VTap is a video search engine launched on 10 September 2007 and designed for broadband

Broadband

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-enabled phones and developed by venture capital

Venture capital

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ist firm Veveo; a funded startup

Startup company

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 headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts

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. The company claims Vtap has a huge index of web videos comparable to the biggest video portals, providing a search-and-browse system that enables finding videos from a huge network database even using devices such as phones and televisions. Videos can be played on a number of phones including iPhone

IPhone

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s, Windows mobile phones
, several Nokia phones. and the BlackBerry

BlackBerry

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 wireless device.
Veveo's network servers convert the original format on-the-fly into a format that can stream and play on the specific phone in question.

VTap's basic search technology is not specific to videos. The service also provides a phone-enhanced Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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 search service. The same technology can also be used to enhance remote-control based TV Listings and VOD

Video on demand

Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...

 search offered by IPTV

IPTV

Internet Protocol television is a system through which television services are delivered using the Internet protocol suite over a packet-switched network such as the Internet, instead of being delivered through traditional terrestrial, satellite signal, and cable television formats.IPTV services...

and cable television operators.

External links

• Business Week magazine article