SYNQ - Video API built for developers

https://www.synq.fm/

The Synq FM is a cloud based Video API

What it can do?

• Simple video upload and storage
• Transcoding into various formats for a variety of platforms
• A customizable, embedded player
• Attaching custom video metadata (like tags, groups, playlists, and so on)
• Webhook notifications for various events
• Geo-local content delivery

Multiple libraries for mobile, web and servers. Use our client libraries for Python, Javascript, iOS, Android and others, or directly through HTTP POST requests.

• JavaScript Client SDK
• Android SDK
• iOS SDK

Automatically switch between several Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to increase performance and improve user experience.

Cops Deleted Video, But it Survived on the Cloud

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-beat-man-7-month-pregnant-wife-deleted-video-survived-cloud/

Denver, CO — The Denver police department has been accused of using excessive force after a video, which they allegedly deleted, survived on the cloud and was turned into FOX 31. 

After the police-on-pregnant woman violence subsided, Frasier says that’s when the Denver police officers became interested in his Samsung Tablet.

Fraiser told FOX 31 that officers on scene threatened him with arrest, demanded he turn over all photos and videotape to them and then seized his tablet over his objections.

“When he took it, I said, ‘Hey! You can’t do that. You need a warrant for that!’ and he said, ‘What program did you take the video with? Where is that?’” Frasier said.

He said police ignored his objections and dug through his personal photos without obtaining a court order.

“The first officer that comes up to ask me about my witness statement brings me to the police car and says we could do this the easy way or we could do this the hard way,” Fraser said. “It was taken as ‘You can either cooperate and give us what we want or we’re going to incarcerate you.’”

According to Frasier, when he got back his tablet, the video was gone. “I couldn’t believe it. My heart dropped. I know I just shot that video, like it’s not on there now?” Frasier said.

Frasier said it’s “possible” both he and the police officer who looked through his tablet “missed seeing” the clip inside his files.
However, Frasier said he suspects, in reality, the clip was deleted either with intention or by mistake.

When he got back home that evening, Fraiser synced his tablet with his electronic cloud and within a few moments, the video reappeared.
“It was very well known that the video was shot and things were done on the video that shouldn’t be leaked out, that it would be bad for the reputations of the police officers,” Frasier said.

Despite his friends telling him to delete the video for fear that the officers would seek revenge, Fraiser did the courageous thing and submitted it to FOX31, and for this Frasier deserves credit.

Apple’s set-top-box plans include cloud DVR | Online Video News

http://gigaom.com/video/apples-set-top-box-plans-include-cloud-dvr/

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Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying

From The Atlantic

From Slashdot:

"With Carnegie Mellon's cloud-centric new mobile app, the process of matching a casual snapshot with a person's online identity takes less than a minute. Tools like PittPatt and other cloud-based facial recognition services rely on finding publicly available pictures of you online, whether it's a profile image for social networks like Facebook and Google Plus or from something more official from a company website or a college athletic portrait. In their most recent round of facial recognition studies, researchers at Carnegie Mellon were able to not only match unidentified profile photos from a dating website (where the vast majority of users operate pseudonymously) with positively identified Facebook photos, but also match pedestrians on a North American college campus with their online identities. ... '[C]onceptually, the goal of Experiment 3 was to show that it is possible to start from an anonymous face in the street, and end up with very sensitive information about that person, in a process of data "accretion." In the context of our experiment, it is this blending of online and offline data — made possible by the convergence of face recognition, social networks, data mining, and cloud computing — that we refer to as augmented reality.

Face scans match few suspects

The software employed at Super Bowl has had limited success, yet Pinellas' Sheriff's Office got millions to use it.

Viisage Technologies, provided the software that studied the faces of thousands of fans who attended the big game and compared them to police databases of criminal suspects, even pictures of terrorists. 

http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Projects-Security/Viisage-Technology-Face-Invaders/


Viisage Technology
Headquarters: 30 Porter Road, Littleton, MA 01460
Phone: (978) 952-2200
Ticker: VISG (NASDAQ)
URL: www.viisage.com
Employees: 160
Founded: 1993

Viisage looks like it's changed names to L-1 Identity Solutions
http://www.l1id.com/pages/18


http://www.pittpatt.com/

Walmart wades into Online Video Streaming

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72951.html

http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/26/news/companies/walmart_vudu_online_movie_service/

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wal-Mart must be hoping that the third time's a charm: It announced Tuesday that it is launching an in-house movie streaming service directly on Walmart.com.

Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500), the world's largest retailer, said it is fully integrating online video service Vudu -- which it acquired last year -- on Walmart.com.

A cloud-based video movie service, Vudu lets customers rent or buy movies over the Internet and stream them to their TVs, Blu-ray players and a variety of Vudu-enabled devices such as Sony's PlayStation 3 and HDTVs from LG Electronics, Sharp and Panasonic.

Netflix Job Ad

One of the best ways to know what a company is doing it to look at their job listings.
Looks like Clouds for video is the trend. 

Mixed Signals: Majority Not Ready For Internet-Connected TV

From MediaPost

Consumers may be as indifferent to Internet-connected TVs as they are about 3D TVs.

A new study suggests a majority of consumers, 62%, "are not connected or not capable" and "most plan to stay that way," according to Knowledge Networks.

But those who are connected or fervent fans plan to dig deeper into new technology -- 21% of those capable plan to connect to a digital capable device next year. 8% of those who are not capable plan to get a connected device in the next year.

Of those already connected, Knowledge Networks says, two-thirds believe the quality of connected TVs are about the same, or better, than their regular TV reception. One-quarter of those cite watching TV shows through connected devices as their No. 1 choice.

But connected-TV viewers still have a yearning for old TV ways. Knowledge Networks say watching TV shows at their regular time is still their preference among all viewers.

As has been determined from other surveys, consumers of connected TV tend to be younger, better-educated, higher-income, heavy-technology users, as well as owning a diverse number of technologies/devices.

When using Internet-connected TVs, 10% of those consumers 13-64 watch TV programs; 11% watch movies (at least monthly) using a streaming service through a TV set. This increases to 17% to 18% among young viewers 13-31.

While video is most popular for connected TVs, search and Facebook are most frequently used Internet services. News services rank lower but still have good usage levels.

Panasonic opening up Viera Connect TV service to developers

From Hollywood reporter

Cloud-based IPTV applications to be available on Viera HD TV sets

TOKYO – Panasonic is opening up its Viera Connect cloud-based TV service for developers to create IPTV applications for the worldwide platform outside Japan.

“Because of the popularity of Actvila in Japan [the country’s leading IPTV portal, launched in 2007], the Viera Connect platform isn’t being released in the domestic market,” a Panasonic spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.

Actvila is operated by a consortium of major Japanese TV manufacturers, consisting of Panasonic, Sony, Toshiba, Sharp, and Hitachi.

The Viera Connect Developers website allows application developers and media companies to create services including games, social network platforms, video, music and other content to be delivered through Viera HD TVs. The Viera Connect service was launched globally in April and already offers video-on-demand, games and multi-media contents; the new website is designed to make the service more accessible to developers.

The cloud-based system means that applications don’t need to be downloaded to TV hard drives. According to Panasonic, the quick start-up and response times of the platform, along with the high-definition picture quality, will provide the opportunity to deliver a wide range of services and applications through Viera Connect.

The service is currently available in more than 100 countries.

TV's increasingly will have Internet connectivity

Wi-Fi devices such as smartphones and tablets are among the reasons for the growth of Web-enabled TVs, and 47% of all flat-panel TVs shipped in 2015 will have Internet connectivity, according to a report by DisplaySearch. In that year, 138 million connected TVs are expected to ship, up from 60 million this year, and 98 million of them will have built-in Wi-Fi.  


More Than 500 Million Connected TVs Worldwide By 2015 : Forecast
Category Unit Shipments to Exceed 138 Million Units in 2015, According to DisplaySearch
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Half a Billion Connected TVs by 2015

New research says that 138 million web-enabled TVs will ship in 2015 alone.

ElectronicHouse.com