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Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:29 AM PST
-- *AT&T* and *LG* launch Invision, latest MediaFLO handset: AT&T (NYSE: T) is refreshing its MediaFLO handset lineup with a new device from LG Electronics (SEO: 066570) that measures up…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 21 Aug 2008 11:15 AM PST
When it comes to Olympics coverage on the mobile phone, the best Olympics coverage hands-down was found at mobile.NBCOlympics.com. That’s likely not surprising given NBC’s exclusive rights to the game,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 20 Aug 2008 02:45 PM PST
At Intel’s (NSDQ: INTC) Developer Forum in San Francisco, Move Networks announced today that it was going to adapt its high-definition media player that streams content over the Internet for…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 20 Aug 2008 06:59 AM PST
Would mobile television in the US take off if US consumers didn’t have to pay for it? At the three carriers that offer mobile TV services--AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE:…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 18 Aug 2008 09:53 AM PST
Despite European official preference for DVB-H, the mobile TV standard backed by Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Norway has gone with DMB as its choice. A consortium comprising three of Norway’s largest…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 15 Aug 2008 11:23 AM PST
Here’s a case in which you can’t help but think what would happen if the wireless industry made things easy. Both Qik and Flixwagon released applications this week that allow…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 14 Aug 2008 04:22 PM PST
-- *AT&T* partners with Rock The Vote, FunMobility to reach young voters: Another election that’s obligatorily being pegged as the one that will bring out the youth vote is nearing…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 14 Aug 2008 01:42 PM PST
The Cell—no, not the J. Lo flick—but a made-for mobile show, produced by Endemol, has been purchased by Fox International Channels as its first online-only property, Brand Republic reports. The…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 14 Aug 2008 06:09 AM PST
The current quality of mobile TV may not be quite up to snuff in China, but that may not matter to those Chinese consumers hoping to tune into the Olympics.…
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 13 Aug 2008 09:58 PM PST
Still waiting for an MLB IPO? Better hope Bob Bowman starts practicing his moves as a shortstop. Asked if a public offering is in the offing, the head of Major…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 13 Aug 2008 04:19 PM PST
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are supposed to be one of the biggest digital events of all time with tons of content being available for all three screens: TV,…
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 13 Aug 2008 03:32 PM PST
NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) execs claimed to have been “stunned” by the level of mobile adoption by users turning to their mobile phones to check out its summer Olympics coverage.…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 13 Aug 2008 06:32 AM PST
Mobile TV chipmaker Siano Mobile Silicon has raised a third round of funding for $17.5 million for a total of $52 million. Draper Fisher Jurvestson’s Israeli partner, DFJ Tamir Fishman…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 12 Aug 2008 11:33 AM PST
-- Zed strikes distribution deals: Mobile entertainment company Zed has struck two exclusive distribution deals, one with rapper T-Pain’s independent digital-only label, Nappy Boy Digital, and the other with independent…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 11 Aug 2008 03:51 PM PST
-- Best Buy launches airport kiosks: Best Buy said today it will install 12 vending machines in U.S. airports as part of a pilot project. The so-called Best Buy Express…
Posted By VCCircle - Mon 11 Aug 2008 08:40 AM PST
Bangalore-based start-up Devas Multimedia, a satellite-based mobile services company, will receive funding of $75 million (Rs 317 crore) from Europe’s largest telecom firm, Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT). The German telco…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 08 Aug 2008 11:20 AM PST
Update: MTV and Thumbplay both contacted us to clarify a few points of their deal that got lost in the minutiae when it was brought to our attention on Friday.…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 07 Aug 2008 01:40 PM PST
A trio of new research reports detail the dramatic and swift rise of mobile in terms of subscription growth, mobile web usage and mobile payments for goods downloaded to mobile…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 06 Aug 2008 04:58 PM PST
-- AT&T (NYSE: T) brings recording artists together to record Team USA soundtrack for Olympics: Here’s another one from the official wireless telecom sponsor of Team USA. AT&T brought 16…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 04 Aug 2008 12:15 PM PST
Although the company has been hinting at this achievement since April, MobiTV is now officially saying it has four million subscribers. Despite the new heights reached by the Emeryville, CA-based…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Aug 2008 03:22 PM PST
We have reported on this before, but some new numbers on mobile TV’s non-pickup in Korea...more specifically, the TV broadcasting using digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) format. The story says DMB—which…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 01 Aug 2008 02:01 AM PST
Toshiba mobile TV subsidiary Mobile Broadcasting Corporation is shutting down, after failing to attract enough interest, the company said Thursday. “The number of subscribers has not reached a sufficient level…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 31 Jul 2008 10:52 AM PST
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has applied for a patent that “generally relates to receiving broadcasts and in particular to systems and methods for communicating and storing information associated with data within…
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:52 AM PST
The companies behind Mobile 3.0, publishing houses Burda and Holtzbrinck together with South African media company Naspers, are reportedly about to end their plans to launch a DVB-H network in…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 30 Jul 2008 05:23 PM PST
--Qwest Begins Selling Wireless Services Under Verizon Wireless Brand: Qwest has begun offering Verizon Wireless services to all of its new residential and business customers in its service area. Under…
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