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Today's Topics:
1. Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras (Monty Solomon)
2. Do u txt ur kdz? / Fastest growing group of messagers is
adults (Monty Solomon)
3. Logan joins the age of the Internet (Monty Solomon)
4. Skype team turns its attention to televisio (George Antunes)
5. FCC official won't vote on AT&T-BellSouth merger (George Antunes)
6. Zune doesn't shake iPod's market lead (Williams, Gregory S.)
7. Sony Settles Privacy Suits regrding rootkit on CD
(Williams, Gregory S.)
8. UK report says robots will have rights (Williams, Gregory S.)
9. Discovery departs space station (Williams, Gregory S.)
10. Feds: NJ Worker Put 'Bomb' in Computers (Monty Solomon)
11. Live From Your Cingular Phone, It's Saturday Night!
(Monty Solomon)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:56:00 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras
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Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras
By LOUISE STORY
The New York Times
December 11, 2006
Advertisers have long been drawn to Times Square as a valuable place
to reach consumers, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for space
on billboards and blazing video screens.
But recently they have discovered that down on the ground, new
technology has given low cost, face-to-face marketing campaigns
something of a cutting edge as consumers spread their messages on the
Internet.
Take the recent display of public toilets set up by Charmin bathroom
tissue: Used by thousands in Times Square and viewed by 7,400 Web
users on one site alone. Or Nascar's recent display of racecars;
videos of the event have been viewed on YouTube more than 1,800
times. More than 60 people wrote about the event on their blogs and
60 more spread the word - and pictures - on the Flickr Web site.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/technology/11square.html
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:17:12 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Do u txt ur kdz? / Fastest growing group of
messagers is adults
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Do u txt ur kdz?
Fastest growing group of messagers is adults
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | December 17, 2006
Lynne O'Connell and her teenage daughter have discovered a new way to
bridge the generation gap: a cellphone screen.
She and Annie, 15, send text messages to each other throughout the
day, scheduling rides, sending reminders, and sometimes just talking.
"OMG!" popped up onto O'Connell's cellphone one recent afternoon.
"R U OK?" the 36-year-old mom typed back.
"I got an 83 on my Spanish quiz," Annie replied.
"OMG is right! great!" her mom pinged back.
"You know if I had asked her at dinner, 'How was school today?' she'd
say, 'Fine,' " O'Connell said. "This gives her a way to talk to me
without having to talk to me."
"Texting" -- sending brief messages by cellphone -- has grown
dramatically beyond the teenage and 20-something "thumb generation"
over the past year, in part because parents are beginning to use the
cellphone screen as another channel to communicate with children who
otherwise might not have much to say.
M:Metrics , a mobile market research company, found that nationwide,
the fastest growing group of text messagers is adults. Between
September 2005 and September 2006, the number of text-message users
from age 45 to 64 grew about seven times as fast as among teenagers
under 18, according to their data.
Telephia , a consumer research firm, found that among Cingular users,
women in their 40s are the fastest growing text message demographic
and fourth largest group.
The overall growth in text messaging is driven by multiple factors.
There are adults who use texting to "talk" while they're in meetings
and 40-somethings who text their peers. But a survey commissioned by
Cingular this summer found that among 1,175 parents, nearly half said
their children introduced them to text messaging, and 63 percent said
it had improved communication with their child.
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http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/articles/2006/12/17/do_u_txt_ur_kdz/
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:29:49 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Logan joins the age of the Internet
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Logan joins the age of the Internet
By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff | December 18, 2006
It's been 47 years since Logan International Airport joined the jet age.
Now a key part of the airport's operations is finally joining the
Internet age, too.
This month, officials at the Massachusetts Port Authority , which
runs Logan, started a new system that gives airlines, air-traffic
controllers, and airport officials a password-protected website to
review runway closings, weather conditions, and a trove of other
Logan data. It's updated every 30 seconds.
As recently as this fall, much of that information was being relayed
through the equivalent of teletype machines and conference calls --
which isn't unusual. Boston's is one of only a handful of big US
airports to install the new "airfield reporting system." The two New
York City airports and Dulles International Airport, outside
Washington, D.C., are among the few others that are putting the
information on websites.
