Interactive soap opera released for free on mobile TV, by 20:20 London, Incentivated and the COI

20:20 London, Incentivated and the Central Office of Information are launching soap opera THMBNLS. It’s an interactive ad-funded mobile soap opera for the Department of Children, Schools and Families. The twenty two weekly episodes will be available exclusively via the mobile internet and will be free to download. 
THMBNLS follows the lives of six teenagers, [...]

Sony Ericsson makes mobile content available from kiosks - easier than browsing the mobile web?

Sony Ericsson has expanded its PlayNow service to special kiosks in Asia. The downloadable music and content from the service will be available in-store at the kiosks at more than 80 Sony Ericsson stores throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore during the first phase of the rollout.
How do the kiosks work?

After buying a Sony Ericsson smartcard, [...]

Vodafone and Babelgum launch free mobile video service

Vodafone and Babelgum have released the video service they first announced last December. The Babelgum Mobile app will run for a trial period of six months, and offers contract users access to video and music clips completely free.
The trial service is available to download from Vodafone live! for contract customers with data bundles for Nokia [...]

Blockbuster to offer mobile video content with Sonic Solutions

Blockbuster and Sonic Solutions are teaming up to create what they claim will be the worlds most extensive video-on-demand service. The two companies will offer content on a huge range of devices including mobile devices, portable media players, PCs, set-top boxes and more.
The service, which will contain over 40,000 titles, will be released under the [...]

SingTel offers free mobile TV episodes to users

Singapore Telecommunications has launched shortform digital series Sorority Forever for free for its iPhone and 3G mobile customers.
The episodes of the Warner Brothers’ show are between 2-3 minutes long, and the entire series is now available on-portal for SingTel customers. There are no data charges or any additional fees for watching it.
From the release:
“With the [...]

Mobile video from Internet Video Archive and Flixster pushes internet TV deal

Internet Video Archive (IVA) and MoSo Flixster combined forces in October last year on Flixster’s iPhone app. The huge library of trailers and previews from IVA were carried on the social networks iPhone portal. This proved to be so successful that IVA has dramatically bumped up the number of channels it uses on Flixster, including [...]

Mobile TV start-up gets USD 7 million funding

Mirics Semiconductor has secured $7m of financing from its existing investor team of Acacia Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Pond Venture Partners, for it’s Mobile TV product, FlexiTV.
From the press release:
“The commercial progress that Mirics has made since the product launch has prompted significant expansion of our commercial team in the US and Asia, [...]

On-line TV company Babelgum signs trial deal with Vodafone UK

Rating: Mobile TV service to begin 6-month test period

An Italian-based company that provides internet TV shows has signed a 6-month contract with Vodafone to test it’s service on the mobile web. Vodafone customers with data bundles will be able to access Babelgum content ( including The Office and The Mighty Boosh) for free across the [...]

Off-Deck Boston: Panel discussion on the importance of good user experience on the mobile web

This was a very interesting panel discussion at Off-Deck in Boston, about the importance of good user experience on the mobile web and how it could be improved.
Panel topic: Creating a Richer Off-Deck Experience: Is Emulating the Web the Best Way to Create a Pleasing User Experience and Drive Uptake?

Moderator: Adam Zewel, Chief Collaboration Officer, [...]

Mobile Advertising: SinglePoint Introduces SingleBrand Ad Marketplace for messaging

SinglePointhas launched a new ad marketplace called SingleBrand.
SingleBrand?

Well its seems as though the Ad Marketplace is an onscreen inventory for mobile messaging campaigns – run on the TV.
What?
So its a messaging inventory platform for interacting with different media and mobile.
How?
Well – the new marketplace has an inventory for each TV show. It shows viewer data [...]

Portugal Telecom Enhances MEO Mobile Service Using Envivio Mobile TV Encoding Platform

Envivio Inc., has announced that its Mobile Series™ video encoding platform has been installed by MEO Mobile. MEO Mobile has used the Envivio platform to upgrade and expand its mobile streaming service, enabling it to deliver 37 channels of high quality broadcast TV, as well as a wide variety of Video On Demand (VOD) content.

Envivio?
Is [...]

Namco Bandai The X Factor 2008- The Mobile Game

In Ireland last week I was in a bookshop and the girls working there were talking about the X Factor. The conversation went like this.
“I had a really wild night last night”.

“Really? Where did you go?
“Name of place in Dublin”
“What did you do?”
“I stayed in to watch the X-Factor”
“OMG. Don’t tell me. I have it [...]

Prizemo funding plus Show You the Money

Prizemo LLC, a participation media company that develops interactive entertainment for online, mobile, and t.v. audiences, today announced that it is launching a new game show, Prizemo’s ‘Show You the Money,’ that allows players to win cash and prizes for correct answers to trivia questions by sending mobile text messages or by playing online.

Prizemo?
They are [...]

Melodi introduces new white label content service

Melodi, according to Mobile Entertainment, is introducing a new white label WAP and web entertainment portal called KAPOW!.
Rating: Sounds good but do you exist!!!
Melodi say they have responded to requests from existing partnerships to provide a “ready-made content store offering mp3 realtones, exclusive made-for-mobile video and audio and visual content.”
CEO of Melodi Iain Kerr said: [...]

FLO announces TIA approval of Open Conditional Access Specification

In a significant step in the development of Mobile multimedia broadcasting the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have approved the Forward Link Only Open Conditional Access (OpenCA) Specification, as put forward by the FLO Forum, a body of more than 95 supporting global wireless industry leaders and dedicated to the open standardization of FLOTM (Forward Link-Only) [...]

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