Debuts New Features Including Additional Storage Options and Voice-Activated Playback
Palo Alto, Calif. - September 23, 2010 – mSpot, Inc., the leading cloud entertainment provider, reports today that its streaming music service of the same name has been downloaded 500,000 times since its June 28 launch. Additionally, mSpot is offering new features including storage options that allow users to keep up to 40 GB of music in the cloud as well as voice-activated features via Google Voice. The improved music app is available in the Android Market, and to all PC and Mac users at www.mspot.com
“We speculated a year ago that the demand for cloud based entertainment would be on the rise due to the growing number of media capable devices coming to market such as smartphones, set-top boxes, tablets and PCs,” said mSpot CEO Daren Tsui. “What we didn’t expect is how quickly the demand skyrocketed, as exhibited by our early organic growth just on Android.”
According to a recent survey by Pew Research, technology experts expect that cloud and mobile computing will overtake PCs by 2020. mSpot user data shows that mobile is gaining traction among users as an entertainment and cloud platform. According to internal company usage data, those customers who have the option to listen via both Web and Mobile spent the majority of the time (83% in August) listening on mobile.
The mSpot music service enables users to quickly upload their music to the mSpot Cloud and then immediately start listening from both desktop browsers and mobile phones for free (2 gigabytes or ~1600 songs). As of today, users can choose to access 40 gigabytes of storage (~32,000 songs) for $3.99 a month.
Other new features include:
mSpot currently provides streaming movies to Android phones and tablets, as well as iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Palm and over 50 other high-end handsets. mSpot provides streaming radio to hundreds of handsets as well. An innovator in cloud entertainment services, mSpot became the first company to stream full-length feature movies on both the iPhone and the iPad with the launch of its Mobile Movies service. mSpot Movies is also available on the Web at www.mspotmovies.com
About mSpot, Inc.
The leading cloud entertainment provider, mSpot Inc., delivers music, movie and radio content instantly to users - bringing effortless, Cloud-based syncing across all devices. The company offers three innovative entertainment services: mSpot® - the flagship music service, enabling music lovers to upload their entire music collections to the cloud and listen wherever they are; mSpot Movies™ - a premium Video On Demand (VOD) movie service; and mSpot Radio™ - an all-format radio service that includes over 400 channels of music, talk, local, and customizable stations for a more personalized radio experience. mSpot cloud entertainment services reach more than six million customers. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, more information is available at www.mspot.com.
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