IBM Takes Rich Media Beyond Banners - InternetNews.
IBM Corp. this week announced HotMedia 2.5, a tool designed to make it easier for companies to create interactive online business media.
This release of HotMedia enables companies to easily integrate bandwidth-intelligent, high-volume multimedia with their current online business processes.
IBM (IBM) HotMedia 2.5 allows developers to synchronize HotMedia streaming audio with images for a more interactive Web-based presentation, slide show and/or panorama. This release also includes a batch processing feature which provides high-volume Web sites with the ability to automate the production of large amounts of rich media content.
IBM believes HotMedia is "the first rich media technology for the Web to fully harness the power of Java." The HotMedia player is actually composed of tiny applets--typically less than 10 Kbytes in size--which are downloaded to the user as they are needed. This requires no plug-ins or special server requirements.
For pricing or additional information about IBM HotMedia 2.5, visit the IBM HotMedia Web site.