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Microsoft's Silverlight may have one heck of a mountain to climb in order to take marketshare from Adobe's near ubiquitous Flash plugin, but Redmond is doing a lot of things

Illegal movie and TV show downloaders, rejoice. Soon, you will no longer have to wait and hour or two to start watching your favorite obscure dramedy series. Streaming torrent site

Ustream, the live video streaming service that hit the mainstream recently thanks to a litter of Shiba Inu puppies, just announced Watershed, a new white-label streaming video service. Watershed features

The live streaming video service Qik just opened up its previously closed beta to the public. Apparently, the public is so interested in the service that the site crashed completely

According to the latest data from Nielsen Online (PDF), overall online video usage in April declined slightly compared to March (-2.3%), and all the major players, except for Youtube (+0.2%)

According to QuickPlay Media, a leading provider of mobile TV and video solutions for cell phone carriers in the U.S. and Canada, video streaming to mobile devices became significantly more

The Participatory Culture Foundation just released version 2.0 of Miro, the open source online TV application formerly known as Democracy Player. Miro is a combination of a video and audio

When Yahoo! launched its live video streaming service, Y! Live, to the world earlier this year, it was admittedly an "experiment in live video" designed to elicit feedback from the

Live video streaming while on the go has always been the domain of relatively high-end smartphones like the Nokia N95. Starting today, however, Qik is also opening up its service

It looks like live streaming could be coming to a future generation of the iPhone and/or iPod devices. We've just come across this IETF submission containing Apple's spec for HTTP