iPhone Netflix App Confirmed for Summer

At Apple’s developer conference, Netflix announced that a mobile app for iPhone will be available this summer. Like the iPad Netflix app, the iPhone version will let you manage your Netflix queue and stream video directly to your mobile device. The Netflix iPhone app will feature adaptive bitrate streaming, which basically means it will try … Read more

TiVo Desktop PC Software Gets Minor Update

TiVo’s upgraded their Desktop PC software to version 2.8.1. All in all it’s a pretty minor refresh in terms of new functionality. Paying customers (“Plus”, $25) will see slightly beefed up video features, including a TiVoToGo Apple iPad transcoding profile (640×480), while everyone is treated to the improved troubleshooting Help menu. Audio streaming and photo … Read more

Android Hacks of the Week: Droid, Dell, EVO

It certainly doesn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to cram unofficial software updates onto Android hardware, does it? The Dell Streak Android tablet just started shipping in the UK and now we have the first report of a user gaining root access, which essentially means he can run officially unsupported code and even install … Read more

Deal of the Day: Roku HD-XR @ $105

We’re big fans of Roku here at ZNF. In fact, the Soundbridge was one of my first streaming devices way back when. (Not to mention Mari and I have both been satisfied ReplayTV owners – a company also founded by Anthony Wood.) Of course, these days, Roku’s all about their small television-connected media player… which … Read more

NPR Android App Goes Open Source

NPR has released the source code for its Android app. For now, that won’t mean much to most users. The free app still lets you listen to reports from NPR programs and fine live streams from local NPR member stations. But NPR is hoping that by opening up the source code to the public, the … Read more

Apple Says Make a Web App! Comcast Has.

The front page of Techmeme this morning links to several articles debating the nature of the iPhone OS. On the one hand the App Store makes for a closed environment. On the other hand, publishers and developers are not tied to the App Store and can still create content for the browser. Apple is weighing … Read more

Steve Jobs On The Connected TV Space

In addition to calling out bloggers and lying developers, CEO Steve Jobs provided insight into his Apple TV hobby and the connected television space at the All Things D (D8) conference earlier this week. Engadget did a nice job with an on-the-fly transcription from the event (below), but I highly recommend watching the video above – which fills in some gaps.

The market challenges and premium television provider chokehold Jobs describes should be familiar to most ZNF readers. But does his talk foreshadow something like Engadget’s iPad-esque Apple TV reboot or Techcrunch’s Apple television?

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SongDNA App: Musician Info At Your Fingertips

SongDNA is a mobile app that provides you all sorts of information about songs and musicians. It’s been available for the iPhone for a while, but now the SongDNA team has launched an Android app. My first thought was to describe it as sort of an IMDB-for-music app, but that’s not really doing SongDNA justice, … Read more