UK-based mobile phone company Orange is working on a mobile electronic program guide that will allow subscribers to access their home personal video recorders from their mobile phones. The service will work with Orange's broadband TV service, and should be available during the second half of 2007.Users will be able to browse listing and schedule recordings, as well as perform keyword searches. Orange customers will also be able to stream television content directly to their phones.
In related news, US-based Gist Communications has ended a beta test of their UGuide software allowing users to control a Windows Media Center system from their mobile phones. A message on the UGuide web site says now that the beta has been concluded, service will be suspended until commercial deployment of the service.
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