Posts Tagged ‘ mobilecasting ’

FlyTunes Brings Streaming Audio, Video Podcasts To iPhone

May 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Internet TV, Mobile Podcasting, Podcast Distribution, Streaming Video, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide.
The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels [...]



Google Reader For iPhone Updated; A Taste Of The Future Web

May 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

Google Reader got an update today, but it’s more than an updated news reader - it’s a taste of the future of the Web:
We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. To make our (and your) Reader iPhone experience better, we wanted to really take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities.
Today we’re releasing a [...]



Record Video With Your iPhone

May 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video, iPhone

DreamCatcher has announced the release of iPhone Video Recorder, an iPhone video recorder.
iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format.
Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused anytime and [...]



iPhone Doubles Its Share Of The Browser Market

Apr 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General

The iPhone is rapidly increasing Apple’s share of the browser market, according to the latest figures from StatCounter.
About 1 in 400 browsers on the Internet are now using Safari on the iPhone or iPod touch.

Apple increased its share of the Internet browser market in the US by 64% between December and March, according to StatCounter,
In [...]



BlogTalkRadio Updates Mobile Podcasting Solution To Remove Privacy Concerns

Mar 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Mobile Podcasting, iPhone

BlogTalkRadio today announced that it has updated its Cinch mobile podcasting service to let you use a custom podcast feed URL. Previously, your podcast feed URL was automatically set to your mobile phone number.
When the service was introduced, we questioned the decision to embed your phone number in the feed url:
I question a service that [...]



Get A London Travel Guide For Your iPod, iPhone

Mar 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Internet TV, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

UK mobile developers Coolgorilla have launched the London Travel Guide, a free travel guide specifically designed for iPods, iPhones and mobile phones.
The London Travel Guide packs over 400 pages of info, along with interactive features, onto your portable media player. The guide is designed to be regularly updated, so you can have the most [...]



Mobilecasting With BlogTalkRadio

Feb 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Mobile Podcasting, iPhone

At Scripting News, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer is highlighting a service from BlogTalkRadio that makes podcasting a no-brainer:
A new service from BlogTalkRadio…
Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call.
The address of the feed is a [...]



Utterz Adds 17 New Countries, Webcam Video Capture

Feb 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Utterz, a service that lets you post multimedia to blogs and social networks from your mobile phone, has expanded its service to 17 new countries.
The company has also introduced new online video and audio capture, and “conversational threading” capabilities to help users engage and connect with friends, followers and social groups, both online and [...]



YouTube Getting Serious About Mobilecasting

Jan 24th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Services, iPhone

YouTube is getting serious about mobilecasting, expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site.
Starting today, people with current generation mobile phones can watch tens of millions of YouTube videos. YouTube also is providing mobile access to many of the same features that have become staples of its [...]



Helio Intros Ultimate Mobile YouTube Service

Dec 13th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Mobile Podcasting, Podcasting Hardware, Video, iPods & Portable Media Players

Today, Helio announced a new mobilecasting service that they are calling “the most comprehensive YouTube experience currently offered on mobile!”
They could have thrown a “massive” or “global” into that, but the service is exactly the type of thing we’ve been pushing for for years: mobile devices that are sophisticated two-way Web publishing platforms.
Available for Helio [...]