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Mobile Content Bits: MOKO Online;Sega’s Sonic; Sprint’s Samsung Instinct; Buzzwire And RooftopComedy - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 30 May 2008 01:10 PM PST

-- MOKO Online: Australian company Loop Mobile (ASX: LPM) has launched an online version of its MOKO Mobile community, giving its users access via PC (and of course letting other…

France Issues Mobile Broadcast TV Channels - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 May 2008 01:36 PM PST

French regulator Conseil Superieur de l’Audiovisuel has awarded mobile broadcast TV licenses, but it seems to have issued the licenses on a channel basis rather than issue a license for…

Skyfire Raises $13 Million To Roll-Out Mobile Browser - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 28 May 2008 05:01 AM PST

Despite the fact that Mountain View, Calif.-based Skyfire has built a mobile browser only for the Windows Mobile platform and is limited to a private beta, it has attracted $13…

Mobile Content Bits: Avot Media; JumpTap’s European Expansion; LiveWire Mobile Gets SPV Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 04:54 PM PST

-- Avot Media launching video service: Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Avot Media said it is launching a mobile video service in about 100 Home Depot stores that will help sell a product…

Monsoon Launches SlingBox Killer; Lets Users Watch TV On A Phone - 3 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 11:33 AM PST

San Mateo, Calif.-based Monsoon Multimedia, which calls itself “the SlingBox-killer,” announced today that it will be providing a beta of its new digital video service that allows people to watch…

Vodafone Wants To Beef Up Its Mobile Internet Services; What Will It Buy? - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 27 May 2008 09:35 AM PST

It’s a big news day for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD). First, it announced its CEO Arun Sarin will step down and then it reported stellar earnings. Now, there’s also a report…

Is Qualcomm’s UK Spectrum Too Big For Mobile TV? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 23 May 2008 02:49 PM PST

ZDNet UK journo Rupert Goodwins reckons that there are far better things for Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) to do with the 40 Mhz in the L-band it just bought for 8.3…

Famous Frames Mobile Launches Digital Studio To Create Mobisodes - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 10:27 AM PST

Famous Frames, a company that specializes in creating storyboards and concepts for advertising, film, television and multimedia projects, said it is launching a beta digital studio to create multimedia content…

KIT Digital Acquires Kamera For Up To $10.2 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 21 May 2008 03:00 PM PST

KIT Digital (formerly Roo Group) has bought Swedish mobile video firm Kamera for $4.2 million in cash and up to $6 million in KIT stock, depending on certain performance thresholds,…

Mobile Content Bits: Ontela Pics; Cartoon Network and Kajeet; SnapTell; Nokia In Sweden; Txt2Give - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 20 May 2008 09:58 AM PST

-- Cincinnati Bell Wireless to use Ontela’s camera phone pic service: Seattle-based Ontela said Cincinnati Bell Wireless will start using its pix2pc service that allows customers to save camera phone…

Reports Differ On Whether Data Revenues Will Make Up For Slowing Subscriber Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 19 May 2008 10:52 AM PST

Two recent reports are weighing in on the big question facing the wireless industry: will rising data revenues make up for slower subscriber growth in the U.S.? Facts: The U.S.…

Swisscom Launches Mobile TV Service In Switzerland - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 19 May 2008 08:41 AM PST

The spate of mobile TV service launches continue, even as the user and business case for any of them are still unproven: Swisscom has launched its mobile TV service, Bluewin…

Qualcomm Wins License For UK L-Band; MediaFLO Coming To Britain? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 16 May 2008 02:40 AM PST

Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) announced today that its UK unit has been awarded a license for the country’s chunk of spectrum in the 1452-1492 MHz range, the so-called L Band, recently…

NBC Sports Makes A Big Play In Wireless With Mobile TV Offering - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 08:53 AM PST

NBC Sports today announced its biggest mobile endeavor yet—NBC 2Go, a mobile TV station on Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO service and MobiTV service. NBC provided a bit more context to…

At Least Two Paths Are Emerging In Mobile TV - 4 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 15 May 2008 12:01 AM PST

If you haven’t heard about this yet, join the club. While Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) and others have been working diligently within the wireless industry to roll out mobile TV, a…

Dish Network Seeks Partner To Build Mobile TV Network - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 10:11 AM PST

After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do…

LG, Samsung Team Up In Pitch For (Yet Another) North American Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…

LG Launches DVB-T Handset - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 13 May 2008 01:37 PM PST

LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

MocoNews Review With Video: AT&T’s MediaFLO Is Best Chance For Mobile TV To Take Off - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 12 May 2008 08:00 PM PST

The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

iPhone Gets More Video, But Not From Apple - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 May 2008 01:26 PM PST

A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being the most noticed). NBC is…

Mobile Content Bits: VZ Navigator; Paramount Games; Java Video - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 May 2008 04:15 PM PST

-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic…

ROK Acquires Online Video Firm Jalipo Ltd. For $16.8 million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 06 May 2008 06:29 AM PST

UK and U.S. based mobile entertainment firm ROK (LSE: ROK) has announced the acquisition of Jalipo Limited, the UK-based online video firm offering live streaming content. The acquisition, for 600,000…

Can “Free” DVB-T Drive Mobile TV Uptake? - 3 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 05 May 2008 03:20 AM PST

Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn’t it? In recent weeks, both Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Qualcomm have said the service isn’t getting the take up it had expected, with…

Adobe Sets Flash Free; Aims For 40 Percent Mobile Penetration By Year’s End - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 04:08 AM PST

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…

AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:23 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…