Virgin Mobile USA launched Headliner, the first interactive mobile music magazine, to give its customers on demand access to a full range of music-related content including up-to-date artist news, charts, concert dates and interactive search and community features. Headliner is already available for download for the owners of Switch_Back, Cyclops, Slice, Slider Sonic or Snapper.…
Scarface’s mobile success
One of the top selling mobile content brands is the one inspired by “Scarface”, the 1983 gangster classic starring Al Pacino. So far the Scarface franchise, which Walt Disney Co.’s Starwave Mobile unit licenses from NBC Universal, has produced more than 2 million mobile content downloads, ranging from the $5.99 fee necessary to pay to…
Alltel launches Jump Music
Alltel Wireless announced Jump Music, a free service that enables subscribers to transfer music from their PCs to their handsets. Developed by Frog Design, the PC-based Jump Music application promises Alltel customers with easy way to find, manage and transfer music files, as well as to enable navigation to online music storefront, eMusic. To further…
Mobile video set for growth; 46 million subscribers by 2010
Mobile video is set for boom and the revenues from mobile video services jumped 317% to almost $200 million worldwide in 2006, with that number expected to triple in 2007. According to market research firm Infonetics Research there will be more than 46 million mobile video users by 2010 globally. Thanks to the low costs…
Nokia partners with Arabic video-sharing site Ikbis
To expand the range of its multimedia offerings and to strengthen its appealing to the Middle East based customers, Nokia has partnered with an Arabic video-sharing site, so called YouTube of the Middle East, Ikbis. The tie-up with Ikbis will allow NSeries users to produce videos from their mobile phones and then directly share and…
Verizon Wireless launches comic strips application
Verizon Wireless announced the launch of an interesting mobile application/service called Comic Creator by AMA, which allows users to create their own comic strips via mobile phones. The new service will give Verizon Get It Now customers a series of characters, settings and backgrounds from which to create comic stories. Once created, users can easily…
Motorola to Unveil new iPhone Killer on May 15
Hey Zander! We know you’re stoked about keeping your Chair on Motorola’s Board, but c’mon man, you need to earn it. First of all, stop and think for a second. Why is Motorola in such a financial slump? With such beautifully designed phones like the RAZR, KRZR, L7, and RIZR, why is it that you…
Mobile gaming losing ground to Mobile TV and Music
We all love playing games on our cell phones. Remember when Snake first hit the scene? Mobile gaming has come a long way since then, but Screen Digest analysts are saying that growth in the mobile gaming market is slowing down – almost to a stall. Japan and Korea have been driving the growth of…
Hollywood and the mobile video
With many video clips floating around the Web, like the 12 one-minute episodes of Borat, the mobile video is becoming increasingly popular among the consumers. However, advertisers seem too prudent, giving the film studios problems with monetization. Another example of the successful mobile video is Warner Brothers’ six-episode series based on the popular Superman television…
A monk to launch an SMS fundraising campaign
You’ve probably familiar with various SMS fundraising campaigns. But which one of them was launched by a monk? Not a single one, as far as I know. A monk in Bulgaria, former financial stock broker on Wall Street, is planning to launch an SMS fundraising campaign to renovate a Monastery. “Father Nikanor from the village…