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RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter
Air America broke a couple of records for concurrent streams on it’s first day out of the gate. The article mentions some interesting metrics for internet radio.
RealNetworks said that it delivered 50,000 concurrent streams on the network’s first day of broadcasting (March 31), which the company says makes it the […]

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Jabberwocky
Liz Goodman, an ITP alum worked on this project while working at the Intel Research Berkeley lab.
From the description:
Jabberwocky is a freely available mobile phone application designed to promote urban community connections and a sense of familiarity, anxiety, and play in public urban places.

Oracle and Java Stored Procedures
Ever wanted to run Oracle stored procedures in Java. This article shows you how.

Wright State University Communications and Marketing
No not really, but this is an interesting project. From the article:
Tyflos, the Greek word for blind, is the name of the portable, wearable device Bourbakis has developed. The partnering project at ASU is called iLearn. A tiny camera is mounted to glasses and connected by a thin wire […]

Apple demos new high-quality video codec at NAB
From the article:
In addition to the five product announcements made on Sunday and the upgrades to the notebook product line-up on Monday, Apple Computer Inc. still had a surprise for people visiting their booth at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, NV. Apple […]

Pandaa makes a simple audio recording application that allows for scheduling and volume operated recording (VOX). Freeware..
Thanks to Evan for the link.

Nokia, HP ‘Visualize’ Mobile Radio
Nokia is apparently making a couple of handsets that are capable of receiving FM broadcasts and synchronizing visuals and other media elements. Very interesting…
From the article:
“The FM radio capabilities are based on standard tuners embedded in the handset. The Visual Radio service picks up a user’s location over GPRS and […]

macosxlabs.org - Documentation
Not that the original doesn’t work, this just adds a GUI and better support for the filesystem. Oh, yeah, rsync is a nice backup and synchronization utility.

JRoar — Pure Java Streaming Server for Ogg
From the site:
JRoar is a streaming server for Ogg in pure Java
JRoar casts live Ogg streams to Ogg Vorbis players as IceCast2 does and shouts live Ogg streams to IceCast2 and JRoar(, but JRoar does not support encoding/re-encoding). JRoar also accepts live Ogg streams from IceS. The uniqueness […]