RADIO/PODCAST: Will Mobile Radio Revive the Radio Star?

If video killed the radio star will smart phones revive him? Announcements from Clear Channel this week force artists and their teams to seriously evaluate the position that mobile content will play in their ability to expand a fan base. Clear Channel celebrated with a press release, indicating that they had almost completely sold out their advertising lots for mobile radio commercial spots ...

Monsoon Vulkano all-in-one DVR/placeshifting/media streaming box ready for preorder, ships August 10

Monsoon -- after taking advantage of a few delays since our initial hands-on by adjusting the name and pricing -- is finally ready to show off the followup to its HAVA line of placeshifting media streamers, the Vulkano. Integrating a video processor and local storage into its slim frame, the Vulkano accepts HD video over its analog inputs for recording and live streaming to other devices (PC ...

Vulkano - World's First Universal and Affordable Video Platform for Smartphones, PC/Macs, iPads and TVs

Monsoon Multimedia, a leading provider of video convergence products, today announced it is now taking pre-orders for Vulkano, which is shipping in early August 2010. Vulkano is a sleek consumer device as easy to set up as a video game console.

ZumoCast gives remote video sharing to iPad, iPhone

ZumoDrive, the creators of a namesake remote storage iOS app, today started taking signups for a public beta of ZumoCast. The service creates an effective personal cloud for the iPad, iPhone and web by allowing shares of music, photos and videos online: a companion Mac or Windows app greenlights individual files or whole folders. Formats are transcoded on the fly before going through to the iOS ...

Thumbplay Music Unveils Offline Play for Android

Thumbplay® Music⢠now features offline play for Android smartphones. The announcement was made today by Thumbplay, the leading provider of mobile entertainment in the U.S.  Android users can save albums and playlists and play their music offline; providing anytime/anywhere access to the vast Thumbplay Music library, even without a network connection.