If it lives up to expectations, Logan's new automated airfield
reporting system could help reduce flight delays for passengers,
particularly during snowstorms that shut down runways and force
airlines to cancel and reschedule flights.
With better, timelier data about runway and weather conditions,
airlines may have a better chance to use available takeoff slots
during snowstorms and to time aircraft de-icing operations to make
sure planes are ready to go at available takeoff times. (Because ice
buildup on wings can make planes crash, airlines typically have a
window of only several minutes after wings are sprayed with de-icing
fluid before the plane has to be pulled out of the takeoff queue and
treated again.)
Alternatively, airlines can use the system to learn when they should
hold Boston-bound flights in other cities to reduce arrival delays
and avoid having planes circling over Massachusetts Bay.
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http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/12/18/logan_joins_the_age_of_the_internet/
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:54:25 -0600
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Subject: [Medianews] Skype team turns its attention to televisio
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Skype team turns its attention to television
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in London
The Financial Times
Published: December 17 2006 22:03
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae5209da-8df6-11db-ae0e-0000779e2340.html
In 2003, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom launched Skype, an online
communication tool that has forced some of the world?s largest
telecommunications groups to rethink their business models. Now they are
hoping to do the same for television.
?At the time we launched Skype, broadband capacity was extremely ripe for
communication,? Mr Friis recalls. ?Now, three years later, it?s the same
thing for video: you can do TV over the internet in a really good way. TV
is a huge medium ? that?s something we?d like to be a part of.?
There are profound differences between Skype and the still-codenamed Venice
Project, however. The entrepreneurs? new venture is just one of many
seeking to capitalise on the growth in demand for online video.
Crucially, this time they will also have to work with the incumbents whose
business models have been most threatened by the internet if the project is
going to succeed.
Internet protocol television, or IPTV, is a term that still elicits blank
looks from most viewers but has become a focus of media and telecoms
companies? attention in much the same way as voice over internet protocol,
or VOIP, was in the early days of Skype.
The interactive and community features of the internet, coupled with the
possibility of aggregating large numbers of viewers even for material of
specialist interest, has led companies as varied as television production
companies and former telecoms monopolies to launch their own online video
services.
IPTV has been slower to take off than many people predicted, but the
success of MySpace, on which some US studios are beginning to make
full-length programmes available, and YouTube, the video sharing site
bought by Google, has attracted incumbents and start-ups alike to
experiment with diverse new models.
In the UK, where the Venice Project has one of its four offices, it will be
competing with the BBC?s planned catch-up television service, BT Group?s
new video-on-demand offering, and streamed channels from broadcasters
including Channel 4 and ITV.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Friis was confident about
standing out in an increasingly crowded field. ?The overall picture is that
this is happening. Video is moving online, and people have to find
strategies for that.?
The Venice Project?s blog describes its mission as ?fixing TV, removing
artificial limits such as the number of channels that your cable or the
airwaves can carry and then bringing it into the internet age?.
As well as exploiting new tools, it adds: ?We?re also bringing something
back from that old TV ? of having a shared experience with your friends,
something you can talk about, rally around and enjoy with others.?
Demonstrating the new service in a south London Starbucks, Mr Friis says it
has to please three audiences. ?It will be a success if advertisers like
it, content owners like it and viewers love it.?
The service, currently being trialled by 6,000 people, is capable of
displaying high-quality, full-screen video on a computer screen. Users
download a piece of software to their PC or Mac (although the service can
be transmitted to a TV, it is currently designed for computer screens) and
can then search for channels from a menu on the left hand side of the screen.
A control bar at the bottom allows them to search for programmes and pause,
rewind or fast-forward what they are watching. On the right is a menu of
interactive tools, allowing users to share video playlists with friends or
comment on programmes.
Skype users can also use its conference calling facility to chat with other
friends watching the same programme, Mr Friis says.
Unlike YouTube or other video sharing sites, all of the content will be
professionally produced, uploaded by content owners and encrypted before
being sent out.
Conscious of their experience with Kazaa, a file-sharing service that was
bombarded with lawsuits from music companies, the Skype founders are at
pains to say they are working within the framework of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.
Different content owners have different security concerns, Mr Friis admits,
but he is confident of getting several larger groups on board.
Fredrik de Wahl, the project?s chief executive, adds that the company does
not expect to be the only IPTV service to succeed: ?We want to be one
vehicle for them to monetise their content. We will prove we can capture
more viewers, but you don?t sell just Prada shoes in Prada stores.?
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:50:56 -0600
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Subject: [Medianews] FCC official won't vote on AT&T-BellSouth merger
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FCC official won't vote on AT&T-BellSouth merger
McDowell rejects a legal opinion that allows him to break a tie. The firms
may add concessions.
From LA Times Staff and Wires
December 19, 2006
Federal Communications Commission member Robert M. McDowell said Monday
that he wouldn't cast the tie-breaking vote on AT&T Inc.'s proposed
purchase of BellSouth Corp., putting pressure on the companies to offer
concessions.
The FCC has been reviewing the proposed $86-billion deal for more than
seven months. The four other commissioners, two Republicans and two
Democrats, have been deadlocked over what conditions to attach.
McDowell, a Republican, had disqualified himself previously because of a
conflict of interest. He was working for Comptel, a trade group that
includes AT&T competitors, when he joined the commission in the spring.
But FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin obtained a ruling from the agency's
general counsel permitting him to vote if he chose to do so. Late Monday,
McDowell issued a five-page statement saying he would decline to vote.
McDowell was not impressed with the arguments from the FCC counsel, saying
he had expected "body armor" in the legal authorization to vote but instead
"was handed Swiss cheese."
McDowell's decision increases pressure on all parties, particularly AT&T,
to reach a compromise. Ultimately, analysts expect the deal to be approved.
Martin has said he is willing to approve the deal with no conditions;
Democrats Michael J. Copps and Jonathan S. Adelstein want assurances that
AT&T won't stifle competition.
One key issue is whether AT&T would be prohibited from giving some
companies priority on its high-speed Internet lines for high fees, an issue
known as network neutrality.
Another is whether it must keep a lid on wholesale prices that competitors
pay to lease its high-capacity lines and equipment so they can serve their
customers.
"The onus is now back on AT&T to negotiate a deal and broker a compromise
on special access and net neutrality," said analyst Jessica Zufolo of
Medley Global Advisors.
AT&T has offered concessions that include freezing some wholesale rates for
competitors for 30 months and a low-cost basic high-speed Internet package.
But the competitors, some represented by Comptel, have said the offers are
inadequate.
One FCC official said the areas of disagreement between the Republicans and
Democrats were not easily bridged.
Martin said in a statement that he respected McDowell's decision. "I will
continue to try to work with my colleagues to bring our consideration of
this merger to conclusion," he said.
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George Antunes, Political Science Dept
University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204
Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927
antunes at uh dot edu
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:35:17 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Zune doesn't shake iPod's market lead
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MICROSOFT MP3 PLAYER HAS DECENT 1ST MONTH
By Troy Wolverton
Mercury News
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/business/technology/16263552.htm
Microsoft's Zune had a decent debut last month, but Apple Computer's iPods
continued to dominate the MP3 market, according to new data from market
research firm NPD Group released this week.
Although Microsoft didn't release the Zune until more than halfway through
November, the company was the second-leading manufacturer of hard disk
drive-based media players, capturing 9 percent of the U.S. retail market,
according to NPD. Including both flash memory and hard disk drive players,
Microsoft came in fourth, with 1.9 percent of the market.
The company's much-hyped entree into the MP3 player market appeared to have
little affect on industry leader Apple. Although Apple's share of the hard
drive market fell to 82.7 percent from 86.8 percent a year ago, its share of
the overall market came in at 62.2 percent, essentially even with the 63
percent it posted a year ago.
SanDisk was No. 2 with 18.4 percent of the overall market, up from 17.5
percent last year.
Revamped versions of the flash-based iPod nano and iPod shuffle boosted
Apple's overall results. Sales of the shuffle doubled year over year in
November, while those of the nano grew 37 percent.
``All in all, that's a pretty good performance,'' said Stephen Baker, an
analyst with Reston, Va.-based NPD.
Apple has dominated sales of MP3 players almost since it entered the market
five years ago. In contrast, there are already questions about how
sustainable Microsoft's Zune sales will be. NPD's own weekly data had
Microsoft falling from the No. 2 vendor of MP3 players in its first week to
No. 5 in its second week.
