UK youth offered free MMS for 1 day

Rating: The BBC to benefit from major mobile user-generated content
Not content with getting its news footage for free from an unsuspecting British populace, the UK’s publicly funded media company - the BBC – has decided to sucker more kids into using their mobile phones to send in pictures/videos via MMS.
No fewer than seven leading UK-based [...]

Vibes Media wins patent for mobile radio text messaging platforms and interactive campaigns

Vibes Media is a mobile player for radio stations. Today it was been awarded the patent for its radio text messaging mobile campaign platform.

Java mobile music download service loses its funding

Rating: UBC Media wants to drop Cliq service
An innovative service which linked digital radio stations in the UK to a downloadable music track service is being quietly dropped by its creator, UBC Media. But Pascal Grierson, the driving force behind Cliq, says that all is not lost.

Essentially UBC/Unique developed a Java client which could be [...]

Verizon Wireless and ESPN Launch ESPN Radio Channel Exclusively on V CAST Mobile TV

ESPN and Verizon Wireless will launch a mobile simulcast of ESPN Radio tomorrow, exclusively on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Mobile TV service. The ESPN Radio channel will join ESPN Mobile TV on V CAST Mobile TV, and gives customers access to popular radio programming, including “SportsCenter AM,” “GameNight” and “The Pulse.”

ESPN Radio, the nation’s largest [...]

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