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RealNetworks Sees Growth Of Snack-Sized Mobile Content; No iPhone Plans For Rhapsody - 4 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 09 Jul 2008 06:11 PM PST

RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which helps carriers sell ringtones, ringback tones and full-track music, believes the continuing trend in mobile content is to provide a bite-sized or “snackable” content experience, whereas…

Virgin Mobile Acquiring MVNO Helio For A Paltry $39M In Equity; Gets $50M Cash Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 27 Jun 2008 06:28 AM PST

As we have been reporting since the start of these talks, Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) has finally announced the acquisition of troubled MVNO Helio. We originally broke the news…

LG, Samsung Fret Over Rumors Of Nokia Price Cuts - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 07:15 AM PST

Rumors that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will slash the cost of its cell phones by up to 20 percent to grab market share from the languishing Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and re-enter…

SK Telecom Pouring $1 Billion Into Chinese Digital Content And Design Center - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 27 May 2008 05:03 AM PST

Following on the news that China is restructuring its telecoms industry and expects to issue 3G licenses after its completion, SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said it would invest $1 billion…

EA’s Acquisition Of Hands-On Korea: $29 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 26 May 2008 09:52 AM PST

Last week EA announced its acquisition of the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. At that time, no financial details were released, but…

Electronic Arts Buys Korean Division Of Hands-On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 May 2008 06:25 PM PST

Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is buying out the Korean division of Hands-On Mobile, the mobile gaming company formerly known as Mforma. The Korean division is best known for its mobile…

LG, Samsung Team Up In Pitch For (Yet Another) North American Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea…

LG Posts Net Profit; Boosted In Part By Strong Handset Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 16 Apr 2008 07:01 AM PST

As Motorola (NYSE: MOT) sinks, its rivals rise. LG Electronics (SEO: 066570), the world’s fifth largest handset maker by market share, posted a net profit in the first quarter after…

Japan Is Saying No To New 2G Phones, Meanwhile The U.S. Is Just Getting Over Analog - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 18 Mar 2008 01:10 PM PST

While most Japanese users have advanced handsets capable of surfing the Internet, watching TV and other high-end applications, tons of U.S. users are still trying to wean themselves off of…

SK Telecom And Citigroup Launch Mobile Banking JV - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 06 Mar 2008 03:17 AM PST

South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Citigroup, the US’s largest bank, launched a joint venture today to offer mobile financial services in select markets in Asia and…

SK Telecom Takes 42.2 Percent Stake In Chinese Music Label - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 05 Mar 2008 05:20 AM PST

South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) said today it is purchasing a 42.2 percent stake in Chinese music recording company Beijing-based Taihe Rye Music to allow it…

LG Doesn’t Want Motorola’s Handset Business Either - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 08:15 AM PST

Korean handset maker LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) doesn’t want Motorola’s handset business either, reports Dow Jones (via Cellular News). Indeed, LG Electronics CEO for mobile Skott Ahn said the company…

SK Telecom And Sony Pictures Sign Deal To Bring Blockbusters To Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 28 Jan 2008 06:44 AM PST

South Korea’s largest operator SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has struck a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Entertainment to bring more than 200 Hollywood blockbusters, including Spiderman 3 and The…

Mobile Content Bits: PSP Skype; MSN Mobile UK; 15M i-channel; Dubai TV - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 07 Jan 2008 05:12 AM PST

-- PSP Mobile: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment announced today that it had partnered up with Skype to turn the PlayStation Portable (PSP) into a device that could make and…

Nine Million Mobile TV Subscribers In Korea - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 21 Dec 2007 06:11 AM PST

Korea had 9 million mobile TV subscribers across both its T-DMB and S-DMB networks at the end of October, reports Telecoms Korea behind a subscription wall. The last figures at…

Korean Operators Turning To Online And Mobile Web Advertising - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 17 Dec 2007 04:12 AM PST

South Korean operators are turning to online and mobile advertising as an alternative revenue source—thanks to pressure both from politicians and consumers to lower the price of mobile phone bills,…

Game Publisher Guppy Games Bought By Korea’s NVLsoft - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Mon 10 Dec 2007 01:50 PM PST

Bellevue, Wash.-based mobile games developer and publisher Guppy Games has been bought by South Korean company NVLsoft for an undisclosed sum. NVLsoft develops 3-D animation technology for both the military…

US Mobile Data Services Market Luring Asian Wireless Firms - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 10 Dec 2007 11:57 AM PST

Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

Asian Mobile TV Take-Up Good, Profits Small - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 26 Nov 2007 12:14 AM PST

Analyst company Screen Digest claims there are more than 15 million mobile TV subscribers in Asia but the revenues from the industry are “miserable”, reports RapidTV News. Apparently Japan has…

78 Percent Of Mobile TV Viewers In Japan, Korea: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 29 Oct 2007 04:00 AM PST

Analyst firm Berg Insight has released a report that there were about 38 million viewers of mobile TV in Japan and South Korea in mid-2007, representing about 78 percent of…

Yahoo Planning Stronger Push Into Asia, Foreshadows Operator Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 03:44 PM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) president Susan Decker has promised “a number of announcements in the months ahead, even days and weeks” concerning a series of partnerships with mobile carriers in Asia…

DoCoMo and KT Freetel to Launch Korean Venture Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 10 Oct 2007 10:56 AM PST

Operators NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and KT Freetel will launch a new venture fund in Korea focusing on startups in the mobile and IT industries. Each company will invest 1.7…

The Problem With DMB—Business Models - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 09 Oct 2007 04:41 PM PST

It’s been known for a while now that although the Korean mobile TV companies have the largest numbers of users by far, getting a monetary return on that is a…

@ BCWW Seoul: Geographical Differences In Mobile TV Viewing - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 29 Aug 2007 08:01 PM PST

I knew coming in that Koreans are among the most intense users of mobile media but two stats offered in the last couple of days put it in bas relief.…

@ BCWW Seoul: Satellite Mobile TV, User-Created PandoraTV Join Tradtional Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 29 Aug 2007 07:22 AM PST

The conference I’m here for is an adjunct to the BCWW exhibition, a major Asian programming marketplace that draws thousands. It bears a strong resemblance to NATPE, which even has…