A while back I wrote about how I was looking at options to stream live television and my focus upon the Slingbox products but I never got around to purchasing one. Don’t get me wrong, I think the technology is fantastic but I’ve just not seen much in the way of innovation or the extension of …
Tag: streaming
Mar 23 2013
Free Pandora Finally Comes to Windows Phone 8
Just a quick update. It looks like that Pandora app has appeared in the last twenty four hours and with it comes free streaming music for Windows Phone 8 users in USA, Australia and Canada. Mind you, the standard free service is ad-supported but not so for Windows Phone 8 for the remainder of 2013. I’ll be …
Feb 03 2013
Rdio – An Alternative to Spotify in Windows Phone 8
For the Windows Phone 8 faithful there have been some key applications missing that might help tip the scales in its favour. Big names such as Instagram are still noticeably absent despite a pledge late last year that an app would arrive. Spotify is very much in the same boat and its tardiness might be …
May 23 2012
Spotify Arrives Down Under
This is already old news but I thought I’d write briefly about the arrival of Spotify in Australia yesterday. I did use this service myself a while ago by getting around the regional lockout but after some time it didn’t work properly. Now that the service is now available I am now turning off the …
Apr 14 2012
Quickflix – On Demand Movie and TV Streaming in Australia
One of the neat features in the new televisions coming out from Panasonic in 2012 is the ability to natively stream content from Quickflix in addition to existing services found on the Viera Connect platform (such as ABC iView and Yahoo!7). Given that I have my eyes on the Panasonic VT50A 55″ plasma television, I thought …
Nov 17 2011
Zune Music Pass and Streaming Finally Working!
Just a quick note tonight that at last I have my Zune Music Pass working on my Windows Phone as well as the music streaming. I had left it recharging wherever possible all day and late this afternoon the Marketplace. I’ve only had a brief play with it but plan on making full use of …
Nov 15 2011
Zune Music Pass Now Available in Australia
It’s a day early but you can now activate your Zune Music Pass in Australia by visiting http://www.zune.net/en-us/products/zunepass/default.htm and logging in with your Australian-based Windows Live ID. You can sign up for the 14 day free trial after which your credit card will be debited $11.99 on a monthly basis (or you can switch to the annual …
Aug 03 2011
Spotify Now Available and Free in the USA (and Down Under Just Quietly)
It seems that cloud music is gaining some popularity with the Spotify music service now becoming available in the USA after a successful run in Europe. Unlike Google and Amazon’s cloud services, Spotify provides streaming music without you initially having to own a copy of a track or album. As usual, us users in Australia …
Jun 19 2011
Google Music – An Unexpected Invitation
After I criticised Google for making it difficult for us folks outside of the USA to get into the beta of its new music streaming service I received an invitation to join the Google Music beta. I had also tried the client software on my phone which didn’t go very far even when I was …
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