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Paypal Signs Up Content Partners in UK For Mobile Payments
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UK Grows I-mode Fastest Outside Japan
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UK operator O2 has attracted 250,000 i-mode subscribers in the seven months since its launch, which it claims is “the fastest growing i-mode… Read more »
Mobile Marketing/Content Firm G8Wave Gets $7.5 Million Funding
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G8Wave, a mobile marketing and content applications firm, has raised $7.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE We… Read more »
UK’s TwoFour Launches Mobile Division
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UK Broadcasters Back Mobile TV Trial Using DAB
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(reg required) Both the BBC and ITV will put a channel on a new six-month mobile TV trial using DAB technology which launched in London toda… Read more »
Terror Raid Mobile Footage Sparks TV Bidding Battle (reg required)
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Connectivity Partners In UK Campaign For Reforms In Mobile Content Biz
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The heat is turning on the mobile content providers in UK. Connectivity partners, the intermediaries between content providers and operators… Read more »
UK’s Mobestar Signs Content Contracts With Six Companies
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UK’s Mobestar, which recently git listed in London’s AIM, has signed contracts with six companies to supply glamour content for onward distr… Read more »
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HMV To Sell CDs By Mobile
By James Quintana Pearce
Music retailer HMV, responding to declining in-store sales, will launch a three month trial on June 5th to buy CDs via mobile phone. The ser… Read more »
O2 Trial Finds Mobile TV Catches On With Commuters (reg required)
By James Quintana Pearce
Here’s some good news for proponents of mobile TV…the O2 DVB-H trial has found that the 375 triallists spent an average fo four hours watc… Read more »
ITN Puts News On I-mode
By James Quintana Pearce
ITN Multimedia has launched a news service on the i-mode site of UK operator O2. The Read more »
The Mosquito Ringtone
By James Quintana Pearce
Updated: 10/01/06: And now it’s a dance track…
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3 UK Launches World Cup TV Show
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Mobile TV shows about the World Cup starting in Germany next month are cropping up: among them, 3 UK has launched “Berlin or Bust”, which ai… Read more »
Universal Pictures Mobile Comedy Video Launch on UK Networks
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Universal Pictures has launched mobile video services across UK networking, including live comedy from the likes of Ricky Gervais and Lee Ev… Read more »
Orange Opens Up Mobile Portal For Ads; Landgrab Time In UK
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MEM 2006: FremantleMedia’s Three Stages Of Mobile Content
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At Islington’s Business Design Centre for the Mobile Entertainment Market 2006. It’s like a giant greenhouse, only much colder.From this mor… Read more »
Analyst Claims Nokia Getting The Better Of Qualcomm In IPR Squabble
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Nokia and Qualcomm have been fighting over patent licensing for a while now, and UBS analyst Maynard Um thinks Nokia is getting the upper ha… Read more »
Groove Mobile Signs On Indie Labels
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Groove Mobile has signed a worldwide licensing deal with the Association of Independent Music (AIM), a non-profit trade organization for ind… Read more »
UK’s Teletext Launches WAP Service; Online Still AWOL
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
In UK, Teletext is launching a cross-network WAP service today to include news, sport, entertainment, travel information and weather from th… Read more »
City AM’s Mobile Podcasts Through Bluetooth
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This is an interesting use: City AM, the free morning business newpaper in London, will offer a free mobile version of its podcast to London… Read more »
Later This Week: At MEM Conference In London
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Later this week is the big Mobile Entertainment Market conference in London…I was there last year and it was a lot of fun. This year, our… Read more »
Bango Earnings: More Customers, Delayed Cashflow
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Bango has seen some strong revenue growth, but longer than expected lead times in its markets outside the UK have seen it lower forecasts, l… Read more »
Celebrity Chat With The Darkness
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Warner Music UK and T-Mobile UK have teamed up to offer a mobile celebrity chat with the rock band The Darkness to coincide with the release… Read more »
Channel 4 Debuts Mobile Video News
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UK’s Channel 4 now offers mobile video news bulletins — they’re currently free apart from data charges. “The service features bulletins, ‘H… Read more »
I-Play’s Revenues Numbers; Borrows $10 Million
By Rafat Ali
The Herald has a story on London-based mobile gaming provider I-Play’s revenue and loss numbers for 2005, and also discloses that the compan… Read more »
Online and Mobile Avatar Firm WeeWorld Gets $15.5 Million Funding
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This is big amount for such a nascent field, but WeeWorld has been rumored to be an acquisition target for some time now. The Glasgow-based… Read more »
Founder of Virgin Mobile To Leave After NTL Buyout
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Tom Alexander, the founder and CEO of Virgin Mobile UK, is to leave the company after it becomes part of cable group NTL in July. Alexander… Read more »
Sideloading Now Legal In Australia
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The Australian Federal Cabinet has (finally) agreed to make “sweeping changes to copyright laws”. The important thing for mobile is that it… Read more »
Vodafone’s Mobile Casino
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Vodafone UK has struck a deal with Gaming Corporation to launch an interactive mobile casino on Vodafone Live next month. “The service will… Read more »
ITN Ties With T-Mobile For World Cup Mobile Video Channel
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The world’s biggest one-sport tournament, the Football World Cup, is about to kick-off in less than a month in Germany, and the action is he… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: Everyone Here is Too Old
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
[by Jemima Kiss] I want to launch a guerilla strike against this conference. Yet again, the most interesting discussion takes place outside… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: Handsets of The Future
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
– TTP MD Tom Milbourn said the handsets of the future won’t be ‘swiss army knives’, but more like phone plus one – a phone plus a camera, a… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: More Statistics on Trends and Models
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@ FT Mobile: Regulation and Stuff
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
– Simon Gall of Otodio demonstrated how their product turns print into an audio service for mobiles, a tool being developed in consultation… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: Touching on DRM
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– Summary here of some DRM issues that the Mobile Entertainment Forum flagged up. It estimates that a lack of effective mobile digital righ… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: The Boys’ Toys Session
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Erm, this session covers games, girls and gambling. I thought that meant guns, breasts and poker (shall we tag those?) so didn’t expect to b… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: The Music Bit
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[by Jemima Kiss] — EMI’s prediction is that global revenue from digital platforms will grow from less than one per cent in 2003 to 25 per c… Read more »
BSkyB To Launch Mobile TV; Goes With MediaFlo
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