Video-streaming: Archive

CNNfn.com is now offering live, on demand web video to complement CNN financial news' broadcasts using Web Theatre 2 technology from Vxtreme Inc. Currently, streaming video and audio from two companies is available: Digital Jam and Business Unusual. By the end of the second quarter, the network's entire line-up will be broadcast on the web.

Cable News Network Inc. CNN is planning to provide live video as part of its web service. MSNBC Business Video will also be introduced as a new web-casting service. Source: New York Times

FIRST CALL Research Direct on the Internet now offers MSNBC Business Video, the first Internet/intranet service with live and archived video and audio reports of breaking news events vital to business and financial professionals. Source: Business Wire

Silicon Graphics Inc., launches the latest version of its streaming video server software, "Webforce Mediabase", an industrial strength video server that brings the performance and scalability of interactive television to an Internet environment. It will enable, among other things, the use of 28.8k modems to access video-on-demand applications. Source: Inter@ctive Week

Vivo Software Inc. launches VivoActive Producer 2.0, the company's tool for creating low-bandwidth streaming audio and video for the Web. Source: Zdnet.