Findings from a study by custom research company TNS into today’s mobile consumer highlight that as ‘static’ functionality such as SMS and still imaging become commoditised, growth will be driven through further demand for social functionality and new demands for video calling, streaming and sharing services. In particular, the TNS Mobile Life 2011 study notes […]
CMMB America, together with Canadian technology provider Unique Broadband Systems and Hong Kong affiliate CMMB Vision, have announced the successful demonstration of CMMB mobile TV signals for over mobile network frequencies in a trial demonstration near Denver, Colorado. The field demonstration is the first ever for CMMB in the US and signifies the Company’s first […]
Time Warner Cable is in a row with networks over who controls the rights to stream live content to consumers’ mobile devices. The spat broke out last week when TWC released an application for Apple’s iPad that lets its customers watch linear programming on the tablet. Users can only watch the live channels while connected […]
America Movil, the Mexico-based mobile operator controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim, is rapidly building up its pay-TV business. Already a giant in terms of its cellular penetration, it has a 70 per cent market share in Mexico (trading as Telcel), for example, and its Claro brand has 47 million subs in Brazil. America Movil says […]
Netflix is targeting mobile devices as its next big market says to Bill Holmes, vice-president of business development. Holmes told the IP&TV World Forum that mobile represented a huge market opportunity but the service would have to adapt significantly in terms of pricing and perception, as mobile was a much more personal media. Holmes also […]
Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced that Access’ NetFront Browser, an advanced and powerful mobile browser, has been selected by Nintendo as the new browser engine for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Designed to provide a high performance browsing experience in memory […]
Access, a global provider of advanced software technologies to the mobile, beyond-PC and digital TV markets, has announced that Access’ NetFront Browser, an advanced and powerful mobile browser, has been selected by Nintendo as the new browser engine for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. The Nintendo 3DS was launched in Japan on Feburary 26th, […]
Motorola Mobility has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish IPTV software provider Dreampark. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Dreampark’s software portfolio maximises operator flexibility and performance by taking advantage of the powers of open standards, such as HTML and scalable […]
Ofcom has launched a consultation on how best to sell off the rights to the next generation of mobile networks. The auction of 4G spectrum will be the biggest ever, equivalent to three quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today. The last Ofcom mobile network auction for 3G in 2000 it raised £22.5 billion […]
Sezmi Corporation and Grupo Iusacell, one of Mexico’s leading communications and television services companies, have announced that Grupo Iusacell has chosen Sezmi’s proven hybrid broadcast-broadband television platform to deploy multiple next-generation video services for its mobile businesses and its fiber-to-the-home business Totalplay. “Grupo Iusacell is committed to providing its customers with the most advanced video […]