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CES 2006
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 27 Jan 2006 02:01 PM PST
Gamasutra has an article highlighting the key points of a mobile gaming panel at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show...speakers were Jamdat Mobile’s Minard Hamilton, IDG Entertainment CEO and president Dan…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 15 Jan 2006 10:01 PM PST
A trip to CES has convinced this writer that mobile TV is trundling down the runway with plans to take off. The whole category has gotten a push from the…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 12 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
Comparing today’s iPods to home answering machines, Sun CEO ScotT McNealy predicts, “It’s going to be hard to sell a lot of iPods five years from now when every cell…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 08 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
My interview with Yahoo’s Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, (in the tan jacket) had to be rescheduled from Friday after his cameo appearance in CEO Terry Semel’s keynote but his excuse—showing…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 12:01 PM PST
Amp’d Mobile, the edgy MVNO, has launched naitonwide, the company says, after a soft-launch last month. The service launches nationwide with Jet and Angel by Kyocera Wireless, two high-speed EV-DO…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 11:02 AM PST
So you read about Yahoo Go Mobile in a few posts below...now there’s Yahoo Ready, which is the Motorola-ready version of mobile apps from Yahoo. Pre-installed Yahoo Ready applications on…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 10:02 AM PST
The new Yahoo Go Mobile suite launched last night, and I’m testing it now on the new Nokia N90 (sent to me by the folks at Nokia for testing). Even…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 06 Jan 2006 10:01 AM PST
The company has released official details in this release (as you can see below, I’m testing out the app on my N90)… -- It has launched in AT&T and Cingular…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
Expect more such deals with other players to happen this year: Motorola plans to launch mobile phones with a Google search icon on handsets...this is a three-year deal. This is…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 09:01 PM PST
Yahoo is making its biggest bet yet outside its website: at CES, it is launching what it calls Yahoo Go (the site should go live here later), a series of…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 08:01 PM PST
At CES, Amp’d Mobile is touting its content partnerships, the most-comprehensive in the industry, according to the MVNO. Top-rated programs from ABC, NBC Adult Swim, CBS, CMT, Comedy Central, E!…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 08:01 PM PST
Motorola and Avvenu, a Palo Alto, CA based start-up specializing in remote access and sharing technology on mobiles, have launched Motorola Share, a free service for Motorola users providing remote…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 05 Jan 2006 07:02 PM PST
It’s been on the hype wagon for a while, but now it appears to be here...almost. Netgear have demo’d a Skype phone at CES: “There are currently only 10 working…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 07:01 PM PST
Some more news coming out of CES: -- Comedy Central Shows on Mobiles: Comedy Central has signed mobile deals to bring clips of South Park and Chappelle’s Show to cellphones,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 12:01 PM PST
Our journo on the ground Staci has some pics from the launch event.. Pics here on Flickr
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 05 Jan 2006 09:02 AM PST
[by Staci Kramer] Updated below: Work in progres: The only reason to be at the Hard Rock at 9 a.m.—the launch of V Cast Music, the first mobile music service…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jan 2006 10:01 PM PST
Sprint Nextel’s mega-deals with the top cable companies will see the first fruits of its joint venture by mid this year, the companies announced at CES. The companies also announced…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jan 2006 06:01 PM PST
Updated: read below: Verizon Wireless looks set to introduce a music downloading service for phones...might be announced as early as tomorrow, at CES. Executives at LG Electronics also hinted at…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
Mobile video aggregator MobiTV, which announced its new version MobiTV2 at the last CTIA, has announced at CES that operators Sprint and Cingular will adopt it. The new service improves…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jan 2006 11:02 AM PST
Lots of news coming out of CEs...for full coverage, see our dedicated blog on paidContent.org. but some mobile related news below: -- Motorola SLVR with iTunes, From Cingular: Who knows,…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Jan 2006 08:02 AM PST
Now it gets interesting: Telecom tower company Crown Castle International has renamed its mobile TV subsidiary as Modeo and said at CES that by 2007 it would launch mobile TV…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 03 Jan 2006 06:02 PM PST
Rafat has already posted about this but something which jumped out at me that he didn’t cover was the move to integrate it with carrier’s mobile music stores. “Carriers can…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 03 Jan 2006 03:02 PM PST
Expect Verizon Wireless to make some expansion announcements at CES for its VCast service…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 03 Jan 2006 09:02 AM PST
Ot at least has released more details of its till-now elusive mobile/broadband radio service iRadio...The service will first run on the Rokr E2 phone, which, unlike the first Rokr phone,…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 03 Jan 2006 09:01 AM PST
Sling Media plans to launch a service where consumers can watch the content on their home television on their mobile devices “from anywhere in the world”. The client works with…
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