• Delta Senate Ally Tries to Block Democratic Union Election Rules

    Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson (R) tried to get the Senate to overturn the election rules that the National Mediation Board put in place June 1, establishing democratic procedures for union elections in the airline industry. Fortunately, a majority of Senators didn’t agree.
    CWA Union News

     
  • Verizon V CASTs to Droid, Droid Eris, Droid Incredible, Moto Devour, and LG Ally, Tweeted for June 7

    V CAST on Phone.JPGVerizon, 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 TV shows and other
    video content over 3G.

    V CAST offers exclusive content, television shows  Fox, NBC, Nickelodeon and other networks. They also offer special events such as sports and concerts. Verizon will V CAST  through exclusive rights to stream live Univision
    Interactive Media’s
    Spanish-language broadcasts of the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer matches
    from South Africa later this year.

    Rates are per
    day, while monthly use costs to a month. V Cast offers parental
    controls. When you watch programming on V CAST Mobile TV, you do not
    incur airtime
    charges during usage.

     
    If you would like to try the V CAST service. Verizon is offering a Free Trial, you can get 1 month
    of V CAST Video On Demand free when
    you subscribe

    now.

    You can receive calls while watching V CAST . You will be prompted of an
    incoming call and will have the option
    to accept or ignore the call. If you take the call, the application will
    be suspended and will resume once the call has ended. However, you will
    rejoin your program already in progress. If you ignore the call, the
    application will resume and rejoin the program still in progress. The
    program being watched will not pause or suspend.

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