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Verizon and the NFL Will Stream All NFL Games Next Season onto Mobile Phones

Steven Finch — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:05:17 +0000

The National Football League and Verizon Wireless has partnered with a mobile distribution deal that will bring live NFL games onto phones at the start of next season.

The paid service will work on BlackBerrys and Android phones. Verizon hasn’t set prices for service, but an announcement is expected in weeks.

More from the WSJ: The deal marks a significant shift in strategy for the NFL, which has never before allowed mobile access to its games on Sunday afternoons. Doing so was long considered by broadcasters to be a threat to the NFL’s golden goose—its Sunday afternoon broadcasts that generate some $1.4 billion in license fees from News Corp.’s Fox and CBS Corp’s. CBS, whose executives have said they will keep a close eye on the impact of mobile distribution on their ratings.

Verizon’s four-year deal, which they took over from Sprint, is reportedly worth about $720 million.

Verizon Explicitly Blocks 4chan

Steven Finch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:26:37 +0000

According to 4chan’s Twitter account and status update blog, they have been “explicitly blocked” by the Verizon wireless network.

Chris Poole (4chan Founder) wrote yesterday afternoon, “Over the past 72 hours, we’ve been receiving reports from Verizon Wireless customers having difficulty accessing the image boards. After investigating, we found that Verizon is dropping traffic… only on port 80 (HTTP). No other subdomain/IP/port is affected, which leads us to believe this block is intentional.”

However, a couple hours ago, Poole posted, “After an hour and a half on the phone, we’ve received confirmation from Verizon’s Network Repair Bureau (NRB) that we are ‘explicitly blocked.’”

Multiple Verizon FIOS/DSL customers have let us know that the boards are still accessible from other devices not on the Verizon wireless network. However, we’re confused as to why Verizon wireless would block a website and still allow access on other parts of its network.

Motorola Releases The Motorola Devour: Google Android Powered Smartphone Supplied by Verizon

Steven Finch — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:14:33 +0000

It has been reported in the last few days that the iPhone has been losing some of its smartphone marketshare, maybe the new Android powered phone from Motorola could impact this even further. Motorola is releasing their Motorola Devour.

Features:

Touchscreen display
Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Gtalk, YouTube, Google Maps (Basically everything Google!)

Well it looks like Motorola has another good mobile handset here and Verizon is more than willing to take it in to its fold. But wait, why drop the “Droid” branding? The Motorola DROID sort of put Motorola back into the smartphone map if only Google did not spoil it with the release of the Nexus One.

Is the Motorola Devour just a teaser of a better Motorola Android device to come? I’ll leave that to your wild imagination folks. In the meantime, in case you find this Android device interesting, Verizon is offering it through various plans such as Nationwide Talk plans for $39.99 monthly access, Nationwide Talk & Text plans at $59.99 monthly access and an unlimited data package access that will cost you $29.99 monthly.

Verizon Wireless Available on New Samsung Omnia II

Steven Finch — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:51:07 +0000

It has been announced by Verizon Wireless that the Samsung Omnia II will be available for the Christmas shopping season.

Features include:

Windows Mobile 6.5
5 megapixel camera
8GB of internal memory expandable via microSD
Wifi and Bluetooth
3.7″ WVGA AMOLED display

Currently it is running a 2 year contract at $199.99.

Motorola Droid Nearly 1 Million Units Sold Already

Steven Finch — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:15:30 +0000

A few days ago there were some reports that the Motorola DROID has sold around 700,000 to 800,000 units sold. If Verizon sees a big holiday push, that number can easily crawl over the one million mark. It doesn’t hurt to have a $100 million ad campaign! Im sure that and the fact there was a text until on the Google homepage helped! Does anyone have a DROID? and what are your thoughts about the product so far?

Verizon to launch App Store

Dean — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:04:25 +0000

So you want an app, where do you go? The Apple App Store of Course. It’s been running now for a little over a year and there has already been over 50,000 apps added with over one billion downloads. Without any shred of doubt, it’s the market leader in the app world. However, now, Verizon have announced that they too will be launching an App store in the fourth quarter of this year to compete with Apple.

They, in the past, have been criticized for blocking certain apps and having limited selections for their phones. They have indeed seen the error of their ways. Speaking at their first ever developers conference in San Jose, California.

“It’s a new day (in wireless),” McAdam, Verizon CEO said in the opening address of the developer conference which was also Webcast. “And our future success is no longer in the walled-garden. Our success is tied to you (developers).

This would make for a nice touch to the current Verizon services. By giving users an app store you’re giving them one more reason to stay with you rather than search for greener pastures. I can’t see there being as many apps as the Apple App Store simply because Verizon don’t have the same kind of image that Apple has –sleek, cool and ultra-modern. However, their users will most certainly be impressed. Let’s hope us critics are too when it launches. Keep checking Crenk for updates on this story.

Palm Pre Wars: Sprint And Verizon Dont Play Nice Over Palm Pre

Dean — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:45:27 +0000

When the Apple iPhone came out there was a massive rush onto the AT&T Network in the US. Now that everything is calming down a little and the world is used to the idea of the iPhone, the other main networks in the US, Verizon and Sprint are at each others throats.

Sprints CEO, Dan Hesse shot down claims by Verizon that Verizon would be getting the Palm Pre sooner than expected. Sprints CEO, who was due to launch the device the next day on his network made firm comments about their exclusivity deal concerning the Palm Pre phone.

He said that “they need to check their facts” and “That just is not the case. Both Palm and Sprint have agreed not to discuss the length of the exclusivity deal. But I can tell you it’s not six months.”

If Verizon go ahead with their aspirations to have the Palm Pre on their network by 2010 then indeed it won’t be six months. It will be seven.

It should come as no huge shock because both carries operate using the same technology and thus they both are ideal to carry the Palm Pre which is seen as one of the main competitors to Apple’s iPhone in the US.

However, I think that Sprint really does need this phone on their network. Thy have developed a bad reputation for poor quality service and bad connections and have worked tirelessly to fix the problem. This phone could be their one shining light. Hesse said “We are very different company than we were 12 months ago,”. “And the Pre is the coming-out party for the new Sprint that shows off our fantastic data network and rate plans.”

AOL Confirms Exclusive Advertising Deal With Verizon

Steven Finch — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:12:39 +0000

According to Allen over at CenterNetworks, AOL is announcing that their Platform-A advertising network has just signed an exclusive agreement with Verizon. Under the agreement AOL will manage the mobile and online advertising for Verizon exclusively, but there is no real indication wether is agreement was provided on a total amount of impressions.