Mobile World Congress Highlights: RealNetworks Wins; MediaFLO's Lessons; Verizon 4G; Skype Demand
Some highlights from day four at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona— the full stories are on our sister site mocoNews:
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Mobile World Congress Roundup: Yahoo Mobile; Fox’s iPhone Strategy; MySpace Mobile App
Some highlights from today’s coverage of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:
– *Yahoo* Rejigs Mobile Offering With *Yahoo* Mobile: Yahoo (… Read more »
@ MWC: Yahoo Rejigs Mobile Offering With Yahoo Mobile
By Dianne See Morrison
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has launched a new product Yahoo Mobile, which rolls its OneSearch, OneConnect, and OnePlace products as well as other f… Read more »
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@ MWC: Vodafone To Roll Out Android Device To Europe This Spring; Free With Some Plans
By Tricia Duryee
Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) confirmed this morning at Mobile World Congress that it will start selling an Android device, called the HTC Magic, thi… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Orange Widgets; MBlox Zero Data Charge; Ad-Subsidized Handsets
By James Quintana Pearce
– Orange Launches Widgets: Orange is launching mobile widgets preloaded on their phones, which will give customers access to information li… Read more »
Industry Moves: Telegraph Takes Android Evangelist To Lead Mobile Engineering
Telegraph Media Group is hiring Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android developer advocate Mike Jennings away to lead its mobile engineering team – one… Read more »
@ MWC: Nokia Unveils Ovi Store;
By Tricia Duryee
We knew that Mobile World Congress would have a lot of news about application stores, and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) at least upheld its end of the b… Read more »
@ MWC: GSMA To Give Customers’ Mobile Browsing Data To Advertisers
By Dianne See Morrison
The GSMA will launch a commercial audited mobile measurement service in the second half of the year, following its year-long study with the… Read more »
Qualcomm Ventures Invests $9 Mn in GIS Firm MapMyIndia
By VCCircle
Its existing backers – KPCB, Sherpalo Ventures and Nexus India Capital – have also participated in this round.
Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) Ventur… Read more »
Voda, O2 May Have To Give Up Spectrum For UK-Wide Broadband
Media and telco regulator Ofcom wants to force Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and O2 to give up their portions of the 900 MHz mobile spectrum to allow… Read more »
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European Mobile Broadband Market Will Grow To
By Patrick Smith
Mobile broadband will grow to 148 million connections in Europe by 2014, accounting for almost half of all European broadband connections an… Read more »
ValueFirst Raises $6 Mn in Series B From NEA
By VCCircle
ValueFirst raised its first round of $250k in 2006 from Rajesh Jain’s personal investment firm Emergic Ventures.
ValueFirst Messaging, a De… Read more »
Internet TV Platform Tvinci Raises $1.6 Million First Round
Israeli internet TV tech provider Tvinci (get it? Like Da Vinci, ha ha) has completed its first round of $1.6 million led by private investo… Read more »
Facebook’s Friendship With Nokia Is Pending
By Tricia Duryee
If Nokia (NYSE: NOK) were on Facebook, perhaps its relationship status would be “it’s complicated.” The WSJ is reporting today that the two… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Setanta IPTV, Spotify Goes Public, France 24 On iPhone
– Setanta Sports: The Australian version of the pay-TV operator’s channel has launched on to Canberra-based TransACT’s IPTV platform. This… Read more »
Altruist Acquires VC- Backed Mobile2Win In All-Stock Deal
By VCCircle
In what could be the beginning of the consolidation of mobile value added services companies, Mobile2Win, a leading VAS player, has been acq… Read more »
Industry Moves: ‘For Dummies’ Publisher Dunne Starting iPhone e-Book Business
By Patrick Smith
Jason Dunne, publisher of the …For Dummies series of books and website at publisher John Wiley, has left to start his online print, onlin… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Australian Operators Merge; Nokia Completes bit-side Acquisition
– Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) Australia merges with 3 Australia: Vodafone Australia and Hutchison Read more »
Industry Moves: Ex-Blyk UK MD Gregory To Lead O2′s Media Biz
Ex Telegraph development director Shaun Gregory, who was replaced as UK head of ad-funded mobile network Blyk last month, is surfacing again… Read more »
Interview: Richard Titus, Future Media Controller, BBC: iPlayer Going Underground, We Must Reach Out
