NEW YORK – Streaming Media East’2000 – POPcast Communications Corp., the
leading application service provider (ASP) in the self-service Webcasting
market, and Intel Corporation
today announced an agreement that includes the integration of the
Internet multimedia authoring capabilities of the Intel Easy Web
Media software into POPcast’s customizable POPcaster software.
The Intel software, combined with POPcast’s advanced self-serve
publishing and sharing service, offer one of the world’s easiest
ways for Internet portals, ISPs and corporations to enable users
with streaming media services.
As part of the agreement, POPcast will offer its service utilizing
both Intel Online Services’ data hosting cabilities as well as
Intel Internet Media Services video streaming offering.
POPcaster combines POPcast’s video capturing and automated video
publishing solution with Intel Easy Web Media complete multimedia
authoring technology. This all-in-one tool allows users to capture
video through a wide variety of capture devices (including
camcorders and VCRs) and combine digital video files with text,
still images and audio in their finished presentations. The
complete files can be uploaded to users’ personal accounts on sites
that incorporate POPcast services, where they can instantly be
shared with anyone around the world over the Internet via POPcast’s
distributed streaming media network. POPcast also allows its
partners to easily customize and brand the POPcaster software and
service interface, whether it’s for business or personal
applications.
“Needless to say, this is a very exciting development in moving the
industry forward, and specifically for POPcast partners – as well as
their consumer and business users – all around the world,” said
William Mutual, POPcast’s Founder and Chairman. “The barriers are
falling; by combining our cutting-edge technologies with those of
Intel, it’s now easier than ever for anyone to create and share
streaming video over the Web.”
“This software is part of Intel’s strategy to develop technologies
that improve the user’s experience on the Internet,” said David
Ryan, director of technology marketing at the Intel Architecture
Labs. “By integrating our software into its services, POPcast is
able to offer a very easy way to communicate via the Internet for
both businesses and consumers.”
Once members of any POPcast-enabled Web portal or Internet business
have created their digital video files and uploaded them to their
accounts, they can then send a customized e-mail message containing a
Web link to their content. They can also share videos in a variety
of ways, such as video albums, video greeting cards and public
showcases. POPcaster can be downloaded today from POPcast.com, which
also offers a wealth of helpful information, including a comprehensive
tutorial, a POPcast Publishing Wizard and links to other digital audio
and video resources.
Los Angeles based, privately held POPcast (www.popcast.com) is a
leading application service provider (ASP) offering a complete
solution for video communication by integrating easy-to-use authoring
tools and front-end publishing services with an automated back-end
media management database and an efficient Internet distribution
network. As a proven leader in producing Webcasts (built upon a
highly successful track-record that includes past Grammy, Emmy and
Tony Awards Webcasts), POPcast continues to provide reliable,
scalable world-class event Webcasting services while pioneering the
world of streaming media as a cutting-edge ASP for all Internet users.
For more information on POPcast, please visit www.popcast.com.
Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer
of computer, networking and communications products. Additional
information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
