By urging the industry to develop common standards for the application of streaming video and audio in wireless internet applications and television set-top boxes, Apple stands to at least hold its ground if the playing field is leveled.
It also sports Nokia Music introducing MixRadio, a free global music streaming application with hundreds of channels.
Nokia Music introduces MixRadio, a free, global, mobile music-streaming application that delivers 100s of channels of locally-relevant music.
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The company has developed a video-streaming application, Denso, that specializes in selecting videos based on a user's personal taste.
The Nokia Lumia 822 also comes with Nokia Music - a completely ad-free music streaming application, requiring no registration, no log-in or subscription.
As more users stream more video to mobile devices, things will only get worse, affecting the video quality for any streaming mobile application.
And you can send audio from any application, such as a streaming music service or video-on-demand services like Hulu or Netflix.
The patent application also explains that the streaming playback could be adjusted based on the type of communications network, and that there would naturally be various means to authenticate your device and ensure that you actually own the music you're streaming.
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The second reason to consider streaming is where the application mandates immediate response to the data.
Now Bittorrent, the company that Cohen founded, offers a more legitimate--and more lucrative--application: powering the Web's streaming online video.
Of course, there's no guarantee that such a system will indeed be a part of Apple's seemingly imminent streaming service, but the patent application was filed way back in November of 2009, which certainly means it's had plenty of time to implement it if it chose to.
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The console's set to ship in Q2 2013, and it promises stunning graphics for the Android games it's made to run, as well as a direct streaming option employing NVIDIA's GeForce Experience application.
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The console's set to ship in Q2 2012, and it promises stunning graphics for the Android games it's made to run, as well as a direct streaming option employing NVIDIA's GeForce Experience application.
The Lumia 820 offers the same exclusive content as the Lumia 920, including Nokia Drive, a turn-by-turn voice navigation solution, Nokia Music, a free music streaming service and Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application that uses the phone's camera viewfinder to provide information about points of interests in the surrounding area.
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Earlier this week the streaming hi-fi hardware maker Sonos announced that it was opening up its API (Application Programming Interface) so that music services could build apps - and those already include Spotify.
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