IP Media Monitor: AOD - whitepapers

A Leading eLearning Solutions Provider Adopts Best Practices for Online Seminars

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

In an effort to produce and deliver great collaborative web experiences, ULiveandLearn sought to find a web conference platform that was easy-to-use, affordable, and flexible enough to handle multiple live and prerecorded video and audio feeds, slides, desktop sharing, chat and Voice over IP ? and allowed for searchable, reusable content.

Breeze Live was chosen as the best solution for producing and delivering distance education. The benefits of this web conferencing solution are:

The ability to deliver more and better web seminars with greater flexibility and at a fraction of the cost
Plan and preproduce content for easy integration into web conferencing rooms
Attendees can actively participate in online content, increasing interest level and retention
Attendees can prepare for meetings easily without cumbersome plug-ins that need to be downloaded

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Protecting Revenues, Establishing Trust, Empowering Consumers: Digital Asset Protection ...

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Content owners want to take advantage of the lower costs, viral marketing opportunities, and consumer satisfaction that comes with digital content distribution. Piracy fears have become a harsh reality for the entertainment industry with the advent of unrestricted peer-to-peer file sharing technology, high-quality, open digital content formats like MP3 and duplication technology that creates near-perfect copies of offline media. Consumers have taken well to these new technologies as they allow them flexibility with their purchased media. However, consumers are generally not well-versed in the complexities of copyright law and their desire for more digital content functionality has far outpaced their understanding of the consequences of their actions. The entertainment industry desires to give consumers the digital experience they want, but, they have their own business and the rights and compensation of their artists to protect. Consumers are also increasingly worried about identity theft and digital content services need to establish trust with consumers that their personal information will not be misused. RSA Security understands these issues and works with the leading standards bodies across industries to champion open, broadly-compatible solutions that tackle the challenges of effective digital asset protection with proven, stable security technologies. Our solutions give consumers the seamless, flexible, and trusted digital content experience they desire while promoting the protection of the rights and revenue of copyright owners.

Alcatel Powers Orange 3G Video Services

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

PacketVideo Network Solutions, an Alcatel company, has been working with Orange on video and audio MobileMedia for around five years. Towards the end of 2003, Orange awarded PacketVideo Network Solutions a global contract to deliver video streaming software for mobile video and audio services across the Orange footprint. Following this contract, the two companies continued working with content providers, handset manufacturers and application developers to deliver the best MobileMedia experience to users. A key factor was that the contract ensured a seamless transition for Orange video users migrating from GPRS to 3G. Orange successfully launched its 3G services in the UK in 2004, first with the 3G data card then, with Alcatel's assistance, its 3G video services. The Orange and Alcatel engineering teams are continuing to work together to improve the 3G video user's experience.

Consumer Controlled Media: An Exploration Into New Media Marketing Practices

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

A plethora of new media awaits you, offering an unprecedented number of options for delivering marketing messages. Concepts like IPTV (internet protocol television), and interactive television will be enabled by digital technologies that will turn mass media devices into direct marketing opportunities. You will be able to deliver branded content through

What You Don't Know About Podcasting Could Hurt Your Business: How to Leverage & Benefit ...

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The purpose of this white paper is to educate readers about the potential marketing value of Podcasting, and how to leverage this new media technology for maximum benefit. This new media audio technology provides ample opportunity for businesses and individuals to leverage their subject matter knowledge and expertise to generate increased brand exposure, improved product awareness, increased sales and additional revenue opportunities.

Scalable Streaming Audio for Secure Digital Music

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The paper describes the features of QDX that make it standout as a formidable solution for digital music. This white paper describes an audio compression technique vying to become the leading format in digital music.

Portable Media Players for Windows

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Portable media players are growing rapidly in popularity and features. Numerous devices that are available today can play both Windows Media Audio (WMA) and MP3 audio, and products are starting to appear that can also play Windows Media Video (WMV), MPEG4, and other compressed video formats. This paper provides an overview of portable media player support for system manufacturers and manufacturers of portable audio and video players.

White Paper: Audio Codecs and Cisco Unity (Versions 4.x and 3.1(x))

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This white paper describes how Cisco Unity versions 4.x and 3.1(x) work with the supported audio codecs and how to configure the Cisco Unity system to use the codecs. A codec is a coder/decoder algorithm or a compression/decompression algorithm. Codecs are used to encode/decode or compress/decompress various types of data that would otherwise use up large amounts of disk space, such as sound and video files. Cisco Unity uses audio codecs with streaming (live conversation) content and file-based (WAV file voice message) content.

