Marketshare data shows that browser share of Internet explorer is shrinking where as Firefox and Safari are gradual winners in the browser wars. Firefox 3.0 increased its share to almost 20% where as Safari is at 6.5%. Internet explorer lacks innovation as Firefox which has so many add-ins that made life easy in browsing internet. The performance is much better on Firefox though at the cost of consuming more CPU time. We have to wait and see how Microsoft takes up these challenges in their IE 8.0 release.

Here is the data from December 2007 to October 2008 :



Increase in Safari browser share is an interesting risk taken by Apple. The versions are released as Apple's Software Update service on Windows. The update has been pushed to millions of Windows users of Apple's other software products, like iTunes. This is first time that Apple's Software Update service is used to delivery of new products. In the process Apple probably annoyed some users. But the tactics of Apple worked by gaining browser market share.

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Live streaming sites:

Here are few options for those who want to watch summer Olympics 2008 on their PCs. NBAOlympics has a video section on their site for all US visitors to watch the games live or on demand. YouTube "Olympics" channel is available to more than 60 countries including India.



List of all streaming options:

US:

NBC
itsgametime.tv
Watch Olympics
TVTonic
http://www.cctvolympics.com/
COX

77 territories, including South Korea, India and Nigeria
YOUTUBE


UK:

BBC

Australia:
Yahoo

Canada:
CBC

P2P streaming info :

SopCast

Sopcast download Download this sopcast , Install and log in as anonymous and you will find atleast one channel streaming the game on game day.Have patience the buffering takes a while.

If you are using Mozilla FireFox (sopcast doesn't work in Firefox), use Internet Explorer browser to view the match

If you can't see sopcast player in the site, then you need to download and install sopcast.
AFTER STARTING SOPCAST PLAYER, WAIT TILL THE BUFFERING IS DONE.

TVU Player

Click me for TVU player download

After downloading and installing TVU player browse through the channels and you will sure find one channel that has 'Olympics'.

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Image via WikipediaThe Asia cup 2008 played among six countries India,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,Bangladesh,UAE and Hong Kong in Lahore and Karachi Stadium in Pakistan From June 24 (24-6-2008) to July 06 (02-06-2008)

what are the options to watch this game online for someone who is in North America and have internet connection but not TV.

Here are few options available for Asia Cup 2008 live streaming sites.

Willow TV - The official live streaming site

Willow.Tv is the official site which is having live streaming as well as videos section and in case if you missed this great game you can watch replays from there.



Note : They have just put up the link but not yet the prices for the event.

Watch the live streaming game on webwide in Internet Explorer only thats the disadvantage of Willow.TV as it works only on Windows and IE.

I wish Yahoo streaming comes to rescue with other platforms and browsers soon. Here is the post that I've covered some good news.

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Its Yahoo now joining the cricket live streaming market niche besides willow.tv and cricinfo.com. Watching matches on TV Channels may not be a big deal for cricket popular nations like subcontinent, UK and Australia but for North America it always has been struggle for the cricket fans to find the TV channels or live streaming options for each series.

Willow.TV has been popular and consistent in live streaming serving for so many years probably from year 2000 as far as I know. Limitation - Willow.tv only works on a PC and Internet Explorer only. Dish Network or Direct TV sometimes based on popularity of series shows these as pay-per-view (PPV) events. DishNetwork's Zee sports Americas shows only matches played by India in India.

Looks like Yahoo wants to take advantage of this situation and as its video syndication head --Satish Menon-- announced Yahoo will be putting videos of live cricket match clippings soon.

See the video of this talk from newteevee crew that interviewed Yahoo's Satish Menon.

We will have a live scorecard with ball-by-ball commentary and when there is a significant event such as a 4 or 6 or somebody getting out, then, the video clip of that even (1 minute or less) will show up next to that event description in the ball-by-ball commentary.

-- writes Newteevee

Labels: Cricket, DishNetwork, Internet Explorer, live, North America, streaming, Television, Television program, Video clip, videos, Yahoo, youtube