Remote Potato is an iOS app that allows Windows Media Center users to scheduled recordings, view pictures, and even stream music or videos from your PC to your iPhone. Now the developer is preparing to launch an iPad app. It’s expected to hit the App Store on July 12th. Windows Media Center is Microsoft’s 10-foot interface for controlling a PC. It’s built into most consumer… Read more »

OnLive lets you play console video games over the internet without buying a Playstation 3, Xbox 360, or other gaming console. The service streams the game to you and if you have a 5Mbps or faster internet connection the quality is close to what you’d expect if you did have a gaming system in your living room. The difference is you can play games on… Read more »

Sony has released a new streaming music app for Google Android smartphones. It’s called Music Unlimited and it’s powered by the company’s Qriocity streaming music service. The app is available as a free download from the Android Market, but you’ll need to sign up for a monthly subscription plan to actually stream any music. Sony is offering free 30-day trials, but if you forget to… Read more »

Music-on-demand service Napster is expanding its boundaries. Up until recently the service was only available in the US, but now UK customers can pony up £10 per month (about $16) to stream songs from Napster’s library of about 15 million tracks. The company’s name is still probably best known for the free service that launched music piracy into the modern era a decade ago, but Napster… Read more »

Google Music launched today, and while the service is obviously aimed square at the company’s own products, it happens to play nice with other devices as well. Since the Google Music Web app is intended to work nicely in Google Chrome you can bet it’ll work in other Webkit-based browsers as well — including Mobile Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. There’s not… Read more »

The folks at doubleTwist have been providing tools for synchronizing an Android phone with Apple’s iTunes software for ages. Now they’ve upped their game though, adding support for Apple’s AirPlay music streaming protocol. That means you can now stream music, video, and photos from an Android phone to an Apple TV or other supported hardware. In order to do that you’ll need to download the… Read more »

When Amazon launched its Cloud Player online music locker service, it allowed users to upload music to the web and stream songs to any desktop web browser or to a Google Android device. But iOS was left out in the cold… until now. Sometime recently Amazon Cloud Player began working with the iOS web browser. That means you can fire up Safari on your iPhone,… Read more »

Video game retailer GameStop appears to be working on a service that would let Android smartphone and tablet users stream video games over the internet. In other words, you wouldn’t just buy a game, download it to your device and run it. Instead the game would be running on a remote server and you’d use your mobile device to login and play. The upshot is… Read more »

A hacker has found the public key for Apple’s Airport Express hardware and posted it online. What that means is that it’s now possible to stream media from iTunes directly to third party software without using Airport Express or other licensed hardware. In other words, developers can write apps that will stream music from iTunes running on a PC to another computer in your household,… Read more »

Amazon’s Cloud Drive service launched this week, giving any Amazon customer 5GB of free space to store music files online where they can be accessed from any Mac or Windows computer or Android phone or tablet. But a company called mSpot has been offering a similar service since last year. One of the key differences is that mSpot only gave users 2GB of free storage,… Read more »