Streaming

Apple still needs music publishers on board for iTunes cloud streaming service

By Andrew Wray, Friday, May 20, 2011 a 5:38 pm

Peter Kafka over at All Things Digital reports that Apple has yet another hurdle to overcome before iTunes cloud streaming can become a reality -- getting music publishers to sign off. Although Apple has been negotiating and finalizing deals with the music labels, including Sony now, that's apparently not enou.

Apple completes cloud-music deal with EMI, now one step closer to iTunes Cloud

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, May 19, 2011 a 8:54 am

CNET is reporting that Apple has finalized an agreement with EMI Music for their upcoming cloud music service, and as previously suspected, is also on the verge of hammering out deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.

Apple has signed a cloud-music licensing agreement with EMI Music and is very near to completing deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, multiple music industry sources told CNET.

Will Apple’s cloud storage and streaming services be known as iCloud?

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Apr 28, 2011 a 7:57 am

According to a report by GigaOM, Apple could be shelling out around $4.5 million to buy the domain name iCloud.com, potentially for the long rumored music locker/streaming service. The icloud domain was recently owned by another company that used the name for an online storage service. It has just re-branded its service to CloudMe.

When you visit icloud.com it currently redirects to the new domain cloudme.com but shows a banner informing customers of its re-brand from icloud to cloudme!

iTunes cloud storage and streaming service all ready for launch?

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 a 4:56 pm

Reuters is reporting that Apple has now completed work on its rumored online music storage and streaming service. Reuters also claim that Google is working on a similar service but its plans have stalled; Apple will beat it to the launch. The source of this new information is cited as “several people familiar with both companies’ plans”.

Daily Tip: How to stream a podcast over 3G via iTunes

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 15, 2011 a 9:44 pm

Forgot to download the latest episode of one of your favorite podcasts before leaving the big bandwidth of Wi-Fi and curious how to get your fix over 3G? Well, TiPb makes sure our iPhone Live! and iPad Live! podcasts are under 20MB so you can download them over 3G anyway, but for longer podcasts you don't have worry either -- you can stream them. We'll show you how after the break!

Viacom and Time Warner Cable are officially at war over TWCable TV app for iPad

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Apr 7, 2011 a 9:50 pm

Time Warner Cable issued a press release today announcing they have filed a request for declaratory judgement related to its recent TWCable TV app debacle, which forced them to remove a number of channels from the iPad app last week.

iPhone nano -- with no storage?

By Georgia, Monday, Feb 14, 2011 a 11:20 am

Cult of Mac is following up on the iPhone nano rumors from Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal saying Apple will make the low price points by getting rid of all onboard storage. No NAND Flash storage, no big price tag. Apple would get around this by streaming everything from an iTunes.com/MobileMe cloud just like Apple TV 2 does today.

Last.fm will soon require subscription to stream to iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Feb 9, 2011 a 10:49 am

Beginning February 15, Last.fm will require a subscription to stream music to your iPhone and it will be ad-free. Here's what Last.fm's VP of production, blog Matthew Hawn had to say:

On the Last.fm website an ad-supported, free-to-listeners model is what supports our online radio services in the US, UK and Germany. In other markets and on emerging mobile and home entertainment devices, it is not practical for us to deliver an ad supported radio experience, but instead, we will migrate to what we believe is the highest quality, lowest cost ad-free music service in the world.

BBC iPlayer app for iPad to arrive this Thursday, all set for the iPad 2 high-res screen?

By chrisoldroyd, Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011 a 9:25 am

The long overdue BBC iPlayer app will be released on Thursday according to a BBC engineer. Geoff Marshall, an Interactive Operations engineer for the BBC, responsible for the iPlayer services, broke the news via his twitter stream. He also went on to say, “It will take advantage of the higher-res screen that iPad2 has got.” “HD content will look good.” Now we don’t know if this is inside knowledge or just a guess but it is interesting all the same.

Daily Tip: How to watch iPhone Live and iPad Live on your iPhone and iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 2, 2011 a 6:19 pm

Curious how to watch our podcasts, iPhone Live and iPad Live on your iPhone and iPad? If you come here to TiPb.com on your iOS device you'll likely realize we're trapped in little, unsupported Flash boxes. However, there is a way to see and hear at least some of the show while mobile. We'll tell you how after the break!