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@ CTIA: Billboard: Off-Deck Content Market Still Mostly Off - 1 Comment
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 05:09 PM PST

A breakout panel at the Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live event was called Off Deck: Opportunity vs. Obstacles, but there was little talk about the opportunity off deck holds and plenty…

@ CTIA: Billboard: Instant Gratification Of Mobile Music Deserves Premium Price, Universal Says - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 02:16 PM PST

How do you justify the high price of over-the-air mobile music downloads? The instant gratification they deliver to consumers, Universal Music’s Amanda Marks told moderator Antony Bruno of Billboard during…

@ CTIA: Billboard: Mobile Advertising Still Searching For Positive ROI - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 12:01 PM PST

The panel on mobile advertising at Billboard Entertainment Live started off with a wide-open question from the moderator, Even Neufeld of M:Metrics, who asked the panelists what advertisers and marketers…

@ CTIA: Billboard: ‘After the iPhone,’ Menus Get Flashy - 1 Comment
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 11:41 AM PST

While there’s not been a lot of talk about mobile entertainment and content on the iPhone at the Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live event, there has been a lot of talk…

@ CTIA: Billboard: ESPN’s Zehr Defends Verizon Exclusive, In Spite of MVNO Failure - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 10:25 AM PST

John Zehr, the senior VP of digital video and mobile at ESPN, rehashed the failure of the ESPN Mobile MVNO at the behest of moderator Tom Wheeler (managing director, Core…

@ CTIA: Billboard: AT&T Consumer Data VP Hypes Napster Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 22 Oct 2007 10:02 AM PST

Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live kicked off with Mark Collins, VP of Consumer Data for AT&T, talking up the extended deal with Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) announced earlier today. Collins even trotted…

AT&T Extends Deal With Napster; Add OTA Downloads And Video; Prices Still High - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 21 Oct 2007 10:28 PM PST

On the eve of CTIA, AT&T (NYSE: T) has announced an addition to its mobile music arsenal: its has extended its till-now-sideloading deal with Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) to include an…

Poll: What Will Be The Biggest Discussion Issue at CTIA? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 20 Oct 2007 08:55 PM PST

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Coming This Week: Our CTIA MocoMixer and Detailed Coverage - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 20 Oct 2007 04:27 PM PST

Coming this week, we’ll be covering the CTIA Wireless and IT Entertainment, live from San Francisco. On Monday, the pre-conference day, we’ll be at the Billboard’s Mobile Entertainment Live conference…

Sold Out: SF CTIA MocoMixer on Oct 22nd - 8 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 03 Oct 2007 06:00 AM PST

Update 3: SOLD OUT. And no, U2 is not playing.

SF CTIA MocoMixer on Oct 22nd, At Palace Hotel: Registration Opens Tomorrow - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 01 Oct 2007 09:17 PM PST

We will be opening the registration for our big CTIA MocoMixer starting tomorrow, in batches...day one (Wednesday) will be at 9 AM EST and day two (Thursday) will be at…

US Data Revenue Increased 77 Percent In 2006—CTIA - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 30 Mar 2007 06:22 AM PST

Total data service revenues in the US for 2006 was $15.2 billion, a 77 percent increase over the figure in 2005 ($8.6 billion) according to the CTIA Semi-Annual Wireless Industry…

iPhone To Be Launched June 11 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 30 Mar 2007 12:04 AM PST

Cingular has confirmed that the iPhone will be launched on June 11, the first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, reports Gadgets Blog at Cnet. Apple is doing its best…

CTIA: Mobile Advertising—And Now A Word From The Sponsors… - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 29 Mar 2007 07:00 AM PST

As expected, one of the big themes at CTIA this year is mobile advertising and marketing. The biggest factor in this is the carriers, which seem to be coming around…

@ CTIA: Former Presidents’ Day - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 29 Mar 2007 06:55 AM PST

Not sure what to make of the fact that the greatest buzz of CTIA Wireless 2007 is for former presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Bush just entered…

@ CTIA: Interview: Philippe Dauman, President & CEO, Viacom - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 29 Mar 2007 01:01 AM PST

As mentioned earlier, I interviewed Philippe Dauman, president and CEO of Viacom, following his CTIA keynote this morning. We talked as we walked through the convention hall (hence some of…

CTIA: “Go Gaming” Mobile Video Channel From GameTrailers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 08:26 PM PST

There are a number of things that have been proposed as the reason for mobile games doing less well than was predicted a few years ago, ranging from high prices…

CTIA: Cingular Promotes Video Sharing For Business - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 08:10 PM PST

AT&T’s Cingular is promoting Video Share at CTIA, which it will launch this summer. The service “lets a mobile phone caller send a live video stream from the camera on…

CTIA 2007 Wire Day 2: Teleflip, Dennis Miller, Glu On Thumbplay - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 07:48 PM PST

--Teleflip has announced its e-mail to SMS service, which allows people to receive e-mail from any e-mail account (POP, IMAP, webmail or Exchange) to their SMS inbox. Users choose who…

CTIA: Orange CEO Warns Against Carriers Becoming ‘Content Pipes’ - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 05:59 PM PST

During his keynote at CTIA Orange Group chief executive Sanjiv Ahuja warned that carriers need to improve their customer experience in order to avoid becoming “content pipes”. Becoming a dumb…

@ CTIA: Keynote: Eric Nicoli, CEO, EMI - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 Mar 2007 11:20 AM PST

Eric Nicoli crammed a lot into his first major U.S. address since taking the full operational reigns as CEO of EMI. The obligatory announcement: EMI Music will be the exclusive…

Turner Broadcasting Exploring Mobile Content - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 07:36 AM PST

Turner Broadcasting isn’t really sure what its viewers want from the company and will therefore explore every possible avenue—at least, that’s the impression I got from the Q&A Dennis Quinn,…

CTIA: Mobile Payments This Years’ Zeitgeist, Visa Keynote - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 07:00 AM PST

UPDATE: Just after I wrote this Visa put out a release on the CTIA keynote given by Visa USA President and CEO John Philip Coghlan. He spoke about the convergence…

@ CTIA: Keynote: Viacom CEO Phillipe Dauman - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 Mar 2007 06:15 AM PST

Last year, BET’s Debra Lee and MTVN’s Van Toffler addressed CTIA attendees; this year, to underscore Viacom’s claims of being the leading provider of video programming for the handset, president…

CTIA: Sony Ericsson Has No Plans To Launch Bravia Handset In US - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 04:10 AM PST

Sony Ericsson didn’t have much luck with mobile phones until it brought out Walkman phones, and followed that with another hit with the Cybershot phones. So it’s not really a…