When BBC future media director Erik Huggers convinced Richard Titus, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded several companies in Californ… Read more »
The Plot Thickens For E-Books: Google And Amazon Putting More Titles On Mobile Phones
By Dianne See Morrison
You might get eye strain after reading a few chapters, but that hasn Read more »
@ EconMusic: Still Not There Yet With Mobile Music
By Tameka Kee
Mobile music — like mobile advertising — has seemingly been “the next frontier” for at least the past three years, but aside from the succ… Read more »
Handmark Acquires Mobile RSS App Firm FreeRange
By Rafat Ali
Handmark, the Kansas City, MO-based mobile applications and software firm, has acquired Freerange, the Portland, OR-based mobile RSS applica… Read more »
Astro Group Picks Up 50 Percent in Mogae Digital For $5 Million; Launching Social and Search Portal
By VCCircle
Malaysia based media conglomerate Astro Group has acquired a 50 percent stake in online firm Mogae Digital for $5 million. Mogae Digital is… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Connect2Media; TopUp Tv; German IPTV
By Patrick Smith
– Connect2Media: Manchester-based mobile games developer and distributor Connect2Media has signed a distribution deal with US games publish… Read more »
Newsquest Launches 148 Mobile Sites, Sent Out One Million Texts In 2008
By Patrick Smith
It’s no exaggeration to say that local newspapers in their printed form are facing the most challenging period of their lives, so it’s only… Read more »
THQ Restructures Wireless Division; Will Focus On Smartphones And Layoff 100 Employees
By Tricia Duryee
THQ (NSDQ: THQI), the global game developer and publisher, told employees yesterday that it plans to restructure its wireless division based… Read more »
UK Love Affair For Social Networking Moves To Mobile
By Dianne See Morrison
The British are translating their love of social networking from online to mobile, with the UK boasting the highest penetration in Western E… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: T-Mob UK Subs Flee; Reuters-Nokia Tie-Up; Vodafone Greece, Netherlands Take Ads
By Dianne See Morrison
– T-Mobile UK bleeding customers: Despite the introduction of the much-ballyhooed G1 handset, T-Mobile UK reported dismal customers number… Read more »
U.S. Carriers Are Desperate — This Week Proved It
By Tricia Duryee
It’s becoming clearer by the quarter that most wireless operators simply don’t have a phone or user experience that can compete with the iPh… Read more »
FT Reboots Mobile: Plans iPhone Apps, Commercial Model Unclear
The Financial Times has relaunched its mobile website to bring it in line with FT.com’s recent redesign. The new look adds personalised stoc… Read more »
Vodafone Sees “Unbeatable” Scale Through Tighter Partnerships With Verizon Wireless, China Mobile
By Tricia Duryee
If Vodafone’s idea of working together more with China Mobile and Verizon Wireless means rushing out a phone full of bugs — like the BlackB… Read more »
UK Mobile Banking Service MoBank Raises Second Round Funding Of £750k
By Dianne See Morrison
UK mobile banking service MoBank has raised a second round of funding for £750,000 from an undisclosed group of individuals and private inv… Read more »
Eidos Shuts Mobile Gaming Studio, Lays Off 14
By Patrick Smith
UK company developer Eidos is laying off 14 people and shuttering its mobile games studio in Manchester almost two years after spending £7.… Read more »
Channel 4 To Slash Mobile Efforts, Focus On Video
By James Quintana Pearce
Channel 4 will slash its mobile offerings to save money, moving to automatic porting and away from bespoke mobile publishing. Channel 4 has… Read more »
PhonepayPlus Issues New Mobile Content Rules
By James Quintana Pearce
UK premium content regulator PhonepayPlus has released new rules for the mobile content industry following a 108 percent increase in mobile-… Read more »
3 UK Adds Mobile VOD, Full-Length Shows Include The Hills
Three is adding video-on-demand to its mobile TV offering, offering pay-to-download shows including episodes of The Hlls and South Park for… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Switch; BT Vision; Museums’ Digital Project; Ten Alps
By Patrick Smith
– BBC Switch: The BBC’s youth-targeted Switch brand is launching an experimental interactive teen drama series to be shown on social networ… Read more »
Microsoft Launching Mobile Music Downloads In UK, Tracks Are DRM-Protected
By Patrick Smith
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a UK mobile music download platform offering more than one million tracks and 10,000 videos from Sony (N… Read more »
Sony Ericsson And Universal Music Publishing In Deal To Promote Emerging Acts
By Dianne See Morrison
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has struck a deal with Universal Music Publishing to allow the publisher Read more »
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