ABIresearch seems to think that by 2012, the Mobile TV market will boast nearly half a billion subscribers. With 3G coverage expanding around the globe and the increased build-out of mobile TV networks, the research firm believes that more content will be available and consumers will naturally gravitate towards these advanced services. ABIresearch sees the [...]

Orange and T-Mobile have announced it’s time for another mobile pilot. The two operators will use NextWave Wireless’ UMTS MBMS based TDtv product for a six month trial, which will reuse some spare spectrum that all operators bar Vodafone were awarded when they bought their 3G licences. The pilot will see West Londoners getting square-eyed [...]

SRS Labs, the guys who can make nearly any set of computer speakers sound awesome, announced a new tech called ‘SRS CS Headphone’ that is supposed to bring stereo surround sound to your mobile phone, through the headphones, with no hardware tweaks. I’m not watching nearly as many movies on my phone as I did [...]

Mobile TV chipmaker MediaPhy has received another round of funding, this time totaling up to $7 million. The San Jose, CA based chipmaker focuses on building chips that support multiple mobile TV standards around the globe. The company’s flagship chip, the MP2001 Soloâ„¢ Series supports DVB-T, DVB-H, ISDB-T, T-DMB, and DAB standards. With the global [...]

Cell is a TV series created specially for mobile consumption. Created by Endemol Digital Media, Cell is created with two story lines. Cell Outside focuses on the prize-fighting scene deep in Columbia, while the Cell Inside plot is set in a private prison, cloaked in mystery and with no hope of escape. The show was [...]

Vodafone-Turkey subscribers have a new way to enjoy video streamed right to their handset, and it’s coming to them courtesy of ROK Entertainment Group. Vodafone and MobilTurk, ROK’s regional representative, will offer up both live and on-demand video content for a weekly subscription of roughly US$4, payable via SMS, with the first week being free. [...]

If this isn’t a match made in heaven, I don’t know what is, seriously. Here you have Qualcomm’s MediaFLO technology leaking money like a sieve, and meanwhile, startup GoldSpot Media, who specializes in putting ads in mobile TV broadcasts, gets a $3 million cash injection. Sounds to me like these two companies need to hook [...]

Dan Frommer has taken a look at AT&T’s upcoming MediaFLO mobile TV service, as well as Verizon’s V CAST TV offering, to see what’s really needed for Mobile TV to take off in the U.S. As we know, Qualcomm is particularly interested in what needs to be done with MediaFLO, as well. Frommer contends that [...]

Qualcomm recently filed a statement with the SEC detailing the investments on MediaFLO for 2007. MediaFLO is the digital TV broadcast technology that Qualcomm backs, competing with Nokia’s DVB-H and other standards. MediaFLO lost out in Europe, but already has Verizon Wireless on board in the U.S., with AT&T to follow suit shortly this year. [...]