In an effort to be Dropbox music, Mecanto launches affordable streaming and storage services

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If you're a fan of cloud-based music boxes, this is a good time to be alive. Back in March, Amazon somewhat surprising beat Apple and Google storage and streaming music from their "Cloud drive" and "Cloud player". Google and Apple have since begun to cloud music victims (or their Beta), and all three continue to improve and evolve as time marches on.

As a lover of music, it's great to see cloud music storage and streaming services, move forward in tandem, even if we must all recognize that our own personal bookmark. Because, frankly, more competition in this space, the better. That is why you should pay attention to the new startup, which enters the stage left: Mecanto. Yes, today, a new service cloudy music includes Arena, promising Unlimited Music streaming and storage of the listeners around the world is not to put a dent in your wallet. (TC 1000 Mecanto offers readers free 6 months subscription. Huzzah! See below for more information.)

On the basis of the Tel Aviv Mecanto hitting scenes this week to support cloud music player and storage service, easy to set up and all the things the user wants from their trusty neighborhood music locker: unlimited storage and streaming, the ability to automatically sync your iTunes library and PC folders with your account (with multiple computers), global accessibility, playlist editing, video, easy overview and cross platform functionality. Also doesn't hurt that users can find Mecanto on the Internet or go mobile iOS, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian.

MeCanto Mobile interface is very stylish and enables users to easily listen to the songs and albums or create playlists. Stream songs over 3 G or WiFi and users can listen to any song they want without having to worry about how much space the song took on a phone. Here's to you, clouds.

This sounds like a great start, right? Of course, but with names like Amazon, Google, Apple, Spotify and numerous other staring down Mecanto definitely has uphill climb ahead. In doing so, accessibility is a strong selling point for the service of Israeli music. Look at your competitors: Spotify unlimited "and" premium cost $ 60 per year and $ 120 per year, respectively, iCloud comes in at around $ 25 a year, Amazon Cloud drive and cloud player is worth at least $ 20 per year (unlimited storage may be limited time offer).

Google, on the other hand is currently free of charge, but there is little likelihood that it will stay that way for long. For comparison, at $ 20 per year, is an attractive alternative to large Mecanto players, especially as it offers worldwide access, cross platform integration, and instantly uploads — suite, which its competitors only offer to pieces.

In addition, users are free for the first time Mecanto month service at the end of which they can pay $ 20 for a whole year or breaking it down into $ 2 monthly. To start using, users can download a small application for desktop computers, which will then download and synchronize all the music automatically. Bing, Bada boom Bada boom probable cause. The best part: to accelerate the process of downloading Mecanto's, this means that users can access their music almost instantly, even before the download is complete. Students may obtain direct access to their music, or they can choose to upload your files to slower bandwidth savings without having to worry about delays.

Not wanting to be anti-social at the age of Facebook music service also offers a social function, including the possibility of adding a video to YouTube account and playback, as well as the ability to share these YouTube clips on Facebook and Twitter, Last.fm scrobbling tracks Exchange current track for social networking, bidirectional synchronization and intelligent categorization tracks. As for the support files? Mecanto works with MP3, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC and a big part of their language.

Mecanto in the so-called "three screens and a cloud" platform really is an excellent alternative to the big names in space, and a "Dropbox for music" is not an analogy unfair. Course design isn't quite up to par with some of the other, but its availability, worldwide access and cross platform functionality can simply give Mecanto feet, it has to be taken seriously in a crowded with familiar names space.

So far run raised $ 2 million in funding from private angels, but you can be sure that the startup will seek more cash as he begins to scale and rolls out around the world.

Israeli music locker is definitely worth a look, especially under the auspices of the monthly demo and the fact that the first 1000 readers to TechCrunch, which here will receive free testing within six months of service. I mean, who doesn't love music deal? Check this.

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Music search startup SoundHound partners with Spotify for instant streaming

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Music search and discovery company SoundHound has signed a contract with the provider of digital music Spotify to allow SoundHound in Europe with instant access to the last directory (more than 15 million tracks). From the sound of it partnership does not allow users outside Europe to bridge this specific just yet.

Today, SoundHound iOS users and Android devices that also subscribe to Spotify premium will be paid to the option "Play now in Spotify" after identifying a song via the service discovery and music recognition. This goes for users, both free and paid apps SoundHound.

SoundHound users in Europe do not subscribe to the Spotify premium will be redirected to a page inviting them to become Spotify users before listening to the track.

Direct competitor Shazam (bis), SoundHound "Sound2Sound» tech looking for sound against sound, thus bypassing the traditional transformation sound in text.

Headquartered in San Jose, California, SoundHound is backed by global catalyst partners, TransLink capital, Walden venture capital and other investors, Silicon Valley.

