Good morning and welcome to our first video podcast. We’re trying something different this week, as per my post last night. We take a look at Sagem, we discuss 3, we cast a glance toward the inevitable iPhone availability discussion, we discuss the Nokia Tube — and Dan and Ben get overrun by some testosterone-fueled [...]
Welsh hospitals get mobiles
It looks like the ban on mobile phones in hospitals is gradually crumbling. According to the BBC, another health trust has decided to remove a ban on phone use in hospital buildings, saying that it’s discovered devices can only affect medical equipment if very close to it. The Beeb says that North East Wales NHS [...]
Qualcomm brings Adobe’s Flash to BREW
It looks like Flash has got itself a little bit more territory in its quest for mobile domination – it’s struck up a partnership with mobile giant Qualcomm. Late last week, Qualcomm announced that its BREW platform, used by some US operators, will now come with Adobe’s Flash. The partnership will see both companies create [...]
Google Android show off video
Reader Jonathan got me on instant message and sent me over the link to this Youtube video showing just how far Android has come. I just can’t wait to see these things hit the real world. When talented developers get hold of them, that’s when the mobile industry will really take off. Have a view:
ICO puts up satellite for US mobile TV
ICO Global Communications has announced its launched a new satellite that will allow it to start offering new mobile services later on in this year. The satellite, called ICO.G1, went up yesterday from Cape Canaveral, and reached its orbit later that afternoon. The satellite will let ICO provide services including mobile TV, navigation and emergency [...]
US to Dish up next mobile TV offering?
The US could be getting another mobile TV service, according to The Financial Times. The paper quotes analysts as saying broadcaster Dish Networks “could be considering launching a mobile TV service to compete with the leading US mobile phone companies” after bidding at the US 700 Mhz spectrum auction and winning enough licences to “create [...]
Aussie cops ask for cameraphone evidence
According to Aussie reports, cops in New South Wales are asking the public to submit photos or videos of crimes captured on cameraphones to the police to help them with their investigations. Users will then be able to upload the footage to the police over the internet. Apparently, the move was inspired by the London [...]
Mobile video firm Viva Vision picks up $2 million
Mobile entertainment applications and content provider Viva Vision has received a $2 million capital injection from Medical Capital Corporation, which the company says it will use “to scale its business, support its growing user base, and further grow distribution”. Last year Viva Vision introduced a mobile slideshows business line, with content both produced by in-house [...]
Mobile content finally slips from operators’ grasp
It looks like carriers have finally lost the battle to keep control of consumers mobile content – according to ABI Research the average consumer gets their content from a mix of places, including the web, their mobile operator and from their own collections. Of mobile users who watched video on their mobile, the split was [...]
LiveWire gets into Groove Mobile for $14.5 million
Managed personalisation services company LiveWire Mobile, a subsidiary of NMS Communications, has snapped up mobile music firm Groove Mobile for $14.5 million. The deal will let Live Mobile add ringback tones, ringtones, full-track music and video downloads to its offerings, which it will deliver through a single storefront to its operator customers. As well as [...]
Mobile video firm Kyte flies with $21 million cash injection
Mobile video broadcasters Kyte have found themselves on the business end of $21.1 million of investment, led by the likes of Steamboat Ventures and Intellect Capital Ventures, linked with Disney and TeliaSonera respectively. Kyte’s business model is all about distributing mobile and online video to destinations including phones, social networks and blogs for viral marketing [...]
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