Posts on February 11th, 2008

2008-02-11

Skinkers Releases Multichannel LiveStation

Skinkers, which earlier this year launched LiveStation, a P2P live streaming player in partnership with Microsoft has released their multi-channel online TV service in beta.
LiveStation 1
Above: LiveStation Small screen w/ EPG Overlay

The player, a 3.4 MB download for Windows, is based on Silverlight and has a very simple interface with an EPG overlay that comes up when moused over. So far five channels are available to U.S. users: BBC World Service radio, BBC Radio 4, France 24 (English & French) and Al Jazeera World News London, but more should be coming soon.

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Dave Morgan Out at AOL

Barely three months after being named EVP-Global Advertising Strategy for AOL’s Platform-A, Dave Morgan is leaving AOL, according to PaidContent.

Dave Morgan sold behavioral targeting company Tacoda to AOL for $275 million in September. Morgan also founded RealMedia, which became 247 Real Media and was sold to WPP for almost $650 million.

This in light of revived talks between AOL and Yahoo, after Yahoo rebuked Microsoft’s $44 billion offer to acquire the portal.

More as details emerge, but no doubt, its good to be Dave Morgan. Not so much for AOL.

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Waiting for your Gphone? Keep waiting, but watch now.

If you’re waiting as anxiously for your Gphone as others were for their iPhones, you’ll have to wait a little longer. But you can catch an early glimpse courtesy of Gizmodo. While there’s plenty of prototypes of hardware being shown at the Mobile World Congress, Gizmodo has sneak peak video of the Android operating system in use.

Android Operating System

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