The Use of Conventional and New Music Media: Implications for Future Technologies

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

A number of new technologies such as the MP3 music compression format and the Napster file sharing network are creating new opportunities for consumers' activities with music media. In this paper we explore current practice with both conventional and new forms of media in order to better understand what the future may hold for music consumers. We interviewed 36 music enthusiasts: 12 teenaged and 12 adult conventional music users, and 12 early adopters of MP3 technologies. The results show that rather than new music technologies replacing the old, they supplement current formats by allowing users to exploit a different set of affordances. We discuss these uses drawing implications for new music devices, services and software.

The Effects of Mobility on Wireless Media Streaming Performance

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This paper presents experimental measurements of MPEG-4 media streaming on an IEEE 802.11b WLAN. The paper focuses on delivering multimedia (audio and video) content from a streaming server on a wired network to mobile clients on a wireless LAN. Experiments are conducted both with and without client mobility, to characterize MPEG-4 media streaming performance in best-case and worst-case scenarios.

Delivering and Playing Windows Media Content on Mobile Devices

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

This white paper describes key scenarios for delivering downloadable and streaming Windows Media audio and video content to mobile devices. This white paper identifies the Windows Media components that are necessary to implement these scenarios, and discusses some of the content production and delivery considerations for mobile service providers. Windows Media mobile technology is an umbrella term for the solutions that enable the playback of Microsoft Windows Media audio and video content on mobile devices, such as cellular telephones.

The Emerging Legal Environment for Podcasting

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

"Podcasting" is portmanteau word - a combination of iPod (the popular device for playing compressed audio files) and ''broadcasting''. Podcasting software permits users to subscribe to pre-recorded audio shows and to automatically have new shows downloaded to their portable music players as new podcasts become available. The key benefit of podcasting is time-shifting. Traditional radio works on the temporal model of having listeners tune in at the time programming is broadcast. In contrast, podcasting involves pre-recording audio broadcasts, uploading these ''broadcasts'' to the internet, and downloading these to MP3 players - permitting users to listen to content at a time that is most convenient to them.

Rootkits: Digital Rights Management, Spyware, and Security

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Sony-BMG and other record companies face some hard decisions. The Internet is transforming the distribution and promotion of music, and the industry is searching intently for new business models. Many in the industry see DRM as part of the industry's future. For these DRM advocates, Sony-BMG's misadventures with CD copy protection are a cautionary example of the downside of DRM. In adopting active protection, Sony-BMG crossed an important boundary: it began distributing software, thus its CDs could inflict serious security and privacy harm on its customers. An unprotected or passive music CD can't expose customers to security exploits, install spyware, or leak customer information, but executable software can do all of these things, unless it's designed and tested with security in mind.

Getting a Handle of Your Mobile Strategy

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Just when you think you're ready to launch your mobile workforce, you're not. The exciting decision to go mobile eventually strikes fear in IT managers when they watch their deployment plans start spinning out of control. Issues like security, networking, and payment plans start appearing and challenging your bottom line. You start questioning yourself: Did I make the right decision? Can my business handle this? Stay calm and listen to this podcast. Rob Slusher has seen more "mobile deployment shock" than anyone else. He'll talk you through the most common problems and the solutions other companies have used to tackle those problems when they're ready to launch.

MStream: Position-Aware Mobile Music Streaming

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Wireless networks are increasingly pervasive in many commercial and business environments. Additionally, many portable computing devices now have built-in wireless networking support. With these trends users are entering a new era of mobile computing and entertainment. This paper introduces an application named MStream for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs. MStream provides customized, location-aware streaming audio services through wireless IP networks to PDAs with GPS locators.

IP Multicast

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

To fully realize the benefits of multimedia-capable desktop systems, network designers must begin to build their enterprise infrastructures to support standards-based IP Multicast applications. IP multicasting is the most efficient approach to delivering high-quality audio, video, and data simultaneously to many desktops. Using today's technology, companies can deliver streaming audio and video feeds to desktop systems within corporate campuses and over wide area links that consume a minimal amount of network bandwidth. Voice and video over IP can be delivered to a few desktops in a shared LAN environment. But effectively supporting IP Multicast traffic on all desktops in a campus environment requires a fully switched network infrastructure. IP Multicast applications run optimally in a fully switched environment and require switching to every desktop if all end stations participate in voice or video broadcasts.