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Streaming Flash games run iSwifter said proceeds will Pass $ 10 m this year

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iSwifter, the iPad app that allows Flash developers to stream games for the tablet device, announces revenue for 2011 will be for $ 10 million. It's impressive considering the company is only a year ago.

As we wrote in the past, the iSwifter enables users to view, play, and the speed of Flash games from gaming portals (like Facebook) online, with each game, optimized for the iPad. Actually run from the incubator YouWeb spun last year. With Flash iSwifter not run on the device, but it is for tablet as Netflix movie or YouTube videos.

The company makes money from the subscription model for monthly games in which users pay $ 4.99 for unlimited access to Flash social games on Facebook and MMOs. And the company has recently revealed that 500 000 people games almost 2000 Facebook using iSwifter.

In fact, iSwifter came to the conclusion that many users (20 per cent) are willing to pay for a free games if they can play the iPad. Hundreds of thousands of users iSwifter spent millions of minutes on Facebook with nearly half make purchases in the App.

iSwifter staff up engineering talents. Ajit Maya, former Senior Director of engineering at VMware; Lucian Masalar, architect of eBay and Pankaj Kumar, previously at Microsoft; combine all of the development team of the firm.

iSWiFTER is the industry's first cloud-based Flash game streaming service, specially built for mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, covering mobile platforms such as Apple iOS and Android.

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Miramax launches Facebook application for streaming movies

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After the example of Warner Bros., Paramount and universal Miramax jumped on the bandwagon Facebook application, offering the film in exchange for Facebook credits. In addition to watch videos and play games, users will have access to full-length feature films from the library of Miramax, including Secretaries, kill Bill, good will hunting and no country for old men.

As of right now, the application is still in beta. It was built in just eight weeks, "so you should expect some bugs and glitches in the beginning. US Facebook users will have the choice between 20 films, each of which is worth 30 credits, Facebook's lease is the equivalent of $ 3. The service was also available in the UK and Turkey this morning, with France and Germany on the deck, according to Miramax blog.

Once you rent, you'll have a full 30 days access to the film. However, after the beginning of the film, only you have 48 hours to finish it before it expires. The IPad and Google TV are also working with the application. For a complete list of movies available right now (all 20 of them) can be found here.

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Hulu starts streaming in the land of the rising sun

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Premium video site Hulu has just announced that it would make its first international expansion: Japan.

Hulu keeps mum on details, but it sounds like it will offer a premium subscription service (the American version of Hulu offers premium and free content). Now the company has an Office in Tokyo and is preparing to launch "later this year" (again, no more details on this front).

From the blog:

We are excited about entering Japan right now for a variety of reasons. For one thing, Nihon WA subarashii Cooney desu ("Japan is a beautiful country"). Japanese audience passionate about premium video content, and the country is a major producer of world-class Television and feature films (Japanese content plays an important part of the contents of Hulu's lineup in the United States for a long time already). In Japan, we also see unfulfilled market need with premium movies and TV content, and very favourable environmental factors in our service, including extensive broadband penetration, Smartphone and the widespread use of the device connected to the Internet and strong consumer interest. We were able to use what we have learned from Hulu and Hulu plus, in addition to insights from our market research, design, high value product, specially for Japanese clients.

Hulu has established itself in the United States as the primary place to watch the latest TV shows (and, increasingly, movies) with image content as The Daily Show and the Office. He started the Hulu plus in June 2010, which is a premium subscription version of the site, which costs $ 7.99 and offers more content, additional devices, including Xbox 360 and the iPad.

It also prevents frustrating limitations of content owners who enjoy making their contents for any period of time and then delete it. Not that he ever burned me.

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American Airlines and Gogo in-flight roll personal video streaming device 767 fleet

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As we heard earlier this spring, American Airlines became one of the first airlines in North America to begin testing the GoGo in-flight video streaming for personal devices for passengers. Today the company is announcing the wider roll out of new entertainment products for your entire fleet of 767 aircraft, mainly on routes between JFK New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

We also find out more information about entertainment products. The system will wirelessly stream content such as movies and TV shows from the library on board to select the types of Wi-Fi enabled laptops during flights. «Entertainment on demand "will be available for $ 0.99 in the TV show and $ 3.99 for the film. Customers do not need to buy on board Wi-Fi use on-demand entertainment may simply click on the banner of entertainment on demand on board Wi-Fi home page, select the movie or TV show, enter the payment form, and then click "remove".

American Airlines, said that the platform currently offers 100 movies and TV shows that will remain available for viewing after the client has landed (movies 24 hours) and TV shows for 72 hours. The goal, said the company is for the introduction of entertainment for all aircraft wi-fi enabled. American Airlines actually only received received FAA certification for this month.

In the coming months, in-flight wifi provider GoGo plans to make available for use with the product tablets and other devices. I can imagine many users want to be able to stream movies to their iPads in flight, as opposed to using laptop computers.

Here's a video explaining how to operate the service.

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