mocoNews.net - Unhealthily Obsessed with Mobile Content
Cingular-AT&T
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 08:00 PM PST
A joint-venture deal between Sprint (NYSE: S) and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) that includes investments of $3.2 billion coming from Intel (NSDQ: INTC), Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Google…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 06 May 2008 10:30 AM PST
-- The Jerry Springer Show has launched some mobile interactivity, with some features also available though a landline. It includes ringtones, a Jerry Springer Mobile Fan Club, leave a voicemail…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 04 May 2008 08:30 AM PST
AT&T’s (NYSE: T) MediaFlo-based mobile TV broadcasting service is launching today in about 58 markets in U.S. We will have more details and review later in the week. I have…
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…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 30 Apr 2008 03:08 AM PST
Marchex, an online advertising company, plans to announce today that it is entering the mobile market via its subsidiary VoiceStar, which it acquired for about $20 million last August. As…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 29 Apr 2008 05:13 PM PST
Rumors of a 3G iPhone coming out in June have been around for a while...now Fortune makes the unsubstantiated report that AT&T (NYSE: T) plans to subsidize the device to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 24 Apr 2008 02:50 PM PST
Just when you think the chances of a new U.S. wireless carrier are slim to none, another opportunity seems to crop up. After the recent government spectrum auction ended with…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 22 Apr 2008 04:57 AM PST
Helped by strong growth in wireless data, AT&T (NYSE: T) Q1 revs grew 6.1 percent to $30.7 billion, from $28.9 billion in the year-ago period. Net income was up 21.5…
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Apr 2008 11:35 AM PST
AT&T is laying off 1.5 percent of its 309,000 workers, which will be reflected in a Q1 pretax charge of $374 million, WSJ reported, citing a 10-K filing on Friday.…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 18 Apr 2008 09:46 AM PST
The possible prices and channel line-up for AT&T’s (NYSE: T) mobile TV service due May 4 has been leaked by an anonymous source, according to PhoneMag quoting The Boy Genius…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 15 Apr 2008 04:14 PM PST
Bellevue, Wash.-based UIEvolution, which has created a software platform that can run on mobile phones, TV set-top boxes and in cars, said it will be revamping the way people shop…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 14 Apr 2008 03:40 AM PST
Are ringbacks just not marketed properly? According to a slew of analysts ringbacks are poised to pick up the slack in the declining ringtone market, but they’ve got to be…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 09 Apr 2008 03:47 PM PST
One of the hardest parts of reporting on mobile content is working out exactly what companies are offering… the word most bandied about and misused is “exclusive”. For example, in…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 09 Apr 2008 12:20 PM PST
The FCC is thinking about developing a nationwide emergency alert system that would send out text messages in a crisis, USA Today reports. The system would likely reach more people…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 04:33 PM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the dominant handset-maker worldwide, but it too apparently feels the need to develop an iPhone wannabe, and is currently working on its first touchscreen phone,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 04 Apr 2008 01:37 PM PST
This week, I caught up with Tony Lewis, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless’ newly-appointed VP of Open Development, at CTIA to talk to him about what the company’s plans are for…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Apr 2008 06:11 AM PST
AT&T (NYSE: T) wanted wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz band auction “that was unencumbered by heavy regulation (read: open access requirements)”, as they were a better fit with the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Apr 2008 03:09 AM PST
AT&T (NYSE: T) has “quietly agreed” to support a marketing service that will allow mobile phone campaigns to link print ads, billboards and product packaging with digital media, reports Media…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 03 Apr 2008 03:09 AM PST
The mystery of the missing iPhones has reached a fever pitch, and several pundits including Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster have interpreted the shortage to mean that a 3G model…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 02 Apr 2008 06:54 PM PST
Today, AT&T (NYSE: T) hosted a press conference to catch all the reporters up to speed on the carrier’s recent initiatives, and once the faucet started to open, the news…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:36 PM PST
Announcements made today at CTIA showed that navigation services are an increasingly important offering on the mobile phone, and conversations with both Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T (NYSE: T),…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 31 Mar 2008 08:38 AM PST
—AOL (NYSE: TWX) Offers WAP Games: AOL plans to announce today that it is offering free WAP-based mobile games to wireless subscribers, so they don’t have to download anything to…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:31 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television has struck a deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) and MediaFlo USA to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the U.S, according to…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 28 Mar 2008 03:04 PM PST
It’s that time of year when CTIA Wireless, the big U.S.-based wireless show, is getting ready to kick off. I’ll be heading down on Sunday to Las Vegas to start…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 27 Mar 2008 02:55 PM PST
AT&T (NYSE: T) said today that it will begin offering Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFLO service in May. The company provided the details in an email today, saying more information will…
Mobile Options
RSS
paidContent.org feed mocoNews.net feed paidContent.co.uk feed contentSutra.com feed
View all feeds »Channels
Send a News Tip
About
mocoNews.net is a news site covering the business of mobile content.
Rafat Ali
Publisher & Co-Editor
Staci D. Kramer
Co-Editor
Tricia Duryee
Principal Correspondent
Dianne See Morrison
Contributing Writer
James Quintana Pearce
Contributing Writer
Robert Andrews
U.K. Editor
Search
ContentNext Headlines
mocoNews.net
- Video Interview: Jeff Price, President, SI Digital, Time Inc
- EconSM Video: Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups
- News Corp. Withdraws Bid For Newsday; Likely Winner Will Be Cablevision
- Facebook Adds Another $100 Million In Venture Lending, For More Servers
- Earnings: Journal Register Q1 Online Revs Up 22.8 Percent; Company Swings To Loss, Total Revs Drop





