Microsoft's YouTube Rival Arrives in Public Beta
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Microsoft unveils a public beta of its MSN Soapbox video-upload service, its competitor to Google's popular video service.
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YouTube Mobile will allow users to view videos, send links to friends and upload videos directly from phones.
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YouTube announces nice international versions of its popular web video service.
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Video on the Internet has gone from being the next big thing to the current big thing. But murky YouTube videos are just the start Â there's a lot of room for improvement.
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Microsoft Corp. will start testing on  Tuesday an Internet video-sharing service called Soapbox, the  software company's answer to Web sensation YouTube.
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The popular YouTube video website will soon be available directly through Apple's TV set-top box.
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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN division on Thursday will launch a public beta of its Web search technology, according to sources familiar with the plans.
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(InfoWorld) - On Thursday afternoon at the D: All Things Digital show, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser demoed a new version of RealPlayer, to be released as a beta in June, that adds the ability to download video that's normally available only as a stream from Web sites and save it to your hard drive for later playback in RealPlayer. There's nothing earth-shaking about that -- utilities like KeepVid and the Firefox extension Video Downloader have offered similar functionality for quite awhile. But Real is aiming for something close to universal compatibility: It says its feature will work with video in Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, and its own Real formats. And the mere fact that such a widely-used program is offering this capability may make it more mainstream. Sometime after the initial release, Glaser said, it'll follow up with a version that allows you to sync the videos you've downloaded onto an iPod. Walt Mossberg asked Glaser a question that I wondered about instantly myself: Is this all legal? Glaser said that Real respects DRM if it's there and won't let you download copy-protected video. As for non-protected video, he said that Real takes no stance -- it's up to the user to ensure that he or she is using the product for legal purposes. In other words, I'm still not sure whether it's kosher to download and preserve, say, a copyrighted clip from YouTube. But the chances that anyone will come after you if you're only doing it for personal use are presumably slim. Real's implementation of this idea looked slick in the demo: When it finds a video it can save, a little button appears over the video window. Click on it, and you can download. If you're one of those people who thinks of RealPlayer as a program that's hard to download and install and that mucks up your system in various ways, the new version may still be worth investigating: Glaser says getting and using it will be a smoother process, although he didn't provide details. To be fair to Real, its current version is already no more irritating than a heck of a lot of other free applications.
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By Elizabeth M. Gillespie  Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining start-ups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.
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Microsoft Corp.âs proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, at beta.search.msn.com. Like its rival, Google.
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Microsoft now has opened public access to the latest beta build of Vista Service Pack 1 to all who are interested.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN division is expected to finally enter the music business this week with a public beta of its new online music service.
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Microsoft releases open-source plug-ins for Office 2007 today, and Viacom wants its content off YouTube. Bill Gates tangles with Romania on piracy and Digg no longer lists top users. In Monkey Bites.
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Today, NBC and News Corp.'s internet video site, Hulu, has launched its private beta with almost a hundred different movies and TV series.
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Yahoo is planning a more complete YouTube-like video portal, where users will be able to view and share videos, create playlists and interact with others.
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Top White House candidates unveiled  their own YouTube video channels on Thursday, pushing the  18-month-old Web video-sharing site even farther into the U.S.  political mainstream.