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Verizon announces Mobile TV service

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Verizon Wireless announced details of its broadcast mobile TV service, powered by Qualcomm’s MediaFLO, which is to be named V CAST Mobile TV. Verizon has signed content deals with many of the world’s best-known entertainment brands, including CBS, Fox, MTV, Comedy Central, NBC News, NBC Entertainment and Nickelodeon, representing a variety of options for [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile

BitTorrent, NETGEAR announce TV device

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

San Francisco-based BitTorrent, and Silicon Valley network-equipment maker Netgear announced a partnership today to collaborate to deliver high-definition movies and TV Shows to HDTVs
BitTorrent considers itself to be a major player in the emerging video download market, right alongside Apple. Though its software is known more for Napster-style illegal-file swapping, the company has scored major [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · File Sharing · TV

Wallstrip Online Video Show Raises Funding

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Wallstrip, a three-month old online video show about the stock market, where “stock culture meets pop culture,” is raising over a half a million dollars, and will create more financial and VC focused shows.  Wallstrip takes an irreverent approach to the market, focusing each day on a single stock trading at an all-time high or a hot trend.  With the funding, Wallstrip plans to create five more original shows on the topics of finance and venture capital.

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Sling Media announces “SlingCatcher”

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Sling Media will announce Monday that it will begin selling a device that aims to improve the home TV viewing experience.
The new device, the SlingCatcher, allows viewers send TV streams to different rooms in the home, clip and send video from broadcast TV shows to friends and view media stored on PCs or on web [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Online Video

Verizon Announces TV Shows for Mobile Phones

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Verizon Wireless is expected to announce on Sunday that it will offer full-length programming to its cellular subscribers from several major television networks, according to people apprised of the deal.
The service, which should be in operation by the end of March, will consist of eight channels and will include popular shows from NBC, CBS, Fox [...]

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Tags: Entertainment · Mobile