Biking on JetBlue: Junk Watch; Airborne Broadband & More
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Biking on JetBlue: Versus and JetBlue have teamed up to offer live coverage of the 2010 Tour de France on JetBlue flights. That’s in addition to the 36 channelsof live DIRECTV programming offered via the JetBlue personal seatback televisions.
Junk Watch: How bad is that space junk problem? Bad enough that the U.S. Air Force plans to launch a new satellite to track all orbiting objects. The Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite is scheduled to launch on July 8 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA.
Airborne Broadband: ViaSat’s airborne satellite-broadband network for the U.S. military now offers high-resultuion video and broadband data at speeds up to 1 Mbps.
Quote of the Week: From Denver Post TV critic Joanne Ostrow on that Comcast rebranding – “We’ll still think of them as Comcast, of course, because XFinity is not only confusing, but it make us wonder what they’re trying to hide by inventing a new handle? Sort of like Blackwater rebranding as Xe.”
Disney Games: Disney has a new mobile games developer as Tapulous becomes part of the Disney Interactive Media Group. Tapulous founders Bart Decrem and Andrew Lacy and their development team are along for the ride.
Canal+: Interesting times at Canal+ as 20% stake holder Lagardere Group says it will launch an IPO to sell its shares after talks with Vivendi failed.
Mediaset v. Sky: More price cutting wars abroad as Italy’s Mediaset intros price cuts on its DTT pay package to help counter recent cuts from Sky Italia
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