Yesterday, many mobile app users noticed that their apps couldn’t keep track of the election.

The push notifications that alert to breaking news  were reportedly  late – some as late as 90 minutes.

There were also problems reported with the Romney campaign poll watchers app. The ORCA Project was supposed to give real-time information to enable campaign workers to contact those who had not voted, yet. Romney campaigners griped on Twitter during the day.  Many workers Tweeted that could not login and the system was overloaded.

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Mobile viewing is growing rapidly and is especially useful for webinars and learning. Mobile access to ON24 webcasts events grew 300 percent last year and is expected to double in the next year.  To adapt to the mobile environment, ON24 this week debuted a new technology that automatically optimizes viewing of its webcasts and virtual learning events for mobile devices.

Dubbed ON24 MOVE (Mobile Virtual Environments), the service provides an HTML5-based virtual environment for tablets and a more content-focused compact view for smartphones.

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A Qumu-commissioned Harris survey found some interesting data about how video is viewed at work, as well as how employees hide access to many mobile activities, such as looking for other jobs, dates, bargains, and risque entertainment.  To illustrate how...

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Sony has released the free Crackle app, optimized for iPads and iPhones with ad-supported  films and TV shows.Crackle offers different genres, such as crime, horror, thriller and sci-fi.  More than 200 titles from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and...

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The Samsung Epic 4G is getting an update so that users can access the new Samsung Media Hub store.  When the Samsung Galaxy Tab for the U.S. was announced, more details of the Samsung Media Hub emerged.All Samsung Galaxy S...

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There is now a Netflix App for iPhone and iPod touch that allows for streaming video of TV shows and movies for Netflix members who pay for the Netflix service. The Neflix iPhone App is available in the iTunes App...

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Verizon, spokesTwitterer, Sheldon Leonard in Philadelphia, tweeted that "V CAST Video coming to our Android devices beginning June 7..."The V CAST service brings the Verizon video service to the Droid Incredible, Droid Eris, Droid, Moto Devour, and LG Ally on-demand...

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A group of broadcasters  today announced plans to form a joint venture to develop a new national mobile content service.  They will use existing broadcast spectrum, to provide content to mobile devices, including live and on-demand video, local and national...

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All 64 games of the NCAA® Division I Men's Basketball Championship will be available on AT&T Mobile TV and AT&T Radio services. Live Coverage of Men's NCAA March Madness Subscribers of both AT&T Mobile TV and AT&T Radio will be...

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FLO TV will offer CNN Mobile, a channel that includes programming from CNN/US, CNN International and HLN, as well as CNN.com content.  The channel will be available on the FLO TVPersonal Television and FLO TV Auto Entertainment platforms, in...

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The half-inch thin AT&T LG ARENA will go on sale online February 26. The LG ARENA is an entertainment centric phone. LG ARENA' s  3-inch touchscreen can show DVD-quality videos made by  the LG ARENA's 5.0 MP autofocus camera with...

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