Giorgio Bernardi, Inrete CTO, has just showed the potential of DriveCast at Auto Venture Forum in Detroit (Michigan, USA), a one-day opportunity for selected entrepreneurial ventures to present their innovative products to panels of automotive company executives, organized by ASME and Clemson University (website of the event: AutoVenture Forum Detroit).

As the only European technology, DriveCast was so proud to be part of this big event and showed to the audience the potential of an on-the-cloud application that is the most convenient way for users to listen to their radio shows and podcasts while driving.

With the new trend of Internet connected cars, the automotive sector is looking for innovative solutions allowing users to go beyond the classical music consumption in the car: DriveCast is the perfect deal! It offers the fusion of multiple devices, a set of tools centered around the user’s media preferences which follows them into a given day’s different contexts even in the car. 

Speech slides at: http://www.slideshare.net/Inrete/drivecast-avf-detroit-2010

DriveCast first releases were really made around the car and our goal was to make easy to organize your audio items and to listen to them.

But now with all the DriveCast clients available for smartphones, tablets and connected TVs, video is as important as audio, so even the web interface has to give it the due respect and we are happy to announce the new video play feature now available on http://drivecast.eu.

A new video player is now available to play your favorite videos when you logon to the web with your DriveCast account: whatever is playable on a browser is now playable on your DriveCast account. Besides using Flash we also try to leverage the new HTML5 capabilities where available, so that you can have a new tool that is easy and fun to use.

According to your browser and to the add-on you installed you can freely play a multitude of video formats like Flash Video, H.264, Theora.

DriveCast is a good friend of podcast users and, as all the good friends do, wants the best for them. This is why amazing new features specific for podcasts are now available: you will enjoy more and more your favorite shows.

First of all High Definition video podcasts are now available and with a broader choice of channels.

We made a great effort choosing from the newer and more interesting subscription channels: the number of available podcasts in DriveCast Podcasts page is now more than doubled.

If you’re looking for a specific content you can browse the DriveCast Podcasts section not only by language, but also by type. Pick up audio, video or video HD podcasts and add them to your favorite playlist.

With the HD video quality, watching your podcasts on the big screen of Samsung and Philips TVs becomes even more pleasant.

Check the news out at www.drivecast.eu!

DriveCast celebrates its first birthday and what a better gift than a good set of improvements on the web interface? We have been busy working to bring your content on your gadgets, but it was time to enhance the web interface simplifying the use of all the items added during the latest months.

Just to give you a taste, from Library section you can directly create and manage all the playlists you want, organizing content at your liking.

A new “Sources” section is now available. From this page you can subscribe to your favorite podcasts, listen to web radios and record your favorite radio shows.

Manage all your devices and gadgets it’s even simpler with the new tools in “Devices” section. DriveCast works more and more better with your devices making your content always accessible.

You can even create your “personal RSS feed” choosing from iTunes or other common RSS aggregators.

Check it out at http://drivecast.eu!

After a long wait, iPad is going global next Friday, May 28, trying to hit back the million US customers record. DriveCast team didn’t forget this revolutionary deadline and has already managed to release the new app optimized for the iPad capabilities.

A total of 9 countries will be getting the much-anticipated consumer gadget (both models, Wi-Fi and 3G) that is Apple Tablet. These countries include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and of course the UK.

A new specific DriveCast app is available and ready to use on iPad. Sync via wireless or 3G your Drivecast Web account and take the media on your Tablet: watch real high quality videos and follow your newsfeed on a bigger screen.

Find it on App Store and keep enjoying your multimedia experience.

DriveCast sull’App Store

iPad will be making another international trip in July with Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore being the lucky destinations and DriveCast, of course, will follow it.

DriveCast is now available on BLOBbox, the innovative set-top box, being part of a revolution that will radically change the way to think about TV.

Giorgio Bernardi, Inrete CTO, recently gave a speech at the first TVblob Workshop on “Application development for the TV” highlighting the unique experience of DriveCast that brings your contents from PC to car and, of course, on TV.

Speech slides at: www.slideshare.net/Inrete/drivecast-blobbox

Inrete is proud of DriveCast presence on BLOBbox, actually the most important open development TV platform within the European market, that allows the creation of personal TV services.

BLOBbox is a new product, something different from what we are used to: surf YouTube, Facebook, Picasa, Wikipedia, Gmail, download and share your contents with BitTorrent, set and record your favourite tv shows directly on the built-in internal HD. Without forgetting the high quality, till HDTV 1080p.

For further information about BLOBbox visit: http://shop.tvblobbox.com/

DriveCast makes friends with the little green robot officially entering the Android Market.

If you are part of the increasing number of Android lovers (that make more than 40% of today mobile web traffic in US) from today on you can find DriveCast on the Android online store.

Thus you can synchronize your mobile with the online DriveCast library in a faster and easier way, directly from the UMTS/Wi-Fi connection.

Download for free the application from Android Market or scan the QR code above, with a program like Barcode Scanner, and take your favorite multimedia content always with you.

DriveCast is now being tested with Autonet mobile, the DriveCast synchronization software has been ported to in-car Autonet mobile router and the Autonet/DriveCast web interface is accessible at: http://drivecast.autonetmobile.net

Autonet mobile, based is San Francisco (USA), is the world’s first WiFi hotspot certified for vehicles. Autonet patented pending TRU Technology manages your sessions to eliminate dropped connections while on the road. Founded by a corporate executive and former race car driver and a leading network architect and designer, the company is dedicated to enhancing the in-car experience by bringing the power of the internet to the millions of cars on the road.

For more information about Autonet mobile, visit http://www.autonetmobile.com

Thanks to Yahoo! and Samsung, your DriveCast managed contents can now be watched from your sofa on the new Samsung Internet Connected TV sets.

If you have a latest TV from Samsung, use your remote control to access the Widget Gallery, and add the DriveCast widget to your TV.

For more info on the ConnectedTV project:
http://www.samsung.com/us/internetTV/
http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/connectedtv/

Some hour ago was published on the AppStore a lite (and free) version of DriveCast application for iPhone and iPod Touch.

With this version, now it is possible to “taste” the goodness to have always a DriveCast in your pocket: downloading and playing media you have in your DriveCast Library will be always possible, also without using a computer… Just be connected to a wi-fi network (UMTS is only available in full version).

DriveCast Lite is available from the App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/drivecast-lite/id348698704?mt=8

Here it is also full version link:
http://itunes.apple.com/it/app/drivecast/id322969074?mt=8

However, we remember that both DriveCast Lite and DriveCast for iPhone and iPod Touch were created from an external developer, and its webpage is:
http://www.emanuelefornaro.it/iphone/drivecast/index.en.html

DriveCast has been developed thanks to the official Drivecast APIs, available for all developers.
The API specification and documentation are available at:
http://wiki.drivecast.eu/index.php/Drivecast_API