Category Archives: Technology

Crushed

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Even after losing all my boosters…

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Streaming’s top 20

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Fred Stiening

So after the shakeout in the streaming business, who is left? The graphic is a little confusing – for Linux friendly and mobile friendly, the left side is the current state (penguin or happy face) – the link next to … Continue reading →

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HTML5 – what you need to know

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Fred Stiening

Streaming used to be painful. There were 100 different types of players – some needed special applications or plugins, some only worked on some types of computers, some required special decoders that required breaking patent rights. In 2016, 2/3rds of … Continue reading →

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HP shares its vision of the future of computing

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Fred Stiening

[Written June 24, 2014] The Machine The company that invented free printers, expensive ink [not totally true], has a new vision for blurring the line further between memory and storage. During her explanation, CEO Meg Whitman asks “What if you … Continue reading →

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2:20 PM on Wednesday

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Fred Stiening

If you want to catch the United States off guard, that would be the time to do something. You may remember earlier in the Obama years, FEMA and the FCC conducted a mandatory test of the national Emergency Alert System. … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Instability, Individual Liberty, Internet Insecurity, Mobile Streaming, Police State America, Police State America, The FCC, War and not War, Zombie Watch | 9 Comments

2% of streaming is done using Internet Exploder

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Fred Stiening

December’s results are in. The trend to stream using mobile devices rolls on. Triton Digital Report Triton Digital is the biggest platform for radio streaming and has “instrumentation” for other streaming services. It isn’t measuring everything, but most of the … Continue reading →

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Live365 Isn’t

Posted on January 23, 2016 by Fred Stiening

The folks at Live365 used the performance royalty hike from $.14 per hundred songs to $.17 as the reason for firing their employees and ceasing operations. Live365 was never a major player in streaming. Most of its remaining clients were … Continue reading →

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Pandora’ing “fairness”

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Yesterday was much more important to radio than the Fed interest rates. THe copyright royalty Board (CRB) made its decision what the fair amount to pay for playing music is over the Internet for the next 5 years. * Boring … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Music Radio, Streaming Royalties | 8 Comments

The End for Rdio

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Fred Stiening

One of the last major decisions of the Dickey brothers at Cumulus was an agreement to switch their online streaming to Rdio. The announcement came out of nowhere and the sudden conversion of the Cumulus websites went poorly – the … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Cumulus Media, Mobile Streaming | 5 Comments

Desktop streaming is dead

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Maybe the FCC has saved AM radio, but nothing will save desktop computers. The just released metrics from Nielsen’s Triton digital is that 73.8% of all streaming is now done from mobile devices, mostly iDevices and Android.

Posted in About the Guide, Mobile Streaming, Player Metrics, Radio Biz, Saving AM radio, Streaming Royalties, Zombie Watch | 2 Comments