Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides hosting services for Internet TV, will announce Wednesday plans to add Microsoft's new Silverlight technology as a video delivery vehicle.
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13.6.2007 3D TV
Silverlight 1.0 Beta
Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web.
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3.5.2007 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Silverlight 4 beta now available
Microsoft have just announced Silverlight 4 beta today at PDC09, that is available for download today. Silverlight 4 promises to enhance the overall user experience, improving speed, performance and rendering for browsers.
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18.11.2009 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Available This Week
Microsoft is getting to move Silverlight 2 forward with the next development milestone.
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3.6.2008 Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2
As reported by us earlier here silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 for Windows is now finally available for download
There’s lots of new features in this release — including, but not limited.
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6.6.2008 The Mojave Experiment - now with Silverlight!
Many of you might have heard of the Mojave Experiment, and some of you might have snickered at that site's use of another rich client technology. :)
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4.9.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 2
Microsoft today announced the availability of Silverlight 2.
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13.10.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0
Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download.
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9.7.2009 Watch Movies and TV On Your Xbox
On November 6, Microsoft Corp. announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), and Warner Bros.
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7.11.2006 Windows Live for TV Beta
Windows Live™ for TV Beta is a rich, graphically-driven interface designed for people who use Windows Live Spaces and Messenger and Live Call on large-screen monitors and TVs.
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3.1.2007 Microsoft to open source some of Silverlight
Microsoft is expected to show a new friendliness to the open-source community by unveiling plans to release the source code to a part of its Silverlight technology at MIX 07 next week, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
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29.4.2007 Microsoft Download Center: Silverlight or not?
Thanks for Ben's comment to my last post and a reality check! :) The new download center with Silverlight is in its beta, there are a number of usability issues we need to improve on especially that there are no accessibility features in the current version.
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14.1.2008 Microsoft releases Silverlight 2 beta
Moving forward with next-generation software in two critical realms, Microsoft released Wednesday initial public beta versions of its Silverlight 2 multimedia presentation technology and the Internet Explorer 8 browser.
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6.3.2008 Windows veteran jumps to second Silverlight
Veteran Microsoft ISV partner Infragistics is taking an early lead on Silverlight 2, Microsoft’s emerging cross-browser media plug-in.
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5.6.2008 Skype to launch Web TV service
The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers “the best of the internet with the best of TV”.
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18.12.2006 Satellite circuit for Google TV ads
After months of speculation, Google has officially jumped into the television business.
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4.4.2007 Microsoft airs first Windows 7 TV advert
Microsoft aired its first Windows 7 commercial last night at the 2009 company meeting and across TV stations in the US.
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12.9.2009 Microsoft To Release Silverlight 2 In Late Summer
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative toAdobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of Silverlight developers.
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7.4.2008 Microsoft giving away free graphics and TV cards
Microsoft is giving away free graphics and TV cards to it's Windows Vista Media Center testers during it's beta program. Testers are allowed to keep the cards after testing has been completed!
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TV will be shut in 10 years, says Bill Gates
Riyadh, Nov. 10: Television as we know it today will become obsolete in the next 10 years, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He was speaking at the First Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh during his first visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
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11.11.2006 Vista testers get unexpected holiday gift: No TV
Media Center, which is included in the Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the Vista operating system, allows remote-control access to a variety of entertainment options, including television, for machines that have a TV tuner.
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5.1.2007 iTunes DVD deal focuses on Apple TV
Apple on Thursday announced that iTunes would get new movie releases from studios the same day as their DVD release, but the larger question is whether this move can give Apple TV more traction.
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1.5.2008 The Online High School
The BBC News website has published an article about the first ever online school, where pupils attend virtual classes by simply logging on.
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29.9.2006 Microsoft Silverlight WPF/E Web browser plug-in
Microsoft on Monday showed video pros at NAB Silverlight, a new Mac and PC-compatible Web browser plug-in that provides interactive Web capabilities similar to how Adobe Flash works with streaming video capabilities superior to QuickTime, according to the company.
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23.4.2007 Project Indiana: Could Sun outshine Microsoft’s Silverlight?
At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana."
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8.5.2007 Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash Killer, Gets DRM, Just Like Vista
Microsoft's Flash killer, Silverlight, is on track to get digital rights management just like the company's latest Windows client, Windows Vista. Microsoft has faced a barrage of criticism over the content protection capabilities in Vista, and the subject is bound to yet again come into play with Silverlight 2.
