Mobile Minutes: Sports programming; Apple Watch sales; Facebook live streaming; Social calendar
Sports continues to be one of the biggest barriers to those looking to sever or trim their pay-TV cord. That’s because we are still a long way from true die-hards being able to go strictly with over-the-top (OTT) Net-delivered sports programming.
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Glimmers emerge on Apple Watch sales, and they’re not pretty
Apple has said very little about sales of its Apple Watch, but a few tidbits are beginning to emerge from suppliers. The latest nugget may have come from Taiwan’s Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc., a company that crams the watch’s many chips and sensors into a compact case through a process called system-in-package, or SiP.
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Facebook debuts new live event stream at Lollapalooza
Facebook Inc. on Friday began testing a new feature that let users check in on live events from their couches at home. The company is offering a stream of content from the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago to users anywhere in the U.S., an effort to compete with live social platforms like Snapchat Inc. and Twitter Inc.
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Need a reason to celebrate? Check online, where social media fills the calendar
Most Instagram users share their photos instantly. Leila Khan sometimes waits six weeks.
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