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.Season's greetings to the Reality Check faithful. It's been a trendful year, and while the pundits regurgitate...
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.Happy holidays from Reality Check. Below are the three of the top trends that shaped our...
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.Happy holidays from Reality Check. Below are the three of the top trends that shaped our...
Greystripe, the mobile brand advertising network responsible for over 250 million ad-supported mobile app and game downloads, today announced it has secured $2 million in funding from GE/NBCU's Peacock Equity Fund, capping a $7.5 million Series C funding round. The previously announced $5.5 million...
With churn rates rising among subscribers, wireless-phone companies are pouring on the promotions and marketing spending in hopes of keeping cost-conscious consumers in the fold.There are no hard numbers on how consumers react in a recession when it comes to cellphone service. Brand switching...
There's a new player on the wide-open mobile search playground. And it's bigger than you think.Kgb, a New York-based firm with roots in fixed-line directory assistance, launched service earlier this month with a premium service that uses human "special agents" - a wry nod...
By the time final numbers are crunched, President Barack Obama's inauguration likely will have been watched by more people and on more platforms than virtually any other televised event in U.S. history - including the Super Bowl. This year's biggest winner: the web, with...
The Open Mobile Video Coalition said it will launch mobile DTV services across 63 stations in 22 markets, covering 35% of U.S. television markets.The group of U.S. broadcasters plans to provide live, local and national over-the-air digital TV services from affiliates of ABC, CBS,...
Telenovela watchers who are also Sprint Nextel Corp. cellphone subscribers will get to decide this month what the star of Telemundo's racy hit novela should do next as she struggles with drug gangs, sexual exploitation and breast implants.NBC Universal-owned Telemundo is creating videos representing...
Broadcasting groups filed an emergency request at the Federal Communications Commission, effectively asking that a vote not be taken Nov. 4 to allow unlicensed devices in white spaces and that instead comments be sought on a new report by agency engineers on potential interference...
NBC Universal deemed its coverage of the Beijing Olympics a "ringing success," with its games-dedicated mobile Web site drawing more than 6.5 million unique visitors and 36 million page views, according to Omniture data.The broadcaster, which had described the event as "a billion-dollar research...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Cottle is pimping his ride with eye-catching rims, fancy hood art and those cool hydraulic things that can bounce a car like a basketball at red lights. And he's doing it all with one finger.The SVP and GM of EA...
The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were touted as a potential springboard for mobile video, an event that could help push the application beyond early adopters and gadget geeks and into the mainstream.So how'd it do? Nobody knows. Or, more accurately, anyone who does...
Mobile TV provider MobiTV said it now counts 4 million subscribers to its mobile video programming service. That's an increase from 3 million customers just 10 months ago.The rise is due in part to additional content deals the company has inked in the last...
Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. This week it's all about the Olympics, which are set to kick off Friday. Eyes from around the world will be on Beijing, and wireless users will have plenty of ways...
Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year's games by turning consumers into gold, carriers and their business partners will need to put some marketing muscle behind the...
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...
Disaster reliefVerizon Wireless launched a program designed to make it easy for its customers to donate to disaster relief efforts targeted at China and Myanmar. The program allows postpaid customers to send a text message to the shortcode 4SAVE with the key word "quake"...
AT&T Mobility announced that it will launch AT&T Mobile TV with FLO this Sunday. As previously announced, the service will include a pair of exclusive channels -- CNN and PIX, a channel of full-length movies programmed by Sony Pictures Television -- in addition to...
LAS VEGAS - EVER SINCE television was invented in 1926, the industry has seen over-the-air broadcasts reach more screens as the medium exploded in popularity. The industry's first push was to get a single TV set into as many living rooms as possible, then...
ICO Global Communications Holdings' half billion-dollar gamble leaves the launching pad this week.The Reston, Va.-based firm is slated to launch its $500 million satellite into space Monday, setting the stage for the nation's first space-to-mobile multimedia service. The three-pronged offering is expected to deliver...
Mobile television is all over the place, yet going nowhere fast all at the same time. Consumer choice for TV and video on their cellphones is pretty robust, but that's only if they know it even exists.Sure, mobile TV and video usage is growing...
NBC Universal's digital team has big plans this summer for its coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing -- a colossal event and content-filled waterfall -- that it hopes might increase awareness and whet the appetite for mobile television, George Kliavkoff, the company's...
Look for former presidential candidates John Edwards and Fred Thompson to deliver keynote addresses on the final day of CTIA Wireless 2008 at 9:30 a.m. We're pretty sure they can't upstage the best keynote ever of former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton last...
