Wireless Archive

Eyespot has an application which lets mobile phone users subscribe to video feeds and edit and share clips. Right. On a mobile phone. Can you say eyestrain? What we really need, to make apps like Eyespot worthwhile, is seven-inch screens with 3D images. Can anyone tell me where the Paris Hilton video feed is?

Ted Wallingford at Signal to Noise points to a Mac Rumours forum thread that says Apple’s new wireless iTV IPTV device, announced earlier this month at an Apple press conference in San Francisco, might incorporate the new, faster “N” (802.11n) wireless specification. That means a full-length movie could be transmitted to an iTV (TV over […]

While TV and Apple Mac junkies are salivating over the recently announced Apple iTV IPTV device, Snappy Multimedia’s HAVA seems to hvae gone quietly unnoticed. At least, this is the first I’ve heard of them. Of course, they are kind of the opposite of iTV. Instead of your downloaded video content being streamed wirelessly from […]

Okay, maybe I’m not as much of a TV junkie as a I thought. I certainly don’t have a TiVo, and certainly not the big TiVo Series3 unit (US$800, or $1,000 with transferred lifetime subscription) that’s pictured over at Engadget. Apparently, though, there are some problems with using TiVos with plasma TVs. It has something […]

Apple only announced their iTunes movie download service last week, but they’ve already pulled in US$1M in sales [CIO]. And that’s despite the limited number of studios (all financially related to Disney) and films (75). Then again, at the current download prices, that’s only 125,000 downloads/ sales. Not exactly record-breaking numbers. However, they are limited […]

Speaking of TV Over Wi-Fi

Wagering on the possibility that TV over Wi-Fi will be profitable, Wi-Fi TV Inc. is spending a million on advertising at online job boards. They’re looking for a sales team [Market Wire] across the United States. Their website offers 300 channels of live TV programming, as well as free VoIP (Voice over Internet Calling) calling. […]

Om Malik speculates on Rupert Murdoch’s idea about using WiMax for broadcasting video content. Murdoch doesn’t think it’ll work, but there are already companies doing it. Sort of. TV-over-WiMax? Well why not? If Apple’s new wireless-streaming iTV device isn’t already proof of the possibilties, then I don’t know what is. WiMax wireless networks haven’t been […]