While Slacker and Pandora are breaking out of the computer, FlyCast is expanding beyond mobile handsets and has just introduced desktop software. The Adobe Air application is both Mac and PC compatible and joins their initial iPhone and Blackberry clients. FlyCast streams a variety of free music and news programming, including many regional radio station … Read more
The Slacker Internet radio experience has just landed within Sony’s Bravia ecosystem.
Another day, another media extender. However, the new Neuros Link ($300) tackles the issue of moving web video to the television in a unique and more practical way. While products like the SlingCatcher, D-Link DSM-300, ZvBox, and PlayOn require a local PC to acquire, transcode, and serve Internet video, the Neuros is handling this function … Read more
In what may be one of the final Series2 platform updates, TiVo has launched a priority request page for the Fall 2008 Software (9.3.2). This S2 refresh consists of just a few UI tweaks, designed to spotlight broadband content and emphasize Swivel Search: This service update reorganizes some of the TiVo Central menu choices, specifically … Read more
The topic of replacing pay television services (cable, satellite) with web video comes up much more frequently these days as online content proliferates and given the economic downturn – folks are looking for ways to conserve. Having sampled just about every web service and video box, I recently weighed in at MultiChannel News: Dave Zatz, … Read more
I’m a well-documented Slacker junkie, but it’s only recently that I’ve started testing Slacker’s premium service on my first gen player. The subscription cost is just high enough to make me squeamish, but a free trial can’t be ignored. And, in true Slacker form, I’m finding the latest update to my music experience addictive. A … Read more
I had originally told the Boxee team I was going to pass on this news, that the typical end-user isn’t so concerned with company financing. However, as you can see, I obviously changed my mind. As a refresher, Boxee software is based on the open-source XBMC platform and enables a wide variety of media playback, … Read more
TiVo subscribers have tapped into Domino’s online ordering system – requesting pizza from the comfort of their couch.