Las Vegas - CBS has partnered with Sling Media, a developer of video "place-shifting" technology that lets users access premium home channels while away from any Internet-connected device, on a test of a service that will allow users to share short segments of CBS programming.

The Clip+Sling service will allow owners of Sling Media's Slingbox device to clip and share content directly from live or recorded TV shows with both other Slingbox owners and others over the Internet.

"CBS is interested in how new media solutions can help build communities around content," said CBS Interactive president Quincy Smith. "As we move forward into an increasingly digital and interactive future, that capability will sometimes come from unexpected places, products and services that in the past might have been seen as disruptors, instead of enablers."

The new feature will be included in both the desktop and mobile versions of the SlingPlayer software, slated for release in the second quarter of 2007.

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