iReader Review has noted today that Scrabble has become the first paid, third-party app for the Amazon Kindle.
EA has quietly added the app to the Kindle Store, at a hefty price of $4.99.
To play the game, you will need a second or third generation Kindle, or a Kindle DX.
You will not even be able to download the game if you have a first-generation Kindle e-reader.
While the Kindles have Internet access via either 3G or Wi-Fi, or both, the game only supports multi-player on the device, not online.
Result for: internet access
Cablevision, one of the largest ISPs in the New York City metropolitan area, has said today that they have submitted a proposal to the MTA in an effort to extend free Optimum Wi-Fi onto Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North trains within the next year.
The Wi-Fi is currently available at 200 commuter stops, but the new proposal would extend the Wi-Fi onto the actual trains, giving Internet to Cablevision subscribers whilst in transit.
“Access to the Internet on MTA trains will transform the riding experience, and we believe Cablevision is uniquely positioned to deliver this enhancement through the extension of Optimum WiFi – already the nation’s largest and most advanced WiFi network – onto the rails,” says John Bickham, Cablevision’s president of cable and communications. “As a New York-based company already providing popular WiFi access at nearly 200 MTA commuter rail stations we propose to deploy wireless Internet access across the entire MTA system within 12 months of selection, at no cost to the Transportation Authority or taxpayers.”
If you are not a Cablevision subscriber, then you can pay for access, at a “reasonable” price.
The Optimum Wi-Fi offers download speeds of up to 3 Mbps and upload of 1.5 Mbps.
Result for: internet access
Cablevision is set to trial a new concept service in New York, where it serves 3 million homes. A household with both Cablevision Internet access and cable television services will be able to take part. Basically, the service will use your Internet connection to stream pretty much anything from your computer screen to your television, delivered as your own personal TV channel through your cable.
Titled PC to TV Media Relay, Cablevision is offering the service to customers in an attempt to provide innovative and useful solutions for home media consumption as sites like Hulu become more popular. In order to use the service, a user only needs to install software on a Windows-based machines. Cablevision will market it as enabling online viewing on a television with the push of a button.
Pricing for the service has yet to be decided, and users of Macs will be included as soon as software for the platform is developed. The move follows a service from Comcast called On Demand Online, launched last year to offer cable programming to subscribers of both Comcast Internet and cable TV services.
“Linear video will, no doubt, continue to exist, and even to thrive, but broadband will by then almost inarguably be the core business for the cable companies,” Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett said, referring to how the cable sector will change over the next 10 years.
