Already a content partner, NASA’s iPhone app has a description that reads: “Update Coming that adds Live NASA Public TV streaming to your device.” Around the corner, NASA may also be launching a live TV streaming application using Livestation’s technology. As with BBC News, the live TV channel is available over both Wi-Fi and 3G. In the U.S., Livestation also began offering Al Jazeera English Live (iTunes link) last month, a live TV application built using the same technology. Akamai’s CDN steps in to help Livestation scale these streams to the millions of iPhones worldwide. European viewers can watch the news over two types of streams provided by the app: either a 96 K stream on 3G and Edge networks or a higher-quality 300 K stream delivered over Wi-Fi. This iPhone application delivers live TV news to viewers in 16 European countries but is sadly not available in the US as of yet. Livestation quietly launched their first mobile application streaming live content over a month ago with the release of BBC World News, which debuted in June 2009.
Other broadcasters that choose to build mobile applications with the company’s new white label turn-key solution can have an app branded and then sold in the iTunes App Store as the broadcaster’s own. To demonstrate the capabilities of this technology, Livestation has also launched two applications which stream live TV news over both 3G and Wi-Fi connections. Content delivery network Akamai announced today that their partner and live TV provider Livestation has officially launched its streaming video solution which allows any broadcaster to deliver live TV to the iPhone.