3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The winners of the Global Mobile Awards 2007 have been announced. In the category ‘Best Made for Mobile Video Service’ the prize went to marblemedia, NFB and Bravo! FACT for their production of Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction. Shorts in Motion: The Art of Seduction is a candid […]
First live demo of Alcatel’s Unlimited Mobile TV
3GSM CONGRESS – BARCELONA – Alcatel-Lucent shows the first demo of the proposed Unlimited Mobile TV service using the new DVB-SH standard, which combines satellite broadcasts in the S-band with terrestrial gap fillers. The prototype was made by Sagem, but Samsung will also produce a working model in the near future. With the system, which […]
ZDF: Germans want their mobile TV
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. 13% of the German population is interested in mobile TV, according to research on behalf of the ARD/ZDF-Medienkommission carried out in November, 2006. But they don’t necessarely want to watch it on their mobile phone: especially younger respondents said they also like this feature in their MP3 player or iPod. […]
EuroNews launches Mobile Video Alerts
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. EuroNews announced the launch of its breaking news Mobile Video Alerts service in cooperation with Comsys. EuroNews is starting the service, which will feature breaking news videos, at the end of February in France, soon to be followed in other languages for the different European markets. The service in France […]
3GSM World Congress live on mobile TV
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The congress in Barcelona is live on the air through mobile TV. A DVB-H mobile TV network, operated by Abertis Telecom and provided by technology company SIDSA, covers the Congress distributing up to 10 mobile TV channels. Ten mobile TV channels are available through DVB-H-equipped mobile phones, thanks to SIDSA’s […]
Nokia predicts 20 million mobile TV units in 2009
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo unveiled a number of new handsets including the Nokia N77 multimedia computer designed to accelerate the take up of DVB-H mobile TV devices, a market he predicted would reach between 5 to 10 million units by end of 2008 and around 20 million units […]
Research: Modest interest in mobile TV
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. There is only a modest interest in mobile TV, according to research by Circle Research, which was carried out on behalf of the GSM Association. Research was done in fifteen markets. In a list of “best potential” for mobile phone usage TV ranks only at an 11th place, after SMS […]
Qualcomm completes 2nd Sky trial
Qualcomm has announced the successful completion of a second mobile TV trial of its MediaFLO system with BSkyB. The trial took place in Manchester at the end of last year and featured BSkyB content delivered to non-commercial devices. It follows a similar trial that took place in Cambridge in the summer of 2006. According to […]
CNN launches free mobile service
CNN is to launch its new CNN Mobile service at the 3GSM show in Barcelona on Monday (February 12). The service is the first fruit of its collaboration with Ericsson and, significantly, will be delivered free to consumers. It goes live at 12.00 CET when correspondent Jim Boulden will file a ‘live via phone’ piece […]
3 strikes Silver with mobile film channel distribution
Silver has become the first film channel in Europe to be distributed on mobile phones. It follows a deal between the Swedish arm of mobile company 3 and Silver’s distributor Stockholm-based NonStop Television. The deal also includes the entertainment channel Star and both channels will be available in Sweden through 3’s multimedia service X-series. “NonStop […]