 RAIN 1/28: RAIN announces 2010 Las Vegas Summit ·Jan 28, 12:14 PM NOW KNOWN AS “RAIN SUMMIT WEST,” ANNUAL INDUSTRY EVENT WILL BE MONDAY APRIL 12 AT NAB SHOWWith RAIN Summit events last September in Philadelphia and coming up March 12 in Toronto (details here — registration details coming today), our flagship annual industry gathering in Las Vegas during the NAB Show has been re-christened “RAIN Summit West.”
We’re happy to officially announce today that we’ll hold the Summit Monday April 12, and we’ll once again be at the Renaissance Las Vegas Hotel next door to the Convention Center. We hope you’re able to join us for a day of engaging panel discussions, insightful and inspiring keynotes, and valuable and enjoyable networking and socializing at the near-legendary RAIN Cocktail Party. In the coming weeks, we’ll roll out the agenda and list of panels and speakers. REGISTER NOW: Register now for the RAIN Summit West here. All RAIN Summit registrants also get access to the 2010 NAB Show exhibits. REGISTRATION NOW OPEN FOR RAIN SUMMIT NORTHWe hope you’re planning on joining us for our inaugural RAIN Summit North, scheduled Friday March 12 in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week 2010. Registration for the event is now open here. (It’s free if you’re already attending Canadian Music Week. Plus, RAIN readers who are attending CMW for the first time will be eligible for a 50% discount from registration prices.) Our event will be at the Fairmont Royal York hotel downtown on Front Street (a hotel with its own podcast!: here).
Some of the industry experts who’ll participate include: Corus Interactive and Integrated Solutions VP/GM David Huszar, Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) President David Basskin, Internet radio’s top U.S. legal expert David Oxenford (of Davis Wright Tremaine), founding president of Net Radio Sales (now Katz 360) Jennifer Lane, Slacker SVP/Strategic Development Jim Rondinelli, broadcast consultant Ross Davies, and Vision Critical’s Jeff Vidler (and, of course, RAIN publisher and AccuRadio founder Kurt Hanson). REGISTER HERE: Once again, you can register here, and we look forward to seeing you in Toronto! EXPERTS OFFER TAKES ON iPAD’S RELEVANCE FOR RADIOSo, does Jobs’s new iPad device mean something — anything — for radio and Internet radio?It’s connected via Wi-Fi (and 3G on upper models), and it’s portable. But the OS Radio Survivor calls it “a tiny step forward.” Its 3G for “a very reasonable $30 a month without any contracts make it a great candidate for mobile Internet radio listening,” the blog reads. But battery life is still a question. “Apple specifies that you get 10 hours of active Wi-Fi use on a charge, no 3G battery life specs are published. With a much bigger battery than an iPhone one would expect that constant 3G use would go longer…” And there’s the lack of multi-tasking. “Unless Apple decides to add the ability to listen to live streams to the iPad’s iPod app — which is allowed to multitask with other apps — this is probably the biggest count against the radio capabilities of the iPad.” Jacobs Media’s Paul Jacobs tells Tom Taylor for Radio-Info the new device “elevates the game” for radio, but doesn’t change it. In other words, the iPad won’t disrupt radio like the iPod and the iPhone changed music and cell phones. It’s yet another distribution method for content: “This device opens up a new category between the iPhone and desktops,” Jacobs said. And, the price is nice ($499-$829). This device, in and of itself, isn’t bad or good for radio, explains Mark Ramsey in Hear 2.0. Rather, it’s the embodiment of the fact that radio, television, newspapers, and Internet are now all simply “media,” which all need to compete with each other. This machine, then, is simply another media platform. “When you are not radio anymore but are instead ‘all media,’ then what makes you unique from all other media becomes that much more decisive,” Ramsey concludes. Finally, check out the latest entry in Kurt’s Blog. He suggests that the iPad’s lack of Flash support and multi-task capabilities don’t elevate it above the iPhone or iPod Touch in terms of radio listening. But, “keep in mind that, in the long run, everything gets better.” The iPad of the not-too-distant future will likely have all of these features and more! Read Radio Survivor here, Taylor on Radio-Info here, and Ramsey’s Hear 2.0 here. And read Kurt’s Blog here. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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doesn’t support Flash, and if you want to listen while you work on other things, iTunes is your only option. But what do the experts say?
