Video Optimization

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 …

A first for European consumers, free mobile TV is landing on their fingertips as 3 Italia starts offering free mobile broadcast TV, based on DVB-H. The user will be able …

Verizon said it will buy Alltel for $28 billion. If the deal goes through, it would create the nation’s largest carrier with a combined subscriber base of more than 80 …

One of the first of many native third-party apps to show at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference will be an iPhone version of Sling Media’s well-known remote TV viewing utility.

New research from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) reveals that digital media is fast becoming the medium of choice for sports fans and pushing the boundaries of media convergence …

Calton Hill, a UK based software house has developed mobile phone and memory card software that allows people to watch the movies on mobile phones with the film studio retaining …

Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Top stories this week include China’s 3G moves, the future of mobile marketing, and a look at what to do with the D …

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 …

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 …

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. …

The fifth season of the FX series Rescue Me won’t air until next spring, but fans of the firehouse drama are being rewarded for their patience.

Perhaps no U.S. carrier has pushed the mobile data envelope like Sprint Nextel. But maybe the operator pushed a little too early.Sprint launched its first streaming video offering more than …

Mobile TV, hyped by the wireless industry as one of the next big things for years, is still a tiny market in the US (Yes, we know — it’s big …

If you’re looking for a post-Memorial-Day summer project, listen up: Avot Media has started testing a service at Home Depot that allows mobile users to access instructional videos, MediaPost reports.

Welcome to the first edition of our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. Each Monday, RCR Wireless News will provide a video roundup of the top stories in the wireless industry, with …

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 …

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 …

NEW YORK – Hulu, the video website owned by News and NBC Universal, said its service will be distributed on seven new sites, making its archive of popular television shows …

NEW YORK When word came down on March 12 that New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was going to resign after revelations that he’d paid more than $80,000 for sex, Jeff …

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User-generated video content has proved more popular than expected, with significant growth in China, according to a new report from In-Stat.Higher-quality content and increasing file size maximums will push the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …