SlingPlayer coming to the BlackBerry

Sling Media has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it is working on a version of its SlingPlayer software for the BlackBerry OS.

“We are working with BlackBerry to develop a software application at the moment”, Stuart Collingwood, VP of Europe for Sling Media told us.

The news means that BlackBerry users across the world will soon be able to [...]

Joost beta 1.0 released! Now with new UI!

Guess what just quietly showed up! Yes, the shiny new Joost beta client 1.0 for Mac and Windows:

As you can see below the UI has been updated to a new dark gray transparent theme. This new UI was previously reported here as the “spoon” UI. I am pleased to see [...]

CFL content find a place on Joost

The Wildcard Sports Network to broadcast Canadian Football League content from the 2007 season

TORONTO, CANADA and DUBLIN, IRELAND (CFL) — Wildwave, a leading provider of mobile digital entertainment and the Canadian Football League, today announced their plans to carry CFL content on Joost, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service. The CFL action will be featured [...]

Microsoft going after YouTube, Apple and Joost

If Internet-based video is the wave of the future, many of us are already drenched with options including such as YouTube, Joost and Apple’s iTunes. But today, Microsoft is making a play to have its own video download service added to the mix.

During his keynote speech at the DigitalLife show here in New York, Microsoft [...]

MLB.COM TEAMS UP WITH JOOST

Baseball fans can watch MLB postseason games and highlights on-demand via Joost

NEW YORK – Sept. 27, 2007 – Joost™ announced an exclusive partnership with MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, today. The agreement grants Joost the rights to make on-demand game broadcasts and highlight clips from the 2007 [...]

HP LCD HDTV to do full Microsoft Media Center without extra hardware

Just in case Linksys and D-Link’s introductions weren’t enough to satisfy, Microsoft is now announcing yet another partner in its refreshed Extenders for Windows Media Center effort. Beginning in “early 2008,” owners of HP’s current 42- and 47-inch MediaSmart LCD HDTVs will be able to utilize all of the features of the Media Center Extender platform [...]

Joost win Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Award for 2007

Joost won in the WSJ Media/Broadcasting category and received a Bronze award in the overall category:

The Bronze went to Joost NV, Luxembourg, for a free service that delivers TV programming over the Internet. Unlike YouTube and other video sites, Joost offers full-length and full-screen programs. Founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström also developed the Skype Internet [...]

Meet the other Joost

Tonight, while reading news about Joost, I stumbled on a peculiar URL linked to a debug log of Joost. So far so good I thought. Let grab it and see what it is about.

To my surprise the .jar file contained files dated Oct 5 2006… Odd… Since The Venice Project was named Joost only [...]

Is Nokia partnering with Joost?

Based on a new Nokia Nseries invitation page hosted on Joost web site it appear as if Nokia is becoming a Joost partner. It is unclear what sort of partnership is being put in place at this time. It might just be related to some advertisement deals between Joost and Nokia. Or is [...]

somagirls.tv distributing content on Joost

Soma Management LLC, a digital media and entertainment company that produces lifestyle channels for young women around beauty, fashion, health, travel, luxury, entertainment, teens and kids, announces the launch of the SomaGirls.TV Network.

SomaGirls.TV mission is to provide advertisers with premium exclusive content and next generation advertising models as convergence and multi-platform opportunities achieve critical mass.

Network will [...]