LogicaCMG partners with Philips, demonstrates video streaming via MMS

by Reily Gregson

NEW ORLEANS-Royal Philips Electronics and LogicaCMG announced an agreement to jointly supply multimedia messaging technology to mobile operators. The original equipment manufacturer umbrella agreement calls for the integration of Philips’ Platform 4 Media Adapter transcoding engine into Logica’s Multimedia Messaging Service Centre product range.

In other news, LogicaCMG demonstrated live TV content over multimedia messaging-enabled handsets to show how live video streaming can generate carrier revenues over GPRS and 3G networks.