on a plane? Would you watch it on a train. I would..I would watch it on a plane. I would watch it on a train. Would you watch it in a car? Would you watch it in a bar?

I would..I would watch it in a car. I would watch it in a bar....I would watch it SamIam

Yahoo! Announces Major Content Partners for its Video Search

Yahoo! announced general availability of its Video Search, enabling Internet users to more easily find online video content. Yahoo! Video Search, which uses the company`s media crawling and ranking technology, indexes content from across the Web and includes new content from partners such as Buena Vista Pictures, CBS News, CMT, Discovery Communications, MTV, Reuters, Scripps Networks (Home & Garden Television, The Food Network), VH1 and others.

Yahoo! is also forming partnerships with other video content sources. A relationship with TVEyes, enables Yahoo! to search within Bloomberg video broadcasts and direct links to the relevant portion of the broadcast. Other partnerships include Internet Broadcasting Systems (national network of local news), IFILM, The One Network, and Stupid Videos.

Yahoo! Video Search also provides users with integrated access to video content from the Yahoo! network by including movie trailers from Yahoo! Movies, music videos from Yahoo! Music, the #1 place on the web for music video content, and exclusive video from The Apprentice, including the full confessionals from fired contestants, and The Contender, including the full boxing match from each episode.

Yahoo! is supporting Media Really Simple Syndication (Media RSS) a self-publishing specification that enables publishers to promote audio and video content.

``We`re delighted to be working with Yahoo! on a project that takes the video entertainment experience to the next level,`` said Jason Hirschhorn, senior vice president of digital music and media, MTV Networks Music Group. ``Yahoo! Video Search caters directly to MTV Networks` global network and fan base, so users have the ability to access our content in an even more customizable way.``

http://video.search.yahoo.com

http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/mrss

05-May-05

SBC Selects Amdocs for Project Lightspeed

SBC Communications awarded a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract to Amdocs to provide its customer lifecycle management solutions for Project Lightspeed. The Amdocs IP Convergence solution is based on the Amdocs billing, customer relationship management (CRM), ordering and payment mediation products, combined with Amdocs consulting and systems integration services. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SBC said it will work with Amdocs ``to provide a consistent customer service experience at all touch points, including via the Web, where Amdocs Self Service will help provide a safe and secure online environment to order or pay for services.``

http://www.amdocs.com

http://www.sbc.com

04-May-05

In March 2005, SBC awarded a $195 million, multi-year contract to Scientific-Atlanta to provide IP-based video equipment for Project Lightspeed in its 13-state service area. Scientific-Atlanta will supply IP video equipment for an IP video operations center (VOC), two national IP video super hub offices (SHO) and 41 IP video hub offices (VHO). Scientific-Atlanta will provide encoders, satellite dishes, video routers, and professional services as part of the contract. Scientific-Atlanta will also provide professional services related to the initial design and builds of the VOC, SHOs and VHOs.

In November 2004, SBC announced a $400 million, 10-year agreement with Microsoft to provide next-generation television services using the new Microsoft IPTV Edition software platform.

In October 2004, SBC announced a five-year, approximately $1.7 billion primary supplier agreement with Alcatel to provide network equipment and video system integration services for Project Lightspeed. Alcatel’s network equipment includes core network access, aggregation and switching equipment platforms that will provide the Internet Protocol, packet-based network technologies that connect the customers to the video hub offices. Additionally, Alcatel will work with SBC – and now Scientific-Atlanta – to ensure seamless video systems integration.