Skype is the dominant player in Internet audio and video communications people use "Skype" as a verb and now Microsoft owns it.
The official term, to be added to the online version of the dictionary during the next update early next year, is defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".
Features include integrated video and still cameras, a RealOne audio player, Bluetooth, POP3 email and full internet access.
If you had a an MP3 device on input 1 and 2, a streaming internet audio source on input 3 and 4 and a CD player on 5 and 6 - you might have MP3 inputs 1 & 2 set to low or "3", internet audio inputs 3 and 4 set high or "8 or 9" and CD inputs 5 and 6 set to a middle point or "4 or 5".
Another outfit, Australia's Torian, has created a portable MP3 player with a Wi-Fi capability designed to stream Internet audio.
Podcasting technology allows users to create and upload their own audio files on the Internet, where they can be downloaded later to devices like an iPod, an audio player or a computer.
Their need to quickly build up an Internet audio line puts Sunnyvale, Calif.-based S3, which shipped the first MP3 portable player 18 months ago, in a comfortable position.
Podcasts are Internet audio programs that you can subscribe to and store on your PC, iPod or other MP3 player.
Patients were comfortable using a variety of delivery modalities including CD-ROMs in two studies, the internet in 14 studies, personal digital assistants in two studies, custom biofeedback devices in three studies, and a personal audio player in one study.
RealNetworks, which has made the RealPlayer software for viewing Internet audio and video since 1995, recently announced plans for its new RealOne media subscription service and updated user software, the RealOne Player.
