New LiveStation 3.0 release

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After 8 months of hard work since the last release, I am glad to announce the launch of Livestation version 3.0, the latest desktop software for watching live news channels on your computer.

The latest release, available to download free of charge here, includes new functionality which we haven’t seen anywhere else.

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Livestation app store to watch the Europa League matches shown live

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Livestation have released an app on the App Store a few days ago in partnership with Five and UEFA to allow purchasers to watch the Europa League matches shown live on Five in the UK on their iPhone/iPod touch devices.

The app retails for a one-off fee of £3.99 and it will give access to [...]

Press TV joins Livestation on day of exclusive, live Presidential debate

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Internet users worldwide are being offered exclusive free access to Wednesday’s live Presidential debate between incumbent Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his challenger in the forthcoming election, the last Prime Minister of Iran, Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

The live broadcast, which takes place at 19:00 GMT on Wednesday 3 June, is being broadcast on Press TV and [...]

Al Arabiya joins Livestation

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Livestation, the destination for live TV broadcasting over broadband, has widened its choice of Arabic channels with the addition of Dubai-based Al Arabiya.

The 24-hour news channel, which offers a mix of breaking news, current, documentaries and sports updates has joined Livestation’s existing line-up of Arabic news channels which already included services offered by Al [...]

Steve Wozniak is cool with Apple OS X Dell Mini 9 netbook

Boingboing report that Steve Wozniak liked the sight of a Dell Mini 9 running Apple OS X. Matthew P wrote:

Got to briefly meet Steve Wozniak as he was doing some press for Dancing with the Stars. I showed him my Dell Mini 9 with OS X Leopard installed on it (and an Apple sticker [...]

LiveStation soon to be on an iPhone near you

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If you have been looking for live news coverage on the iPhone then the wait is almost over. Livestation have decommissioned the current version of their iPhone beta application. The reason is that they have a new version which will come out early this week with a number of very important improvements.

They [...]

Livestation releases innovative interactive tools to broadcasters

Livestation, the destination for live broadcasting over broadband, has built a broadcaster’s tool kit to enable its partner broadcasters to interact with a live TV audience in real time.

The tool kit is currently being tested by partner channel Al Jazeera English and used on the Riz Khan show

The Livestation tool kit includes:

Live Chat moderation tools

This enables [...]

Livestation sets up global Live Appeal channel

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A new initiative has been launched by Livestation, the destination for live TV online designed to help large-scale charity appeals to broadcast their calls for donations to a global audience during times of crisis and emergency. The channel will feature a line up of the current crisis appeals and will be available [...]

France 24 available on Livestation in France

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France 24, one of Livestation’s official partner channels, can now be viewed in France.

Up until now the three languages versions of France 24, French, English and Arabic were geo-blocked from the domestic audience.

Now, France 24 has obtained the rights to broadcast online to its domestic audience.

Livestation success mean lower user experience

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As reported by Matteo Berlucchi, Livestation has been forced to do an heart breaking decision. The recent war in Gaza has increased Livestation usage so much that it became essential that Livestation reduce the quality of it’s video to limit bandwidth consumption/cost.

The service was originally advertised as peer-2-peer but in actuallity the service [...]