Livestation now available on Boxee

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The team at Livestation and Boxee got together over the last few weeks to cook up an amazing Boxee app that allow Boxee users to get access to both free-to-air channels like Al Jazeera and BBC World News or the subscription based ones like CNN International, CNBC or Bloomberg.

The Livestation app for Boxee can [...]

Easilly convert MKV to MP4 on OSX Snow Leopard without Transcoding the Video

I made s short screencast of how to convert those MKV files to MP4 files so they can play on XBOX 360, PS3 and Apple TV.

What ingredients will you need:

An HD MKV file (obviously)
Perian QuickTime codec
Subler
A QuickTime Pro License for Quicktime 7

1st, install Quicktime 7 from the Snow Leopard DVD and then license it.

2nd, follow the [...]

The next Apple TV revealed: cloud storage and iPhone OS on tap… and a $99 price tag

Engardet is reporting that Apple is about to release an Apple TV gen 3 that will compete with Google TV offering.

The idea is that it will leverage the Apple A4 processor to run iPhone OS 4 to power the appliance.  The size of the said appliance is roughly equivalent to an iPhone without a [...]

Get some Flash on the iPad!

As you know by now (I hope) Flash is not supported on the iPhone nor the iPad.  But Flash is used on most web sites out there.  So how do you get to see those sites properly on the iPad? There is a free iPhone app (hope they will upgrade to iPad native soon) called Cloud [...]

Live TV news on your iPhone straight in the browser with no app required

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As you may recall, Livestation was the first company in the world demonstrating live streaming on iPhones back in 2008.

A selection of Livestation’s partner channels is now available to watch live on iPhones/iPod Touches and soon iPads worldwide by simply opening the default browsers on the device and pointing it to http://mobile.livestation.com.

Currently there is [...]

Livestation partners with weComm to deliver live TV news on all smartphones

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weComm, the leader in interactive mobile data solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Livestation to deliver live TV news to mobile handsets including Android and BlackBerry devices.

Livestation already delivers high quality live TV streaming services on iPhone for world class news partners such as BBC World News and Al Jazeera. weComm wave [...]

News from Livestation

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Here is a couple of small news regarding Livestation:

Jackson Memorial
We are ready to stream the coverage of Michael Jackson’s memorial today at 6pm BST, 1pm EST and 10am PST. The memorial will be covered by most of our news partners so go ahead and pick the one you prefer. We will be hosting a [...]

BBC World News now live on the iPhone

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BBC World News today announces the launch of the BBC World News app, allowing users of the iPhone and iPod Touch in sixteen European countries to watch the channel live on their Apple devices over Wi-Fi and 3G networks.

The application, which is available to download directly from the Apple AppStore, enables users from the [...]

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 [...]

Boxee has Joost

boxee’s private alpha went well beyond expectations. over 200,000 people signed up.. today boxee is opening their alpha to all Mac, Ubuntu and Apple TV users. Windows is also moving into private-alpha (which means you still need to get invited, but boxee is going to release thousands of invites every week). bear with them as [...]