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Netflix to deliver Movies by Streaming Video

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Netflix is introducing a service to deliver movies and television shows directly to users’ PCs, not as downloads but as streaming video, which is not retained in computer memory. The service, which is free to Netflix subscribers, is meant to give the company a toehold in the embryonic world of Internet movie distribution.
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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Babelgum to compete with Joost in IPTV

January 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Silvio Scaglia, the Italian telecoms entrepreneur behind Fastweb and CEO of e.Biscom, is several months away from launching Babelgum, a global internet television service.
Milan-based e.Biscom is already funneling feature films and television shows — in addition to conventional Web and phone services to PCs and TVs in Milan, Rome, Florence, Naples, Bologna and Turin.
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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video · TV

CBS, Sling Media, Clip + Sling allows User Sharing

January 14th, 2007 · No Comments

CBS Corp. president and CEO Leslie Moonves unveiled a partnership with technology company Sling Media during his Consumer Electronics Show keynote address Tuesday that allows users to share their favorite entertainment content in an instant.
Called Clip+Sling, the application gives Slingbox customers the power to grab short segments of programming and share them with their “digital [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

MTV to produce Shows for Amp’d Mobile

January 11th, 2007 · No Comments

MTV Networks and youth-oriented Amp’d Mobile announced Wednesday that they plan to develop original episodic shows exclusively for the Amp’d phone.
The agreement builds on two previous projects: “Lil’ Bush: Resident of the United States,” an animated series originally produced for Amp’d Mobile and now being adapted for Comedy Central later this year; and mtvU’s “Sucks [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile

Sling Media announces Vista, Palm 700p Treo support

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Sling Media is scheduled to announce at CES today SlingPlayer Mobile support for the Palm Treo 700p, the new smartphone currently offered by Sprint and Verizon. The company is also expected to show a technology demonstration of Slingbox running in Microsoft’s Vista, with some snazzy controls that take advantage of Vista’s Aero Glass UI feature.
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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile