Kiddie video maker Baby Einstein Co. believes it can develop the brains of babies as young as a few weeks old by having images of toys or animals move across the screen while classical music plays in the background.
Last year, the Shenzhen-based Tencent bought small video game maker Riot Games of Los Angeles.
Some of those acquisitions seemed particularly off-target anyway, such as its purchase of Flip video camera maker.
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Video games maker Activision Publishing arrives at the industry's biggest European event - Gamescom in Cologne, Germany - from a position of strength.
John Riccitiello is president of Electronic Arts, the largest video game software maker in the world.
Makoto Yamashina and his boardroom colleagues agreed to sell the firm to Sega Enterprises, a Japanese video-game maker that was itself being hammered by Sony and Nintendo.
Topping the list for Movie Maker is video stabilization, which fixes camera jitter and "wobble" or rolling shutter -- a desperately needed feature for free software chockablock with shaky soccer mom and skater videos.
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The car maker revealed a video clip of a Lexus fitted with safety features designed to minimise car crashes.
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Mr. Buffett also is no stranger to the Chinese Internet, having once lauded a Chinese suit maker in a video posted on its website.
Those taking part included British auteur John Boorman, music video director Sophie Muller, documentary maker Sophie Fiennes, and photographer Nick Knight.
Will Wright is one of the most accomplished video game developers in the business, maker of the blockbuster Sims franchise, and founder of development company Maxis (now part of gaming giant Electronic Arts).
They head Cloud Ten Pictures , a maker of direct-to-video films for entertainment-starved Christians who eschew torrid Hollywood fare.
Alcatel-Lucent currently partners with equipment maker LifeSize to offer companies high-end video conferencing.
By launching with a major video game property, such as Halo, the Windows maker will be able to grab hold of the core gaming market.
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But there are alternatives beyond the smartphone and nearly every camera maker showed a portable, Flip-like video camera at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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For any citizen video to achieve maximum impact, it needs to reach the right decision maker: a court, a body of the United Nations, or a mobilizing movement of young voters.
Seeing what video editing software did for iMac sales, Microsoft has produced its own Movie Maker suite, while Windows Image Acquisition lets digital photographers see photos as thumbnails on the desktop without having to copy images to the PC first.
Blinkx software might create a text link to the dress at the bottom of the video player, even if the clip isn't labeled with the brand of the maker.
He then used the Unity graphics rendering engine - commonly used by independent video games developers - and Vuforia - an AR app development platform made by the chip maker Qualcomm - to allow a smartphone to interact with his creation.
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Kodak, the maker and inventor of the digital camera, has closed its digital camera and pocket video cam business today.
That video focus has increasingly shifted to include consumers: Last year the company acquired cheap camcorder Flip maker PureDigital, and plans to release a TV-based videoconferencing system sometime later this year.
For that video to have the most impact, it needs to end up in front of the right decision maker, a court, a UN body, or a mobilizing movement of young voters.
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Cable set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta may be guilty of the most bizarre power button behavior for its digital video recorder distributed by TimeWarner Cable.
The brand has lost much of its glamour as the maker of the Walkman portable music player, a pioneering product, as well as the PlayStation video-game console, once a must-have for holiday shopping.
Flavio Radice, the boss of Pietro Carnaghi, a tool maker in Busto Arsizio, north of Milan, says he and his designers regularly use their video-telephone link to pore over plans with customers for the huge vertical-milling machines his firm makes for turbine builders.
To save the blushes of one particular handset maker we won't name the company, but it took us 12 takes to shoot a video review of one of its products.
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