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Personal Nav Devices Starting To Be More Phone-Like; Will It Help The Struggling Industry? - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 09 Apr 2008 10:45 AM PST

If navigation services are becoming more common on the cellphone, why can’t mobile TV move to the personal navigation device? Garmin said this summer it is moving into the mobile…

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Mobile Content Bits: Sega Mobile Game Line-Up; NewBay and O2; Cars.com; QuickPlay’s Ad-Funded Video - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 08 Apr 2008 04:00 PM PST

-- SEGA Mobile: The company announced a portfolio of new games today that includes both original titles and licensed brands. Some of the titles include: Sonic at the Olympic Games;…

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US Hispanic High Users Of Mobile, But Which Hispanics And How Are They Using It? - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 08 Apr 2008 01:27 PM PST

The Latino market continues to be an attractive one for the mobile industry, with figures like “3.1 percent of the general population used their mobile devices to watch videos, 6.7…

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Orange France Strikes Content Deals With WBI, HBO, Gaumont And Fidélité Film - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 08 Apr 2008 05:30 AM PST

Orange France has struck multi-year deals with Warner Brothers International Television, HBO, Gaumont and Fidélité Film, which will provide the content—some of it exclusive--for its new cinéma series, available to…

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CTIA Wire: Day Two: Zed-9 Squared; XM-QuickPlay; Verizon-TMZ; RealNetworks’ Ringback - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:25 PM PST

-- 9 Squared and Zed Worldwide combine operations: 9 Squared unveiled plans to formally combine operations with mobile entertainment company Zed Worldwide, with Zed continuing to offer the products originally…

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Mobile Content Bits: Fox Business; HBO On Bell; VH1 Mobile Chat - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA Wire: Day One: Guitar Hero-Blackberry; CondeNet-Verizon; Disney-Mobi; MobiConnect; WaveMarket - 0 Comments
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…

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@ CTIA: Mobile Bits: AOL Games; Vringo Calls Facebook; Verizon’s Five Phones; MySpace Mobile Alerts - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 31 Mar 2008 08:38 AM PST

—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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Gemstar-TV Guide Signs 1-Seg Distribution Deal With Japan Mobile Network KDDI - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 31 Mar 2008 05:02 AM PST

Gemstar-TV Guide International has signed a deal with Japanese mobile network KDDI to provide the mobile version of the company’s digital TV guide G-Guide Mobile for OneSeg, a terrestrial digital…

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Sony Pictures Television Launching Linear Film Channel PIX On AT&T’s Upcoming Mobile TV Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:31 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Pictures Television has struck a deal with AT&T (NYSE: T) and MediaFlo USA to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the U.S, according to…

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@ CTIA: Mywaves Gets MTV Content For Its Ad-Subsidized Mobile TV Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 30 Mar 2008 07:00 PM PST

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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MediaFLO’s Mobile TV Service Not Gaining Traction Company Wants - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 27 Mar 2008 05:44 AM PST

The growth of mobile TV has been “going slower” than Qualcomm’s MediaFlo would like, reports RCR News. Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) CEO Paul Jacobs put some of the blame on carriers,…

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EC Support For Mobile TV Standard DVB-H May Not Be Enough - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Sun 23 Mar 2008 03:00 PM PST

The European Commission has thrown its complete weight behind mobile TV standard DVB-H, but that still might not make mobile TV a success in Europe, reports IDG. First off, there’s…

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Dish Network To Offer Mobile TV Service? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 21 Mar 2008 05:03 AM PST

Analysts have been abuzz with speculation over Dish Network Corp’s surprise win at the government auction for wireless airwaves that ended this week, speculating that the satellite television company formerly…

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Interview: Matthew Postgate, Mobile Controller, BBC: Tipping Into The Mobile Mainstream - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 20 Mar 2008 06:43 AM PST

The BBC’s head mobile honcho Matthew Postgate said that now that “the iPlayer was out the door,” the broadcaster would be focusing more intently on mobile. The publicly-funded broadcaster is…

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Roo Group Plans To Acquire Swedish Mobile Video Firm Kamera - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 18 Mar 2008 08:17 AM PST

Troubled online video firm Roo Group has announced another deal as it prepares to ditch New York for Dubai: The OTCBB-traded company says it has signed a letter of intent…

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iPhone Owners’ Content Consumption “Off The Charts”: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 18 Mar 2008 05:28 AM PST

Another study lauding the iPhone’s ability to drive consumers to try out mobile content. Mobile measurement firm M:Metrics released a report today that found that the iPhone is the most…

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Mobile Content Bits: Dennis Publishing’s Monkey; Gameloft; Telenor’s Mobile Novel - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 14 Mar 2008 04:14 AM PST

— Monkey Goes Mobile: Dennis Publishing and mobile media firm Player X have launched a mobile TV channel based on its online lad’s magazine Monkey. Mad.co.uk reports the free ad-funded…

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Motorola Invests In An Italian Portable TV Player Maker - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 13 Mar 2008 03:58 PM PST

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) Ventures, the cellphone maker’s venture arm, said today it invested an undisclosed sum in Quantum, a Milan company that develops portable media players. Quantum’s TV players are…

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Ofcom To Auction Spectrum Suitable For Mobile TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 13 Mar 2008 05:33 AM PST

Ofcom confirmed today it is planning to auction radio spectrum suitable for services including mobile TV, among others. The UK telecoms regulator set a provisional deadline for applications of 10…

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NextWave Launches TV Service For WiMax Networks - 2 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 10 Mar 2008 09:07 AM PST

NextWave Wireless is launching a TV service today called MXtv that will allow WiMax networks to broadcast TV, audio and other media to a range of devices, such as phones,…

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BBC Puts iPlayer Catch-Up TV On iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 07 Mar 2008 04:47 AM PST

After much rumor, the BBC has made its iPlayer TV catch-up service available on iPhone - its first mobile implementation. The service does not use the new SDK nor an…

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Under The Hood Of Unlimited Plans; Could It Drive iPhone-Like Data Adoption? - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Feb 2008 05:49 PM PST

With Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel unveiling its unlimited wireless plan today, all four of the major U.S. wireless carriers have released comparative offerings, giving us a chance to step back,…

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MobiTV Says It Has 3 Million Subscribers And That Ads Spur Responses - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 26 Feb 2008 10:34 AM PST

MobiTV, the mobile video provider, released key information on the demographics and habits of mobile TV watchers in the U.S., saying that its viewers collectively love TV, are highly mobile,…

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Canal+ Gains 250k Mobile TV Subs In France - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 20 Feb 2008 02:27 AM PST

So much for mobile TV’s travails. French broadcaster Canal+ reports it now has 250,000 subscribers for its mobile TV offering carried by the SFR and Bouygues networks. Subscribers grew 225…

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