Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday 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. In the coming weeks look for columns from Compete's Miro Kazakoff, Current Analysis' Avi...
As companies seek to extend their brands into the mobile space and take advantage of its one-on-one, personal connections, they face the challenges of a medium that can look like television or the Internet but is not quite the same as either. Companies are...
AT&TEd Whitacre announced that he will retire as CEO and chairman of the board at AT&T Inc. effective June 3. The 65-year-old executive is the longest-serving CEO in the telecommunications industry, having served as chairman and CEO of Southwestern Bell since 1990. When...
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...
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...
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...
NBC Universal plans to start selling ads for its mobile video programming in May. That's the latest piece of evidence that the once-scoffed-at business of TV on cellphones is gaining momentum."We are committed to the marketplace and we have to put our money where...
ORLANDO, Fla.-In a ballroom filled with tech-savvy players in the wireless industry, audio and video problems kept cropping up for each of the five panelists on the "Producing Mobile Content" session at the Mobile Entertainment Live session as CTIA Wireless 2007. It served as...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Mobile television is still in its infancy-mostly gaining traction among early adopters and primarily young men-but the subscriber base has more than doubled from 3 million to about 7 million users in the past year, Kanishka Agarwal, vice president of mobile media at...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Mobile television is still in its infancy-mostly gaining traction among early adopters and primarily young men-but the subscriber base has more than doubled from 3 million to about 7 million users in the past year, Kanishka Agarwal, vice president of mobile media at...
Mobile television provider MobiTV today inked a deal with Yahoo Inc. for mobile advertising. Under the agreement, Yahoo will act as the ad network for MobiTV's mobile video ad sales, placing advertisements against mobile content, including video, banner and text ads.The market for mobile...
NBC Universal will expand its partnership with MobiTV to offer on-demand hit television shows such as "The Office" and "Heroes" to U.S. wireless users. The broadcast company said it plans to offer a 24-hour viewing period for some of its top-rated shows starting at...
NBC Universal said it will expand its partnership with MobiTV to offer on-demand hit television shows such as "The Office" and "Heroes" over U.S. mobile phone networks.The broadcast company said it will offer a 24-hour viewing period for its top-rated shows starting at $2,...
California is sprinkled with television studios, and while many of the traditional Hollywood studios already have or are in the process of creating separate divisions for endeavors in the mobile TV space, a small group of entertainment companies have been built with mobile in...
Verizon Wireless launched its streaming mobile TV service last week with little of the expected fanfare. The service, dubbed Vcast Mobile TV, uses MediaFLO USA Inc.'s technology and network, with Verizon Wireless initially offering the service in 20 markets across the country. The service...
Despite Verizon Wireless' attempt to downplay the launch of its Vcast Mobile TV service, the availability of the streaming TV service in the Denver area forced-and I do mean forced-a quick trip to the mall so we could check out the new offering.Verizon Wireless...
Despite Verizon Wireless' attempt to downplay the launch of its Vcast Mobile TV service, the availability of the streaming TV service in the Denver area forced-and I do mean forced-a quick trip to the mall so we could check out the new offering.Verizon Wireless...
Verizon Wireless has launched mobile TV service using MediaFLO USA Inc.'s technology and network, initially offering the service in 20 markets across the United States from Richmond, Va., to Portland, Ore. The service is priced at $15 per month for mobile TV only, which...
MobiTV Inc. announced that it has surpassed two million subscribers, a doubling of its paying subscribers worldwide in less than a year. MobiTV offers more than 100 television channels worldwide and nearly 40 channels in the United StatesThe company passed one million paying subscribers...
The ripples are still making their way across the lake in the wake of Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s surprise announcement that it will offer mobile broadcast TV through Qualcomm Inc.'s MediaFLO USA Inc. network. The nation's largest wireless carrier somewhat stole the thunder from its...
Carriers looking to cash in on mobile TV services should pony up and build their own dedicated multimedia network, according to a new report from a consortium of industry players. Then they should somehow convince subscribers to pay $20 a month for the stuff.The...
Warner Music Group struck its second mobile deal in as many days, announcing an agreement to distribute videos through MobiTV Inc. The music company said it will offer made-for-mobile videos including artist-created clips from Linkin Park and other Warner acts. The videos will be...
Warner Music Group struck its second mobile deal in as many days, announcing an agreement to distribute videos through MobiTV Inc.The music company said it will offer made-for-mobile videos including artist-created clips from Linkin Park and other Warner acts. The videos will be updated...
