Didiom Debuts on BlackBerry App World
By Gabe on Aug 06, 2009 with 3
Filed Under: Misc. News
Didiom, the popular mobile media service provider, has been officially released on BlackBerry App World. Didiom easily lets you stream music, podcasts and audiobooks from your PC to your BlackBerry. Their MP3 store is packed with over two-million songs to search through. Best of all they are giving away 25 pre-selected songs for you try and download on your phone or PC/Mac.
Didiom is a free download and is currently compatible with the following phones: BlackBerry Tour 9630, BlackBerry Bold 9000, BlackBerry Curve 8300, 8900, BlackBerry Pearl, and BlackBerry 8800 series.
Didiom was released a while back to the BlackBerry but only for certain models and it was very much in the testing stage. Now that it is released to App World you can expect it to compete with other popular music apps. Clearly its best feature is that it will let you seamlessly stream from not only the PC but also the Mac.
From the press release:
“Launching Didiom on the BlackBerry App World is a giant step forward for us in reaching the rapidly-growing BlackBerry community,” said Ran Assaf, Didiom’s founder and CEO. “Didiom doesn’t only eliminate the need for synching your iTunes library with your phone via USB; it also shifts the paradigm on how we mobilize our home computer’s media library. When you wait for a flight, stand in line at a busy Starbucks, or walk your dog, you can easily access your computer from your phone and stream anything from the latest audiobooks you’ve downloaded from Barnes & Noble to the latest podcasts you’ve downloaded from CNN, The Wall Street Journal, or ESPN.”
Didiom’s hybrid service is built upon the company’s proprietary, placeshifting technology and wireless content delivery platform. Throughout the beta period, Didiom offers a free mobile application for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phones, as well as a desktop application that seamlessly scans users’ personal computers, and maintains an encrypted channel between the user’s computer and phone. When users add new audio files to their computer, Didiom’s desktop application automatically scans and makes them available for wireless streaming on their phone.
With the mobile and publishing industries at a critical turning point, the market for placeshifting of audiobooks and podcasts presents attractive growth opportunities. Didiom has recently expanded its public beta test to include PC-to-phone streaming of audiobooks and podcasts. The audiobook market has been growing steadily for more than a decade. According to a new study by the Audio Publishers Association, downloadable audiobooks accounted for 21 percent of audiobook sales in 2008, up from 17 percent in 2007.
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About the Author: Gabe is the owner and Editor-in-Chief here at BerryReporter also Owner of Everything4Blackberry.com He has a strong passion for the BlackBerry and its growing community of fans.
This is actually a pretty cool app but their song selection is lacking
The information here is not accurate. Didiom does not stream from Macs!!!
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