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AirPlay over Apple’s AirVideo to Apple TV2 demo

admin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:48:55 +0000

This morning, after working out AirPlay video streaming details with Steven Troughton Smith, I decided to give Matej Knopp a call. His name may not ring a bell, but hes the developer of the awesome Air Video application. Air Video, which sells on the App Store for just three dollars, allows you to watch nearly any video from your home computer.

Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy | 9 to 5 Mac Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:54:51 +0000

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9to5mac is reporting that the AppleTV will be able to play any h.264 encoded video sent from the iPhone/iPad. This means that as you surf the web and discover something interesting to play you can stream it to your AppleTV.

This is huge as it essentially validate my toughts that an iPad + AppleTV will be a GoogleTV killer. Use the iPad to do all the serching and simply display up on the AppleTV the videos you have found. As simple as that.

Add to this the potential of streaming applications to the AppleTV once an AppStore is created and you got a game changer product.

Airplay is Apple’s ‘Go to Market’ Internet TV strategy | 9 to 5 Mac.

Get some Flash on the iPad!

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:29:13 +0000

As you know by now (I hope) Flash is not supported on the iPhone nor the iPad. But Flash is used on most web sites out there. So how do you get to see those sites properly on the iPad? There is a free iPhone app (hope they will upgrade to iPad native soon) called Cloud Browse. This nifty application allows you to remotely control a full version of Firefox, enabling you to access websites that have Flash.

So that means streaming video websites such as Vimeo, Justin.tv, etc.

How does Cloud Browse work?

Cloud Browse goes beyond the limitations of a mobile device because it doesn’t use a scaled down web browser.

Instead, a full desktop browser is running remotely and being streamed to the iPhone/iPod Touch. The remote browser have access to higher bandwidth, more memory and faster processor than that of any mobile device.

Worried about privacy or security? Because Cloud Browse runs the browsers on a remote machine and not on your iPhone, there is no need to worry about websites grabbing your private information or leaving a trail of your browsing history.

Click here to get Cloud Browse

Live TV news on your iPhone straight in the browser with no app required

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:16:44 +0000

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As you may recall, Livestation was the first company in the world demonstrating live streaming on iPhones back in 2008.

A selection of Livestation’s partner channels is now available to watch live on iPhones/iPod Touches and soon iPads worldwide by simply opening the default browsers on the device and pointing it to http://mobile.livestation.com.

Currently there is only a few channels offered as the service is in beta, but Livestation plan to add more free-to-air channels in the coming weeks and add support for premium channels on a login basis. Users who sign up for access to Livestation’s premium channels (CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, etc) on the website (http://www.livestation.com) will be able to login through their iPhones and watch their favourite channels anywhere in the world both on 3G and WiFi.