Regular local broadcasts over mobile TV are coming on special devices by the end of 2010 and should reach phones within the next few years, backers of a nationwide US initiative stated at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco, undeterred by the recent failure of FLO TV. The Open Mobile Video Coalition […]
Qualcomm is in the process of shutting down its mobile broadcast FLO TV service. Wholesale customers, such as those on AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, will not be immediately affected. The white-label service, which is resold by both carriers, will continue running as is for the foreseeable future. But that is likely to change down […]
blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with Evri, the real-time content discovery engine. Under the terms of the agreement, Evri’s new multimedia apps, including EvriThing Tech, EvriThing Gossip and EvriThing Baseball, will be enhanced by video from blinkx’s Mobile Video Index, which contains millions of videos from […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released data from its comScore MobiLens service showing that the number of people viewing video on mobile devices has increased 66 per cent in the past year to 12.1 million mobile consumers across the EU5 countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy). The UK and Italy […]
Telegent Systems has outlined its roadmap for driving new industry standards for best-in-class picture quality, system cost and power consumption in the analogue TV receiver market. Telegent’s roadmap builds on its market leadership position, with the company having shipped more than 90 million free-to-air mobile TV chips into handsets sold globally since pioneering the technology […]
Telus, Canada’s third-largest wireless phone company, is asking the country’s broadcast regulator to ensure rivals can’t distribute television content exclusively to their mobile subscribers. Telus is using public hearings that began this week into Shaw’s $1.9 billion purchase of Canwest Global Communications’s television assets to argue against content exclusivity. Telus, which competes with Shaw and […]
Sky Deutschland plans to launch its Sky Sports HD 1 and Sky Sports HD 2 channels on the Apple iPad at the end of October. Meanwhile, ESPN America HD is to launch in Germany and Austria after striking a deal with Sky Deutschland. The iPad app will be free of charge to Sky subscribers until […]
South African broadcasters E.tv and M-Net plan to launch a trial of the upgraded European digital television standard, DVB-T2, in response the news that a pilot of the rival Brazilian and Japanese standard will soon get underway. The local broadcasters’ pilot will take place in Soweto. State-owned signal distributor, Sentech, is establishing test transmission sites […]
Bitbop, Fox Mobile Group’s on-demand mobile TV subscription service, is now available to millions of smartphone users on the Android platform. Bitbop’s wireless entertainment subscription service will be accessible across a variety of carriers on a number of smartphones including Droid by Motorola, Droid 2 by Motorola, Droid X by Motorola, HTC EVO 4G, […]
A coalition of leading US television broadcasters have announced the formation of the Mobile500 Alliance to accelerate the availability of mobile digital television, or Mobile DTV, service to consumers nationwide. The Mobile500 Alliance currently consists of 30 broadcast television companies, which collectively own 346 full-power television stations broadcasting in 167 markets. The markets represent […]