Reston, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it will expanded its Spanish language "Nextel. Ya." advertising campaign nationwide with a new commercial set to premier this evening on a handful of Hispanic television networks, including Univision, Telemundo, Galavision, Azteca TV, Fox Sports En Espanol and Telefutura....
REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. will provide daily downloadable video content including news, sports and entertainment programming for Windows Mobile-based devices, the company announced. MSN Video Downloads will deliver a subscription-based mobile TV service featuring content from channels including FOX Sports, MTV Networks, Napster Inc., Food...
Microsoft Corp. will provide daily downloadable video content including news, sports and entertainment programming for Windows Mobile-based devices, the company announced Wednesday.MSN Video Downloads will deliver a subscription-based mobile TV service featuring content from channels including FOX Sports, MTV Networks, Napster Inc., Food Network...
NEW ORLEANS-Verizon Wireless said it will offer its V-Cast subscribers 26 original mobisodes of the hit TV show "The Simple Life: Interns" starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The mobisodes will feature never-before-seen footage developed especially for V-Cast. Subscribers will pay $1 to download...
NEW ORLEANS-Verizon Wireless said Monday it will offer its V-Cast subscribers 26 original mobisodes of the hit TV show "The Simple Life: Interns" starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.The mobisodes will feature never-before-seen footage developed especially for V-Cast. Subscribers will pay $1 to download...
CANNES, France-Mobile entertainment publisher Sorrent Inc. plans to announce an agreement to publish content based on noted urban fashion designer Marc Ecko. Sorrent will develop a suite of offerings based on Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, an Atari title for consoles. Atari...
Verizon Wireless rolled out its consumer-focused high-speed data service last week with the launch of VCast, offering a slew of video-on-demand and gaming options to subscribers with compatible phones in 32 U.S. markets. To support the much-anticipated service, the second-largest U.S. carrier unveiled deals...
Although only two teams will line up on the field Sunday for the grand culmination of the professional football season, multiple players will participate in Super Bowl XXXIX in one wireless capacity or another.Verizon Wireless upgraded cell sites and installed a pair of cell...
Verizon Wireless rolled out its previously announced consumer-focused high-speed data service Tuesday with the launch of Vcast, offering a choice of mobile games and video-on-demand to subscribers with compatible phones in 31 U.S. markets.The much-anticipated service offers a choice of 300 video clips a...
JACKSON, Miss.-Rural wireless provider Cellular South said it plans to debut a new television commercial during Super Bowl XXXIX this weekend. The carrier said this was the fifth year it has advertised during the Super Bowl through a local and regional ad buy, and...
BERKELEY, Calif.-MobiTV reported that rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless has launched its live streaming television service on the carrier's CDMA-based network. The MobiTV service currently provides access to more than 20 channels, including MSNBC, ABC News Now, NBC Mobile, Fox Sports, Discovery, The Learning...
LOS ANGELES-Idetic Inc. has brought its live, mobile TV service to Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers.Cingular customers can now get MobiTV, a 22-channel broadcasting service featuring content from MSNBC, ABC News Now, Fox Sports, C-Span and other providers. The service is available on four Cingular...
Four of the world's biggest consumer electronics companies are partnering to develop a digital rights management (DRM) standard to deter piracy and illegal copying of music and video. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp. formed the Marlin...
DALLAS-Wireless data company Thinstream Inc. announced the launch of a new service to bring highly compressed streaming television and radio to mobile users in North America. Initially, the service will be offered through most major North American carriers to consumers with streaming video-enabled phones...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless will offer video, audio and three-dimensional games over its EV-DO third-generation network beginning next month. The carrier also announced plans to expand the cities in which it offers EV-DO service.Subscribers in 32 U.S. markets with 3G phones will be able to...
REDMOND, Wash.-Online game publisher WildTangent announced the release of "24: Countdown," a mobile title based on the hit TV show "24." The game, which gives players a simulated 24 hours to foil a terrorist plot to blow up Las Vegas, is co-sponsored by LG...
REDMOND, Wash.-Online game publisher WildTangent Tuesday announced the release of "24: Countdown," a mobile title based on the hit TV show "24." The game, which gives players a simulated 24 hours to foil a terrorist plot to blow up Las Vegas, is co-sponsored by...
WASHINGTON-Cable TV channel Speed said it will offer an interactive promotion campaign using mobile phones that will allow viewers to guess at the value of various classic cars. The channel is offering the service through a deal with wireless technology vendor Proteus Inc. "Speed...
LOS ANGELES-Twentieth Century Fox studio announced Wednesday that it will create a series of one-minute dramas based on the hit show "24" specifically for mobile users with Vodafone Group plc.Vodafone, the world's biggest operator, will begin offering the video content in the United Kingdom...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian operator Telstra Corp. said it launched i-mode services based on technology from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc.The content service offers Telstra customers access to a wide range of Internet services such as shopping, entertainment, banking and e-mail, Telstra said. The service includes...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. has signed on as the official communications service provider to the Academy of Television Arts & Science's 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday night.Sprint PCS will use the event to hype its new Vision Multimedia Services offerings, featuring...
LA JOLLA, Calif.-With the NFL's opening weekend just days away, Sorrent announced three new sports-related mobile content offerings. The California-based company will promote the launch with a television advertising campaign that Sorrent claims will be the first of its kind by a mobile-gaming publisher.Beginning...
MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for one of the new channels available through Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services, which the carrier launched late last Friday.Sprint TV, the "basic cable" channel of the Sprint service, will feature programming from NBC News,...
LOS ANGELES-Movie fans can download snarling ring tones and gruesome wallpaper and play a trivia game all based on the new film "Alien vs. Predator, " which opens tonight.Twentieth Century Fox collaborated with content providers Airborne Entertainment and Elite Systems Ltd. to offer the...
