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Vimeo wants to make it easier to watch online video on your Apple iPhone, iPad and Android phones and the video-sharing site has introduced a hybrid Flash/HTML5 player which will detect what device you’re on and give you the appropriate format. The company has been working on the new version for at least five months…
Siano Mobile Silicon, supplier of mobile digital TV receiver chips we’ve talked about for quite a few times in the past, unveiled a new product for the emerging mobile TV market in Latin America – SMS2130, supporting the ISDB-T mobile technology that is also known as ISDB-T “1-Seg.” The chip introduces new levels of optimizations…
Microsoft’s Mediaroom application may be coming to its Windows Phone 7 handsets, according to a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) that appeared on Microsoft’s accessibility website. The document reveals the existence of the aptly named “Microsoft Mediaroom Client for Windows Phone 7 v1.0”. Though the application is not detailed within the document, we need only look at the…
Samsung and AT&T jointly announced the messaging-centric Flight II (A927) and the touchscreen Eternity II today. The specifications for the Flight II, successor to the original Flight, were outed by Samsung last week and include: Full horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard Touchscreen display TouchWiz UI with three customizable menu screens with drag-n-drop widgets Full HTML browser 2MP camera with camcorder…
AT&T is gearing up to launch its new U-Verse Mobile application for the Apple iPhone on August 9th. Demoed at CTIA 2010 in Las Vegas, the mobile application will provide U-Verse customers with the ability to browse TV schedules, setup and manage DVR recordings, and even download content from a specially selected mobile library to…
Telus has just released an iPhone app that lets you remotely schedule, record, and review TV shows if you happen to be a Telus Optik TV subscriber. You can also search through the program guide using the app, which is probably way more user-friendly than chugging through menus on your TV. Some of the big…
Dish Network will be bringing its live satellite TV services to Apple iOS devices, BlackBerry and Android soon, so you’ll never have to miss The Suite Life of Zack & Cody again. Dish Network won’t charge a fee for mobile TV access but it will cost you a few extra bones because you’ll need additional…
SPB Software has released the WAP version of its SPB TV product/service. The dedicated SPB TV application is already available on most of today’s smartphone platforms — including the iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and WebOS — and now even the 3G feature phone owners can join the party. There are over 150 subscription-free…
It looks like Qualcomm wants to get out of the mobile TV business, as its CEO said the company is looking for “a number of alternatives” regarding Flo TV. “It will get done in the next year but I don’t think I can be much more specific than that,” Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs said in…
Qualcomm has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Taiwan’s Far Eastone to explore the creation of a MediaFLO-based mobile media operator. The discussions between the two parties come in advance of Taiwan’s anticipated UHF spectrum auction in early 2011, when the country’s regulatory agency, the National Communications Commission, is expected to issue two mobile…