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Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 04:02 PM PST
Radio Disney has launched a mobile offering, unsurprisingly developed with mDisney (NYSE: DIS). The Radio Disney Mobile Web Site lets people with web-enabled mobile phones receive Radio Disney information and…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 02 Apr 2008 05:52 AM PST
—Fox Business Signs on to MobiTV: Another content licensing deal for MobiTV--this time with Fox Business Network (release). — Bell Canada Offers Up HBO TV Shows: Candian telephone company Bell…
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Tue 01 Apr 2008 12:29 PM PST
-- Guitar Hero III Mobile will rock your BlackBerrry: Hands-On Mobile, Inc. has partnered with Activision (NSDQ: ATVI), Inc. to bring Research in Motion’s (NSDQ: RIMM) (RIM) Guitar Hero III…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 10 Mar 2008 06:25 PM PST
-- Sprint (NYSE: S) bringing faster speeds to HTC’s Mogul: Sprint said it is releasing a software update for the Mogul so that it can connect to a faster data…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 03 Mar 2008 06:00 AM PST
Following two failed MVNOs in the US, Disney (NYSE: DIS) has gone to Japan, where on Saturday, it launched an MVNO--Disney Mobile--with Softbank, the country’s third largest operator. AFP reports…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 13 Feb 2008 12:33 PM PST
With so much buzz going on this week, it was easy to overlook yet another mobile strategy being unveiled by Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). It said it is launching a…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jan 2008 08:25 PM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS), not content with two failed MVNO ventures in U.S., is now entering Japan, and launching a mobile service aimed at women. Vote below: (RSS readers may have…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 22 Jan 2008 06:08 PM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jan 2008 03:00 PM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS) and ESPN Media Networks have appointed Tim Connolly to the new position of VP-mobile distribution. Prior to this, he was VP of sales and business development at…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 08 Jan 2008 04:10 AM PST
-- ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Mobile TV: ESPN has signed a deal with MobiTV for a 24/7 linear mobile channel dubbed, you guessed it, ESPN Mobile TV. This will replace the…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 07 Jan 2008 10:50 AM PST
Is ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) new mobile strategy paying off? For three days, ESPN.com has had more visits to its NFL content through its mobile phone web site than it did…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 19 Dec 2007 04:48 AM PST
Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed,…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 30 Oct 2007 07:24 AM PST
I caught up for a few minutes at CTIA with John Zehr, the ESPN SVP of digital media production. We talked about ESPN’s multi-year exclusive commitment to Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 18 Oct 2007 08:07 AM PST
NielsenConnect and ESPN will be looking at the latters’ audience, with the intention of working out who is looking at the content and where. “By tapping into a number of…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 17 Oct 2007 04:28 AM PST
-- The iPhone has stolen customers from Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and T-Mobile, according to research by NPD, because “the iPhone bridges the gap between content-focused feature phones and productivity-focused smartphones”.…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 11 Oct 2007 04:17 PM PST
Media execs are starting the counter-lobbying against the use of white space for mobile internet services, led by Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger. “Use of the airwaves may interfere…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 11 Oct 2007 04:15 AM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS).com has gone mobile thanks to mDisney, a unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group. This is not the MVNO features on another carrier—there’s no parental control of…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Mon 01 Oct 2007 12:50 AM PST
Here’s an incident that highlights one of the bigger problems in mobile content services today: pricing. In June, Disney (NYSE: DIS) in the UK was given a dressing down by…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:31 AM PST
Updated below: Later this morning, sources close to the situation tell mocoNews.net, the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company will announce that it is closing its second MVNO in as many…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:30 AM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS) MVNO lasted 15 months, and its history, in link (reverse chronological order): -- Disney MVNO: In Process of Evaluating -- Disney Mobile, A Year Later -- Interview:…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 17 Sep 2007 12:46 PM PST
Disney (NYSE: DIS) CFO Thomas Staggs spoke this morning at Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment Conference in Marina Del Ray, and AlleyInsider picks up on it: Staggs said Disney has…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jul 2007 05:55 PM PST
This is very funny, and true. ESPN, which closed down its MVNO and then relaunched again recently as a content app on Verizon and branded ESPN MVP, now says in…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jul 2007 10:27 AM PST
-- China’s mobile ad market has everyone drooling: Revenues from the ad market will reach $92 million this year and $142 million next year, boosted by factors such as the…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 10 Jul 2007 07:46 PM PST
A definite move towards ad-supported: The ABC Stations Group is offering free mobile video at its 10 owned and operated stations, reports Multichannel, where users can access streaming news clips…
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Tue 10 Jul 2007 05:09 AM PST
Mobile content aggregator mSpot announced that ABC Radio Networks will be broadcasting 14 of its stations on its service including stations from New York, Washington and Los Angeles. ABC Radio…
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