The entertainment provider announced today that the iPhone version of its cloud music service is now available. In essence, it takes your iTunes music, stuffs it into the mSpot cloud, and grants you access to that music anywhere you have the mSpot app. This works on both your desktop browser, as well as your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Internet-connected TV. mSpot launched on Android earlier this year.

You’ll still need to upload the music from your iTunes-connected computer to the mSpot cloud, but it does mean that you can access that music anywhere you can latch onto the interwebz. The catch is that the free version of the service limits you to just 2GB of storage (about 1600 songs). You can step up to 40GB for $3.99 a month.

Be forewarned, though. If you don’t have an unlimited (or near unlimited) wireless data plan, you can quite easily go over your monthly allotment with all this music streaming. Interestingly, there is even an airplane mode that will play cached songs on your iPhone without network coverage… but you need to download that cache first, of course.

[mSpot, iTunes]

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Dlink Boxee Box media streaming device

If you were going to jump for that Apple TV, you may want to hold off, as the DLink Boxee Box is planned to hit mail boxes this November. The original launch was slated for June, but due to a switch from the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipest, to an Intel Atom CE4100 platform, Boxee Box is now back on track and is taking pre-orders for $199. The switch was to improve streaming quality, and now it can support 3D graphics too. The previously selected Nvidia Tegra 250 chip would have been close, but the bit rate is lower and high-quality HD streaming would be, not as high. The bitrate difference wouldn’t effect you viewing your media on an iPhone or iPad, but on large screens you’d definitely see the difference. No offical announcement was made as to whether a Boxee app for iPhone/iPad will be ready by November, but we should expect something in order to stream your “social media” to your mobile device and keep you entertained while taking a dump. If not, Tegra 2 or Intel, Boxee will be left watching infomercials.

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Monsoon Vulkano STB in black

Want to set up a box in your home that can be used not only to record all of your favorite programming, but also to stream said content to all sorts of other devices? The Monsoon Vulkano is a placeshifting media streamer that follows the company’s HAVA line and claims to do all that and more.  The Vulkano features a very slim profile and design as you can see in the photograph, inside you’ll find a true HD video processor and local harddrive for storage (no cloud action just yet). Though it sports analog inputs, it can take HD video for recording purposes and downcode it for live streaming over WiFi and 3G portable devices.

At launch, there will be apps available for PC, Mac, iOS (iPhone/iPad), BlackBerry and Android. The plan is to bring Symbian into the fold shortly thereafter as well. In addition to the live streaming, these same devices can choose to save the recordings locally for offline viewing. Pretty sweet.  Going even further, the Monsoon Vulkano can be used to view (and record?) all kinds of Internet content too, like YouTube. They’re planning on nabbing Hulu, Netflix, Google TV, and even a full HTML browser in the near future too. Prices start at $279 for the Vulkano with 8GB SD storaage and ramp up to $379 for the Vulkano Pro with 1TB eSATA HDD, now available for pre-order.

[engadget via Monsoon Multimedia]

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With thousands of audio files in your iTunes library and growing, how do you access your massive archives of digital music without having to “sync” before hitting the road? Didiom has a solution.

Didiom is a New York based company who has released a service called Didiom Pro. They take your digital media from your home computer network and let you access it from your mobile phone. Much faster and simpler than syncing or copying files over to memory chips or USB.

The Pro suite includes a desktop software application which streams any of your audio files to your mobile phone connected to the internet via 3G or WiFi. In addition to streaming music, you are even able to download a track to have it on your phone for offline listening later on.

Confusingly enough, Didiom Pro is not available for the iPhone, regardless of its ability to access your iTunes library. iPhone users will have to hang tough until an official release date is known, the company expects it to be available this summer along with an Android release for the second half of 2010.

BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows devices get the jump start and can sign up for the service today for $0.99 per month or $9.99 a year for unlimited access to your library. This includes high-quality streaming, playlist streaming, and wireless downloads from a home computer to your mobile phone.

You can test it out for free to see if it’s something you would use, the trial includes streaming of five tracks in normal quality mode. “Not so long ago, it took awkward data cables, memory cards, and hours of synchronization time to have your entire iTunes library in the palm of your hands. Now, it takes just one simple app –– Didiom Pro.” said Ran Assaf, Didiom’s founder and CEO.

Didiom Pro Image Gallery

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