While the i-opener, which uses an operating system that is a variation of Linux, had no trouble playing streaming audio and then playing, for example, Internet radio through its tiny, built-in speakers.
After yesterday's market close, Microsoft Corp. announced that it was selling its 10% stake in RealNetworks Inc., maker of the most popular software for playing streaming audio and video on the Internet.
On the Blu-ray, as well as the Xbox, the Wii, the Roku, and the Apple TV, we have Netflix for playing streaming video and movies.
Billboard rolls out a chart every year in June that tracks the songs with the most radio plays, streams, and sales on its charts from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Even on digital assistants that have a Web enabled modem, it won't play streaming content.
(The home stereo can play streaming broadcasts from radio stations far beyond antenna range because of the connection with the home computer).
The iRad can connect via a 56K modem through a phone line or home networking system and plays streaming audio through a pair of attached speakers.
The i-opener, however, could not play streaming video, locking users out of some of the hottest offerings on the World Wide Web.
Even Ms. Hoffmann's estimable comic energies are overshadowed by Mia Farrow, her orange curls like a circus fright wig, who plays Stream's mother, Judy, as a batty bundle of New Age nostrums and neurotic rage.
