6 posts and columns on SlingPlayer

Netflix: There's a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.
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Netflix: There’s a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.
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AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike)

in News on August 3, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google’s official GV client from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The gist of the reply: Don’t look at us.
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AT&T Does Not Manage or Approve Apps for the App Store (Though We May Bitch About the Ones We Dislike)

in News on August 3, 2009 at 4:30 am PT

AT&T has replied to a Federal Communications Commission letter of inquiry into the role it played in the rejection of a number of third-party Google Voice apps and Google’s official GV client from Apple’s iTunes App Store. The gist of the reply: Don’t look at us.
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AT&T: We Crippled SlingPlayer TV App

in Media on May 13, 2009 at 3:55 am PT

Mystery solved, sort of: AT&T is taking the blame for crippling the SlingPlayer iPhone app. The company’s rationale: The iPhone’s too powerful, and our network isn’t powerful enough.
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SlingPlayer Limps Into Apple’s iPhone App Store. Who Crippled It?

in Media on May 12, 2009 at 3:04 pm PT

The SlingPlayer iPhone app–software that lets you watch programming from your own TV on your Apple handset–will go on sale at iTunes sometime after midnight Eastern tonight. But it’s missing a crucial feature–the ability to work over AT&T’s network. What happened? “Ask Apple,” says a SlingPlayer rep.
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