Can Silverlight hit this one outta the park?

by Harry Fuller

Baseball fans will want to keep an eye on this promise. Microsoft's Silverlight could be used to bring live Major League Baseball to your mobile phone. The MLB folks were on stage at MIX in Las Vegas, showing off the next generation of baseball video services. Their capper was a live game on a Windows-enabled cell phone. We've embedded MLB's presentation to the left.

Topics:: Home video,; Phones,; Entertainment

Tags:: baseball.,; Major League,; cell phone,; mobile,; live video,; baseball game,; Microsoft,; Silverlight,; sports,; live sports

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