The single European standard is there (DVB-H), and now we’re waiting for the carriers and handset manufacturers to pitch us about the “wonderful world of mobile TV.” However, it’s worth noting that a recent poll suggests 95% of Europeans are uninterested in mobile TV! While we still believe the mobile TV is a killer app…
Motorola Z6tv VCAST phone to hit Verizon Wireless on October 5
Remember that Motorola Z6tv VCAST TV slider-phone that recently passed through the FCC? Well, it looks like Verizon Wireless is going to launch the mobile-TV slider on October 5 – missing our speculated launch window of “late August” by a fairly wide margin. The Motorola Z6tv will complement Verizon Wireless stable of two MediaFLO-based mobile-TV…
Mobile TV generate more than $6.6 billion from almost 120 million users by 2012
We all know mobile TV will be a killer app — it just makes sense to entertain yourself while commuting (that’s in case you’re using a public transport and/or NOT driving). The latest report from Juniper Research goes in the same direction, suggesting that worldwide annual consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV services will exceed…
E! launches “E! News Now” for mobile phones
E! has gone mobile! They’ve launch their “E! News Now” web series for mobile phones! Ok, enough with the exclamatory punctuation! Seriously! The Entertainment Channel debuted their E! News Now web series on August 27 and is publishing at least 12 original, short-form news clips each day. The one to two minute-long news clips will…
Live full-length college football games coming to V CAST Mobile TV
To get more subscribers to use advanced services, Verizon keeps pumping its mobile TV offering with additional content. Now, they are teaming up with Qualcomm-owned MediaFLO to bring live, full-length college football games from a variety of broadcast and cable networks to their V CAST Mobile TV service. Apparently, the carrier scheduled to air more…
Qualcomm may be getting into Mobile TV industry with Taiwanese joint venture partners
Qualcomm’s chip-set business is troubled, to say the least. These guys are getting hit from all sides with more lawsuits and trade bans than their head legal counsel can deal with. So, what’s an embattled patent-monger to do? Well, if you’re Qualcomm, you get into a new industry – maybe. Word on the street has…
GoTV Latin Music channel launches on AT&T, planned for Sprint
GoTV has just signed on to provide mobile video content for AT&T, adding to the carrier’s mobile content offerings. The latin music channel, ES Música will serve up made-for-mobile video content in snippets that offer video countdowns, tour documentaries, and artist profiles – as well as a variety of latin music. Reuters reports that “A…
O2 set to sell BBC mobile content through O2 Active mobile portal
Everybody wants a piece of the burgeoning mobile video market, and O2 is the newest wireless carrier to jump on the bandwagon. The German, UK, and Irish wireless carrier recently inked a deal with BBC Worldwide to distribute its mobile content through the O2 Active mobile portal. The deal will allow O2 to sell the…
Big Brother 8 live on V CAST Mobile TV 24/7
Verizon is launching a new V CAST Mobile TV channel dedicated to Big Brother 8 in partnership with CBS Mobile and MediaFLO USA. Mobile broadcasting have started yesterday and will not stop till season finale on September 18. Existing V CAST Mobile TV will get their Big Brother dose for free — there is no…
Verizon V CAST Mobile TV reaches Arkansas
Following Florida, Verizon decided to offer its mobile TV service to the citizens of Arkansas — actually that’s Central Arkansas, but what the hack. Now, Verizon Wireless customers living in the mentioned area will be able to join the carrier’s subscribers from other covered parts of the U.S. in mobile TV watching. We’ve already talked…