By the Numbers

Who's winning?
Like scoreboard watching in sports, the big three streaming media companies (Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks) like to keep track of... June 18, 2004

Looking up
Things are looking up for the videoconferencing industry if Wainhouse Research's latest numbers are any indication. Unit shipments for group... May 24, 2004

Web conferencing numbers
Wainhouse Research's first WebMetrics reports shows a shift coming in the way Web conferencing is administered and maintained in the... May 18, 2004

Streaming news quality up
Keynote Systems is reporting that the level of reliability and quality for the major streaming media news services (ABCNEWS, BBC... May 12, 2004

The trend continues
Not surprising, streaming media usage continues to grow at rapid pace in 2003, according to new research report from AccuStream... February 19, 2004

Where did all the song traders go?
According to recent Pew Internet Project survey, the number illegal song downloaders has plummeted since the RIAA began filing lawsuits... January 05, 2004

Who dictates the format?
In RealNetworks' suit of Microsoft, Real is claiming Microsoft is using its monopoly operating system position to force its media... December 29, 2003

Broadband helps drive online radio
As broadband adoption here in the U.S. and abroad continues to grow, one beneficiary seems to be online radio, according... December 16, 2003

Whose 99 cents is it?
According to an article in The Register, Apple admitted that it makes no revenue off of the 99-cents per song... November 12, 2003

From the not surprising dept
BBC News is reporting that legal song downloads handily beat out CD singles by almost double in the U.S. Since... November 04, 2003

Web conferencing continues to grow
MCI's annual "Meetings in America" study shows that Web conferencing continues to grow. Of those responding, 74% had used Web... October 30, 2003

New numbers game
First it was the browser wars and then more recently, the battle of media players. Now, the numbers game is... October 07, 2003

Competition in the courtroom
What usually happens when two companies sell similar products? One sues the other for patent infringement. Such is the case... September 30, 2003

Video subscription pie to get bigger
Analysts at In-Stat/MDR are forecasting big time growth in online video streaming services with the market growing from $991 million... September 23, 2003

Sonic Foundry banks another $6 million
Sonic Foundry completed the sale of its entertainment-related business to Deluxe Media Services, giving the company $5.6 million in capital.... May 19, 2003

Does Net radio pose a threat to local broadcasters?
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury news believes so. He just finished up a week-long Arbitron ratings survey and... May 06, 2003

Analysts: Videoconferencing still not mainstream
In-Stat/MDR has released a report stating that videoconferencing is still not a mainstream business technology and that it's reach is... April 03, 2003

News streaming sites doing well
Keynote Systems' latest data on how well news sites are performing under the loads of users looking for information on... March 25, 2003

Forbes: War coverage could drive streaming
In the wall-to-wall coverage of war the one winner could be streaming media, according Forbes. Those benefitting the most could... March 24, 2003

No surprise: Video streaming use grows
A report in the San Jose Business Journal says that video streaming media usage saw a 52.3% growth in 2002,... March 12, 2003

Monthly streamies are gadget geeks too
According to a study by Edison Media Research, Internet broadcast listeners that have been active in the past 30 days... February 26, 2003

The market: Good news, bad news
First the good news: The number of streaming media-based ad campaigns ia continuing to grow, according to a report in... January 02, 2003

Macromedia sees end to tech draught
Macromedia sales executive Rick Cobb believes tech spending will rebound next year. In an interview with Forbes, Cobb says: "The... November 15, 2002

Collusion between Microsoft and RealNetworks?
Salon takes an interesting look (part 1 and part 2) through the eyes of nearly-failed Burst.com at Microsoft's bull-in-a-china-shop approach... October 30, 2002

Slow goings at Internet World/Streaming Media East
Training for our new Fusion content management system kept me from attending, but it doesn't sound like I'ved missed much... October 03, 2002

Lying with statistics
Did you know Viewpoint Media Player is installed on the machines 55.7% of U.S. Web users? (That's a deeper market... September 24, 2002

Streaming wars about to get a little hotter
Thank goodness for the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we're going to need it to rest of up for all the... August 30, 2002