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…

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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…

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TV placeshifting operator Sling Media plans to sell an iPhone version of its Sling Player through the iTunes Store after its alpha version has been modified to accommodate the handset’s…

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San Mateo, Calif.-based Monsoon Multimedia, which calls itself “the SlingBox-killer,” announced today that it will be providing a beta of its new digital video service that allows people to watch…

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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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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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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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Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) is apparently keen to use its MediaFLO technology for services other than mobile TV. I’ll just quote Kamil Grajski, vice president of engineering for Qualcomm and president…

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Does the Open Mobile Video Coalition know something about mobile TV others don’t? While both Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and MediaFlo have recently acknowledged that mobile TV hasn’t picked up the…

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Mobile video broadcast service Qik has raised a $3 million second round and is adding interoperability with upstart web TV platform WorldTV. The funds come from Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Arjun…

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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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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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The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) has released its draft code for participation TV offerings in the United States. It predicts an increase in these types of shows due to the…

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There are more signs that the Chinese mobile TV standard will be CMMB, despite the China National Standardization Administration (CNSA) trying to decide between 5 standards. According to this piece…

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Mobile operators have set their sights on mobile TV, rolling out their own services with partners like MediaFLO. But a number of vendors are looking to offer other solutions, such…

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South Korea’s LG (SEO: 066570) Electronics has developed yet another mobile television technology, called “Mobile Pedestrian Handheld,” aimed at the North American market, says the Korea Times. The technical details…

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Chinese regulators have established a 400 million yuan (US$54 million) fund to give the Chinese mobile TV technologies a bit of a push over the next three years, reports Variety,…

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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recognized four international mobile TV standards: T-DMB, DVB-H, MediaFLO and OneSeg (ISDB-T) reports Korea Times. None of these are really global yet, but they’re…

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Italian state broadcaster Rai, mobile operator 3 Italia and Alcatel-Lucent are launching the first mobile TV trial using the DVB-SH standard in Turin, Italy this month, reports Reuters. The companies…

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When AT&T (NYSE: T) earlier this week made a $2.5 billion offer for assets from Aloha Partners, the deal didn’t just include 700MHz spectrum in 72 of the top 100…

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Wow, mobile TV has a long way to go—in Europe and North America, at least. While Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) VPs bored a Mipcom panel audience with a…

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I caught up with Stuart Collingwood, the VP of Sling Media overseeing EMEA, to ask him about how the acquisition might impact Sling’s business in Europe. Sling has been steadily…

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None of this fussing with free market principles first to see what works: The Uruguayan government announced today that it selected the DVB standard for mobile TV services (DVB-H) and…

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Could the U.K.’s participation TV scandal be replicated elsewhere around the world? This Hollywood Reporter feature suggests broadcasters in other countries are getting nervous, too. When a Channel 4 show…

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