In a bit of cross-lake collaboration, Microsoft is now working with thePlatform, Comcast’s Seattle-based tech subsidiary, to integrate some of the Redmond company’s digital media technologies into thePlatform’s web video management system. And in an unexpected twist, the first rollout of the combined technologies is for Comcast’s Xfinity TV iPad app, in addition to online… Read More…
Today’s nomination for Wackiest Microsoft Idea of the Week is a newly surfaced U.S. patent application with this head-scratching title: “System and Method for Encouraging Viewers to Watch Television.” Of course, this would seem like the last area where society is in need of technological innovation. Haven’t all of us couch potatoes pretty much solved… Read More…
Our guest this past weekend on the inaugural GeekWire Podcast was television news veteran and gadget aficionado Hanson Hosein, director of the University of Washington Master of Communication in Digital Media program. We talked about everything from his recent visit to South by Southwest Interactive to his thoughts on the new iPad 2 and the… Read More…
A new report today from the NPD Group market research firm offers up some fascinating details on the digital home movie market — including the fact that Netflix accounts for 61 percent of movie streams and downloads in the United States, based on surveys taken in January and February. A distant second was Comcast, at… Read More…
Yes, even the operating room has a hash tag now. Aiming to promote its latest robot-assisted surgical technology, Swedish Orthopedic Institute in Seattle is planning a live webcast Tuesday morning of a 70-year-old patient’s partial knee replacement surgery. Any random person on the Internet will be able to watch and listen in on the action,… Read More…
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