Category Archives: Technology

Tunein goes Social

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Tunein is pushing a major change to their product http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/07/tunein-gets-a-social-tune-up-may-change-how-you-think-of-radio/ While there is some overlap in what we do, I don’t consider StreamingRadioGuide to be competing with Tunein. Profit or accumulating wealth has never been my objective. Tunein is run … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz, Technology | 7 Comments

Life After Windows

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

This is a huge signal about the future http://www.pcworld.com/article/2151820/amd-finally-commits-to-android-as-it-looks-beyond-windows.html AMD has announced they’re going to embrace android and build the ecosystem to support Android in tablets not tied to the x86 Intel architecture that underpins Windows

Posted in About the Guide, Linux, Technology | 3 Comments

Keeping linux in the dark

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Once upon a time, Microsoft created a great new video / audio streaming plugin called “SIlverlight”. It’s proprietary and Microsoft has lots of lawyers on retainer. About a year ago, I announced I was refusing to support stations that -only- … Continue reading →

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The lawsuit that could kill this web site…

Posted on May 5, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Don’t panic! I’m not being sued 🙂 A small station operator in Virginia has decided it is going to “bell the cat” over the issue of streaming royalties. First a little background is in order for those not familiar with … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, IHeart Media, Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 4 Comments

Microsoft Blinks

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Fred Stiening

There are something around 100,000,000 PCs around the world still running Windows XP, including many in busineses supporting mission critical software. You may have heard there is an extremely severe hole in Microsoft Internet Explorer – going all the way … Continue reading →

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Staying ahead of the kidz

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Do you hear that mosquito? Of course you don’t – you’re over 30 years old. Someone on the cutting edge of radio – probably John Batchelor, maybe Rush or Kim Komando had mentioned this thing I was just reminded of … Continue reading →

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How to not be a salesman

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Fred Stiening

More from the totally random department… This week, Rush Limbaugh returned from his surgery to install a second cochlear implant. He spent a good part of an hour talking about the mechanics of how hearing works, how cochlear implants work, … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Technology | 18 Comments

The cost of “free”

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Fred Stiening

You probably know this web server blocks traffic from outside of Borty America. In the past few weeks, the number of hacking attempts to the web site have picked up dramatically. Whether this means the Heartbleed flaw is working to … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Instability, Technology | 3 Comments

Storing copyrighted content in The Cloud

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Fred Stiening

Today was Aereo day at the Supreme Court. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/abc-v-aereo-will-the-supreme-court-change-the-way-we-watch-tv/ In case you’re not familiar with it, the Aereo technology places a tiny TV antenna within a local TV market. Since that tiny antenna is technically receiving the TV signal “over … Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Streaming, Radio Biz | 8 Comments

Alice doesn’t patent here any more

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Fred Stiening

The US Supreme Court is hearing a really important case today that will have a huge effect on computer software. http://mobile.businessweek.com/news/2014-03-31/edison-invoked-in-rare-u-dot-s-dot-high-court-look-at-software-patents The Patent Office lacks the skills to make sense of computer software patents, and most people in the software … Continue reading →

Posted in About the Guide, Technology | 8 Comments