Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Top News

Hollywood hits the stop button on high-profile Web video efforts

Jun. 15, 2009
Internet video businesses launched by such firms as Disney, HBO, NBC and AOL have failed. Part of the problem is that YouTube is a juggernaut. In 2006, Shane Felux was on a makeshift set near his home in northern Virginia producing a Web video when he received an out-of-the-blue phone call from...
Related Stories from UPI.com
U.S. TV, Web and mobile viewing increasing

U.S. TV, Web and mobile viewing increasing

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The Nielsen Co. says viewing of video on television, Internet and mobile devices continues to increase in the United States.

Obama, Clinton animated in MySpace video

LOS ANGELES, June 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., have gone animated in a new video clip posted on the Web site MySpace, a news release says.
Hackers target Scientology

Hackers target Scientology

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Computer hackers reportedly unleashed a cyberattack against the Church of Scientology for trying to remove a video of U.S. star Tom Cruise from the Internet.

Google offers YouTube video in searches

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Searches for research papers or personal curiosity on Google now will return videos from the California-based Internet search giant's YouTube unit. Google, which acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, says the change is part of its effort to differen

Brightcove chosen for SONY BMG player

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 19 (UPI) -- Internet TV service company Brightcove was chosen by SONY BMG ENTERTAINMENT to provide broadband video capabilities in SONY BMG's new video players.

Danes hike Internet speed by 1,000 times

LUNDTOFTE, Denmark, May 11 (UPI) -- Danish scientists say they have found a way to dramatically increase the speed of sending and receiving Internet files.

Internet video seen making $1.7B by 2010

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., April 5 (UPI) -- The Internet video business will generate more than $1.7 billion in revenues by 2010, up $1.5 billion from 2005, according to research group IDC.

AT&T, BellSouth seek faster Internet run

NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- AT&T and BellSouth are lobbying Congress for the right to create a faster, two-tiered Internet service.

CSL, Nokia offer video-sharing service

HONG KONG, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Nokia and Hong Kong's CSL launched Monday Asia's first video-sharing service.

AOL debuts new video search service

DULLES, Va., July 5 (UPI) -- America Online announced Tuesday the debut of an enhanced video search service.
1 of 25
President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
View Caption
President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch