The SlingPlayer Mobile client is a great way for SlingBox users to place–shift their TV programming right onto their mobile phone. With Palm Treo and RIM BlackBerry devices already rocking SlingPlayer Mobile clients in Palm OS as well as flavors, SlingMedia has their crosshairs set on the iPhone (and iPod Touch). Senior sources at Sling…
Samsung A827 “Access” to bring up AT&T’s lower-end MediaFLO TV lineup
It looks like AT&T is going to be offering a MediaFLO TV-compatible handset in a range of price-points. What you see here is the newly announced Samsung A827 Access, complete with a dedicated “TV” button to “access” all that MediaFLO TV goodness. With a 1.3 megapixel shooter, small display, and fairly unremarkable design, the quad-band…
Alcatel-Lucent, 3 Italia and RAI trial DVB-SH mobile TV in Italy
Alcatel-Lucent, the mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI have launched the first trial of Mobile TV based on the DVB-SH standard in Italy. Those not familiar should know DVB-SH stands for Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handhelds and is an evolution of DVB-H, because it provides higher spectrum efficiency and…
AT&T MediaFLO Mobile TV coming ASAP in 2008
So, the AT&T deal with Qualcomm to bring the mobile TV technology MediaFLO to its stable of mobile phones (including a few Nokia handsets) didn’t exactly help calm the Nokia-Qualcomm battle this year. In fact, the incessant quarreling was probably the reason that AT&T had to delay launching its MediaFLO service until next year. We’re…
Blockbuster working on bringing video rentals to mobile phones
It’s the next logical step. With Apple rumored to be planning some sort of online rental scheme to work with its iPod Touch and iPhone, it’s clear that movie-rentals on mobile phones will soon be a reality. It’s just a matter of who will bring the service to market, and when will it be a…
Writers Guild of America on strike for better compensation from online and mobile media
You may have noticed that your favorite night-time variety show has flipped the “re-run” switch recently. What’s going on? Well, the Writers Guild of America is currently striking for the right to get a piece of revenue generated from their work being published online, including the mobile space. You see, the seemingly glamorous job of…
CBS Mobile to bring original animated series to mobile phones – Danny Bonaduce: Life Coach
We were just thinking about how we don’t get enough of Danny Bonaduce in our lives. How did CBS Mobile know that what we needed was an original animated mobile series voiced by the former Partridge Family member? Well, we don’t have an answer for that, but we can tell you that the new mobile…
E-Ten to launch mobile TV, DVB-T enabled handsets in 2008
E-Ten is reportedly working on its line of mobile TV enabled handsets to introduce on the market next year. Initially the handsets will support only the DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial) standard, but the company also plans to introduce models supporting other broadcasting standards later on. There’s no doubt E-Ten will want to bet…
No surprise here: Japan and South Korea lead mobile TV adoption
Mobile TV may be set for boom, but so far we haven’t seen it adopted by that many customers. As expected, it’s Asia-Pacific region which leads the pack adopting new technologies the minute they’ve released. According to a new report from the analyst firm Berg Insight, there were about 38 million mobile TV viewers in…
Deutsche Telekom snatches up entire DVB-H spectrum in Germany
In a not-too-surprising, but nonetheless amazing, move by Germany’s largest telecom, Deutsche Telekom has snatched up the entire DVB-H spectrum in Germany. Following the EU’s recent DVB-H standardization, Germany has awarded the country’s entire mobile TV (DVB-H) spectrum to T-Mobile Germany’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom. Reuters reports that Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems unit is now the…