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V-Soft Offers Internet Security Option 

V-Soft has developed a system that allows a user to gain authentication through an online Web server in addition to the physical local or network key.

Entercom Portland Stations Launch on Flytunes 

By the end of August, Flytunes coverage will expand to include all of Entercom Portland's stations.

Streaming Audio 

If you aren't already streaming audio from your radio station, you probably will be soon. Streaming is a natural alternative to program delivery for radio

Inside IPv6 

We are now running out of available IP addresses under the current addressing scheme called IPv4, which is limited to a maximum of 4,294,967,296 addresses. This may seem like a lot of addresses, but consider that according to ICANN, the available IPv4 addresses will run out by 2011.

Feel the Power 

From generator and UPS back-up to alternative sources, facility power is often-overlooked but mission-critical.

Audio Compass 1.0 

A new software application called Audio Compass makes remote radio broadcasts easy. Now we can produce shows wherever there’s high-speed connectivity and a PC. Audio Compass is a simple software application that turns a PC into an audio codec.

Broadcast Electronics The Radio Experience 

Datacasting, or messagecasting as we call it at BE, is simply the broadcasting of data, whether it's audio or a text message in the form of data

Content delivery options 

As a stand-alone medium, traditional broadcasting is subject to a multitude of restrictions as compared with other Internet-driven delivery platforms

Viero Web services 

Several years ago, a new technology called Web services began to make headway in software architecture. The technology leverages the same mechanisms used by Web browsers and Web servers to allow systems to more easily communicate and share data. Web services have proven extremely useful and are now considered to be mainstream software architecture

New Delivery 

We live in a time when we must take a good look at the definition of radio. Why? Consider the story of a college sports fan who wanted to hear the radio broadcast of a recent football game, but wasn't near a radio. He used his cell phone to get online, navigate to the station that carried the football game broadcast, clicked on Listen Live, and heard the game. He wasn't listening to FM or AM signal propagation. He was listening to a digital audio stream, but wasn't it the same material that was heard over the air?

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Radio Currents Podcast, Oct 13

Arbitron will introduce cell-phone-only households to diarys; the FCC offers a new plan for the 700MHz band public safety use; Heil Sound hires Phil Jost; and Nautel hires John Bisset, Ellis Terry and and Steve Schmitt.

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The House passes the Webcaster Settlement Act, another House bills looks to require HD Radio in all radio receivers, and the NAB Radio Show announces attendance figures.

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