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Mobile IM Firm Miyowa Raises $8 Million To Expand To The U.S. And Asia - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 26 Jun 2008 08:26 AM PST

Paris-based mobile IM firm Miyowa said today it has raised $8 million in a second round of venture capital from Techfund and Credit Agricole Private Equity. To date, the company…

Animated Avatar Service Fix8 Gets $2 Million, Contract From SK Telecom - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 03 Apr 2008 07:02 AM PST

Fix8, a video chat service that lets users talk via animated avatars, has raised $2 million from SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), adding to the $3 million it raised last year…

Samsung Launches Mobile Content Applications; Teams Up With Garmin To Provide Navigation - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 02 Apr 2008 05:40 AM PST

It’s a trickle, but it’s a start. Since announcing at Mobile World Congress in February that it too would follow in Nokia’s footsteps by making the mobile web and content…

UK Regulator Investigating Girls’ Virtual Fashion Site Miss Bimbo - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 27 Mar 2008 04:49 AM PST

The UK’s premium-rate phone regulator Phonepayplus has launched an investigation into the controversial online fashion site Miss Bimbo, which allows its typical audience of girls aged 9-16 to buy diet…

Gizmoz Raises $6.5 Million Second Round; Moves Avatars Into Asia and Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 17 Mar 2008 11:30 AM PST

Gizmoz, which allows users to create animated 3D characters online, said today it has raised $6.5 million in a second round of funding to expand into Asia and onto the…

Can Japan’s Mixi Take The Mobile Web? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 20 Dec 2007 03:58 AM PST

Facebook and MySpace may be all the rage in the US and Europe, but in Japan, homegrown Mixi is the country’s most popular social networking site. But the site—which started…

Round-Up: Avatars; Touch Screen Keyboard; Bank Security - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 11 Sep 2007 06:52 PM PST

-- Meez and Vringo have joined forces to integrate Meez’s 3D avatars into Vringo’s video ringtone service. People can download the avatars to their phone for free (with a data…

Industry Moves: Pulse Mobile Appoints CEO, VP of Business Development - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 09 May 2007 12:11 AM PST

Pulse Mobile has announce some new executives: --Paul Anderson, who previously served the company in a sales consulting capacity, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Pulse Mobile. He previously…

Artificial Life Buys Into Interactive TV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 18 Apr 2007 05:53 PM PST

Artificial Life (of V-girl fame) has bought the SMS Galaxy system from Script Avenue AG for cash and equity..."The SMS Galaxy system is a mobile interface that complements live TV…

CBS Launches Top Model Game - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 07 Dec 2006 08:58 AM PST

WSJ writes about a new mobile game from CBS based on the popular show America’s Next Top Model, which is intended more to build a community and keep people watching…

Mobile Content Deals: Brands, Cingular Concerts and Avatars - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 05 Dec 2006 02:06 PM PST

--Mobile Streams has signed a deal with El Hijo Del Santo, the Mexican wrestler, to offer “wallpapers, true tones, specially made-for-mobile videos, movies clips and animated screen savers”. El Hijo…

Mobile Content Deals - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 22 Nov 2006 04:25 PM PST

--Venezuelan company NetPeople “seeks to expand its share of the Latin American mobile content market to 20% from its current 5% over the next four years, company president Orlando Carvallo…

Jumbuck Expands Global Community - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Aug 2006 09:09 PM PST

Australian company Jumbuck has signed up UK operator to its “suite of community services”, the flagship being Jumbuck Island, which is a 3D virtual world that acts as half massively…

Comverse Delays Filing For Stock Option Review - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 12 Jun 2006 10:07 AM PST

Comverse—known in the mobile content world for its Klonie range of avatars and a bunch of back-end stuff—has said it will delay its first-quarter report “due to an ongoing review…

Klonies Jump To Skype - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 07 Jun 2006 08:06 AM PST

We’re not going to make a habit of reporting on mobile content moving to other platforms, but… Comverse has signed a deal to put Klonies on Skype. There’re the usual…

Vodafone’s World Cup Avatar - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 30 May 2006 10:05 PM PST

Vodafone UK‘s FIFA World Cup gimmick is an Avatar that offers “a daily package of updates, images, comment and key facts from the finals”, delivered via MMS. According to the…

Artificial Life Updates V-Girl - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 05 May 2006 02:05 PM PST

Artificial Life has updated its award-winning game V-Girl, to be released in the third quarter of this year. Virtual Girlfriend 3.0 has been updated in a number of ways—the 3D…

Morph Me, Baby - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 12 Apr 2006 03:05 PM PST

[By James Pearce] The latest thing is people altering pictures they take ... Pulse lets you animate a picture to make it talk, and now ActiveSymbols has a program called…

@ CTIA: Veepers Mutates To Animated Photos - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 11 Apr 2006 06:05 PM PST

I spent a few minutes at CTIA with John Yuzdepski from Pulse Mobile looking at the company’s Veeper product...it’s now been enhanced so that people can take a static photo…

NTT DoCoMo’s Chara-Den Mobile Avatar Service - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 08 Feb 2006 08:03 PM PST

DoCoMo has chosen SeaStorm to power its Chara-Den avatar feature… ”Mobile users can take photos created by a camera phone and convert them to a 3D Chara-den character, directly on…

SAM The Virtual Weather Man - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 03 Feb 2006 03:02 PM PST

Activa Multimedia (the interactive-services subsidiary of the CorporaciÃ³ Catalana de RÃ dio i TelevisiÃ³ (CCRTV) in Spain) has created SAM, a virtual weatherman that will broadcast to mobiles, TVs and so…

Smartphone Mobilizes Urbaniacs - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 23 Jan 2006 05:02 AM PST

Smartphone Technologies has signed a licensing deal with online community site Urbaniacs. Urbaniacs allows users to create a hero by combining body parts in a mix-and-match fashion, and then equip…

Mobile Market A Good Call For DA Group - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 Dec 2005 04:13 AM PST

DA Group, a Scottish virtual animation creator, posted a loss of 959,980 pounds for the six months to September, but remained optimistic on its future based on its deals in…

DA Group Signs Dirty Sanchez Deal With MTV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Nov 2005 01:11 PM PST

DA Group, a British firm that specialises in character animation and building virtual personalities, has signed a deal with MTV to create interactive 3D characters based on the TV series…

Video Messages From ShortTV - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 18 Nov 2005 08:11 AM PST

ShortTV has worked with mBlox to put up a video messaging site: Check it out at WizWak.com. The service allows people to send video messages to their friends (or complete…