Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Consumers are hooked on sharing data, whether they're streaming video, sending presentations or swapping photos.The mobile culture...
Editor's Note: This article is an excerpt from RCR Wireless News' July Special Edition, "Riding the Wave: The Forces Impacting Carrier Strategy." The 80-page special edition is available here.On the streets of Guangzhou, Harbin and Shanghai, the mobile phone has become ubiquitous. Once...
FLO TV pinned big hopes on the 2010 FIFA World Cup and now the Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) subsidiary is backing it up with results.Back in May, FLO TV's director of programming, Cynthia Ray, predicted that the global sporting sensation would be "the big moment...
Every year since the World Cup in 2006, companies have been proclaiming that ‘this year will be the year for mobile TV.’ Yet despite the optimism, Mobile TV doesn’t really seem to have taken the world by storm.
With the world cup kicking off on Friday, cell phones are playing a new role in bringing the games live to fans wherever they may be, and regardless of timezone.
The Mobile Marketing Association updated its definition of what constitutes mobile marketing to include more than just advertising or marketing to people over a mobile device. The new definition as much as anything points to the huge growth potential of communicating with customers and...
Two weeks after swallowing the rest of the Crazy Frog, News Corp. is reorganizing its mobile business.Rupert Murdoch's media giant this week will unveil Fox Mobile Group, a three-pronged operation created to leverage its immense portfolio, content-creation capabilities and distribution channels. The company also...
Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to new research from MultiMedia Intelligence.By 2012, the mobile video and mobile TV market will exceed $15 billion, including direct pay...
If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very interested in paying for the stuff. In just the last couple of weeks: . Toshiba said it will shutter its Mobile...
ESPN and MediaFLO USA Inc. launched a dedicated channel to bring X Games coverage to mobile users.EXPN, as the offering is dubbed, will deliver content around the clock to subscribers of AT&T Mobile TV and Verizon Wireless' Vcast video service; both of which are...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.Why is the mobile user experience important?For many mobile service providers in developed markets, what...
Editor's Note: RCR Wireless News has teamed up with the Yankee Group to conduct a series of market surveys of RCR Wireless News' subscribers to gauge their thoughts on various technology issues impacting the wireless ecosystem. RCR Wireless News will publish the exclusive results...
GoTV Networks Inc., a company that has found a considerable amount of success building a multi-platform network of video channels for mobile and online, has partnered with talent agency, CESD, to leverage its production studio with the agency's roster of talent.It appears talent agencies...
Concerts are nothing new on mobile. Sprint Nextel Corp. aired the first concert on mobile in 2005 with a huge marketing push behind a Bon Jovi concert that year. Others have followed since then.Verizon Wireless gets the nod for being the first carrier to...
Smaller entrepreneurial wireless developers could lose a friend with Verizon Wireless' acquisition of Alltel Communications L.L.C. Alltel supports a number of cool applications on its deck. Celltop, which allows you to customize your user interface with widgets; Ontela, which offers a service that automatically...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. - A pair of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group executives didn't paint such a rosy picture for mobile in a keynote here at the MEFCON conference.Thomas Gewecke, president of the division, said the digital video market is about a $2...
A handful of mobile players are trying to cram the silver screen onto the third screen. But whether there's a business case to be made for mobile movies is far from clear. The first wireless films came online for U.S. consumers in December 2005...
As Motorola Inc.'s growth sharply contracted between 2006 and 2007, four Chinese handset vendors were among the fastest growing in the business, although at markedly lower volumes.The finding is one of many disparate conclusions drawn in a new study from Forward Concepts that examined...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWirelessNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
As Echostar Corp. improves its financial performance - the company netted $5.7 million during the last quarter compared to a net loss of $18.5 million a year ago - it is also beginning to talk about possible plans for spectrum it recently acquired in...
It seems Qualcomm is not willing to give up on the U.K. market for mobile TV.The MediaFLO proponent will pay $16.3 million for 40 MHz of L-Band spectrum in the United Kingdom that the company said it will use for research and development as...
Whenever two fierce competitors talk collaboration, people listen.That's the case with today's announcement that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co. Ltd. will jointly pursue a mobile/handheld, digital TV standard for North America's broadcast TV industry. The two companies had been pursuing competing...
Qualcomm Inc. said it demonstrated the capability to support the MediaFLO and ISDB-T mobile TV standards on a multimode handset.The demonstration was powered by Qualcomm's Universal Broadcast Modem chipset.Qualcomm said the demonstration illustrates that its MediaFLO technology can complement ISDB-T technologies used in Japan...
A new star is rising in mobile television and it's all premised on the fact that people don't want to pay for video on their cellphones. A few standout companies have blazed a path to free mobile content for consumers, but few, if any...