On Amazon.com, one of the leading vendors of electronics products online,
the Zune has become a distant also-ran behind the iPod and other MP3
players. The black Zune -- the top selling model -- was recently ranked No.
47 among the bestselling electronics products on Amazon. At the same time
Apple's black 30GB iPod -- the Zune's direct competitor -- was ranked No. 1.
The Zune even trailed Creative's rival 30GB Zen Vision, which was ranked No.
27.
And there are indications that Microsoft may have misread the market. The
company is offering a dull brown version of the Zune in part to stand out
from the competition and because it got favorable reviews in its pre-market
research. But according to NPD, the brown Zune accounts for just 19 percent
of all the Zunes sold, about the same amount as the white model. The black
model accounts for about 63 percent of all sold.
That dynamic plays out on Amazon as well, where the brown model is ranked
no. 192 and the white no. 312.
Microsoft expressed little concern about the sales. Jason Reindorp, director
of product marketing for Zune, said, ``We are happy with the position Zune
currently holds in the market, and are on track to meet our sales projection
of 1 million units by end of the fiscal year.''
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:06:04 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Sony Settles Privacy Suits regrding rootkit on CD
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Sony BMG Music Entertainment will pay $1.5 million and kick in thousands
more in customer refunds to settle lawsuits brought by California and Texas
over music CDs that installed a hidden anti-piracy program on consumers'
computers.
Not only did the program itself open up a security hole on computers, but
the method Sony BMG originally recommended for removing the software also
damaged computers.
The settlements, announced Tuesday, cover lawsuits over CDs loaded with one
of two types of copy-protection software -- known as MediaMax or XCP.
Under the terms of the separate settlements, each state will receive
$750,000 in civil penalties and costs.
In addition, Sony BMG agreed to reimburse consumers whose computers were
damaged while trying to uninstall the XCP software. Customers in both states
can file a claim with Sony BMG to receive between $25 to $175 in refunds.
The company had previously settled a class-action case over the episode.
"Companies that want to load their CDs with software that limits the ability
to copy music should fully inform consumers about it, not hide it, and make
sure it doesn't inflict security vulnerabilities on computers," California
Attorney General Bill Lockyer said in a statement.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:41:52 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] UK report says robots will have rights
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By Salamander Davoudi in London
Published: December 19 2006 22:01 | Last updated: December 19 2006 22:01
The next time you beat your keyboard in frustration, think of a day where it
may be able to sue you for assault. Within 50 years we might even find
ourselves standing next to the next generation of vacuum cleaners in the
voting booth.
Far from being extracts from the extreme end of science fiction, the idea
that we may one day give sentient machines the kind of rights traditionally
reserved for humans is raised in a British government-commissioned report
which claims to be an extensive look into the future.
Visions of the status of robots around 2056 have emerged from one of 270
forward-looking papers sponsored by Sir David King, the UK government's
chief scientist. The paper covering robots' rights was written by a UK
partnership of Outsights, the management consultancy, and Ipsos Mori, the
opinion research organisation.
"If we make conscious robots they would want to have rights and they
probably should," said Henrik Christensen, director of the Centre of
Robotics and Intelligent Machines at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The idea will not surprise science fiction aficionados. It was widely
explored by Dr Isaac Asimov, one of the foremost science fiction writers of
the 20th century. He wrote of a society where robots were fully integrated
and essential in day-to-day life.
In his system, the 'three laws of robotics' governed machine life. They
decreed that robots could not injure humans, must obey orders and protect
their own existence - in that order.
Robots and machines are now classed as inanimate objects without rights or
duties but if artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous, the report argues,
there may be calls for humans' rights to be extended to them.
It is also logical that such rights are meted out with citizens' duties,
including voting, paying tax and compulsory military service.
Mr Christensen said: "Would it be acceptable to kick a robotic dog even
though we shouldn't kick a normal one?
"There will be people who can't distinguish that so we need to have ethical
rules to make sure we as humans interact with robots in an ethical manner so
we do not move our boundaries of what is acceptable."
The Horizon Scan report argues that if 'correctly managed', this new world
of robots' rights could lead to increased labour output and greater
prosperity.
