Keeping In Touch with the Olympics Thanks to SlingMobile

I know I’ve talked about it a couple of times around here, but I’m going to mention it again – I’m hooked on watching the Olympics. Unfortunately, today we had plans to take the kids to Canada’s Wonderland (the Canadian version of Disneyland). That means leaving early and missing out on watching the Men’s 100m race. The current Olympic record was still held by Canada’s Donovan Bailey from his race 12 years ago when he won Gold. This time, a Jamaican runner by the name Usain Bolt almost broke that record in the qualifying and he wasn’t even running full speed. So there was a huge chance that this record might fall and I wanted to watch that. The solution was easy – SlingMobile.

I was able to watch the moment live on my cell phone thanks to SlingBox. We stopped for gas and to grab some cash from the ATM machine shortly before the race was to begin and just across the street from our destination. Using SlingMobile I was able to tune into my TV back at home and watch the race live. As expected, Usain Bolt blasted down the track smashing Donovan’s previous Olympic record of 9.89 from the 1996 Olympics with a 9.68 run – AMAZING. It’s a really great feeling to know that I can be out spending time with the family and still keep track of what’s happening half way around the world. SlingMobile rocks!

John Starkweather Talks with Akihabara News

Back in June of 2006 I had a chance to interview John Starkweather (part 1, part 2). At that time, John was the Group Product Manager for Mobile and Embedded Devices Division at Microsoft. Fast forward a couple years and John is now the International Director of Product Management at Microsoft. He recently sat down with the guys from Akihabaranews.com for a 3 part video interview. In the first part John talks about the history of Windows Mobile and briefly talks about some of the new phones that have been released running Windows Mobile 6.1.

Check out the video over at Akihabaranews.com