Video content storage made easy

Thanks to the popularity of YouTube and other video-content creation and distribution sites, corporations now create tens of thousands of hours of video content each year, reports Internet News.

Polycom, provider of video, voice, data and Web conferencing technology, has released Video Media Center 1000, in order to store, distribute and archive all this information from one central location.

Developed by Media Publisher, the software allows IT managers to store video content and search for it by category, keyword, availability and other embedded search features, said Gladys Alegre-Kimura, product marketing manager for Polycom. The New York State Department of Housing and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are among a handful of organisations that began testing the system in May.

The Crookston School District could soon get a very different look to its Web site, reports Crookston Daily Times.

"I believe to maximise the benefit for the district, we should go with a content management system," said school district technology director, Kevin Weber, who gave a presentation on the capabilities of rSchoolToday, along with a cost breakdown.

After evaluating five companies offering content management systems, Weber said he determined rSchoolToday to be the best in terms of value and content. Hundreds of other schools in the nation contract with this company, he noted, including many in Minnesota such as Bemidji and Eagan.

Alcatel-Lucent says new consumer research finds young mobile users will readily engage with relevant commercial marketing when it unifies shopping across on and off-deck silos of music, ringtone, video and other content, reports Screen Plays.

In response, the company has released a mobile content platform. In practice, the Alcatel-Lucent 5965 Mobile Content Platform incorporates software that the carrier can give to off-portal content sites, enabling the content partners to bring their full sites onto the carrier's network.

As a result, all on-deck and off-deck offerings gain parity as destinations the subscriber can easily engage and arrange for personalised activities. "Off portal then looks like it's on portal," says June Bower, VP of marketing, consumer and entertainment in the convergence group of Alcatel-Lucent.