, professional HD video camera. It will be file based (meaning no tapes). And the Full Article…
New Study Says 25% of Viewers Bolt When Seeing Video Ads
A new study by video analytics firm TubeMogul reports that 1 out of every 6 viewers won’t even bother to watch a video if it’s preceded by a video ad. The numbers get even worse for newspaper and magazine web sites, where 1 in every 4 viewers will click away from a video, if a Full Article…