Follow the Vendee Globe on your mobile

Fans of the round-the-world yacht race Vendee Globe will be able to follow the race on their mobile phone. The Offshore Challenges boat has been fitted out with four webcams and a satellite broadband system which sends all the latest information back to Offshore Challenges’ control centre. From there it is reformatted for the various iTAGG services.

Steve Procter, CEO at iTAGG, told The Register: “I’m surprised by how much people will pay for quite poor content. Compared to three or four pounds for a ringtone paying less than a pound for a picture of a sporting celebrity seems reasonable.”

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