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  • Where Sport Meets Technology: Interview with Mette Lykke, Founder of Endomondo

    At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we bumped on to a young Danish company filled with energy and sportive spirits, Endomondo has developed a sports tracking application.

    The application works on phones with GPS and tracks your speed and distance covered in 20 different sports, from running and skiing, to hiking and cycling.

    It works on Symbian, Windows Mobile, Andriod and iPhone platforms and currently has 70,000 users mainly in the US, UK and Denmark.

    Mette Lykke one of the Co-Founders of Endomondo told us that they aim to have half a million users by the end of 2010, let the race begin!

  • New Zealand warms to HDTV

    Sports mad Kiwis quick to sign up for new Freeview HD service

    Just three months after going live in New Zealand, the free-to-air digital television and radio service Freeview has reported an impressive response to its new high def offering.

    Since its launch in April, 7,594 HD enabled homes have taken the Freeview HD service
    Steve Browning, Freeview’s general manager, admitted that he hadn’t expected uptake to be “quite this fast”.

    He said plans were already in place to produce a Freeview PVR.
    “And with the recent launch of Sony BRAVIA V and W series digital TVs with Freeview HD built in we are seeing the different options available to access free digital TV growing,” he said.

    In general terms, a total of 123,903 receivers had been sold by the end of June, which roughly equates to 8 per cent of New Zealand homes having access to the service.

    Freeview are fully expecting adoption to increase further when the Olympics kick off, with the service offering “24/7 coverage” in HD.

  • Sky's HDTV sports coverage set to get boost

    The addition of Eurosport’s HD channel to Sky HD would mean major sporting events such as the Tour de France and Olympics broadcast in high def

    Eurosport could be returning to UK screens after a three year gap if negotiations currently being held with Sky are succesful.
    The sports network is expected to add its HD channel to the Sky HD platform within the next few days.

    It is understood to be currently testing at 28 degrees East alongside Eurosport News.
    A Eurosport spokesman said: “We’ve been negotiating with Sky and are very keen to launch our service in the UK.”

    Speaking to Broadband TV News he said that the cross promotion on Eurosport’s standard definition channels had encouraged a number of viewer enquiries.

    The channel is expected to be made available to subscribers to Sky’s HD Mix.
    Eurosport launched its high definition service on May 25, 2008 and is currently broadcasting live HD coverage of the Tour de France.

    The channel has picked up significant carriage in France, Poland, Israel, the Benelux and Scandinavia.
    After the channel’s original launch it was replaced by Eurosport 2, which was launched in 2005.
    This channel included some Eurosport News programming, but continued as a standalone operation in other markets.

    Speaking before the launch of Eurosport’s HD service in May, Laurent-Eric Le Lay, the network’s group chairman, said he wanted to provide as much high def coverage as possible.
    As well as this year’s French Open-Roland Garros tennis Grand Slam the channel’s HD offerings include the Tour de France and the Beijing Olympics.
    “Sport, especially live is spectacular in high definition; it transforms the viewing experience for sports fans,” he said.