Reuters is reporting that the new CEO of AlcaLu might sell off the Mobile TV division, meaning AlcaLu exits Mobile TV altogether! As the recession bites deep into the group’s remaining growth activities, Ben Verwaayen could be tempted to dump an investment-hungry business with no prospect of significant orders before 2010 as operator clients rein…
Mobile TV trials ends in Singapore
After a whopping 18 months, the Singapore Digital’s TV2GO Mobly TV trial finished at the end of November – ready for a commercial launch. The trial allowed e2e testing of the M-TV infrastructure needed, plus services too, which has allowed Singapore Digital to gather lots of Market Research data – nice. According to Singapore Digital…
LG reinforces DVB-T in Germany
LG has announced that it is launching the KB770 (with Free-to-air DVB-T tuner) in to Germany, a market awash it seems with DVB-T capable Mobile devices. For those of you that don’t read IntoMobile so often (shame shame shame on you!), Germany has a unique situation where the DVB-T spec was modified to allow mobile…
Orange go ‘HD’ with Mobile TV…
Engadget HD has an interesting article, saying that Orange is going to launch a high-definition mobile TV service. Well actually, higher definition (than normal) is more like what Orange means, according to Engadget. I’ve mentioned about HD on Mobile before, and what exactly the ‘HD’ part means (here) – but anyway, back to Orange… Apparently…
Prediction: BBC will continue to be amongst leaders in Mobile Device content
Occasionally I like to write posts that take a wider view of the news – they might take in things that I have read directly (be it on printed media, or on the InterWeb), or they might be anecdotal comments that colleagues (both past and present) have made to me. At any rate, from time…
YouTube goes HD – but what about for Mobiles?
Any of you who are au fait with the selection of video streaming sites out there will know that YouTube is generally regarded to be the most well-known – although not necessarily the best for quality. So why has YouTube been slower to market with better-quality videos? Well, certainly from a volume perspective, YouTube’s video…
UK: Digital TV might be spreading, but Mobile TV ain’t goin’ nowhere!
I read with interest an article on BBC News that is reporting on the uptake of Digital TV in the UK – apparently we are ahead of France, Germany, the US, and other countries, according to the National regulator, Ofcom. Research suggests that 86% of homes in Britain can now receive digital on their main…
TiVo launches new mobile site to enable on-the-go scheduling of recordings
TiVo has launched a new mobile website in beta to allow both subscribers and non-subscribers to browse, search, and discover (famous “If you like this…” feature) TV shows. Built in conjunction with mobile application development agency Mobui Corporation, the website is platform agnostic, meaning you don’t need a high-end smartphone in order to access it…
3UK and Sky offer Mobile TV to customers
Mobile Today is reporting that 3UK customers can now get Sky channels on their Mobiles. Interestingly, the video will be served up ‘off-portal’, which means customers will need to decide whether to take out an internet add-on package, before streaming. The result, cost-wise, is that there will be charges for the service, and then for…
Informa: Mobile TV to generate over $10 billion in revenues in 2013
I guess by now we all know mobile TV is set for explosive growth and we have yet another research to prove that. It’s from Informa Telecoms & Media, which argues that while this year revenues from mobile TV services will generate $1.5 billion in revenues, in 2013 this figure will rise to over $10…