-- MobiTV gets ABC content: MobiTV has struck a deal with Disney-ABC Television group to distribute ABC Mobile, a channel which includes full-length episodes ABC series, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy,…

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A group of executives from MediaFLO USA, MobiTV, MTV, Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Fox sat in on an afternoon panel that addressed the various business models and use types that…

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Development Deal With Korean Mobile Game Company Com2uS: Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group’s mobile content division, mDisney, inked a deal with Com2uS to develop mobile games for Disney to…

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ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has the right to simulcast Southeastern Conference (SEC) games on mobile under a new 15-year deal with the powerhouse athletic conference. The deal, reported by SBJ to…

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Our sister site PaidContent.org is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media group (MLBAM) are extending their digital rights deal through 2013. Staci Kramer covered the…

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But that we knew...Forbes does a good roundup of Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) extensive mobile efforts, focusing on content and applications, after its disastrous forays in MVNO land. Imagine all of…

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U.S. smartphone users spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes a month browsing the mobile Web, whereas their British counterparts spend about two and a half hours a…

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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…

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—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…

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-- 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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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-- 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…

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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…

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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,…

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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)…

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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…

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-- 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”.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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