ROK Entertainment Group has revealed that Cadbury Creme Egg, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment ‘24’ and Codemasters are the first brands for its free mobile TV service, FreeBe TV. For those who don’t know, FreeBe TV is subscription-free (hence the name I woud imagine), multi-channel Mobile TV, that can be streamed (unicast) over 2.5G/3G/WiFi. Interestingly,…
UK Retail: Top 10 Postpay and Prepay phones this week
For your general interest: Mobile Choice keep a weekly list of the Top 10 postpay and prepay phones in terms of sales, on a weekly basis. Today I thought we’d take a look what they are: What’s interesting here is the stack of mid-range phones that are doing volume, for postpay. The old faithful Nokia…
3 Italia wins Gold at Future Mobile Awards
3 Italia have been selected by Juniper Research as winners of the Mobile TV category at this year’s Future Mobile Awards. Here’s the crunch-data: ARPU for DVB-H subscribers is apparently 60% higher than for the market average in Italy – those are some GOOD numbers, and lend weight and credence to the assertion that Mobile…
Quickplay’s Streaming announcements
You may remember that yesterday I made a couple of posts regarding Mobile Advertising – one of these was about Vodafone Italy and Amobee doing a deal – Amobee’s part of which is powered by QuickPlay Media. Well, a nice lady from QuickPlay’s PR agency emailed me to let me know about a couple of…
Ofcom agrees to sell off public radio spectrum
Ofcom has given the go-ahead for public bodies to “sell” (share, trade, or release) off parts of the spectrum that are assigned to them, but that they don’t need. The market is potentially worth up to £20bn! Apparently Public bodies use up around half the spectrum below 15GHz, which is the most sought-after. The Elephant…
Vodafone Italy chooses Amobee for Ad-funded Video
Short, sharp, and sweet: Amobee Media Systems has announced it has been chosen by Vodafone Italy to supply ad-funded Mobile Video content to it’s users. This will be done in a similar way to recent announcements in Spain, Greece, and the Czech Republic. Quickplay Media will be powering the service using it’s OpenVideo SDP (service…
Mobile Ad Conference – Key Themes
Last week in San Fran, Informa held a Mobile Ad conference, which had speakers from all parts of the Mobile Ad value chain: Operators Agencies Mobile Ad Companies (enablers) Search Companies There were some key themes drawn out, a few of which I’ve picked upon and reproduced here for your veritable edutainment: Brands – are…
Fortinet claims new virus spreading on Symbian OS
Fortinet, the IT and mobile security vendor, claims that a new worm is spreading on the (Series60) Symbian handsets.The worm is apparently being transmitted via MMS, with names like Beauty.jpg, Sex.mp3, or Love.rm – what a cunning set of names……not! On installation, the worm apparently targets all the phone numbers in the contact list and…
Mobile TV “distant dream” in India, says OnMobile CEO
Commentary: Reading an interview with Arvind Rao (who is the CEO of OnMobile) on Telecom Tiger, he states that he is not very bullish about Mobile TV in the short-term, because of the investment required, the small screens involved, and also the number of handsets that support it. This actually is one of the few…
New version of Fring: it’s official!
You might remember I hinted at this last week (here), but today it’s official – a new version of Fring, offering some funky new features: “LONDON, 5th February 2008, fring™ today announced the launch of a new version of its popular free to download, free to use mobile phone application, packed with additional features which…