CES 2007

New Content Missing From New TV Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:10 AM PST

Red Herring has a piece bemoaning the lack of new content from start-up producers on the new TV services such as mobile TV and IPTV. “It’s the same content packaged…

Sprint-CableCos JV To Deliver Mobile TV Through MobiTV Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 09 Jan 2007 01:19 PM PST

If Verizon is launching its service, and Apple is announcing its phone, why should others be left behind: The Sprint-Cable Companies Joint Venture is gearing up to extend the video…

@ CES: Microsoft Mobile: ‘Welcome To The Party, Apple’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 12:52 PM PST

I happened to be in a meeting with Windows Mobile just after the iPhone announcement and couldn’t resist bringing it up. John Starkweather, group product manager for the Mobile &…

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@ CES: Interview: Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, Yahoo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 08 Jan 2007 10:20 PM PST

This time last year, as Yahoo announced its Connected Life strategy with Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres on hand, Marco Boerries took the stage to introduce Yahoo Go, most notably…

Opera Ditches Google For Yahoo Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 06:36 PM PST

This is a significant enough move that I wanted to point out separately from Yahoo announcements below: this is the first major switch in the nascent mobile search arena: Opera,…

Yahoo’s Slew of Mobile Deals At CES: Yahoo Go 2.0, OneSearch; Distribution Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 05:56 PM PST

We mentioned last night about Yahoo’s efforts to revive and relaunch Yahoo Go, its mobile services suite..it has officially announced a bunch of deals today: -- First, it has relaunched…

Robbie Bach Disses Apple Phone Idea, MVNOs - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 05:52 PM PST

Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division (responsible for Zune and Xbox) engaged in some Appple phone dissing today at CES...first, he said that it too is…

@ CES: Keynote Of Ed Zander, Motorola CEO—Yahoo And Music; WMG Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 12:15 PM PST

The keynote of Motorola CEO Ed Zander was mostly a sales pitch, but that’s to be expected and it’s mostly to find out what one of the biggest handset manufacturers…

Content Is King, Distributor Is Emperor - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 09:40 AM PST

PCMag has covered the Rush to Mobile Video panel at CES, which included speakers from Fun Little Movies, MediaFLO, Motorola, MobiTV, Sony Pictures, Fox Reality and mSpot. There was discussion…

CES Day 1 Content Newswire - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 08:09 AM PST

--Nokia’s CES PR includes a tie-in with social network service Vox (part of Six Apart) that will let users of certain Nokia Nseries (the first being the N93i) phones update…

Yahoo Go To Make A Second Go At It: New Version; More Aggressive Marketing - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 10:54 PM PST

It is the CES PR offensive, and Yahoo is hoping to make another go (pun intended) of something that it announced at last CES with a big hoopla, and failed…

MediaFlo’s First Offical Content Deals: NBC Universal; Fox; MTV Networks; CBS - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 02:17 PM PST

Staci will have a lot more from the joint Verizon-Qualcomm press conference later today, about the mobile TV service to be launched. But some parts first: Qualcomm has announced its…

CES Becomes Consumer Content Show - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 05 Jan 2007 09:11 AM PST

Bloomberg has an interesting piece on the upcoming CES conference, arguing that content companies are stepping up their presence at the electronic show—Disney CEO Robert Iger and CBS CEO Les…