Royal Laughters At Google HQ as The Queen And Prince Philip View Laughing Baby Video

Canada based Research In Motion's latest offering, Playbook tablet which was touted as a competitor to Apple’s iPad is not receiving the kind of attention the makers would have otherwise wanted. The product, which was...

In an effort to improve the quality of its video streaming service YouTube, search engine giant Google plans to transcode most popular videos on the site to its WebM format.Already nearly thirty percent of the site has been...

Google has given its WebM video format, born from the VP8 codec developed by On Technologies, a boost this week with the announcement that all videos uploaded to its YouTube service will be transcoded to WebM by default.The codec...

In an attempt to mollify grumpy Frenchmen, Google has agreed to pay three agencies royalties for content that appears on its video-sharing site YouTube. It is certainly a bit baffling how the content cops chase after...

Google’s video sharing service YouTube has inked a deal with a French copyright society over royalty pay to artists whose work is streamed on the website.YouTube and Sacem have entered in to a deal under which the video...

The royalty-free VP8 open compression codec, developed by Google, is set to undergo substantial changes just a month after it was launched.Google is planning to add support for Ogg Vorbis audio code to VP8 and bring both codecs...

Google is gatherring support for its VP8 video codec, which it acquired from On2 Technologies last August. The the king of the Interweb announced it will open source the VP8 codec, releasing it with a royalty-free licence as...

The Free Software Foundation has called on Google to deliver a “death-blow to Flash's dominance of web video” by aggressively promoting its own video format.  The call comes just days after Google closed...

YouTube is reactivating thousands of music videos on its UK site after reaching agreement with songwriters' body PRS For Music over licence payments. The company has agreed a deal with the body that will run until...

Joost, the video website that was launched in 2006 by the guys behind Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has announced that it is retreating from the consumer market and will become a white label service provider. The...

PRS For Music, the entity representing some of the world's best music writers, composers and publishers, has published new new rates for music streaming services which will come into force in July 1st. The new rates which will...

A number of high profile artists have come together on a new website called fair play for creators to back PRS for Music's side against the battle it is wagging against Google and Youtube. The site, called Fair Play for...

Amidst the controversy caused by Google's decision to pull down thousands of music videos in the ruckus pitting it  against music labels, the man behind the global Rick Astley phenomenon reveals how much he got from...

Google pulled thousands of music videos from Youtube after negotiations with music collection entity PRS broke down, leaving UK users looking for alternatives and angering famous musicians, artists and writers. There are already...

Google-owned video sharing website YouTube on Monday announced that it will block premium music videos to British users after negotiations with the Performing Right Society (PRS), which collects royalties for music composers and...