apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 5/15/2009
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SlingPlayer on App Store For people who had been waiting since January to watch TV on their iPhones, price doesn’t seem to have been an object. Within a day of its release Wednesday, SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone had shot to the No. 10 spot on Apple’s ( AAPL ) closely watched Top Paid Apps ...
appleinsider.com - 5/12/2009
appleinsider.com - 5/13/2009
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appleinsider.com —
Sling Media's release of its SlingPlayer Mobile application
for the iPhone and iPod touch early this morning...
will give Sling enthusiasts a new way to watch their home TV signals remotely from nearly anywhere, but some significant limitations in the ...
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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone: an in-depth review
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SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone the most expensive application to ever hit Apple’s App Store’s Top 10
MacDailyNews —
... SlingPlayer had dropped to No. 12, but it was still the only app in the top 100 bestsellers listed for more than $9.99." "The most expensive item in the store, by far, is Lextech Labs’ iRa Pro, an $899.99 application that simultaneously displays live video feeds from up to 6 security cameras," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "Apparently its users find iRa Pro worth the price. Six of its seven reviewers gave it either four stars or five." Full article, "Pushing the App Store price envelope," here .
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Technologizer —
... Special late Friday afternoon edition!
Facebook to launch video chat?
iPhone SlingPlayer: pricey, selling well.
Rumor: iPods Nano with cameras.
Zappos: from shoes to electronics.
iPhone 3.0: background apps permitted?
New BlackBerry Storm sans SurePress?
Sony Pictures CEO hates Internet.
Netbooks aren’t about to expire.
More on Thursday’s Google outage.
Shazam iPhone app sparks lawsuits.
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Vanna White loves the Slingbox on iPhone
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... this week for iPhone and are proudly showing it around to our Luddite friends. Turns out we aren't that cool. Vanna White, of all people, already has Slingbox on her iPhone. Wow. No wonder Slingbox is the first $30 app to hit the top 10. ...
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