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NBC’s `Mobile DNA’
In recent years, NBC Universal’s mobile strategy has focused largely on helping carriers get its content to consumers. Now that strategy is subtly changing. Carrier partnerships are still "critical to what we do," Salil Dalvi, NBC Universal’s general manager for … Continue reading
AT&T’s Mobile TV Play
AT&T’s purchase of Aloha Partners puts Verizon’s mobile TV launch squarely in its cross-hairs. Verizon uses Qualcomm’s competitive MediaFlo technology, which already broadcasts shows like "60 Minutes" and "CSI: New York" in more than 32 markets. Aloha’s HiWire unit has … Continue reading
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Tagged Aloha, AT&T, broadcast-quality-programming-with-at, DTV, DVBH, IPTV World, MediaFlo, Mobile, mobile TV, mobile-tv-play, MoTV, play-mobile-tv, Qualcomm, Verizon
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Fear and Loathing at Sprint
As Sprint’s Chief Executive Gary Forsee departs to mollify investors incensed over the company’s loss of "high value" customers, I offer the sad tale of my $1,700 Sprint bill. "How could this have happened?" I frantically asked the customer service representative … Continue reading
Nokia’s Navteq Grab
On Oct. 22, hundreds of wireless developers will converge for a preview of Navteq’s annual LBS Challenge, a kind of American Idol competition for creators of location-based services. Last year, the creator of digital mapping and navigational software lauded obscure companies like … Continue reading
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Tagged Google, GPS, LBS, Mobile, Mobile Entertainment Summit, Navteq, Nokia
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Why Carriers Love…and Hate…WiMax
Sprint’s announcement that it will partner with Google to create a mobile Internet portal for its upcoming WiMax service has to be bittersweet. Google users will get to access all their favorite tools — including search, Gmail and calendar — … Continue reading
iPhone: What Happens Next
Way back when, people used to say you couldn’t watch video on a cellphone. “Nobody wants to watch a movie on a tiny screen,” people scoffed at our conferences. “Not to mention the terrible quality of video streaming over the … Continue reading
Content is King…Except When It’s Crap
When I first started iHollywood Forum with my wife six years ago, my Uncle Irv from Castro Valley was skeptical about the idea of public conversations about digitized Hollywood content. “Hollywood just makes crap for TV and movies,” he groused, showing … Continue reading
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Tagged citizen journalist, Internet, journalism, Media, Mobile, Television, thomson-content-is-king
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Mobile Television’s Future
When I first bought my Treo 700P, I watched advertisements for shows like "Prison Break" and "Lost" all the time. I showed music videos to my children and ate up the movie previews. That took a week. Then I stopped. … Continue reading
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Tagged Mobile, mobile entertainment, mobile television, MoTV
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Speaking of Sprint…
Walt’s story in the Wall Street Journal (see my blog earlier today) is right across from one about Sprint’s CEO searching for a way out of its woes caused by annual subscribers canceling. Bad service aside (and I can personally … Continue reading
Improved sales for music-enabled cellphone flops
Curious juxtaposition of music-enabled cellphone stories over the last few days. Consumer tech guru Walt Mossberg’s Wall Street Journal column today gives a "nice try but…" to Samsung’s new UpStage phone being rolled out on Sprint. Seems the device has … Continue reading
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Tagged cell-phone-flops, cellphones, Mobile, mobile music, Music
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