-- 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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I caught up with Blake Krikorian at CTIA, just a few days after the official closing of EchoStar’s acquisition of Sling Media. (No, it won’t be called EchoSling or SlingStar.)…

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As noted in an earlier post about Facebook, the buzzword of choice for this CTIA show has been “open.” It’s been tossed around by everybody to the point where it’s…

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The question “what is mobile TV?” seems pretty straightforward, but it’s actually pretty complicated, given the wide array of mobile video services—linear mobile broadcasts, unicast streams, downloaded short clips—that get…

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Facebook and Research In Motion have announced a new native Facebook application for BlackBerry devices, melding together Facebook updates and notifications with the BlackBerry’s push functionality. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz…

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-- mSpot has added ABC News Radio to its mobile radio lineup, which is now more than 200 channels. ABC News Radio programming brings anytime, anywhere news headlines plus business…

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Earlier today, we reported on Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) withdrawing its lawsuit against FCC on the spectrum auction rules. Now CTIA is immediately filling the void by challenging the same…

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At CTIA confab in SF, I had a quick chat with Are Traasdahl, the CEO of Thumbplay, the NYC-based offdeck mobile content retailer. It just announced a big deal with…

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There’s the old saying that if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. In much the same way, if you stack a panel about off-deck content…

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Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) mobile content strategists “think 900 numbers are going to be really big,” joked Bernard Gershon, SVP of ABC News Digital Media at the content provider panel of…

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"Choice, control, convenience,” is how Alltel’s (NYSE: AT) SVP of product management and development, Wade McGill, characterized his company’s mobile content strategy at the State of Mobile Content Mini-Conference at…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wants to fulfill the needs of mobile users’ work and personal lives on a single device, the company’s CEO Steve Ballmer said in a CTIA keynote today.…

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In the opening keynote at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment show, the trade group’s president, Steve Largent, touted some stats from its recently released semi-annual research on the US…

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Kara Swisher did a short video at our Mocomixer last night, including a quick interview with me. And then, some mobile startups and their 30-second pitches.

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AOL (NYSE: TWX) is using CTIA to launch a new range of mobile services (new for AOL, I mean). It has revamped its WAP site with new mobile versions of…

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-- INgrooves Music will launch a 3D music screensaver application next month on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Alltel (NYSE: AT) It has teamed up with Emdigo for the service. --…

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About 600 people showed up in total for our CTIA MocoMixer tonight at the Palace hotel. Thanks to everyone who came, and sorry to the substantial number that were turned…

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