
Virgin Media signs video deal
Virgin Media has signed a deal with SeaChange International to use the company's multi-screen video software and services on the new Virgin Media Player, reports Digital Spy.
Under the SeaChange deal, the on-demand service gets access to video delivery software and content management systems, including transcoding and processing of content to nine different video formats for adaptive streaming on PC and mobile.
Virgin Media's XL TV and broadband customers can access Virgin Media Player to watch TV programmes from ITV, the Living TV Group, Disney, Discovery and MTV Networks on their PCs, laptops and mobile phones.
Google smartens up search appliance
The latest edition of Google's Search Appliance allows users to execute searches covering not only data residing inside the enterprise's systems but also information in outside systems, states Tech News World.
Cloud Connect lets users of Google Search Appliance 6.8 search content both within an enterprise's firewalls as well as content from Twitter, blogs and industry Web sites through Google Site Search.
Users can search across Web sites, intranets, portals, file shares, content management systems and business applications. This move marks the latest in the battle between Google and Microsoft for the enterprise search market.
Theme parks get mobile apps
Accesso has rolled out a mobile application that enables zoos, museums and theme parks to introduce branded iPhone and Android apps with ticket-selling and other in-destination revenue features, says tnooz.
Created through an exclusive partnership with AVAI Mobile, Accesso-Mobile takes existing features in AVAI Mobile's parks and zoos app and adds e-commerce features such as ticket sales to it.
Accesso-Mobile includes a content management system to customise the app and also to optimise a venue's mobile website, Accesso says.
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