It has been a while since JavaOne 2007 where JavaFX was introduced for the first time. The year after was very disappointing; the technology did not seem to be ready from prime-time and was being rewritten from scratch. At JavaOne 2008 (last May) Sun Microsystems announced that the JavaFX Preview SDK would be available around [...]

Last week, Amazon launched it’s beta for the new Video on Demand service. The service offers about 40.000 movies, according to this article.
Amazon uses the power of the Flash Player 9 technology and it’s capability to stream H.264 content. This combination makes it easy to deliver high quality video combined on a large variety of [...]

Adobe has provided search engines with a customized Flash player that can interpret the various flash files that are published all over the internet. Making these sites “readable” for search engines was always very difficult. A lot of web developers asked for workarounds to let their Flash content to be indexed by search engines.
“Google has [...]

With the recent events of the Euro Soccer Championship, the “Tour de France” coming up and after that the Olympics, a lot of discussions (or here) are taking place in the Netherlands about online video distribution. The most recent discussion included KPN (the provider I am using) limiting the amount of “streams” that could be [...]