Category Archives: Mobile Streaming

Podcasts App

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Fred Stiening

This could be the Talk Radio killer. A large part of America now own an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Up until now, “podcasts” have been stupidly complex and intimidating.  In the iUniverse, that meant switching between two apps, one … Continue reading →

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Cumulus stations live on iHeartRadio

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Apple just pushed an update for iHeartRadio, and at least some Cumulus Stations are now live, at least on the iPhone/Pad I’m listening to WABC on iHeartRadio at the moment. It looks like the former Citadel and ABC stations are … Continue reading →

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Remote Streaming

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Fred Stiening

This was a pleasant surprise. For quite a long time, I was using a program called LogMeIn Free. https://secure.logmein.com/products/free/ It’s a “remote control” app that lets you control another computer in another place as if you’re sitting on the actual … Continue reading →

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The Cumulus Migration has begun

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Fred Stiening

Back in December 2011, Cumulus Media and Clear Channel announced that the streams for the 500 or so Cumulus radio stations would be moving to iHeartRadio,  When this happens, iHeartRadio will be close to the “de facto” radio streaming platform … Continue reading →

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Google Vs the FCC

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Fred Stiening

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75659.html This is gonna get ugly. The FCC decided to “Fine” Google for not answering its questions about their WiFi “snooping” while taking pictures of our houses. Google refused to answer the FCC’s questions.   The FCC has no legal authority … Continue reading →

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What is the FoxTab Media Player? Is it safe?

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Fred Stiening

During this holdiday week, I spend a lot of time looking for new streaming radio stations, and fixing up old broken links. During that process, I noticed a *lot* of radio stations are promoting a thing called FoxTab Media Player”.    … Continue reading →

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NTSB wants ALL cell phone use banned by car drivers

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Fred Stiening

http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LW46MQ6K50Y601-27A6GOS610GINII6CK3L38VSG8 Who exactly elected the NTSB? Actually, since what a cell phone is keeps changing, this is going to be very hard to craft. As the story points out, the NTSB started out by inflating statistics by requiring that every … Continue reading →

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I <3 Cumulus

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Well, this is a shocker. Cumulus radio is going to make its stations available via iHeartradio, the streaming platform of their rival Clear Channel. That’s enough of a critical mass that other smaller owners may be forced to migrate to … Continue reading →

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HTML5, streaming, iDevices & ooTunes

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Two years ago, it was barely on the radar of radio stations that someday soon a lot of their audience would want to listen on their cell phones. About half of the folks wanting to stream on their cell phones … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs’ final gift to AT&T

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Fred Stiening

Not being an iFanatic, I haven’t paid that much attention to what was in iOS5… Among its other things, iOS5 includes a builtin capability called iMessage.  Cutting through the jargon, it is basically free unlimited text messages.  If both parties … Continue reading →

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