European consumers are more interested in location-based services than they are in watching mobile TV, according to new figures from Canalys.The U.K.-based market research firm said 51% of users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom expressed some interest in watching video...
New York City was overflowing with network executives, ad buyers and entertainment elite last week, all looking to grab a piece of the $65 billion pie that is television. The "upfronts" are a pivotal moment for the industry-an annual shopping spree for advertisers looking...
European consumers are more interested in location-based services than they are in watching mobile TV, according to new figures from Canalys.The U.K.-based market research firm said 51% of users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom expressed some interest in watching video...
Mobile subscribers' options for video and TV programming continue to bloom as spring takes hold. The latest: The Disney-ABC Television Group announced a new channel at Sprint Nextel Corp. for its news and entertainment video programming from ABC Entertainment, ABC News and Disney Channel.The...
Phillip Alvelda, founder and CEO of MobiTV Inc., announced he will resign as CEO but remain as chairman of the California-based mobile television company that he formed in 1999. The search is currently under way for a successor. Alvelda also announced a range of...
MobiTV Inc. is stepping up its efforts in North and South America, but is not pulling up stakes in Europe.The Emeryville, Calif.-based mobile video company plans to terminate its content aggregator service for 3G UK Ltd. and reportedly no longer provides a downloadable application...
LAS VEGAS-Modeo L.L.C., which recently wrapped up a trial of its broadcast mobile TV service, said the 138 participants in the trial mostly gave positive reviews, according to the company's presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 convention in Las Vegas. The six-week...
LAS VEGAS-Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation's wireless carriers, nine U.S. TV broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition to speed the development and standardization of a mobile variant for digital broadcast...
TV is on the move. It's everywhere. It's pervasive in the most insidious sense of the word. You simply can't escape it anymore.See, there was a time when TVs were locked in living rooms, doomed to get covered in dust and cat hair. There...
LAS VEGAS-With more than 6 million users already on board in the United States and year-over-year growth of 188 percent last year, according to Telephia, mobile television is a force to be reckoned with-so much so that it got its own standout show at...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi, and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. CellularAruba: Alcatel-Lucent said it completed the deployment of an...
LAS VEGAS-Modeo L.L.C., which recently wrapped up a trial of its broadcast mobile TV service, said the 138 participants in the trial mostly gave positive reviews, according to the company's presentation at the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 convention in Las Vegas.The six-week trial...
Rather than ceding control of the mobile TV market to the nation's wireless carriers, nine U.S. television broadcast groups have formed an industry alliance called the Open Mobile Video Coalition to speed the development of a mobile variant for digital broadcast TV.The broadcasters, which...
To accelerate adoption of DVB-H-based mobile TV services, Nokia Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will work on interoperability of their devices that run on that standard, the two companies announced.The vendors will work in tandem to support solutions based on the OMA BCAST...
NextWave Wireless Inc. announced it will purchase TD-CDMA supplier IPWireless Inc. for $25 million in cash and $75 million in stock. The ultimate purchase price could increase to $235 million by 2010 if IPWireless manages to achieve "certain revenue milestones," although NextWave did not...
With two technologies already jockeying for play on the nation's digital television airwaves, it was only a matter of time before the TV industry moved to adopt a standard for digital mobile television.Earlier this week, the Advanced Television Systems Committee moved to begin the...
ROK Entertainment Group Ltd. said it has raised $7 million from unnamed European investment firms to prepare for an initial public offering.The U.K.-based developer of mobile entertainment services and technology said it will use the cash to expand its offerings and plans to deploy...
A conglomeration of major players in the wireless industry is putting their collective weight behind a mobile TV profile that supports fast implementation and ensures interoperability in Europe. The new profile simplifies the Open Mobile Alliance Mobile Broadcast Services Enabler Suite (OMA-BCAST) to achieve...
The number of mobile TV subscribers worldwide will increase steadily over the next few years, reaching 125 million in 2011, according to new figures from In-Stat.The market research firm predicted four new mobile TV broadcast networks will come online, increasing the global tally to...
NextWave Wireless Inc. announced it will purchase TD-CDMA supplier IPWireless Inc. for $25 million in cash and $75 million in stock. The ultimate purchase price could increase to $235 million by 2010 if IPWireless manages to achieve "certain revenue milestones," although NextWave did not...
NBC Universal plans to start selling ads for its mobile video programming when the upfront season kicks off in May. That's the latest piece of evidence that the once-scoffed-at business of TV on cellphones is gaining momentum this year. The television upfront market kicks...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.If you want to be inspired about the wireless industry, the United States and the power of the people, go RIGHT NOW to CTIA.org (http://www.ctia.org/wireless2007/index.cfm?day=3) to watch...
Another technology designed to get people to watch TV beyond the living room is getting ready for its close-up. Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or MPH, is an in-band mobile digital television system set to debut later this month at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in...
Television networks relish the thought of re-engaging viewers who no longer get their TV fix at home. And as technology developers work to deliver on that potential in the mobile environment, the outlets available to programmers and consumers continue to grow.Thus, Mobile-Pedestrian-Handheld technology, or...
