Overlay.tv gets an API, labs sandbox

Overlay.tv, a service that lets users add links, images, and even other videos on top of Web video has a new API for developers to build applications on top of its technology. The company has also put out a new labs page where developers can promote their applications and see what others have built. One [...]

Read the rest »

ActivIdentity To Address ID 360 Market Segments

Under ActivIdentity’s new solutions strategy, the company will leverage its identity assurance platform and credential management system to apply a common approach to registration / enrollment, authentication, authorization, auditing, credential issuance / management, and use of credentials across each of the ID 360 market segments. This approach takes into account that organizations in all ID [...]

Read the rest »

From Enterprise to Cloud, Virtualization Today on SYS-CON.TV

Virtualization has become a critical part of Enterprise IT strategy. Why and how has it become one of the most important change agents in our industry? To answer these questions I had the good fortune recently to be able to speak to a select group of top IT industry executives who joined me in the [...]

Read the rest »

Google Apps To Offer Video to Premier Edition Users

Is there a market for YouTube for business? We’ll soon all find out, because Google is now offering a new Video tag to Premier Edition users of Google Apps – allowing for the easy embedding of videos in internal Web pages, along with functionality allowing for comment on videos, add descriptions and tags, search for [...]

Read the rest »

AJAX RIA Expo – Yahoo & Intel Partner on Web-Enabling TV

Yahoo and Intel have partnered to go into the widget business together and create a web-enabled interactive TV channel populated with picture-in-a-picture RIA widgetry like Flickr, Blockbuster, Twitter, e-mail, Yahoo Finance, eBay auctions, news and sports. read more Link to this post!

Read the rest »

"Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV ‘Virtualization [...]

Read the rest »

LinMin API Adds Bare Metal Provisioning All Around

A new API is supposed to integrate LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 5.2 into environments that haven’t been able to do bare metal provisioning of Windows, Red Hat, Novell, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora or Asianux on physical systems or virtual machines before. The rev also features single-command installation. read more Link to this post!

Read the rest »

Steve Jobs Not Dying, Press Figures

Apple telling the press that the state of its CEO’s health is a ‘private matter’ was like waving a red cape in front of a bull. Within hours Fortune and the New York Times were reporting that the 53-year-old cancer survivor probably wasn’t dying – as everyone had surmised by his emaciated appearance at the [...]

Read the rest »

Virtualization – Parallels Claims To Be Unaffected by Hyper-V’s Backwash

Parallels CEO Serguei Beloussov sent around his response to Microsoft’s surprise release of Hyper-V last week: ‘While he figures it’ll lower the barriers to server virtualization adoption – and tear a piece out of VMware’s hide – ‘the breath of 20 deployments will still be fairly narrow the feature set of Hyper-V is limited…with no [...]

Read the rest »

Schematic Silverlight-Based Online Video Channel to Bring Coverage of the 2008 Olympics

Schematic announced its development of a Web video player anchoring NBC’s online coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on NBCOlympics.com on MSN. The announcement was made by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics, and Trevor Kaufman, CEO of Schematic. The player debuts this week with live, streaming coverage of [...]

Read the rest »