Amazon today announced a new service, Amazon CloudFront, that promises to speed up your site.  It’s a simple pay-as-you-go content delivery network that offers to deliver your content to people, with Amazon-scale service, but without big upfront costs.  Amazon has a network of “edge” network locations that it can automatically distribute your content to. These […]

Amazon has announced plans for a content deliver network – a network designed to speed up the delivery of content on your Website – that will be easy to use and pay-as-you-go.  A content delivery network is a distributed network of servers that put copies of your content close to end-users. For example, if someone […]

Velocix today announced the availability of its free Velocix Accelerator digital delivery service. The new service is aimed at the growing and vibrant community of entrepreneurs and new start-up ventures, as well as larger organizations looking to distribute rich media such as video, music, games and software on-line. Velocix’s service is designed to ensure that […]

Content delivery network Limelight’s legal problems won’t affect PodShow, says PodShow founder and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry: We have spoken with LimeLight management and they have assured us they will not go ‚Äòdark‚Äô. They have been a good partner to us, we trust them and stand by their word and their excellent service. As with […]

Akamai Technologies, which provides technology for the distribution of digital media like podcasts, announced that a jury returned a verdict today in its lawsuit against Limelight Networks. The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest. The verdict, […]