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Pandora to let users listen to unreleased albums a week in advance
Pandora today launched a new service called Pandora Premieres, which lets subscribers stream unreleased albums from well-established artist a week in advance. This comes after Google launched its own service called ‘All Access’ to the market at Google I/O last week. The way Pandora Premieres works is users get access to any track on a featured album, regardless of the order, without any limits to how many times the album is listened to. This can go on for the time period the album is available on the station. In addition … Read more
Charles West
Streaming Video Services are Using Half of U.S. Bandwidth
Video streaming services Netflix and YouTube take up nearly half of US bandwidth capacity at peak times, The Register reported today. Their findings were based on a Sandvine Intelligent Broadband Networks’ “Global Internet Phenomena Report: 1H 2013” report and show a huge increase in video streaming, and a reduction in BitTorrent traffic. As streaming is increasingly convenient, available on more devices, and selections grow ever larger, piracy is on the decline. As of the first half of 2013, Netflix accounted for almost a third (32.5 percent) of downstream traffic on … Read more
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Wade Keye
Hulu Plus App Comes to Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 users now have access to one of the hottest video streaming services around, Hulu, with the release of an official Hulu Plus app, which allows Hulu Plus subscribers access to their favorite shows via 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. The app also includes a Hulu Plus Live Tile, which provides updates such as availability of new episodes, and shows clips of popular shows which help users find new shows and movies to watch. The app also can resume playback of content from other devices that use a form … Read more
Ian Kersey
Blockbuster On Demand now available for iPhone and iPad
Blockbuster On Demand has finally landed on the iPhone and iPad. Before hitting iOS, the video streaming service was on just about every other platform, including Android, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs, PC & Mac. Of course, the application is free to download, and it brings some usual features such as single title rental options that can be streamed instantly or saved for later viewing on any supported device. Moreover, users will also get the long-awaited support for HD and surround sound. Here’s what’s also included in the app: Thousands of … Read more
Charles West
Hulu doubles paid subscriptions to four million in one year
Hulu announced some pretty impressive numbers at its advertiser event this morning. The streaming service provider said that it has managed to double its Hulu Plus accounts in the past year, up to four million. Hulu is showing growth despite it having no idea on what super company that’ll swoop in and buy them outright in the future. The streaming company also reported that its site’s revenue also hit a record for the first quarter of the year, albeit, Hulu didn’t give specifics on any numbers. Furthermore, customers can expect Hulu to … Read more
Charles West
Amazon plans to launch its own video streaming set-top box?
Amazon is rumored to be working on its own TV set-top box, according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek report. It was inevitable that the wildly popular e-commerce company would be itching to throw its name in the fight to take control of your living room. Creating its own set-top box makes sense because of its growing content in its Instant Video streaming service. Providing a direct option for consumers would allow the company to step away from depending on third-party platforms, such as Roku, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Android and iOS. BusinessWeek’s … Read more
Charles West
Spotify Records Smashed by Futuristic French Duo Daft Punk
Daft Punk, one of the quintessential late 90′s electronic duos has smashed Spotify streaming records with their new single Get Lucky, their first single in eight years. The helmet clad French duo’s new single features Neptune’s mastermind Pharrell, who lays down some smooth vocal tracks over Daft Punk’s disco-y jams. Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories will be released on May 21st, according to Amazon.com. Get Lucky broke Spotify streaming records in both the US and the UK, being streamed more times than any other track managed by Spotify in a … Read more
Ian Kersey
Spotify iOS app gets updated with Ford SYNC support
Spotify for iOS just got updated to version 0.6.2. In this new version Ford drivers get a nice treat, as it will support Ford’s voice-controlled SYNC AppLink platform. This gives Premium account subscribers access to Spotify playlists and radio using the hands-free platform integrated in newer Ford vehicles. Both companies announced that they were teaming up to bring this feature a few weeks back, but failed to pinpoint an exact date. Well, today is the day folks finally get to use Spotify’s Ford SYNC support. The music streaming company left … Read more
Charles West
Spotify to Stream Movies, Create Original Content
Music-streaming service Spotify has become a huge player in the on-demand music streaming scene, and is now looking to enter the realm of on-demand video streaming. According to Business Insider, Spotify will compete head on with the likes of Netflix and HBO Go by providing original content as well as access to a library of other content. Spotify has picked up some substantial investment from companies such as Coca-Cola and Goldman Sachs, but is still having a hard time turning a profit. Spotify does not own its content, but rather … Read more
Ian Kersey
GTC 2013: Future of Gaming Powered by NVIDIA’s GRID
We just got back from NVIDIA’s GTC Conference, where we saw some developments that will power the future of mobile devices and device interconnectivity. From NVIDIA’s project SHIELD to in vehicle infotainment systems, GTC showed gave us a glimpse of the changing mobile landscape, as it evolves from smartphones and tablets into the gaming world and beyond. NVIDIA is pushing cloud based services heavily, especially pertaining to cloud based gaming. In his keynote speech, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsen Huang proclaimed, referring to devices, “if we can’t light them all, we can … Read more
Ian Kersey
Windows Phone 8 lands official Pandora app
The Windows Phone platform just landed another major app today. Pandora, the wildly popular internet radio app, is now available for all Windows Phone 8 users to download. This addition basically completes a list that has the top streaming services, which includes Spotify and Rdio. Albeit, Pandora finally hitting the Microsoft platform is five months in the making. Windows Phone 8 users will get to enjoy the internet radio service free without ads and a 40 hour monthly cap restriction for the rest of the year. Other amenities include the … Read more