Posts Tagged with ‘Internet-radio’

After purchasing Last.FM for a cool $280 Million USD last year, CBS kept its plans for the company close to the vest. The company held a press conference today to reveal the direction it was taking its acquisition. Some sites have speculated that the big secret was going to be video on demand, but that wasn't the case (at least not yet).
The news from CBS today was that they were making Last.FM into a streaming audio service. After [...]

The social music and online radio site known as Jango has proved to be quite the popular newcomer, having announced today that the free service has more than 1 million listeners who have created a total of more than 3 million custom Internet radio stations.
Pretty impressive news for a service which only publicly launched just two short months ago. Even more impressive are the stats available from Compete.com, which show that Jango is already aimed at similar well-established services in [...]

We first covered Jango in late October. We published a brief review of the startup, in which we essentially laid out an admiring conclusion overall. How to sum it up? Basically, we found it to be an appealing play on the Pandora concept, one with a rather unique approach. Its feature set could also be said to harbor a few touches new to the market.
And in addition to its initial launch setup, we also received a few words about its [...]

Internet radio is not a new invention by any means. According to the almighty and omniscient Wikipedia, it had its start somewhere around 1993, a year in which a man by the name of Carl Malamud established the first Internet radio ?station,? dubbed Internet Talk Radio, using MBONE (IP Multicast Backbone on the Internet) technology. In subsequent years, new outlets proceeded to sprout, with their numbers increasing substantially, to the point at which a viable industry was established. Today, thousands [...]

There’s still quite a bit of noise traveling to and fro on the Web about SoundExchange’s perceived 11th-hour “change of heart” last Thursday evening, concerning Webcasters and the company’s proposed royalty rate hike increase. The new numbers were to be put into effect today, though it would be tomorrow – Monday July 16th 2007 – that Webcasters both big and small and in between would begin to pay increased amounts plus fees established retroactively to 2006. The rates were to [...]

In several weeks’ time we may see what the future of Internet radio looks like. Good. Bad. Ugly. All of the above. Time will tell.
Right now, everything carries with it a shade of grey. The fees. The year-to-year timetable. The fees. Why do I say grey?
Well, because SoundExchange, “the nonprofit group that collects the fees on behalf of hundreds of major and independent record companies (CNET),” said last Tuesday (apologies for the delay in mentioning this bit of news) [...]

Internet radio stations aren’t having the best of times at the moment. They continue to be astonished at the Copyright Royalty Board’s (Part of the US Library of Congress) decision to hike up the playback fees asked of them just as the medium is starting to catch on as a viable alternative to the FM and AM transmission methods.
One of the most popular venues for streaming audio, Pandora, has been among the parties who’ve voiced the loudest protests [...]

Internet radio broadcasters face an impending hike in fees? Seriously?
Yeah, seriously. Apparently an “obscure arm of the Library of Congress” voted last week to more than double the cost to Internet broadcasters (the industry ranges from public and commercial entities first established on FM and AM radio to innovative operations like Pandora to the struggling satellite radio companies) for pumping audio streams out to the broadband-enabled masses.
What originally cost a mere US$0.0008 per streamed track will now cost a whopping [...]

Pando and Musicrypt partner for an unbeatable solution to secure media transfer. Musicrypt Inc. and Pando Networks, Inc., announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement expanding their relationship. Musicrypt proved they could integrate Pando's unique technology with their own Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) to provide the fastest, most secure delivery of large digital content like TV commercials, music videos and audio files over the Internet.
Incorporating Pando Networks' innovative peer-to-peer architecture within DMDS will provide the fastest, most secure full [...]