Tag: streaming

  • Amazon Buys MGM Studios

    Apple will regret they didn’t snap up MGM. Today Amazon buys MGM Studios for US$9 billion. There are only few other content outlets of this quality, and prices for all others will go up. It’s official folks— Jeff Bezos now owns James Bond . After murmurs earlier this week, Amazon announced today that it had…

  • Amazon CloudFront Edge Locations

    Amazon CloudFront Edge Locations: AWS’ Amazon CloudFront launches 5 new CloudFront Edge Locations. These are located in Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, and Romania. AWS CloudFront is a Content Delivery Network and helps webpages to distribute their content globally. To achieve this, CDN’s leverage managed reverse proxy servers. The goal is to bring content closer to…

  • BitTorrent Live now in open beta

    Apparently, Bittorrent Live is now in open beta with a test case for live streaming. In the market for internet backed streaming, this may make a large difference, should the technology keep it’s promise. BitTorrent Live now in open beta, brings live webcasting to the masses via: Engadget

  • 62% of streaming consumed on Apple device.

    While everybody is waiting for Apple to launch their TV / Streaming service, Adobe found that the majority of streaming media is consumed on an Apple device. and it’s growing rapidly—up 63% in the last year, according to an Adobe study of 159 billion online video starts released Friday. Fortune via Daring Fireball.