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Starcut builds NBC Olympics mobile website for NBC's coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games.
NBC Olympics mobile website to offer live news, results, schedules, and more during coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008.

NEW YORK – August 7, 2008 – Starcut has been selected to build the NBC Olympics Mobile website for NBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China August 8-24. The announcement was made today by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics, and Juha Tiihonen, Starcut’s Chief Executive Officer.

The NBC Olympics Mobile website will enable Olympic fans to get real-time access to NBCOlympics.com content wherever they are. The NBC Olympics Mobile website currently offers top Olympic headlines, news for every Olympic sport, exclusive videos, slideshow galleries, profiles of Team USA, and other feature content. During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the NBC Olympics Mobile website will also offer live results and schedules, medal counts, and detailed TV and online listings for NBC Olympics programming. Mobile users will also be able to watch video highlights, vote in daily polls, and sign up for alerts.

“The NBC Olympics Mobile website will be the premier mobile destination for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, providing the most up-to-date news, the latest results, and the most talked about video highlights from the Games,” said Miller. “This site will provide the most ambitious sporting event coverage ever provided to mobile sports fans.”

“Starcut is proud to partner with NBC Olympics to provide innovative and exciting mobile coverage of the Beijing Games,” said Tiihonen.

Mobile web users can access the NBC Olympics Mobile website from their mobile device’s web browser by going to the URL http://mobile.nbcolympics.com. Users can also get the link sent directly to their mobile device by texting the word “OLYMPICS” to 51515.