Posts Tagged ‘streaming-media’

One step closer to the living room: YouTube goes widescreen

It’s interesting to see that YouTube has announced it’s move towards bringing a widescreen format to it’s website. Here’s the basic announcement: We’re expanding the width of the page to 960 pixels to better reflect the quality of the videos you create and the screens that you use to watch them....

Streaming to your Smartphone

I took the day off today as I wasn’t feeling too well, so I’ve been playing with my computer and Smartphone, updating software and playing with new stuff. One of the things I wanted to do was see how I can stream music from my PC down to my phone....

Running the BBC iPlayer on Vista

Well, I’ve been keeping my eye on the BBC iPlayer project for a few months now. They’ve been the subject of quite a bit of criticism recently based on the fact that their client runs on Windows XP only, no Mac, no Linux, no Vista. However, this week I came...

Joost prepares for an end of year launch

Great news from our friends down at Joost, they’re preparing to go live with the service over the next few months. Apparently Niklas Zennström? has? taken the funds from the recent sale of Skype to eBay and ploughed these into the developing the technology and partners necessary to get Joost...

Calling music lovers everywhere

If you’re a music lover, you should check out Pandora.com. It’s the fruit of the Music Genome Project which has been cataloguing music for the last 5 years, and grouping the works of different artists based on it’s musical “genes”; which a gene being anything that affects the identity of...

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