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Several leading magazine brands are already streaming video onto the new Apple iPhone. Early offerings include The New Yorker’s animated cartoons, Make magazine’s do-it-yourself vodcasts, Slate.com’s new V video magazine channel, and videos from Advertising Age. (http://www.minonline.com/topstory2.htm 7/23)
AT&T is launching “Video Share,” which will allow users to send live streaming video via cellphone. However, the service is “useless” unless both sides have video-capable phones. The reach will be limited at first, as most people don’t own such devices, which start at $50. (http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242007/entertainment/video_chat_coming_to_your_cellphone_entertainment_mary_huhn.htm 7/24)
A&E and History Channel launched MobiTV versions of their channels, available to 3G customers of AT&T Wireless, Sprint and other carriers. MobiTV also carries The History Channel espanol on its Spanish language mobile TV service and offers A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, Crime & Television Network, Military History Channel and History International on its broadband TV service.
Oxygen and Artificial Life teamed up to launch a 3G Bad Girls Club mobile game to launch in late August. Players can create avatars based on actual Bad Girls season one characters and star in their own virtual reality show. The game will be available for download for $3.99 at the show’s web site and via botme.com. Oxygen also announced a new promotion with LCD TV manufacturer Westinghouse Digital called Girls Gone Wired, including giveaways, tech vignettes and consultations with a tech guru.
According to a Light Reading report, cable companies aren’t focusing on wireless deployments as their top priority. Heavy Reading analyst Alan Breznick said cable companies were currently more focused on residential VoIP and advanced video services such as HDTV, but he warned that cable needed to place more of an emphasis on wireless phone services to better compete against phone companies. (Light Reading 7/23)
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