After Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do…

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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…

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LG (SEO: 066570) has launched a DVB-T compatible handset in Germany reports Telecoms Korea...so what was DVB-H for again? I don’t know how well the handset works nor how well…

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The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

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A couple of new services are sending video to the iPhone, which has been hampered by a narrow choice of supported video formats (Flash being the most noticed). NBC is…

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-- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) launches VZ Navigator version 4: Verizon has launched version 4 of VZ Navigator, which lets customers access information about traffic incidents on major roadways, obtain traffic…

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UK and U.S. based mobile entertainment firm ROK (LSE: ROK) has announced the acquisition of Jalipo Limited, the UK-based online video firm offering live streaming content. The acquisition, for 600,000…

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Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn’t it? In recent weeks, both Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Qualcomm have said the service isn’t getting the take up it had expected, with…

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Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…

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AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…

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-- The Australian Jockey Club has launched a sponsored content service at Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Supported by brands like Thrifty and Lexus the Bluetooth service sends form guides to…

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Almost the entire ContentNext gang is in the Los Angeles hills at the Skirball Cultural Center for EconSM, an entire day’s worth of panels and speakers on the topic of…

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The market for rich media advertising on mobile—in the form of TV, video, games, user-generated content (UGC) and music—will reach $2.79 billion by 2012 predicts Screen Digest. The bulk of…

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Consumers can remotely pick and choose full-length movies on their phone that they want to start downloading to their home PC while on the go, according to CinemaNow, an online…

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-- Pelago Adds Events to Whrrl: Pelago, which has a social networking site called Whrrl that provides restaurant information and reviews, said it is adding news about local events. Whrrl…

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-- Spike Milligan: The work of quintessential Goon Spike Milligan has been made available for mobile, including mobile wallpapers of his cartoons and character sketches, ringtones of Goon quotes and…

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Satellite TV company Dish Networks is planning to launch a mobile TV service. The company will trial a DVB-SH service with Alcatel Lucent, reports Dow Jones, in a bid to…

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Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Paramount are building an online store for downloading films to mobile phones, reports NMA.co.uk, citing an unnamed Paramount source. The site is expected to launch at…

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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is tying up with director Spike Lee to “direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones”, reports the NYT.…

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Production company Fremantle is abandoning direct distribution deals with operators for its video-on-demand (VoD) content for shows like The Apprentice, Pop Idol and the X Factor, reporting that it was…

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Streaming TV provider MobiTV has received $5 million in funding from Leader Ventures, in addition to the $125 million it raised from VC firms Gefinor Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Redpoint Venutres,…

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A lot of people have warned that cellular networks simply couldn’t cope if everyone were active users of mobile content, especially mobile video. One proposed solution was to stream the…

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By the end of 2007 there were more than 17 million mobile TV users in Asia, according to Media Partners Asia and reported by Asia Media Journal. While that’s a…

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There was a time when operators wanted to lock in people to their own content portals, but for Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), that’s the past. Since last year, the UK operator…

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The possible prices and channel line-up for AT&T’s (NYSE: T) mobile TV service due May 4 has been leaked by an anonymous source, according to PhoneMag quoting The Boy Genius…

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