In a celeb-obsessed world, the cellphone is fast-emerging as the perfect tool for keeping abreast of gossip. In a lengthy feature, the IHT covers the number of gossip magazines and web sites turning out mobile versions, and how their runaway audience numbers are reshaping existing media properties.The numbers certainly...
Kyte Mobile Producer has been freed from beta and is now available publicly for multiple Nokia (NYSE: NOK) S60 devices. The application, which enables live video streaming or the ability to upload immediately after shooting video from most Nokia devices, has been used by companies such as public radio...
A massive investment into mobile-specific video content. NTT Docomo and Japan's largest music and movie entertainment company Avex Entertainment Inc. AEI are pouring in up to 7 billion yen ($66 million) into their newly formed joint venture to produce and distribute on-demand mobile video content. The JV starts in...
Almost half of all cellphone customers in the U.S. use their mobile devices for entertainment purposes, according to a new survey from mobile app developer Artificial Life. The survey, which compiled responses from 200 individuals, skewed heavily when it came to entertainment content on smartphones: 87.5 percent of smartphone...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Adds Three Gameloft (EPA: GFT) Games: Verizon said it was adding three games from Gameloft today, including NFL 2009, which provides info about athletes for the AFC and NFC conferences; Asphalt 4, which is an urban car racing game; and "The Oregon Trail," which is based...
-- Free mobile TV services cutting into broadcast-like services: Mobile broadcast TV services are set to reach $2.7 billion in annual revenues by 2013, a much lower return than previously projected because free-to-air services will gain popularity, according to a new report from Juniper Research. Free-to-air TV services are...
We have tonight's presidential debate up on the flat-screen HD set in the living room but I'm trying to watch for a while on Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Mobile TV. Not hard finding a channel: it's running now on CNBC, MSNBC, CBS (NYSE: CBS), NBC. Alternatives include Comedy Central, live...
The Consumer Electronics Association has thrust itself into the mobile TV standardization process by working with a group, which is defining the characteristics of a mobile/handheld features that will be added to the ATSC's broadcast digital TV standards in the U.S. The group, called at the Advanced Television Systems...
Neomobile, an Italian mobile entertainment company, has raised $13.5 million (10 million euros) from the Private Equity arm of Monte Paschi Siena, which will recieve a 16 percent stake in the company. The capital will be used for Neomobile's growth strategy and to help the company to fund international...
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced a new line of set-tops that allow users to transfer content to and from mobile phones without the need for a PC. Japanese operator KDDI will be the first to use the new boxes for a service called au Box. The box has a...
GoTV Networks, which produces videos about the music industry and others for both mobile and broadband networks, is getting close to launching a social media widget for sites like Facebook, where people can store and share videos, images, audio and text, mocoNews has learned. The application, called "Live From...
Live mobile video broadcaster Flixwagon is trumpeting what it's calling its "platform". The offering is barely different from the downloadable app and web widget the Israeli and US firm began offering in January - but comes with a customizable web player and service-level commitments.Until now, only MTV had trialled...
Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW has been using Kyte.tv for the past month and today provided some results on how the live-video streaming service has been going. The station used Kyte.tv to post video clips from a mobile phone during the Democratic and Republican party conventions to give...
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has quietly released Dashboard, a new storefront found on its phones using Adobe's (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash technology, mocoNews has learned. So far, Dashboard has launched on the *LG* Chocolate 3, and more phones are expected by the end of the year, making it one of...
A Venice,Calif.-based startup hopes it can capitalize on some of life's special occasions with a mobile greeting that could be used for anything from asking someone out on a date to lifting someone's spirits to talking trash. Targeting the 12-17 age group, Mogreet is taking the service it started...
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched what it's calling a "mobile TV channel", featuring short shows from some top UK hosts, to go with the imminent new N96 handset. "Capsule N96". It features motoring segment Cabin Fever, fashion item Portfolio, arts piece Pulse, Byte-Wize for gadgets, MTV Cribs imitator Power...
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile's EyeMobile citizen journalism application for the iPhone, which Tricia reported on first back at CTIA, has officially launched for free on the App Store and the reviews are in its favor so far. Out of 22 reviews, 15 are between four and five stars while...
China Mobile is expected to start selling an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, stripped of 3G and Wi-Fi in order to comply with Chinese regulations, according to The South China Morning Post, citing a report from the Daiwa Institute of Research (via Cellular-News). Of course, being able to sell the...
-- Buy iPhones at home and pick them up at the store: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched a new way for people to buy iPhones yesterday, by letting people signup and register online, and then drive to a nearly Apple retail store to pick up the phone. Once at the...
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Consumer trends industry is available in its catalogue. The Kids and Tweens Market in the U.S., 9th Edition http://www.reportlinker.com/p096418/The-Kids-and-Tweens-Market-in-the-US-9th-Edition.html This completely new Packaged Facts report provides a comprehensive look at the 36 million young consumers...
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