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SlingPlayer for iPhone–Cool. And Crippled!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Back before I had an iPhone, I owned an AT&T Tilt phone. I ran the Windows Mobile version of SlingPlayer on it to watch my TiVo back home from my phone, courtesy of the Slingbox in my entertainment center. It worked wonderfully well over the AT&T network, and when I bought an iPhone 3G and [...]

5Words for April 27th, 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

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Lotsa Android-related news today: Second Android phone finally arrives. Samsung announces an Android phone. Here’s the first Android netbook. Mouse Factory ready to Hulu. Countdown to Kumo (Bing, Hook)? So long, tax-free Internet. Flip HD videocam with HDMI. IBM computer to play Jeopardy. Sling: “optimistic” about iPhone SlingPlayer. Rumor: Apple, Verizon talk iPhone.

5Words for March 27th, 2009

Friday, March 27, 2009

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Tech stuff, exciting and new: iPhone SlingPlayer: Cross your fingers! iPhone Skype’s due soon, too. How Google could go wrong. Arrrgh: Tech-company layoffs galore. Netflix adds new personalization features. Apple sells contract-free iPhones. Yes, stars use Twitter ghostwriters. College computer labs are obsolete. Eee PC gets optical disc. Apple announces developer conference dates. A no-tech hour? Naw. Get more out of Craiglists.

What’s Up With Sling? Five Execs to Leave

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

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Calling it an exodus would be pretty accurate. Five top executives of Sling Media have decided to leave the company, seemingly triggered by the expiration of an agreement to keep the executive team there after DISH’s acquisition of the company a little over a year ago. CEO Blake Krikorian, co-founder and Senior Vice President of Business [...]

SlingPlayer Mobile: Coming Soon to an iPhone Near You

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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Sling Media’s Slingbox TV place-shifting box was meant to hook up with the iPhone. (Which is a self-serving thing of me to say–I own a Slingbox and an iPhone, and one of the things I miss about my old AT&T Tilt phone is the ability to watch stuff stored on my TiVo back home on [...]

SlingCatcher: It’s Almost Here–Finally!–and Looks Neat

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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Way back in January of last year, Sling Media–the inventors of the nifty SlingBox box, which can broadcast TV from your home across the Net to your laptop or phone–announced its second major project. The SlingCatcher, it said, was a new device that would flip around the Slingbox’s functionality, sending video in a multitude of [...]