Card Player TV coming to Joost

Poker player rejoice, Card Player Media today announces the launch of Card Player TV on Joost. Card Player TV shows can be found on the Everything Poker channel on Joost at http://www.joost.com/34q8rlx.

The Card Player TV channel on Joost includes news programming, strategy lessons from and biographies of top poker professionals, coverage of the world’s largest [...]

Joost going live in China

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Internet television service Joost and TOM Group Limited, one of the leading Chinese media conglomerates in Greater China, today launched a joint venture to bring a full Joost offering to the region of Greater China.

Set up by Kazaa and Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, Joost burst onto the scene in the United [...]

Secret Apple product is a thin margin Mac Tablet?

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MacDailyNews source — the same one who tipped them to wireless iTunes Store sales direct to iPod, iPhone a week before Apple debuted it — report:

Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi. Possibly with [...]

Joost beta client 1.1.8 just released

Joost just released version 1.1.8 of it Windows and OSX client. Again, there is apparently nothing visible at this point with the client.

Joost is said to be releasing a web based version of the client later this summer… so within the next couple of weeks… most likelly in time for back to school I guess.

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Batman Week begins on Joost

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Any follower of pop culture knows that the next Batman movie – The Dark Knight – is opening on Friday in the U.S. (and on various dates throughout the next month around the rest of the world). To get ready for the movie (which is actually the first movie this summer I’ve been excited about…but I digress) Warner Bros. has given us three animated Batman series – Batman Beyond, Batman: The Animated Series, and The Batman – in the U.S.

As a special treat, we have enlisted the help of some bona fide Batman fans to share their can’t miss moments from their favorite shows. Continue reading Batman Week begins on Joost

Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm is leaving Joost

alleyinsider is reporting:

The architect of Joost‘s many splashy TV deals is leaving the company. Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm was named executive director of Witness, a human rights organization founded by Peter Gabriel.

Thijm was Executive Vice President of Content Strategy & Acquisition at Joost. In the past year Joost has been busy remaking the P2P TV service [...]

NHK Joins Joost

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LONDON AND TOKYO – JULY 9, 2008 – Nippon H?s? Ky?kai (NHK), the sole Japanese public broadcaster, announced today that it will bring a selection of its program offerings to Joost™, the world’s first broadcast-quality Internet television service.

“NHK has been a powerhouse of Japanese broadcasting since its launch, and to have a public broadcaster at the forefront of digital distribution demonstrates their innovative outlook,” said Mike Volpi, chief executive officer, Joost. “This is a great opportunity and partnership for Joost; we’re able to expand our international footprint and give NHK the opportunity to introduce their brand of entertainment and news programming to people around the world.” Continue reading NHK Joins Joost

Apple angry at Rogers iPhone 3G plan

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Sorry folks, not much Joost news those days… so I will keep covering topics that are of interest to me. Hope you don’t mind.

Apparently Apple has been telling it’s Canadian stores not to sell the glorious 3G Phone this friday July 11th 2008! This is really a major blow to Rogers. [...]