The New Apple of Malware's Eye: Is Mac OS X the Next Windows?

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Apple has been perceived as a platform and technology that is "Virus free" and "Immune" to security flaws - particularly those that have plagued Microsoft over the past 20 years. But as Apple's Macintosh OS X operating system (Mac OS) gains ground in the market and Apple's consumer technologies, such as iPod and iTunes, continues to enjoy widespread popularity, security researchers and hackers will increasingly point their digital lock picks towards Mac OS and other Apple products, making Apple a growing target for malware attacks.

Channel Aware Access Control Protocols for Wireless Data Networks

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Due to rapid advances in storage, computing, and networking technologies, use of multimedia data has become extremely attractive in diverse applications such as entertainment, education, medical, defense, etc., since it improves visualization, precision, interactivity, and performance. As a result, multimedia data has become one of the leading media type in the Internet traffic. Meanwhile, Internet is becoming increasingly heterogeneous due to the expected integration of cellular networks, wireless LANs, and WANs under the "All-IP" framework. However, most of the cellular and wireless technologies have not been designed to handle multi-user multimedia data traffic. This paper outlines the problems in cellular/wireless technologies for multi-user streaming data traffic (audio, image, video, and graphics) and introduces the approaches to these problems.

Changes to the Audio Stack and Changes in Windows Media Player Audio Playback Behavior in ...

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

To improve reliability and to simplify audio application development in Windows Vista, the Windows audio stack has been redesigned. Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 uses a new multimedia API in Windows Vista that is called Media Foundation. Media Foundation provides Windows Media Audio (WMA), Windows Media Video (WMV), and MP3 media formats. Because of these changes, Windows Media Player audio playback may behave differently in Windows Vista than Windows Media Player audio playback behaves in Microsoft Windows XP. This paper discusses aspects of audio playback in Windows Vista and provides options to modify symptoms that a user may experience therein.

A Measurement Study of RealMedia Streaming Traffic

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

With the growing popularity of real-time audio/video streaming applications on the Internet, it is important to study the traffic characteristics of such applications and to understand their implications on network performance. This paper presents a measurement study of RealMedia streaming traffic, where the focus is both on the application-layer view (i.e., the output of the audio/video encoder) and on the network-layer view (i.e., the departure process for network packets emanating from the RealMedia server). The main observation is that, although RealVideo can be compressed as Variable-Bit-Rate (VBR) at the application layer, it is often streamed as Constant-Bit-Rate (CBR) at the network layer.

Pod slurping - an easy technique for stealing data: The problem with uncontrolled use of iPods, ...

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Developments in portable data storage technology are moving rapidly and today's MP3 players and flash memory devices have huge storage capabilities. Easy connectivity and high speed data transfer means that by simply plugging a device into a USB or FireWire port, a data thief can get away with more information than ever before. This increasing leakage, ciphering and disclosure of corporate data have been coined the term "pod slurping".

Pod slurping - an easy technique for stealing data: The problem with uncontrolled use of iPods, ...

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

The Power and Principles of Podcasting: A Comprehensive Guide to Corporate Podcasting

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Corporate podcasting represents new opportunities for businesses to reach a growing market. This white paper is a one-stop resource for marketers who are considering podcasting. Podcasts are portable, personal and an increasingly popular way for business to begin a dialog with customers and stakeholders. Audiences are offered the convenience of downloading now and listening later. This paper outlines podcast tracking that allows podcasters to accurately assess the return on their investment in this new media. Read this white paper to explore a comprehensive overview of the essentials to podcasting with a marketer's guide to the applications and advantages of the medium.

15 Minute Guide to Interactive Content Management (ICM)

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00

Interactive Content Management (ICM) is a set of technologies for managing the production process and content types that deliver compelling communications. Whether it's a web page that combines a variety of rich media types, such as Flash animation and streaming video, a PowerPoint presentation with still images and audio clips, or page layouts for marketing collateral that will be rendered for multi-channel distribution, the variety of interactive content formats presents challenges that go beyond traditional content management.