September Slinging

After working 13 days on the road, followed by 48 hours of R&R (Halo 3-style), I’m ready to get back to some blogging. It’s obviously been a very exciting couple weeks at Sling Media (my place of employment), so here’s a quick roundup of September news in chronological order:

Sling Collaborates with DirecTV on NFL Supercast

• jkOnTheRun: Hands on with Sling & DIRECTV SuperCast. It Rocks!
• Amazon Current: Hands-On with DirecTV Supercast

EchoStar to Acquire Sling Media

• Forbes: Shifting Places
• paidContent: Sling-DISH Interview, Blake Krikorian
• Sling Community: Blake Krikorian Talks, The EchoStar Purchase

Introducing Slingbox SOLO

• CNET: Sling Media Slingbox Solo
• Gizmodo: Slingbox Solo Hands On, Slinging a Single HD Source Wherever You Are

Slingbox PRO Heads Across the Pond

• PC Advisor: UK gets Slingbox with Freeview tuner & HD
• Pocket-lint: Sling Media Slingbox PRO Review

SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian Released

• ZDNet: Sling Media announces SlingPlayer for S60 devices
• Symbian Guru: SlingPlayer Mobile for Symbian S60v3 Devices!
• Symbian in Motion: SlingPlayer Mobile Officially Released for S60

SlingPlayer Mobile for Blackberry Under Development

Yes, it’s true – we’re exploring Slinging to the Blackberry platform and feel good with our progress. I’ll go ahead and quote myself from the Sling Community:

You wouldn’t believe some of the cool stuff going on in our labs! But we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves… Blackberry support, as with any new Sling platform, is a major engineering undertaking and it’ll be some time before we have a product suitable for release.

Bonus Coverage: We’ve also refreshed our Sling Media web site, launched a Clip+Sling teaser, and intend to fully support Palm’s new Centro.