CTIA kicked off this morning with the association’s Chairman Lowell McAdam of Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) addressing the crowd. He talked about how much innovation has taken place over the…

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You never know what will happen when Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gets on the stage, but if everything stays according to plan, Robbie Bach will get up today at CTIA and…

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Yesterday at CTIA, I did a brief interview with Tom Wheeler, managing director of Core Capital Partners, on the fast evolving mobile content ecosystem, and investing in it. The big…

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-- Greystripe and Vivedi to offer for-pay games: Greystripe is partnering with Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games Mobile to offer for-pay games that can be trialled before purchase. Greystripe has been…

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After several somewhat negative panels at the pre-CTIA Billboard event today (two titles: What sucks? and Who’s dropping the ball?), George Kliavkoff, NBC Universal’s (NYSE: GE) chief digital officer, left…

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RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Rob Glaser addressed the audience at Mobile Entertainment Live! just about an hour ago, covering a variety of subjects, from content bundling, the iPhone and mobile…

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In the morning keynote at Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live the day before CTIA, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Tero Ojanpera, EVP of entertainment and communities, took the stage to discuss a number…

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—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…

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Mywaves, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company building an ad-supported streaming mobile video service, plans to announce tomorrow that it’s expanding its TV channels to include such mainstream content from MTV, as…

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....the baggage carousel at Las Vegas airport has ad banners for Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericcson. Outside, it is nice and breezy this time of the year.. Update: Later in the…

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CTIA announcements are already starting to trickle out. Here’s two that I know of: -- Jott Networks Launches BlackBerry App: The Seattle company, which allows you to covert voice messages…

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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…

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Kyte has been very visible at SxSW Interactive. Literally: Its live streams are on monitors all around the convention center. And of course the impressive amounts of cash its raised—$21.1…

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Last September, mobile content and apps firm New Motion (OTCBB: NWMO) announced the acquisition of online marketer Traffix, a rare instance of an OTCBB-traded firm taking over a NASDAQ-traded one.…

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The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year’s MWC, a cross-section of execs from operators, to handset makers, to content players were singing its praises—backing them up…

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They’re not bedfellows just yet—Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is “investigating” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) over concerns surrounding its new oneConnect mobile social app. Unveiled in Barcelona on Monday, the app lets users…

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Another mobile TV conference panel, another opportunity to lament the low take-up of this technology with so much still-unfulfilled promise (also see yesterday’s stats and similar negativity from Mipcom). BBC…

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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son warned operators they risked becoming “dumb pipes,” if they did not move swiftly to control mobile content, reports TotalTelecom. Speaking on Wednesday at the MWC, Son…

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DotMobi said this week at Mobile World Congress that it has started to compile a database of cellphone specifications to help software developers better design Web sites for mobile phones.…

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Will.i.am, the brains behind Black-Eyed Peas and a switched-on digital media brand surfer with a couple of online music businesses under his auspices, shared his words of wisdom from an…

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In his role as Sundance Institute president at Mobile World Congress, Robert Redford said that, often, technology gets ahead of itself. The GSM Association is sponsoring initiatives again this year…

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If you thought Universal Music Group’s all-you-can-eat music access endeavors were just experiments, check digital SVP Rob Wells’ comments on a music panel at Mobile World Congress: “The start and…

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Not that many countries outside Asia are using it in a big way, but proportionally fewer Americans are watching mobile TV than anywhere else surveyed, Nielsen Mobile VP Jeff Herrmann…

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EMI has licensed Jamba to provide what the News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and Verisign-owned mobile entertainment outfit says is the label’s first DRM-free repertoire in Europe to cross both mobile…

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Here is front-row video from the launch announcement of Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) oneConnect social mobile app in Barcelona (earlier post). The first, longer video is the full product demonstration; the…

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