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14.4.2008 Microsoft's Flash Killer, Silverlight 2, Released to Web
Silverlight 2, the next step in the evolution of Microsoft's Adobe Flash killer, has been released to web. As Silverlight 2 has reached the RTW milestone, the Redmond giant announced that downloads would only go live on October 14, 2008.
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13.10.2008Internet TV to get Silverlight
Maven Networks, which provides
hosting services for Internet
TV, will announce Wednesday
plans to add Microsoft's new
Silverlight technology as a
video delivery vehicle.
The company is
collaborating with Microsoft
on this endeavor. Through
Silverlight, Maven's customer
base of professional media
companies will be able to
leverage familiar Windows
Media technology as well as
workflow automation,
publishing, and player
creation capabilities of the
Maven Internet TV platform.
A rival to Adobe's
Flash technology, Silverlight
currently is in a beta release
stage. It provides for
cross-platform, broadband
video experiences, Maven said.
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13.06.2007Sky Player TV Uses Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady Technology
Microsoft Corp. and BSkyB announce that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Skys online TV service. Launched
today, the service offers access to a range of leading pay TV entertainment as part of an online-only subscription. The new version of Sky Player TV,
which in addition continues to be offered on a bonus basis to Skys DTH (direct-to-home) customers, now delivers live linear channels and
video-on-demand content to Windows-based PCs and, for the first time, includes live channel support for Macs.
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04.12.2008Silverlight Powers Singapore's "Emmy Awards" Event
Nick Wong: MediaCorp TV will be activating their Silverlight-powered
Star Awards 2007
"LIVE" Update site later today (Sunday, 16 Dec) at 7pm.
The Star Awards is, of course, MediaCorp TV's annual gala event
celebrating and recognizing Singapore's own TV celebrities.
This year, for the first time in the show's history, the live
TV broadcast will be complemented by an online experience. The Star Awards "LIVE" Update site will provide supplementary event experience with
simultaneous updates of on-scene and backstage media content (blogs, photos and videos.)
Microsoft Silverlight is used to deliver an interactive photo and video viewing experience over the web,
integrating with MediaCorp's content management back-end.
(Image: Nick Wong's Blog)
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16.12.2007Online overtakes TV advertising in the UK
Online advertising has overtaken TV advertising in the UK for the first time, with a record £1.75 billion spent on advertising in the first six
months of 2009. Internet advertising in the UK now accounts for 23.5% of advertising expenditure, compared to just 21.9% for TV. For comparison, when
the Internet Advertising Bureau first measured online advertising in 1998, just £19.4 million was spent on advertising online. Lindsey Clay,
marketing director at UK TV marketing body, Thinkbox said the measurement is unfair, "It is interesting but meaningless to sweep all the money spent
on every aspect of online marketing into one big figure and celebrate it.
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30.09.2009Final Silverlight 2.0 ships Tuesday
UPDATED BetaNews has verified that Silverlight 2.0 has been released on schedule, and that the update process has begun. Meanwhile, a number of
Silverlight-related projects will be released as open source...
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14.10.2008Surveys: Many people are now watching TV online
As much as 20 percent of all TV viewing in the US now happens online, says a survey released this week by Integrated Media Measurement, supporting
other recent research which also indicates that the Internet is fast turning into the top choice for many...
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31.07.2008Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 SDK Final Available
The Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 SDK contains documentation, quick starts, tools, online samples and other resources for developing Silverlight 1.0
applications. Usage of the SDK is subject to the SDK License (included in the package).
Supported Operating Systems: Windows
Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP
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05.09.2007Richer AOL Mail demoed with Silverlight 2 Beta 1
In a sign that major Web services, after studying their options, are moving into the Silverlight camp, an AOL development team appeared in Las Vegas
today to show off its latest take on online services using Microsoft's rich development environment...
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06.03.2008Silverlight 1.0 Released, Linux Version Coming
Wednesday marked the final 1.0 release of Microsoft's new Silverlight platform for building interactive Web experiences à la Flash, but
the big news is that Redmond will extend official support to Novell's Linux port of Silverlight...
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05.09.2007Hulu in talks about expanding online TV from US to Australia
Online streaming TV portal Hulu has reportedly been talking with Australian broadcasters about an advertising-based portal there, in a move that could
thwart the chances of the ABC's new iView technology being used instead...
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05.08.2008TringMe proves Silverlight-based VoIP (sort of)
In a crafty bit of coding, TringMe has unveiled
a demo of a
Silverlight widget that allows outgoing VoIP calls to be made. The India-based IP telephone software company says that Silverlight does not provide
microphone support, so this widget uses Flash to access the microphone for the exchange taking place in Silverlight...
