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MLB At Bat GameDay for iPad

It's Major League Baseball's opening day, and the league is launching a bunch of cool updates to its excellent mobile apps.

The most exciting is a free month of live, out-of-market streaming game telecasts on the iPad and iPhone, sponsored by Volvo. This is basically a free trial of the MLB.TV service that provides these live game streams year-round.

There's also a new "Gameday" design -- the virtual play-by-play graphics if you aren't watching a live telecast -- which uses screenshots from an MLB baseball game for the Playstation.

And this is the first year MLB will be streaming live video to some Android phones, using Flash.

Here's the current list of Android phones that MLB will offer live streaming for:

Sprint HTC Evo, Verizon HTC Droid Incredible, Verizon Motorola Droid X, Verizon Motorola Droid, Verizon Motorola Droid 2, Verizon Motorola Droid Pro, Verizon HTC Thunderbolt, VZW Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Nexus One, T-Mobile Samsung Nexus S, T-Mobile HTC Glacier (myTouch 4G). Minimum OS 2.2 and Installed Flash

Here's MLB's full list of Opening Day updates:

At Bat 11 for iPad

· Watch every out-of-market game during April with a free MLB.TV trial presented by Volvo (NEW)

· Enhanced, re-designed Gameday pitch-by-pitch features, including realistic ballpark renderings from all 30 MLB parks in partnership with MLB® 11: The Show™, available exclusively on PlayStation® (NEW)

· See key plays and pivotal moments from every game with Live Looks-Ins, blackout free (NEW)

· Archived games to watch every game from 2011 on-demand (NEW)

· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games all season

· Home and away radio broadcasts

· In-progress video highlights

· Condensed Games

· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics

At Bat 11 for iPhone, iPod touch

· Watch every out-of-market game during April with a free MLB.TV trial presented by Volvo (NEW)

· See key plays and pivotal moments from every game with Live Looks-Ins, blackout free (NEW)

· Archived games to watch every game from 2011 on-demand (NEW)

· At The Ballpark with check-in, interactive venue maps, expanded video highlights, my profile, social media with Twitter and Facebook, exclusive offers and rewards and more (NEW)

· Customizable home screen to feature a designated favorite team (NEW)

· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games all season

· Home and away radio broadcasts

· In-progress video highlights

· Condensed Games and video library archive, searchable by team and player

· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics

· Customizable push notifications for game start and end and video highlight availability

At Bat 11 for Android

· MLB.TV subscription access to watch live out-of-market games (NEW)*

· At Bat.tv Free Game of the Day to watch one live out-of-market game free every day (NEW)*

· See key plays/pivotal moments from every game with Live Look-Ins, blackout free (NEW)*

· At The Ballpark with check-in, expanded video highlights, my profile, social media with Facebook, exclusive offers and rewards and more (NEW)

· Customizable home screen to feature a designated favorite team (NEW)

· Favorite team icon launcher widget for one-click access to a team’s homepage (NEW)

· MLB.com widget for one-click access to a live league-wide scoreboard (NEW)

· In-progress video highlights

· Home and away radio broadcasts

· Gameday pitch-by-pitch tracker

· Video library archive, searchable by team and player

· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics

* Technical requirements for live video on Android: To access live video, the minimum OS is 2.2, supporting Flash with at least an ARMv7 processor. Note that not all 2.2 devices support Flash and users may experience other unexpected device constraints.

At Bat 11 for BlackBerry

· Home and away radio broadcasts

· In-progress video highlights

· Gameday pitch-by-pitch tracker

· Customizable push notifications for game start and end and video highlight availability

· Breaking news, standings, schedules, rosters and statistics

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Accel Partners, the big Silicon Valley venture capital firm, is opening a New York office, the latest sign of West Coast VC interest in the New York tech scene.

Accel has already made several NYC-area investments, so it makes sense to have a satellite office here. Its portfolio includes New York area companies like Diapers.com (recently acquired by Amazon), Etsy, Birchbox, Glam, Squarespace, and Venmo.

Though, for now, this seems more for the convenience of its partners than to add much -- more than its money, via investments -- to the New York tech scene.

Accel VC Rich Wong tells us that the office won't have any permanent staffers at first, but that there is an Accel partner in New York almost every week or two as it is. Accel's Jim Breyer, Theresia Gouw Ranzetta, and Sameer Gandhi are leading the effort. (Breyer also has a home in New York.)

We'll see if Accel eventually hires partners here, gets deeply involved in the community, etc. This stuff takes time, so we'll see.

Wong says Accel will likely increase its investment pace in the New York area, across a range of deal sizes, from seed stage to growth equity.

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