Category Archives: mobile video
Swedish chairman to broadcast 24 hours from mobile
Rating: Just another cruddy attempt to get the Bambuser app mentioned
It took us a little while to figure out what was behind this particular publicity stunt, then we realised the aim was to promote the existence of a really neat mobile broadcasting app. The event will be known as the ‘Bambuser Challenge‘ and will kick off in Central London at noon on Friday September 9th [2001] and finish 24 hours later. What it involves is Bambuser‘s executive chairman, Hans Eriksson, coming over from Stockholm and trotting around the parts of London that most tourists don’t see. All the time broadcasting using a mobile phone and communicating with his audience. GoMo News tried to find out which mobile phone he intends to use as we can’t imagine anything exists with a battery life that long. He’s obviously going to have to switch handsets. Frequently. Continue reading
Kama Sutra Android app from Lovers’ Guide
Rating: Your first position absolutely free
Talk about teasers. In an effort to promote its TV program, Body in Balance is launching, a free ‘Lovers’ Guide‘ app. This app will be available from the Android Market and the first position is free. GoMo News guesses that it’ll probably be the reverse cowgirl. Always is. Anyway, the Lovers’ Guide app – the Kama Sutra of Sex Positions- uses video footage from the TV series to illustrate different sexual positions and then gives advice on how to have great sex. If you don’t have an Android handset, don’t panic. The TV company says, “The App will also soon be available to download for BlackBerry, followed by iPhone and the new Windows enabled Nokia phones.” So not only does the company know more about sex than us, it apparently knows more about Nokia’s plans, too. Continue reading
Get God live on your iPhone
Rating: Thanks to Vision IPTV and Revelation TV
It’s seems that the first success for mobile specialist, Vision IPTV, has been to land a deal with Revelation TV. This is a UK-based religious broadcaster which is extending its reach beyond traditional broadcast channels via a white-labelled video app. So now you really can get God live on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Naturally, Vision IPTV ha slots of fancy technology which ensures that the video streaming actually works and iOS users have an acceptable viewing experience. The chief benefit, though, is that TV and video content owners can now have access to a dedicated iOS app not only swifty but a reduced cost from having to develop the app themselves Continue reading
Video calling comes to Skype for Android
Rating: Is this linked to Qik acquisition, though?
Good news for owners of Android smartphones is that the latest version (2.0) of the Skype app for Android now supports video calling. The crucial point here is that unlike Apple’s FaceTime, Skype will enables users to make calls video over 3G as well as Wi-Fi. Skype had already supported video calls on the Apple iPhone 4 (because it has a front facing camera) and the fourth generation iPod Touch. Rumours that support for the Apple iPad 2 is coming soon also recently surfaced on the TUAW news site here. What GoMo News still can’t understand is why BlackBerry owners outside the USA can’t get the official Skype app. See our previous story here. Continue reading
Google and Vdopia support Apple’s anti-Flash policy
Apple never really does things the easy way. And when Apple decided it didn’t want to play ball with Adobe over Flash, it simply refused to support the format. Today we see two different companies trying to tackle that problem in two very different ways. Digital giant Google has launched a translation program to step around the problem, and mobile video advertising agency Vdopia has created its very own file format. Continue reading
Will Brit Royal wedding crash the mobile networks?
Rating: GoMo News does its bit to help
With any major event – like the Womad music festival, for example – you’re going to have large numbers of people congregated in a small area where there are normally only a few masts. The forthcoming wedding of Britain’s Prince William to Kate Price Middleton, is going to cause mega headaches. Luckily, at least one of the UK’s four major operators – o2 -has been planning ahead for some time. If you want to plan ahead as well, you might want to work out how to stream TV coverage to your handset. Or you might want to download mxData ‘s Tube Map app in time to avoid the congestion on London’s streets. Continue reading
fring offers 4-way video calling for Android & iPhone
Rating: Anytime, anywhere group video for free
Sticking two fingers up to those peddling expensive video conferencing hardware, video software specialist, fring claims to have launched the world’s first group video call service for both iPhone and Android handsets. It’s available immediately for from the Apple iTunes App Store and the Android Market (just search for Fring). The best news is that you can conference with up to three other friends simultaneously for free. Plus – unlike certain other offerings – in addition to working over Wi-Fi, it will also work over 3G and so-called 4G using fring’s proprietary DVQ technology. Continue reading
Vringo buys m-Wise to make video ringtones more appealing to operators
If you want to get really basic about it, the offering of Vringo can be boiled down to two words: video ringtones. It allows your phone to play particular videos when someone rings you: but this is based around a pretty robust mobile content platform. Now Vringo has announced it intends to buy m-Wise, a mobile content company founded way back in 2000. Continue reading
Macy’s Backstage Pass mobile marketing falls at final hurdle
Since it is arguably the most famous department store in the world, when I saw that Macy’s was launching a way for shoppers to interact with it over mobile I was delighted at first. At first. The more I read, the more I came to believe that Macy’s dropped the ball at the last moment. Continue reading
Mobile video advertising: GoldSpot Media lands huge KT contract
GoldSpot Media is heavily involved with mobile video advertising – without actually being an advertiser itself. It’s a technology provider, and promises to allow any operator, content provider or broadcaster to use rich media and video ad campaigns. Today, it announces a lucrative contract with KT-mhows, the mobile advertising branch of the country’s largest operator, Korea Telecom (KT). Continue reading
Mobile TV: SPB TV comes to Samsung bada
SPB Software is a massive factory of mobile software and applications – it churns out a phenomenal amount of produce across communications, services, systems, games multimedia and more. It has also been a champion of mobile TV for many years, through its SPB TV application. And today, it has announced a deal with Samsung to bring SPB TV to the OEMs in-house mobile operating system, bada. Continue reading
Vringo nails massive video ringtone contract with EMI
The main offering from Vringo is mobile video ringtones – instead of just hearing a regular ringtone when someone calls you, it plays a video on your phone screen. It has been amassing a pretty impressive catalog of content providers for it’s “vringtones” and today it reveals that EMI, one of the biggest music studios in the world, will be providing content. Continue reading
Digital rights will be mobile TVs biggest challenge
The mobile TV and movie market has picked up more speed this year than ever before, thanks mostly to quickening network speeds and improving handset quality. We spoke to Tina Kaichis, Director at mobile video/TV company Quickplay, to find out where the company is now, and what it sees as the future of mobile TV. Continue reading
Mobile advertising and marketing hot news: iAds, mobile video
Welcome to Friday’s round-up of the hottest mobile marketing and advertising stories from GoMo News! Mobile video advertiser Rhythm NewMedia has landed $10m in a funding run; interest in iAds is benefitting the entire industry; and more… Continue reading
Mobile video use explodes for YouTube
Google has revealed some interesting stats for mobile video today. According to the Google Mobile Ads Blog, 75% of YouTube Mobile users say that their mobile is the number one device they use to watch YouTube videos. Continue reading
