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Mobile Content Bits: CBS Ad Campaign On Starbucks’ Wi-Fi Page; Data Revenues; ESPN Deportes; Quattro - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 29 Sep 2008 04:03 PM PST

-- CBS* teams with *AT&T* for exposure at Starbucks with Wi-Fi: CBS (NYSE: CBS) says it’s doing a first here by targeting Wi-Fi users at Starbucks locations to promote some…

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NBC Reports 6.5 Million Uniques And 826,000 Videos Streamed On Mobile During The Olympics - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 29 Sep 2008 09:16 AM PST

In a case of I-told-you-so, NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) is reaffirming with statistics the goal it set out to accomplish on mobile during the Beijing Olympics: attract scores of new…

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@ Mobilize: A Recap Of Presenting Startups: Plusmo, SearchMe, Flurry And Lexy - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 19 Sep 2008 05:29 PM PST

While I was at GigaOm’s Mobilize in San Francisco yesterday, I saw four companies that caught my attention among the dozen-or-so that set up tables in the lobby and outside…

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Communacopia: Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse: Down Economy Could Be A Macro Benefit For Carriers - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 18 Sep 2008 08:21 AM PST

Dan Hesse’s been on the job at Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel as CEO for nine months and made his first appearance at an investor conference in that role at Goldman…

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@ CTIA: Keynote: RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie Talks About The Convergence Of Four Screens - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 11 Sep 2008 11:27 AM PST

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie announced a series of new partnerships with content providers in a morning keynote at CTIA, but hinted at much more to come. After…

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T-Mobile Extends NBA Sponorship Deal Through 2011 - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 08 Sep 2008 11:35 AM PST

T-Mobile’s relationship with the NBA will continue through much of 2011. The carrier renewed its sponsorship deal, it first negotiated in 2005, for three more years, Street & Smith’s Sports…

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Mobile Content Bits: NCAA Football; Sprint Financial App; Bold On AT&T; Evite Dial Directions; 2ergo - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 29 Aug 2008 01:44 PM PST

-- *AT&T* brings back college football SMS voting: AT&T (NYSE: T) is reminding college football fans that they can once again begin voting for their AT&T All-American Player of the…

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Mobile And Online Olympics Coverage Didn’t Cannibalize TV In Canada: CBC - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 28 Aug 2008 02:11 PM PST

TV viewership didn’t drop off in Canada during the Olympics despite a jump in mobile and online access, the Canadian Press reports. CBC generated more than 46 million page views…

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Olympics Review: NBC Olympics 2Go On AT&T’s MediaFLO Lineup - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 26 Aug 2008 08:06 PM PST

More often than not, video on mobile phones is a lackluster experience. MediaFLO has been the most obvious exception to that rule in the United States since its service launched…

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Mobile Content Bits: Obama Texts 2.9 Million; Kinoma Player, Hi5 Mobile; USOpen.org WAP; MailTXT - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 26 Aug 2008 11:55 AM PST

-- 2.9 million text messages sent from Obama campaign: Nielsen Mobile estimates 2.9 million people received a text message from the Obama campaign that named its vice president over the…

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ESPN’s New 15-Year Deal With SEC Includes Live Mobile College Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 25 Aug 2008 04:37 PM PST

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has the right to simulcast Southeastern Conference (SEC) games on mobile under a new 15-year deal with the powerhouse athletic conference. The deal, reported by SBJ to…

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ESPN And MLB’s Advanced Media Extends Deal, Including Mobile, To 2013 - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 21 Aug 2008 02:21 PM PST

Our sister site PaidContent.org is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media group (MLBAM) are extending their digital rights deal through 2013. Staci Kramer covered the…

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Olympics Review: Mobile.NBCOlympics.com Picks Up Baton Dropped By Generic NBC WAP Site - 1 Comment
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,…

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Sprint Launches NFL Mobile Live App; Live Radio Broadcasts - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 18 Aug 2008 10:21 AM PST

Sprint has made yet another bold deal on content, even while it continues to suffer through each quarter and faces bleak options surrounding its iDEN network. The carrier has re-upped…

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Interview: Perkins Miller, SVP, Digital Media, NBC Sports And Olympics: The Mobile Surprise - 0 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Sun 17 Aug 2008 09:11 PM PST

The Olympics are now in full swing. Countless records have been broken and the touchy-feely stories and analysis often hit the point of nausea. Still, there’s plenty more to come…

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Olympics Sports News WAP Review: ESPN Gets Gold; Silver For Fox Sports; NBC And CBS Tie For Bronze - 6 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 15 Aug 2008 02:12 PM PST

In our second of a series (first is here) of reviews on mobile content from the Olympics, we took a look at the major sports news sites – ESPN (NYSE:…

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Updated: NBC Had Big Mobile Ambitions For The Olympics But Some Text Alerts Failed - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 15 Aug 2008 01:31 PM PST

The 2008 Summer Olympics are destined to go down as one of the biggest digital events the world has yet to see, spanning across the TV, Internet and the mobile…

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BBC Testing Olympics Video With T-Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 13 Aug 2008 10:00 PM PST

Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) BBC Sport news widget may have made headlines yesterday, but one unknown component of the broadcaster’s Olympics coverage is a relationship struck with T-Mobile UK to deliver…

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Bowman: More Likely To Start For Yankees Than Float MLBAM IPO; On BlackBerry Video - 0 Comments
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…

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NBCU’s Cross-Platform Olympics: ‘Stunned’ By Mobile Adoption; But Will Users Return After The Games? - 0 Comments
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.…

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CBS Sports Mobile Launches Mobile App, New WAP Site Coming Soon - 2 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 12 Aug 2008 10:11 AM PST

As football season approaches, CBS Sports Mobile is trying to grab more of that low-hanging fruit – sports and anything related to sports – by launching a new mobile application…

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Mobile Content Bits: Best Buy Mobile; Google Translate; ABCNews.com Mobile Views Up; Mippin Olympics - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 08 Aug 2008 07:51 AM PST

-- Best Buy Mobile selling more multimedia handsets: If you want to sell more feature-packed phones, it looks like the best way to do it is to hold a customer’s…

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Mobile Content Bits: NBC Mobile Olympics; Patriots Go With Quattro; Yahoo Fantasy Sports Goes Mobile - 2 Comments
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 07 Aug 2008 05:34 PM PST

NBC Taps Starcut To Build Olympics Mobile Website: With the Olympics kicking off tomorrow, I doubt it’s just getting started today, but NBC announced that its mobile website for Olympics…

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NBC Takes Mobile Seriously For Olympics - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 28 Jul 2008 03:10 PM PST

NBC has released details of its digital coverage for the Beijing Olympics, and there’s a fair amount in there. NBCOlympics Mobile will include most things on the mobile web page…

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Olympics Roundup: Games; NZ Video Clips; TD-SCDMA Warning; Singapore TV Streams - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 08:37 AM PST

Official Games: Sega has announced a couple of official mobile games for the Beijing Olympics. The two titles are Beijing 2008 The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games…

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