Category Archives: Entertainment

Monitoring Streaming sessions

Posted on 2009/01/08 by Andrea

When testing mobile devices and media streams you need to monitor quite a few things to discover if it’s the device, the network, your server, your media file or something else that fails. Here is a screenshot of my desktop … Continue reading →

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Is transcoding a crime?

Posted on 2008/08/28 by Andrea

I was reading my RSS feed and of course this news item from TechCrunch caught my eye, Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case (includes longer excerpt from the ruling and a video). I was initially … Continue reading →

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Nokia N-Gage?

Posted on 2008/04/08 by Andrea

In the last few days the N-Gage has come back into the news. Surely the N-Gage is an interesting platform, if only because it allows for multiplayer gaming while on the move. What better transport if not GSM and UMTS? … Continue reading →

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Is Apple too rigid once again?

Posted on 2008/01/11 by Andrea

Apple’s iTunes has been massively successful for two reasons, I think. First of all it got popular thanks to the iPod, of course, but also it did sell well because of a very simple pricing model that Apple could enforce … Continue reading →

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Apple to use a pan-European approach to songs in iTunes

Posted on 2008/01/09 by Andrea

I was reading this article that does not seem to be huge news in itself as it mentions Apple will lower the prices in the UK in iTunes to match the price applied in the other European countries where the … Continue reading →

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