Ericsson | July 13, 2011 | Press Release
Reflecting the evolving nature of the industry, the eighth annual award from the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF), the global community for mobile content and commerce, honored companies with leading innovations for customer contact and interaction.
Ericsson and Velti...
The Mobile Entertainment Forum in Asia is hosting its annual board elections during Communicasia in Singapore next week, with hopes that some US based companies might be interested in running, to get their foot into Asia.
The MEF, a global trade association for the mobile...
FOR NOW, AT LEAST, Verizon Wireless has stepped away from plans to tack on a drastic 3-cent fee to each vendor-generated message on its network. But there's little doubt that some significant changes are in store for nearly every player on the business-to-consumer text...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - The writing team of Terry Rossio and Jocelyn Stamat wasn't allowed to write during the 100-day-long writer's strike that ended last February, but they were able to think and imagine - and that's exactly what they did.Enter "HighSpeed Dating,"...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - Dan Lyons, the man behind "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," began his online experiment as the sensational alter ego of Apple Inc.'s CEO mostly because he hated his job at Forbes and was "freaking out" about the future...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
The explosive success networks are having with text voting on TV shows comes with a level of responsibility that they and others in the value chain are trying to bear."Now the viewer or participant has to be able to trust the show," said Suhail...
The Mobile Entertainment Forum launched a participation-television (P-TV) code of practice that the organization hopes will enable the market to sustain its growth in the United States and avoid the issues that have hampered the industry abroad."If you can't have self regulation then you've...
Television just isn't the same these days. The writers' strike in Hollywood, now in its ninth week, has given millions another reason to turn off the tube. Unless reruns and reality TV are your thing, the TV set has essentially become a content wasteland...
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-There's always a first shot at everything; first to the moon, first to summit Mount Everest, first to end homelessness. It may not be as altruistic as the latter, but Universal Music Group International and Nokia Corp. now have the distinction of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to Reality Check, a feature for RCR Wireless News' new weekly e-mail service, Mobile Content and Culture. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile content industry to give their insights into the marketplace. In the coming weeks...
In another move indicative of the music industry's increasing frailty, two of its largest players are trying some new twists: Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group last week announced a new format they're calling the "ringle."Each ringle will contain one ringtone bundled...
Telecom carriers traditionally have been among the nation's biggest advertisers. Through the years, those advertisements have educated us about rate plans, weekend calling, in-network calling, call quality and the joys of texting. They've also introduced us to some pretty cool phones. The advertisements playing...
Less than six months after its commercial launch, mobile TV vendor MediaFLO USA Inc. is in the midst of an executive shuffle.Dan Novak, who has been the public face of MediaFLO at trade shows and other industry events, is now playing a key role...
When Jordin Sparks was crowned the winner of the sixth season of "American Idol" last week, Edward "Bod" Boddington, chairman and founder of Telescope, was one of the first and last people to know the result before it was announced on air to the...
The Mobile Entertainment Forum announced a record number of applications for this year's Meffys awards, marking a 50% increase from last year. Music-focused applications attracted the most entries, followed closely by gaming and then TV and video.The Meffys, which are in their fourth year,...
There's a lot of doom and gloom in the predictions being floated around as the dinosaurs of traditional media battle and play catch-up with the rise in new media alternatives. Some say the newspaper is dead, compact discs eventually will be resigned to be...
LONDON-The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system. The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority...
The backlash against proposed rates to license digital rights management technology continued this week, with a powerful group of wireless carriers threatening to abandon the open-standard system.The GSM Association blasted royalties for the technology proposed earlier this year by the MPEG Licensing Authority for...
An association of mobile carriers and content firms joined the fight last week against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. The Mobile Entertainment Forum blasted a proposal by MPEG LA, the licensing authority of the Moving...
A trade association of mobile operators and content providers took up the fight against a group of technology companies it said is looking to overcharge for anti-piracy software. In a prepared statement, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) blasted a proposal by MPEG LA to...
Premium text messaging is now a reality in the United States-essentially creating a new market in the U.S. wireless industry.Most of the nation's wireless carriers have installed the necessary billing and management systems to offer the service-including all of the nationwide operators-and already a...
LONDON—The Mobile Entertainment Forum announced a new board of directors and created two regional branches in Asia and the Americas to further growth in the regions.The new board includes executives from industry players, such as Vivendi Universal, Universal Communication Platform, PacketVideo and Purple Software....
