Level 3 To Cut 450 Jobs, CDN Group Still Growing: Should Do $45-50 Million | The Business Of Online Video
Rayburn has an article today detailing an 8% workforce reduction over at L3, but confirms that that the CDN group is still growing. This tracks with what I'm hearing at L3 and other telco's in the CDN space that are building out CDN workforces.

iStreamPlanet Adds Move Technology to Video Platform - iStreamPlanet aims to allow any customer to use Move technology, with the ability to easily manage video projects and customizable video [Contentinople dot com]

Really no way I couldn't put this on here :)
Nice little write up about the inclusion of Move technologies awesome video plug in into our Digital Asset Management system and Silverlight players.

Neflix cuts 50 tech jobs; streaming issues linger | Digital Media - CNET NewsCnet has the above write up on Netflix (who has been getting tons of press for their streaming to everything they can...) One interesting tidbit is this quote:Swasey said there just wasn't as much need to keep so many tech specialists. He credited Microsoft's Silverlight with making it easier for customers to install Netflix's player on PCs and Macs.

Silverlight Beating Flash When It Comes To DRM Protection - In an interview this week in the Wall Street Journal, Adobe's CEO said that with the recent round of layoffs, Adobe would be better focused to grow their online video business. That's good news to hear from Adobe because being... [The Business of Online Video]

Contentinople - Ryan Lawler - Mosso Takes Limelight Content Delivery Into the CloudThis news is pretty meaningful to me. I am really interested to see how well the Mosso division does with this new model. Having been involved in some of the very early discussions of making this happen I have some decent insight into how extraordinary this offering is.

Google brings GrandCentral to the desktop with 'Vocito' | Webware - CNET Well I guess the silver lining in this news is that Google has not completely forgotten about GrandCentral, the super fab service that allows you to manage all your phones from one simple interface. Unfortunately, you still can't get an account unless you are the kind of person likely to win at bingo with alarmingly regularity..

'Moonlight' heads to beta | Beyond Binary - CNET News
According this report at Cnet Novell is en route to deliver a version of the Silverlight plugin called "Moonlight" to firefox users on Linux desktops. This is welcome news to those of us interested in seeing the proliferation of the plug in to as many desktops and devices as possible.

MLB Drops Silverlight for Flash - After two years of using Silverlight for its MLB.tv application, Major League Baseball is switching to Flash [Contentinople dot com]
You know, I think this is a bit of a shame. While I'm not blind to the fact that Flash is currently dominating the market, I am seeing a tremendous amount of really innovative stuff being done in Silverlight. More thoughts after the fold...

Microsoft Adds H.264 to Silverlight, Announces Customers - Software giant continues to make noise around its cross-platform, cross-browser video player [Contentinople dot com]

So I'm not a huge TV guy or anything, but I like my Audio/Visual entertainment a fair amount. And I pay attention to things happening in the local market. So I've known that Cox was rolling out OnDemand in the Phoenix area for over a year. I even knew that Tempe (where I currently reside) was the slowest to get this technology that the rest of the country and most of the rest of the Phoenix market has had for a while now.