Rok launches free UK TV for phones

Rating: Watch the Beeb for free without iPlayer
Those guys at Rok never give up,do they? Now the firm has launched Rok TV UK as free download to UK viewers, although it is still in beta version.
ROK TV uses the company’s purpose-built media player to allow moving video to play on virtually any mobile phone’s screen. [...]

Further adventures of TV and mobile devices: now we’ve got a GRAMMY social networking app

Further adventures of TV and mobile devices: now we’ve got a GRAMMY social networking app
Not content to simply have the GRAMMY music awards on the weekend, CBS has an entire week of programming. GRAMMY week is seven days worth of events leading up the music awards - and at the end you get to watch the largest music promotional event in the US on television. But app developer Diversion Media wants more than that, and is releasing the first official GRAMMY iPhone application.

AQA rebrands itself to a number – 63336

Rating: TV ad campaign here we come
GoMo News’ attempts to guess why exactly AQA (All Questions Answered) has rebranded itself as a number (63336) have all proved way off the mark. The real reason has to do with a forthcoming TV advertising campaign, not anything else.
AQA has always painted itself as,  “The world’s first premium [...]

Windows 7 offers little for mobile phone users

Rating: Alliance with Nokia probably sticks in the throat
For a company which talked about the mobile phone as the third screen, there was surprisingly little in the very latest incarnation of Microsoft’s OS – Windows 7 – for the mobile phone community. It officially launched today.
Microsoft made great play of the fact that with Windows [...]

Two Mobile TV stories: advertising from 3, and Telecom launches free service

Mobile TV seems to be like buses - there’s nothing new for ages and then a bunch of good stories come along at once. Today we’ve gotten two interesting announcements. New Zealands Telecom is launching a mobile TV service for free (initially), while 3 has gotten together with 4th Screen, Mobix and FremantleMedia to launch pre-roll mobile TV ads on the 3 mobile portal.

New Ad To Separate The Trademark BT Couple

BT launch new Home Hub with multi-layered media campaign
BT’s new ad campaign has a twist in store for viewers, with Adam, the character played by Kris Marshall, moving out of the home he shares with his on-screen partner Jane, for his dream job – putting the relationship under pressure and implying the couple’s separation.

BT pokes [...]

Qualcomm’s MediaFLO enters UK by stealth

Rating: UK-wide mobile TV a possibility
In its typical cryptic manner, Qualcomm has casually announced that it has won spectrum in the UK for a bargain £ 8.34 million. It has tried to be coy but it’s obviously intended for MediaFLO TV.The announcement mentions bringing “innovative wireless technologies to the UK market”.
It also says it will [...]

Is China wise to launch TD-SCDMA @ the Beijing games?

Rating: the starts don’t look too good
The dangers of relying on untried and tested new technology have been brought home to us Brits by the present debacle at Heathrow Terminal 5. What if the same thing were to happen at the Beijing Olympics?
It looks like the Chinese government will forge ahead with providing a 3G [...]

M6 Mobile by Orange offers new unlimited TV offer and Inside M6 Mobile Portal

M6 the multi-brand form Orange is apparently re-inventing entertainment by offers unlimited access to six M6 (own branded ) TV stations.
These include: M6, W9, M6 Music Hits, M6 Music Rock and Fun TV.

On top of that tomorrow a new M6 Mobile portal will launch called Inside M6 Mobile.
Details of the offer:
M6 Mobile, with even more [...]

BitTorrent Media File Sharing on Mobile

During Mobile World Congress I was a judge at the MoMo Peer Awards with a number of key industry executives. I was the only woman there and I have to admit I came unstuck at the topic of BitTorrent.

BitTorrent is that ability to share rich media online. One of the companies that presented was called [...]

MobiTV releases Mobile TV and Advertising data

Anyone that watches TV on the mobile phone please raise your left hand..
Thank-you.
Now anyone that is a fan of watching TV on the mobile please respond to this blog post.
I dare all of you to prove me wrong about my scepticism on mobile TV.

But, who cares what I think – MobiTV the apparent leader in [...]

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