BERKELEY, Calif.-MobiTV reported that rural wireless operator Midwest Wireless has launched its live streaming television service on the carrier's CDMA-based network. The MobiTV service currently provides access to more than 20 channels, including MSNBC, ABC News Now, NBC Mobile, Fox Sports, Discovery, The Learning...
LAS VEGAS-The stampede toward mobile video continued at the Consumer Electronics Show as content providers, carriers and TV networks announced alliances to bring televised content to on-the-go viewers. SmartVideo Technologies Inc. announced a series of agreements to bring television network content to devices using...
LAS VEGAS-Verizon Wireless will offer video, audio and three-dimensional games over its EV-DO third-generation network beginning next month. The carrier also announced plans to expand the cities in which it offers EV-DO service.Subscribers in 32 U.S. markets with 3G phones will be able to...
The stampede toward mobile video continued Thursday at the International Consumer Electronics Show as content providers, carriers and TV networks announced alliances to bring televised content to wireless handsets. SmartVideo Technologies Inc. announced a series of agreements to bring television network content to devices...
Everything has to come to an end, whether it's Ken Jennings' winning streak on Jeopardy! or Tom Brokaw's 23-year reign on NBC Nightly News or wireline telephony.OK. That's a tad drastic. Wireline telephony isn't going to disappear, but it is morphing to remain relevant...
NEW YORK-Crisp Wireless will offer video clips, images and other content based on NBC's fall show line-up, the company announced Monday. A Crisp Wireless spokeswoman said the content will be offered through an undisclosed major North American wireless carrier that is currently in the...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. has signed on as the official communications service provider to the Academy of Television Arts & Science's 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which airs Sunday night.Sprint PCS will use the event to hype its new Vision Multimedia Services offerings, featuring...
MobiTV creator Idetic Inc. will provide content and operations for one of the new channels available through Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services, which the carrier launched late last Friday.Sprint TV, the "basic cable" channel of the Sprint service, will feature programming from NBC News,...
European content provider Acotel is going to Athens to target American consumers. The 12-year-old Italian company is taking the Olympic Games wireless, delivering updates and images to U.S. handsets via a combination of multimedia messaging service, short message service and pay-per-download offerings. Services will...
BERKELEY, Calif.-MobiTV continued to add content offerings to its video streaming service Tuesday, signing agreements with NBC Universal, FOX Interactive Media and Comedy Time.With the latest announcement, MobiTV offers more than a dozen popular television channels, including ABC and NBC news channels, FOX Sports,...
Fans of "The West Wing" TV series with Sprint wireless service will be able to participate in text messaging polls due to a new offering from cable channel Bravo and wireless messaging company GoldPocket.Under the offering, "The West Wing" re-broadcasts on Bravo will feature...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it will launch its NASCAR Nextel Cup Series advertising campaign beginning Jan. 18 with the first phase introducing the wireless carrier to NASCAR fans. Nextel announced last year that it was replacing long-time NASCAR sponsor RJ Reynolds' Winston as...
WASHINGTON-Ten years after Congress authorized auctions to award wireless permits, the market-based licensing scheme continues be a magnet for those needing funding for pet projects, but the Federal Communications Commission's strong embrace of intelligent radio technology and commercial exploitation of unlicensed spectrum could force...
SEATTLE-Fans of the TV show "Fear Factor" will be able to download music, images and sounds-including screams from the show's contestants-to their mobile phones, thanks to a deal among NBC Enterprises, Endemol USA and wireless content company Versaly Entertainment.Versaly said it will sell the...
A hue and cry went up among Clinton-Gore Democratics and political pundits when it surfaced that NBC and Fox would not carry the first debate between GOP and Democratic presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, respectively, last Tuesday night. Was there outrage...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. will provide its digital Phonecell Fixed Wireless Terminals to NBC Olympics Inc. for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, allowing NBC to provide voice communication to venue production personnel.Mobile applications and services provider Aspiro AB will deliver and...
Aether Systems Inc. launched a $15 million national television and print advertising and branding campaign last week in support of its growing wireless data systems and services business.The "Wireless Solutions for a Portable Planet" campaign that began with print ads earlier in the year...
NEW YORK-At first glance, a bearded journalist in business-casual attire may seem an unlikely arbiter of good taste for minding your manners when using mobile telephony.But just as a retired professional wrestler from Minnesota has informed political debate, so too has Peter Laufer, a...
Embattled Clinton Democrats, like FCC Chairman Bill Kennard and the First Family itself, know they've got a friend in Cape Cod and the islands, where I just returned from vacation with my family.There, you can see bumper stickers that read, `Friends of WFCC'-it's an...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it will deliver news from MSNBC to its subscribers at no additional cost.Subscribers will receive MSNBC headlines twice a day at 11: 30 a.m. and 4: 30 p.m. SkyTel and MSNBC will cross link their Web sites as well so subscribers...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating the Federal Communications Commission's planned Portals move, the second probe to examine whether lobbyist and former Clinton-Gore campaign manager Peter Knight got an illegal $1 million kickback for helping a Tennessee developer lock the agency into a 20-year, $400...
Wouldn't it be nice to know if people are actually going to like the holiday gifts you so thoughtfully picked out especially for them?You ponder, prepare and then pray that your choices will be well received. Is the Federal Communications Commission staff any different?...
WASHINGTON-Formulating future spectrum policy not only is a hot topic for those who must handle the regulatory and legislative aspects of parceling out channels, those that need more frequencies and those that want to hold onto what they've got also are making their opinions...
I hereby nominate NBC President Robert Wright official spokesman of the cellular telephone industry. That's right, the same Bob Wright who warned lawmakers on the Senate Commerce Committee last week the equivalent of `The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!'"If you auction off...
