Archive for the ‘Mobile’ Category

ABC News launches iPad app

ABC News has launched a new app for Apple’s iPad that features a very unique display of news.

Appolicious writes, “ABC News for iPad has got to be one of the most unique ways of browsing for news stories that interest me. Open the free app, and you see a globe covered with photos and headlines. Drag the globe around with your finger, and tap a photo to choose a story.”

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Fox News launches Android app

Fox News Channel has announced its new app for Android phones, becoming the first of the cable news channels to offer an officially-supported application for the platform.

“The app features Fox News alerts with breaking developments on the day’s most important stories, news from the U.S. and around the world, Fox News talk radio, photos and video. A shows section features highlights from Fox programs,” reads the network’s story on the app release.

The app is free.

Vizrt announces Viz Sports Online

Vizrt today announced Viz Sports, a software package that incorporates Vizrt’s creative tools and widgets, that helps create content immerse sports websites right out of the box.

Viz Sports Online is a flexible, modular suite of user-friendly, preconfigured Vizrt tools, providing users with complete creative freedom over the look and feel of web page layouts, image versions and sizes, and overall site structure.

With Viz Sports Online, all video, graphics, text, images, maps, statistics and web publishing tools are available from within a single, user-friendly, drag and drop-based interface. Design-savvy templates let users produce dynamic, branded graphics, maps and web pages that they can fill on the fly with text, images, headers and titles. Viz Sports Online also offers a full video repository with video editing, video playlists, picture-in-picture, and video ad integration capabilities.

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LSN Mobile launches app for news on BlackBerry devices

LSN Mobile, a company that specializes in television news for mobile devices, has launched a new mobile app for BlackBerry devices that “aggregates news and information from more than 250 local TV stations.”

The app, branded as “Local News Weather and More”, displays breaking news, video clips, weather forcasts, sports scores, school closings and more.

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New app takes the place of anchor

A new iPhone and iPod app called News Anchor allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds with a twist, reports MacWorld.

Instead of browsing through individual items, the app uses text-to-speech technology to read the stories aloud, complete with an animated on-screen “anchor.”

Michigan station launches first local TV app for iPad

9&10 News, the CBS and Fox duopoly serving Cadillac, Mich., has become the first broadcast television station to launch an application for the Apple iPad.

Much like the station’s iPhone app, the 9&10 News app for iPad offers access to local news and weather information and now includes higher video quality, expanded content and higher resolution imagery for iPad users.

The app is backward-compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch, and can be downloaded through the App Store.

The app was created in partnership with News On iPhone.

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Fox News launches iPhone app

Fox News Channel has finally caught up to competitors CNN and MSNBC with the launch of its iPhone app, reports Business Insider. The app, unlike CNN’s and like MSNBC’s, is free. Despite its price tag, CNN’s app remains the number one app in the news category.

Companies partner to offer traffic iPhone app add-on

News Over Wireless  and Beat The Traffic have announced a partnership to deliver premium traffic information content on the iPhone and iPod touch.

The market-specific, up-to-the-minute traffic information will be available to users through an “in app purchase” inside iPhone Apps created by NOW for local television stations across the country.

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WorldNow Launches Mobile CMS

WorldNow, one of the leading content management systems for television station Web sites, has announced at new mobile offering.

Incorporated in the new publishing system are a range of features that include the ability to generate customizable interactive forms to build consumer databases, collect and utilize user generated content, and push breaking news immediately out to mobile consumers. WorldNow says the CMS allows for greater consumer engagement and “strong opportunities to monetize the mobile audience,” reports Broadcasting & Cable.

ESPN to rebrand ESPN360.com as ESPN3.com

In an interesting move, ESPN will rename it’s broadband channel April 4.

“The name ESPN3.com more closely aligns with the existing naming convention for our networks,” said Sean Bratches, executive vice president, sales and marketing. “We have approached this as a network for years, and as users have become more accustomed to engaging with content across various screens, it made sense to make adjustments that reflect both the product’s and the industry’s evolution.”

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CNN launches new iPhone App

Via PC World, CNN has rolled out a new iPhone app that is by far the best currently available.

On Tuesday morning, CNN introduced an iPhone app that puts to shame similar products. Featuring live newscasts, video-on-demand, and a familiar iPhone interface, the CNN iPhone app also takes a step ahead of other news apps by charging $2 for the download.

The $2 CNN iPhone app is now available for download in the iTunes store (U.S. only at the moment). Besides the regular text and photo content that a free single-source news app usually delivers, the CNN iPhone app steals the spotlight with live video streaming for breaking news and on-demand video of recent newscasts.

The app is available for $2 and can be downloaded from the iTunes Store at this link.

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N.M. reporter reports live with iPhone, Qik Web site

Poynter’s Al Tompkins has an interview with Albuquerque, N.M. station KOB-TV reporter Jeremy Jojola, who recently used an iPhone and Web service called Qik.

The interview explains how the service works and some of the challenges and pitfalls, including the challenges of cueing talent and improving audio problems. Jojola also explains some of the ways he sees this type of reporting having an advantage over old-style ways.