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Mobile News Video Streaming App on Windows Phone 7
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Company enabled its customers to reach their subscribers with real time news updates using video streaming on mobile phones
Situation
- An independent software vendor serving the media & news wants to enable its customers to reach their audience on mobile devices
- Company sees mobile as an upcoming area in news & media with the growing 3G / 4G penetration
Challenge
- The mobile application should be maintainable with content being highly dynamic
- The application needs to support video streaming of various news categories
- The company wants to reach market faster in order to capitalize on growing demand for mobile applications
Harbinger Solution
- A Windows Phone 7 application that enables playing news videos of various categories
- The videos on server are served dynamically to the mobile device
- The details of the video are fetched using Web Services
- The videos can be shared on social networks like FaceBook and Twitter
- The application built in two flavors: a paid version and a free app with random advertisements at the start of videos
Technologies & Tools
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.x
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional
- Microsoft Express Blend 4 for UI Design
- Silverlight for Windows Phone 7
- Microsoft C#.NET for Code Behind
- Windows Phone 7 Emulator to debug the application
- Microsoft WCF for Web Services (Server Side implementation)
Benefits
- The subscribers could stay connected to all the news by watching various videos
- The subscribers could get real time updates independent of their location
- The company was able to reach its subscribers on mobile platform