Tag Archives : Streaming media

Google updated its YouTube app for iOS on Monday, adding a new features like live streaming and the ability to queue videos for TV playback. According to the update notes listed in the App Store, version 1.3 brings these new features: Quick access to new uploads for subscriptions via “My Subscriptions” feed on the Guide. Access to Live streams. Queue up videos to play on TV. One Channel [...]

Source - Engadget Soon after the rumors of a YouTube’s video rental service it has emerged that the day may not be too far before Apple starts offering streaming video through iTunes soon. iTunes’ customer survey seems to hint towards this “Titles are available to watch instantly” is listed among the survey questions which will be a refreshing change from the current method [...]

Apple Apple’s  acquisition of online streaming music company  Lala.com last year was seen as the Cupertino based company’s foray into cloud computing services, it made sense. Google  already was successful in its cloud based ventures (gmail, picassa and related services), Microsoft was focussing big time with online collaboration getting extra focus in  Office 2010 version. When Apple [...]

Logitech was among the first of Google TV partners coming out with press release and information  the day Google TV was announced (May 20) at the Google’s developers conference,  since then  all eyes were on  the Logitech’s CE4100-powered Google TV box. Logitech had revealed that their Google TV box will be called Logitech Revue .According to Logitech, the name “Revue” was chosen [...]

Spotify on PC Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service  which had started two new services last month and upgraded its iPhone and Android apps isnt done with release and features yet. Spotify has launched a new Spotify TV service in Finland in collaboration with  telecommunications company TeliaSonera. TeliaSonera’s 120,000 digital TV customers could access the  streamlined [...]

Image via CrunchBase Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service which has recently opened the doors wider to the free service has updated its app for Android Mobile OS, the latest version 0.4.04 went functional yesterday afternoon. Spotify’s iPhone app also was updated recently. Andres Sehr, Marketing and Communications Manager, Spotify, wrote on its website. “This [...]

Image via CrunchBase Spotify, the hugely popular peer-to-peer music streaming service has started two new services –  a paid and a free one. Last August Spotify’s  free service  was  closed  to new free listeners in the UK , and was turned into an invitation only service, and the waiting list  is supposed to be many weeks. The new service Spotify Open is definite music to Spotify’s [...]

Image via CrunchBase Google owned YouTube which pioneered online streaming videos has started providing automatic captions to videos to make the site more accessible to the deaf and people with hearing difficulties. At present the feature is only available for videos recorded in English and Google says that more languages will be added in the coming months. Even though the idea and intentions are [...]