Archive for the 'Videos' Category


Orb Live Brings Streaming Online TV To Mobile Devices

Orb Live is a service which lets users to sync streaming on mobile devices from the home PC or Mac. Orb Live is available for iOS (Android coming soon) for $9.99, and has no additional subscription fees. The app lets you watch much more content from services such as Hulu, ABC, CBS, FOX and ESPN, [...]

YouTube Unveils New Design Cosmic Panda

YouTube has just unveiled its new design that makes it look more like a catch-up TV service. It is called Project Panda and it looks pretty swish. The new design makes major changes to the way playlists are used, moving them sometimes from a sidebar to a scrolling horizontal thumbnail bar just below the video [...]

YouTube Video Views Hit 3 Billion Daily

With their sixth birthday approaching, Youtube have announced the latest viewing figures, which are pretty mind bogglingly huge. The top video destination in the world says that worldwide video views have grown 50% in just the last year, hitting a massive 3 billion views every day. They also revealed that uploading of video has increased [...]

Tesco Buys Chunk Of Blinkbox And Enters The Online TV Market

Move over Wal-Mart, the UK’s biggest foodchain, Tesco is moving into the online TV arena. Their home entertainment sector has acquired a majority stake in the Blinkbox VOD service that the company says will help position them for “the next stage in the internet-driven revolution in home entertainment”. Blinkbox streams video to over 2 million [...]

Google Video Hosting Comes To An End

It is the end of a video hosting era. If you have any videos stored at Google’s “Google Video” service, then maybe you should head over there and grab them. Google have decided to inform via email to users that it is closing down the video hosting service. Most users probably realise by now as Google has stopped taking video uploads for 2 [...]

Blinkx Shows Streaming Ambition And Buys Burst Media

Blinkx the video search engine has aquired internet advertising network Burst Media which will allow it to better monetize it’s inventory. The deal which cost Blinkx around $30 million in cash and stock will help target niche markets against personalized ads. Blinkx who are one of the top video destinations claim to have 35 million [...]