Research and Markets, Dublin based institution, predicts that 300 million multimedia enabled mobile phones will ship in 2008, a number that will surpass the number of television sets. A multimedia enabled mobile is defined as one that can play video and audio, that in it of itself is pretty vague considering some handsets can do…
UK: Ofcom announces it’s plan to release spectrum (via auction) for Mobile TV
Ofcom (the UK regulator for [Tele]comms) has announced it’s plan to auction off a chunk of radio spectrum, which would be suitable for Mobile TV. The deadline for applications to the auction will be 10/4/08, with a view to having the auction stating end of April. “But I thought Mobile TV wasn’t due till 2010…
NextWave to broadcast mobile TV over WiMAX with Alcatel-Lucent hardware
WiMAX is getting some more play as the next-generation mobile broadband solution in the US. With Sprint still leading to way in their push to launch a nationwide WiMAX network, WiMAX is shaping up to be the nearest-term solution for truly wireless broadband. So, it makes sense that NextWave is looking to broadcast mobile TV…
Another Mobile Advertising company: GoldSpot Media
I recently received a PR communication about GoldSpot Media having procured some new senior management hires. That being the case, and also given that GoldSpot is working in mobile video advertising, I thought I would take myself over to their website for a looksie – you might remember that I’ve posted before on Mobile Advertising…
Samsung’s mobile TV enabled P960 coming to Taiwan
We’ve already spotted the Samsung P960 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Now they’re moving towards announcing their mobile TV enabled baby in Taiwan. Apparently, the Korean giant is about to introduce the device in the country, with launch scheduled to follow later in the year, most probably somewhere in Q3 2008. At the…
BBC iPlayers goes live on iPhone
How does live-streaming, on-demand TV sound? We we think it’s swell, too. Well, with the BBC’s launch of their iPhone-optimized iPlayer, you can have your H.264 feed and eat it at 512Kbps too! That is, as long as you’re in the UK – lucky Brits. No Flash, no apps, no nothing. Just hit up the…
Howard Chui makes nice with MobiTV – Howard Forums is good to go
Well that sure was quick. Just this morning I was worried that one of the largest mobile phone forums would be in for the long legal-haul with the US’s largest mobile TV provider. As you’ll probably recall, Howard Forums’ (HoFo) owner, Howard Chui, was warned by MobiTV’s legal team to take down a post on…
Howard Chui: Howard Forums is set to take on MobiTV over breached security
Here we go with another lawsuit again. But, this time around we aren’t talking about any patent infringement-flavored lawsuits, no, this latest lawsuit is actually quite interesting. Howard Chui, owner of the hugely popular mobile phone forums HowardForums.com (HoFo), is testing the legal-waters by defying MobiTV’s cease and desist requests to take down an allegedly…
AT&T to launch LG Vu on March 20?
Earlier in January we’ve heard a rumor AT&T is moving towards launching its mobile TV service. The LG Vu was then mentioned as the first device that will work with the new service. Now we have more information, nothing confirmed, but just enough to give us a hope AT&T’s onto something. According to Engadget’s anonymous…
Panasonic Viera P950iTV – high resolution mobile TV phone that we’ll never see
Panasonic is turning up the heat on the mobile TV market with their latest high-res mobile TV phone. The Panasonic Viera P950iTV rocks the heralded Viera branding and lives up to its namesake. With a bright and crisp 3.5-inch 262k color display spec’d at 854 x 480 pixels, 4000:1 contrast ratio, 30 fps video playback,…