Posted on 31 January 2011. Tags: lovefilm, Samsung, Streaming
Lovefilm had recently been acquired by Amazon, but it does not mean that it is out of our reach now. Samsung has announced that it is planning to add Lovefilm’s movie streaming feature as app to its Blu-ray players in the UK. The app will have to be activated using Lovefilm subscription of £5.99 or [...]
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Posted in Business News, HD-DVD Players, Home Entertainment, News, Samsung
Posted on 13 January 2011. Tags: App, google, ios, Music, Shazam, Spotify, Streaming
Two of the biggest names in music, Spotify and Shazam have teamed up to create dual app for those music lovers out there. A further sign of Spotify’s increasing growth, the app allows Shazamers who are hunting down that track they can hear banging in the club will now be greeted by a “Play in [...]
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Posted in Android, Apple, News
Posted on 05 January 2011. Tags: flowsongs, pure, radio, Streaming
Pure has announced FlowSongs, a new cloud-based music service compatible with its Internet radio. They have also announced details of two additions to its line of Internet radios plus a $99 iPod/iPhone AV dock. FlowSongs allows owners of Pure Internet radios to tag and purchase tracks they hear playing on their radios. Purchased tracks can [...]
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Posted in Music, News
Posted on 07 September 2010. Tags: android, digital locker, google, iTunes, MP3, Music, rival, Streaming
It seems the much anticipated iTunes rival from Google is getting closer as according to ‘people familiar with the matter’ a pre-Christmas release is to be expected. These people have said that Google’s iTunes rival will include a download store (naturally) and a ‘digital locker’ which will allow users to stream tracks over-the-air to their [...]
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Posted in Android, Google, News, Rumours, Web and Software
Posted on 01 September 2010. Tags: Apple, Sony, Streaming
Sony could be already bringing a rival streaming service to the massive iTunes from Apple. The new service, if the rumours are true, is likely to be announced today. This will be coincidently be happening just around the same time as tonight’s streamed Apple event which is expected to have a streaming service revealed. The [...]
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Posted in Apple, Events, News, Rumours, Sony, Web and Software
Posted on 07 June 2010. Tags: android, apple itunes, based, cloud, google, google music, iTunes, Music, Streaming
Google have let it slip that they are about to take on the Apple’s iTunes store with the launch of their very own music store for their Android mobile operating system. Named Goolge Music, it will see users being able to download media directly from their phones, similar to the Wi-Fi iTunes launched in 2007. [...]
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Posted in Android, Audio, Business News, Google, Mobile Phones, MP3 Players, Music, News, Rumours, Web and Software
Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: Ads, mobile, mobile apps, online video, Streaming, YouTube
Google has rolled-out mobile advertising for YouTube in a bit to raise funds from the popular, but financially-floundering site. The move follows YouTube’s recent launch of pre-roll ads at the start of its videos. The pre-roll ads are skippable, but that doesn’t mean they’re not annoying. The new mobile ads seem unobtrusive enough as a [...]
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Posted in General, Internet, Mobile Phones, News, Social Networking, Web and Software
Posted on 04 September 2009. Tags: Blu-Ray, Matroska, MKV, Samsung, Streaming, video, YouTube
The worlds of home entertainment and the Internet took one step closer to each other this week when Samsung announced that they are integrating YouTube video playback into almost all of the their Blu-Ray players.
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Posted in General