Microsoft Silverlight Challenges Macromedia Flash

Silverlight is going to be Microsoft’s new video streaming technology, its going to be a browser plugin supported for both windows and mac.

Silverlight has been under development in more then two years now, and can show web applications in both windows and mac with IE browser, firefox and safari.

Even though Windows media video (wmv) is very popular video format macromedia flash still is dominating on web streaming in both youtube.com and myspace.com.

Among possible partners for this new Silverlight project is mentioned Major League Baseball, and some web based video companies such as Netflix and Akamai Technologies.
Source: smh.com.au

Google’s rivals fear for advertising competition

In a previous news I announced that Google had just bought the advertising company DoubleClick for a price of 3.1 billion dollars.
Now some of Google biggest rivals, are fearing Google’s overwhelming power in the advertising market.
"If Google becomes the dominant force in terms of Web advertising and becomes the broker, that would be clear evidence of market power and dominant position." Said senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs Jim Cicconi.

Also this acquisition of DoubleClick gives Google a great amount of information on customer behavior on the internet.

"This proposed acquisition raises serious competition and privacy concerns," said Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general
Source: yahoo.com