Tag: ORB

Esteemed bleeding-edge browser downloaders, we are saddened to announce that Chrome's bulbous, off-center and slightly 90s-looking logo is back. The change occurred yesterday, when the Chrome Dev channel was moved from version 11 to version 12. We're not yet sure whether this is simply a mistake, or an actual reversion to the previous logo. We're seeing the change on both Windows and Mac ...

While exciting progress is being made in the realm of high-speed mobile data, it will be a long time indeed before wireless operators can catch up with wired bandwidth and ubiquity. For the time being, mass data transfer will be one of the few things that will stay within the realm of home and office computing, on DSL and Cable connections. Still, just because you run your BitTorrent client on ...

It was pretty exciting news at Download Squad to hear Orb, the "sort of software version of Slingbox," was available for Mac. Orb allows you to broadcast your media to any device that has a web browser. After downloading Orb to your "always on" Mac with a high speed internet connection, you can access all your photos, songs, TV shows, and videos from any device with a browser and media player. ...

If you've got a TV tuner in your home PC, you can turn your PC into a streaming web video server using software like Orb or SageTV Placeshifter. Now Monsoon Multimedia is getting into the game with the announcement of HAVASoft. Monsoon Multimedia is probably best known these days as the first company to be sued for violating the GPL. But they also make a set top box that allows users to stream ...

The Register reports that streaming media company Orb Networks plans to announce support for the iPhone and iPod touch this week. Orb is sort of like the software version of the Slingbox. You install a client on your home PC and then you can login from pretty much any device with a web browser and stream your music, picture, and video collection over the internet to a remote computer or mobile ...

When you're at work, do you wish you could listen to your home music collection without an iPod or other portable media player? When you go to visit the extended family, do you always forget to bring the latest photos of the kids with you? Most of the time, we'd recommend Orb. Install an application on your home PC and you can access your media from pretty much any web browser, including the ...

You probably know that you can listen to music or watch movies on your Windows Mobile device. But did you know you don't need to carry around a massive storage card? Flash memory cards are getting cheaper and cheaper. While a 16MB CompactFlash card used to cost an arm and a leg, now you can pick up 8GB cards for under $100. But why bother when you can access all the media stored on your PC ...

It's been a while since we've talked about SoonR, a company that lets you access your desktop files on the go from your mobile phone. Recently SoonR was named one of 25 startups to watch by Business 2.0, and the company put out a nifty promotional video (with really horrible microphone placement. Make sure not to listen to this with the volume cranked up, or your ears will burst). SoonR looks ...

Who needs TinyTube? As one method for browsing and watching YouTube videos on a mobile phone disappears, another pops up to take its place. Orb Networks had already developed a method for reading RSS feeds of YouTube and other online video sites on your phone. And Orb 2.0 also let you stream individual video files. Now Orb's offering the whole package, by adding online video search to the mobile ...

In what sounds like a show across the bow of the likes of Orb and the Slingbox, according to BetaNews Microsoft is testing an add-on to Windows Media Center which would allow users to stream live TV from their Media Center PC across the Internet through their web browser. BetaNews says Microsoft is being "wary of copyright issues," so expect the software to be DRM-heavy. The product is ...

Need to stream your voicemails anywhere in the world? Want an SMS any time you get voicemail in Skype? Well it looks like that API thing is already bearing fruit, because Orb has released a little add-on called V4s, which allows you to sort of integrate some Skype-ability into Orb-powered PC's.All you do is install V4s on your Orb-enabled machine at home and (after setting up Skype naturally) you ...