NEW JERSEY-Verizon Wireless announced an agreement with Clear Channel Entertainment Properties to broadcast concert footage of Velvet Revolver, Avril Lavigne, the Moody Blues and other artists.The carrier added a channel to its Vcast service that will feature rotating performances from shows around the nation...
LONDON-European-based wireless operator Orange awarded Cenuco Inc.'s Advanced MobileMonitor Communicator the best use of the carrier's voice and data network during the recent Orange Code Camp Event. Cenuco demonstrated the service's ability to stream live video from a camera phone to another data-capable cellular...
Mobile TV got another boost from SmartVideo Technologies Inc., which announced an advertising-supported streaming music video service for mobile-phone users. The service will feature videos culled from Digital Music Video Network and will be free to end users."Fans of music videos are members of...
DALLAS-I can see Homer Simpson peering out of the phone in Martyn Gregory's hand. The animated "Simpsons" TV star is trying desperately to jump off a burning oil tower and into a hovering helicopter. I see Homer's wife Marge waving him on. But I've...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle Mobile Media will use technology from Microsoft Corp. to deliver and manage content for its live mobile TV service, the companies announced yesterday. The subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp. said it has selected Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video 9 and...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Radio operator Infinity Broadcasting will team with Hewlett-Packard Co. to offer an interactive music broadcast for U.S. wireless users. The service, called Visual Radio, will deliver local FM radio and text and graphic information including song titles, artists and concert dates to...
WASHINGTON-A bi-partisan bill to end the digital TV transition on Dec. 31, 2006, and give spectrum to public safety was re-introduced Thursday after failing to pass in the last Congress. "The Hero Act sets a firm deadline of Jan. 1, 2007, for the Federal...
WASHINGTON-A bi-partisan bill to end the digital TV transition on Dec. 31, 2006, and give spectrum to public safety was re-introduced Thursday after failing to pass in the last Congress. "The Hero Act sets a firm deadline of Jan. 1, 2007, for the Federal...
ABC News announced ambitious plans to expand its 24-hour digital news operation, offering a suite of multimedia services through television, the Internet and mobile phones.The network will build on ABC News Now, which launched as an experimental broadcast for digital television, high-speed Internet and...
Mobile video providers continued to target users in the Far East with two new announcements Tuesday. RealNetworks Inc. and mobile operator Hong Kong CSL launched a mobile media service enabling users to watch on-demand video while switching seamlessly between the carrier's networks, the companies...
As a tower operator, Crown Castle International Inc. is venturing into a less familiar environment as an enabler of what may grow into a major application in the wireless industry: mobile television. By a stroke of good fortune, the company acquired a spectrum license...
NEW ORLEANS-SanDisk Corp. and NDS, which provides digital pay TV technology, announced a long-range partnership that calls for NDS to provide an end-to-end solution for delivering video and mobile content into SanDisk's new generation of secure flash storage cards for mobile devices.SanDisk plans to...
SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia's first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology. Harris Broadcast Systems, a Cincinnati-based communications company, will provide transmission equipment for the transmissions,...
GENEVA-The Cellular Emergency Alert Systems Association said it formed a global working group focused on development of early warning networks that use cell broadcast technology to alert citizens to impending disasters. The effort initially will focus on dissemination of seismic event warnings generated by...
WASHINGTON-A new California bill would prohibit driver's licenses and other identity documents issued by the state from containing radio frequency identification chips, an initiative that follows a huge uproar by parents of school children required earlier this year to wear RFID badges. "This is...
WASHINGTON-Even if the TV broadcasters are given incentives to speed the digital TV spectrum transition, it probably will not help, according to a draft paper released by a think tank Wednesday. "It is extremely unlikely that even if multicasting must-carry and other broadcaster subsidies...
SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia's first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology.Harris Broadcast Systems, a Cincinnati-based communications company, will provide transmission equipment for the transmissions, which...
WASHINGTON-Privacy advocates have rallied around a new California initiative that would prohibit driver's licenses and other identity documents issued by the state from containing radio frequency identification chips. "This is all about individual privacy, personal safety and financial security," said state Sen. Joe Simitian...
BOSTON-The deafening buzz surrounding mobile TV may be unwarranted, according to a report from Strategy Analytics.In the new study, "Mobile TV: Hype not Justified by Demand!," the consultancy argues that vendors rushing to bring broadcast services to market around the world may be overestimating...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association Thursday came out in support of a Dec. 31, 2006, hard date for the transition to digital TV."Converting to DTV will clear valuable spectrum for other important uses, such as advanced wireless services with both commercial and public-safety applications," said...
WASHINGTON-A key Democrat on the House telecommunications subcommittee Thursday put the brakes on setting a hard date for the digital TV transition. "I think it is impossible to say at this point what the final outcome will be. We don't know how big the...
CANNES, France-The GSM Association announced the winners of its 2005 GSM Association Awards during its gala at the 3GSM World Congress.Brazil won the GSM Association Chairman's Award for country leadership. Brazil counts more than 22 million GSM subscribers, and GSM is expected to become...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Digital wireless company TTPCom this week made available technology enabling TV reception on next-generation mobile phones. TTPCom unveiled a DVB-H (digital video broadcast for handhelds) demodulator/decoder technology designed to allow semiconductor vendors to deploy high-performance video broadcast services quickly and cost effectively....
DALLAS-Alcatel Alsthom will add Alvarion's WiMAX 802.16 solution to its worldwide reach and network integration capability.Both companies also said they have been selected to run WiMAX deployments in Europe, including the French broadcast service provider, TDF, and the Paris public transport agency known as...