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03.02.2009First Look at Silverlight 2
Scott Guthrie: Last September
we
shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling
rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.
We are shortly going to release the first
public beta of Silverlight 2, which will be a major update of Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development.
This is the first of several blog posts I'll be doing over the weeks and months ahead that talk in more depth about it.
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22.02.2008An overview of the Silverlight 3 Beta
Just in case you missed our live blogging of the MIX09 keynote, we've got a full list of new features that are in the Silverlight 3 beta. You can
now download the Silverlight 3 beta directly off the Silverlight website. And for all you Mac users out there, there is even a version for you.
Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, highlights of new features and functionality of Silverlight 3 include: major media
enhancements, out of browser support allowing Web applications to work on the desktop; significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics
support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support; and many features to improve RIA development productivity.
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19.03.2009Microsoft's Silverlight makes major league debut
The first major deployment of
Microsoft's Silverlight
technology went live Tuesday,
with the Web site for
Major League
Baseball using version 1.0
of the browser for interactive
video content.
MLB.com currently is
using the technology to show
video highlights of baseball
games, integrating the
Silverlight player with news
stories and other content on
the site. For example, a
news
story about New York
Yankees third baseman Alex
Rodriguez hitting his 500th
home run includes a
mini-Silverlight player users
can click on to view a replay.
Users also can e-mail the
video clips directly to
friends from within the
Silverlight player.
MLB.com is in the
early stages of its use of
Silverlight to enhance the
site with multimedia content,
said Matthew Gould, a
spokesman for the site.
Eventually, MLB.com plans to
relaunch its MLB.TV live game
media player, which streams
baseball games on the
Internet, with the technology.
A beta of the revamped player
is expected to be live in
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08.08.2007Microsoft Silverlight 2 SDK and Runtime Beta 1
The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 SDK Beta 1 contains documentation, online samples, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight 2 applications.
Usage of the SDK is subject to the SDK License (included in the package).
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05.03.2008Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter
Brad Abrams: On November 29, 2007 Microsoft will be hosting Silverlight 1.0 Fire Starter on the Redmond, Washington campus. This daylong event
is free to anyone who wants to learn about designing and developing with Microsoft Silverlight 1.0.
Don't worry,
if you can't be there in person, I am told we are going to make all the material available on line after the event.
Microsoft
Silverlight 1.0 is a cross platform browser plug-in that enables for easy development of media rich web sites. For more information, visit
http://silverlight.net.
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08.11.2007Silverlight 2 final set for this summer, won't play Flash video
Microsoft developer Ashish Thapliyal has published a roadmap for the Silverlight 2 Web platform, confirming a final launch scheduled for the summer,
and noting that Silverlight won't be able to play back .flv Flash video files...
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04.04.2008Microsoft confirms Silverlight 3 to launch on July 10
Microsoft is planning to launch Silverlight 3 and its Expression Studio 3 designer tools on July 10 company spokespeople confirmed today. Silverlight
3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser capabilities to
Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin. Dramatic video
performance and quality improvements are also expected. Microsoft is currently running a Silverlight 3 beta for developers and will be launching the
final product on July 10th. Silverlight 3 was not expected until later this year but yesterday company officials began sending out press invites for
the launch.
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29.05.2009Silverlight 2 Beta 2 arrives on time, available now
As promised by Bill Gates
earlier this week,
Microsoft has now released
Silverlight 2 Beta 2 as a 4.66MB
download. The
Silverlight homepage does not yet have the new download links, but as things change
(like the Mac installer being posted), this post will be updated. Just like previous Silverlight betas, the installation is very quick and the browser
may have to be restarted for the changes to take effect.
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07.06.2008Microsoft releases Silverlight 3.0
Today Microsoft launched its latest effort to "Light up the web", Silverlight 3 which is now available for download. Silverlight has come a long
way since its version 1.0 launched in 2007. It has even attracted big players like Netflix who use it as their primary video player. 3.0 brings a
host of improvements such as "Smooth Streaming" and "out of browser experiences". Web developers will also appreciate the built in support for GPU
acceleration. Silverlight 3 introduces more than 50 new features, including 3D support, GPU acceleration, H.264 video support and out-of-the-browser
capabilities to Silverlight.. The out-of-browser support will enable developers to build applications that work like Adobe's AIR plugin.
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