"If granted full rights, states will be obligated to provide full social
benefits to them including income support, housing and possibly
robo-healthcare to fix the machines over time," it says.
But it points out that the process has casualties and the first one may be
the environment, especially in the areas of energy and waste.
Gregory S. Williams
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:44:47 -0800
From: "Williams, Gregory S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Discovery departs space station
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Discovery departs space station
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/12/19/space.shuttle.ap/index.html
HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- The space shuttle Discovery bade the international
space station a goodbye as the two ships parted ways Tuesday evening.
Discovery leaves behind American Suni Williams for a six-month stay in
orbit. The shuttle is scheduled to return to Earth on Friday after a 13-day
flight.
During eight days at the orbiting lab, Discovery's astronauts made four
spacewalks.
They rewired the station's power system, installed a 2-ton addition, and
coaxed a stubborn solar panel to fold up accordion-style into its box.
(Watch Curbeam and Fuglesang fix the jammed solar panels Video)
"It's always a goal to try and leave some place in a better shape than it
was when you came," said Discovery commander Mark Polanksy. "And I think
we've accomplished that."
The fourth spacewalk -- to fix the jammed solar panel -- was added at the
last moment. That extended the mission by one day and put astronaut Robert
Curbeam in the history books, with a record four spacewalks in a single
shuttle mission.
Williams, who arrived aboard Discovery, becomes the newest member of the
three-person space station crew.
Discovery is bringing home her predecessor, German astronaut Thomas Reiter,
who spent six months in orbit.
During the farewell ceremony before the two crews parted, Williams playfully
nudged Reiter into the shuttle using her floating foot.
American space station crewman Michael Lopez-Alegria saluted the departing
Reiter for his "competence, conscientiousness and consistency" and
pronounced him a "model astronaut."
"By the authority vested in me, which I just invented, we would like to make
you an honorary member of the NASA astronaut corps," Lopez-Alegria said,
pinning wings onto Reiter's polo shirt.
Gregory S. Williams
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:20:39 -0500
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Subject: [Medianews] Feds: NJ Worker Put 'Bomb' in Computers
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Feds: NJ Worker Put 'Bomb' in Computers
- Dec 19, 2006 06:39 PM (AP Online)
NEWARK, N.J., Dec 19, 2006 (AP Online via COMTEX News Network) --
A computer administrator upset over the possibility of losing his job
planted an electronic "bomb" in the systems of one of the nation's
largest prescription drug management companies, prosecutors said
Tuesday.
If the so-called "logic bomb" had gone off at Medco Health Solutions
Inc., it would have wiped out critical patient information,
authorities said.
Even after surviving a round of layoffs, Yung-Hsun Lin, 50, kept the
code in the system and tinkered with it in an attempt to set it off,
prosecutors said. The bug eventually was discovered and neutralized
by the company.
U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said the bomb could have caused
widespread financial damage to the company, and possibly harmed a
large number of patients.
Among the targeted databases was one that tracked patient-specific
drug interaction conflicts, prosecutors said. Before dispensing
medication, pharmacists routinely examine that information to
determine whether conflicts exist among a patient's prescribed
medicines.
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- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=62988236
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:24:27 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Medianews] Live From Your Cingular Phone, It's Saturday
Night!
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Live From Your Cingular Phone, It's Saturday Night!
- Dec 19, 2006 01:45 PM (PR Newswire)
NEW YORK and ATLANTA, Dec 19, 2006 /PRNewswire via COMTEX News Network/ --
Cingular customers no longer
have to wait until Saturday night to enjoy what is undoubtedly the most
influential sketch comedy show of all time. NBC Universal, Broadway Video
Entertainment, and Cingular Wireless today announced the launch of Saturday
Night Live (SNL) Mobile on Cingular handsets, marking the first time SNL
content has been made available on the mobile phone.
Cingular Video subscribers can enjoy exclusive mobile access to Saturday
Night Live content, including video clips from classic and current episodes,
as well as original material produced especially for the mobile screen.
Cingular customers can also purchase and download a diverse collection of SNL-
themed ringtones and graphics -- both from current and classic seasons.
...
- http://www.quote.com/home/news/story.asp?story=62984073
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