"Since launching Prime Instant Video, we've continued to expand both the quantity and quality of video content for our Prime members, " said Brad Beale, director of digital video content acquisition for Amazon.
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"With creative forces of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television behind Under the Dome, we think our customers will love this new show and we're excited to be able to offer this highly-anticipated series at no additional cost to Prime members, " said Brad Beale, Director of Digital Video Content Acquisition for Amazon.
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There are a number of strong arguments for this, including the user attention that video requires, the content acquisition dilemma, and the poor experience that a 3.5-inch LCD provides when compared with enjoying the Finding Nemo DVD on the 60-inch plasma in your Gulfstream V.
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On Monday, Rimage announced the acquisition of Qumu, a company specializing in bringing streaming video and webcasting to companies.
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Meanwhile, Polycom is in the midst of penetrating the mobility area with its acquisition of ViVu, a company that provides mobile-video solutions.
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In a blog post Friday afternoon, the company announced the acquisition of Widevine , a Seattle-based provider of video delivery security and digital rights management tools used by studios, cable systems and channels to show content both online and on TVs.
NetApp, the third largest vendor of external data storage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.
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Except for their acquisition of Strangeberry last year and some vague plans about launching a video-on-demand service with Netflix, they've given no indication of how they're going to turn things around in the face of stiff competition from all sides.
It so happens that Polycom and Cisco have also reported ongoing slides in video conferencing sales, so Logitech's explanation is entirely justified -- not that it makes the LifeSize acquisition look any smarter.
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.
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