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 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 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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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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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, 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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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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Shipments of handsets that run Japan’s mobile digital TV service OneSeg has hit 20 million less than two years after its launch, reports IDG News. According to Japan’s Telecommunications Carrier…

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AT&T’s (NYSE: T) delayed mobile TV service using Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFlo service has been delayed again. It was supposed to be launched by end of last year, then delayed…

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They’re not bedfellows just yet—Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is “investigating” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) over concerns surrounding its new oneConnect mobile social app. Unveiled in Barcelona on Monday, the app lets users…

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Another mobile TV conference panel, another opportunity to lament the low take-up of this technology with so much still-unfulfilled promise (also see yesterday’s stats and similar negativity from Mipcom). BBC…

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Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son warned operators they risked becoming “dumb pipes,” if they did not move swiftly to control mobile content, reports TotalTelecom. Speaking on Wednesday at the MWC, Son…

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Not that many countries outside Asia are using it in a big way, but proportionally fewer Americans are watching mobile TV than anywhere else surveyed, Nielsen Mobile VP Jeff Herrmann…

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The idle 3G spectrum in UK has been the subject of idle speculation for some time, and mobile TV trials have been promised, and now Orange and T-Mobile UK will…

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-- *Motorola* launches mobile TV, GPS device: Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today introduced Mobile TV DH01n, a portable media player including navigation capabilities 2D or 3D GPS and Tele Atlas map…

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This year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona begins before most have even glimpsed La Ramblas. Some announcements hoping to steal some early attention in Catalonia… - Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) games:…

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Nexit Ventures, a mobile venture capital firm focused on wireless technologies and services, has made an undisclosed investment in Finnish mobile TV technology provider Axel Technologies. Existing investor, the government-owned…

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-- Jamster Ad-Funded Games Trial Gets 39 Percent CTR: Jamster’s six-week trial of a mobile in-game advertising service had a click-through rate of 39 percent, according to innerActive Smart Media,…

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From the land of Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Axel Technologies, a Finnish mobile TV middleware developer, has received investment of an undisclosed size from mobile VC house Nexit along with Finnish…

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San Jose-based MediaPhy, a chipmaker focusing on mobile TV, has raised $7 million from ATA Ventures and ARCH Venture Fund, reports VentureBeat. Also, according to VentureBeat, the company has raised…

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The BBC is currently mulling over the results of a 12-month long mobile TV trial to figure out its long term strategy for the medium. NMA reports that the trial--a…

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Goldspot Media, which provides ad-insertion technology for mobile TV, has raised $3 million in first round funding from Exa Ventures reports VentureBeat. Goldspot can target ads to viewers using demographic…

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ABI Research has predicted that the total number of subscribers to mobile TV services (both broadcast and unicast) will grow to 462 million by 2012, driven by the expansion of…

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-- EMI, SendMe Sign Deal: Mobile media company SendMe has signed a deal with EMI Music, which will see SendMe offering EMI’s full catalog of mobile content from its portal,…

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The slightly delayed AT&T (NYSE: T) mobile TV service, in partnership with Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) MediaFlo, will be launching next month on Feb 5, reports RCR, citing sources. The story…

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