The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

With Internet bandwidth demand doubling each year, broadcast media, IPTV, and new user-generated YouTube-style video are culprits exacerbating the problem. This is where and their new CodecSys offering can help reduce bandwidth for video applications by 50% or more, including High Definition (HD).

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Where is the value in web media? Some say it is in the cost effectiveness of production. Cameras have become quite cheap. Others say it is in the efficiencies of the distribution of quality media products. After the lively panel entitled “Emerging Sector Spotlight–State of IPTV Technology Development,” panelists ...

Live, from SXSW, Irina Slutsky talks to Patrick Norton, host of IPTV (on DL.TV), about what’s bubbling up right now in the world of online video.

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...

“Content is King and distribution is God,” says Rajesh Sawhney, president of Reliance Entertainment.

The company, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group of companies, has a large and comprehensive plan to expand its footprint in the media and entertainment space in India. Rajesh is focused on building ...

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum in the new, post-YouTube climate. However, the opportunity ...

Blip.TV co-founder Dina Kaplan explains the importance of the vlogging industry in the new media world, where a single vlogger in the middle of Minnesota is as important as a studio in Hollywood used to be. Now, she tells PodTech’s John Furrier, the Internet is a powerful tool of ...

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services.

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This entertaining and informative series of podcasts, brought to you by MetaSwitch, brings together industry analysts, technology experts, and service providers to discuss how carriers are transforming their networks and their businesses to benefit from the opportunities offered by multi-service, packet based technologies. Topics covered include IMS, softswitching, VoIP, triple-play ...