@ FT Mobile: The Predictions Session
I just saw a very large mouse run down the side of the conference hall.
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@ FT Mobile: Serious Content
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
[by Jemima Kiss] George Fraser, VP for sales and business development at Infospace, defined the key elements of mobile content. Where the we… Read more »
@ FT Mobile: Women Are a Mystery – Unless They Are Naked
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
[by Jemima Kiss] David Warga from Naked News is having trouble with women. If they are naked (or semi naked) that’s fine – people pay to see… Read more »
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@ FT Mobile: The Mobile TV Bit
By Jemima Kiss, MediaGuardian
[by Jemima Kiss] Channel 4 launched its own mobile channel on the back of Big Brother in May 2005 with ringtones, wallpapers and so on, but… Read more »
O2′s New Ad Campaign, Focusing on Mobile Content
By Rafat Ali
Still on O2, the UK operator is going in for a big image overhaul, with a new $18.5 million ad campaign, with initial campaign executions in… Read more »
Big Brother Creator Enters Mobile
By James Quintana Pearce
Exactly what mobile TV needs or the beginning of the end for mobile TV? That depends on how you feel about reality shows… Peter Bazalgette… Read more »
Coming This Week: Coverage From FT Mobile Communications Conference, London
By Rafat Ali
Coming this week from London: coverage from the Financial Times Mobile Communications Conference. This annual conference used to be more abo… Read more »
Sky Sports’ Soccer and Cricket, Live On Vodafone 3G; Simulcast With TV
By Rafat Ali
Vodafone UK has started offering live coverage of international cricket and the Football League Playoffs from Sky Sports to their 3G custome… Read more »
Reward For Citizen Journalism
By James Quintana Pearce
Nokia has teamed up with the UK’s Press Gazette to launch the Citizen Journalism Award, which will spotlight people who found themselves wit… Read more »
Muze Acquires Loudeye’s U.S. Operations For $11 Million; Includes Mobile Assets
By Rafat Ali
Loudeye, the trouble digital media and music services company based in Seattle, has sold its U.S. assets, as expected for a while, for a mea… Read more »
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UK Top 10 Mobile Games
By James Quintana Pearce
Here are the top 10 mobile games downloaded in March as reported by Elspa…
1) Sonic the Hedgehog — SEGA/iFone
2) Tetris — EA
3) LMA… Read more »
Next Week: In London For We Media Forum
By Rafat Ali
Next week, I’ll be in London for the We Media Global Forum, being organized by the Media Center, Reuters and BBC. And while the program does… Read more »
Disney To Launch MVNO In UK
By Rafat Ali
Later this year…Disney Mobile, the MVNO from Disney, will make its way to the UK later this year, the company said today…it will use O2′… Read more »
Vodafone Paid Fox 3 Times Production Costs On 24 Mobisodes, Upfront
By Rafat Ali
That was the first mobisodes experiment from a major operator anywhere in the world, more than a year ago (in November 2004)…today, Peter… Read more »
MocoNews Executive Interview: David Gosen, CEO, I-Play
By Rafat Ali
Editor’s note: As I mentioned last week, we have hired Peggy Anne Salz as our European contributing writer, and she will mainly be reporti… Read more »
UK Mobestar IPOs on AIM; Valued At $68 Million
By Rafat Ali
Surrey, UK-based mobile entertainment group Mobestar debuted on London’s AIM market today…the group provides mobile video content and has… Read more »
Trinity Broadcasting Network Goes Mobile
By James Quintana Pearce
Religious broadcaster TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network) has signed a deal with JH2Media to offer its content to mobile phones. Starting May… Read more »
3′s User Generated Video Service Has Severly Restricted Terms
By Rafat Ali
UK’s 3G operator 3, which has gained some acclaim for its SeeMeTV user-generated video service, which also pays the user based on the video… Read more »
Age-Rating Mobile Games
By James Quintana Pearce
UK game retailer GAME has partnered with MAD4Games to sell mobile games on the Game.net website…the news being that the games are going to… Read more »
T-Mobile’s World Cup Handset For UK Users
By Rafat Ali
We already know England fans are crazy..for their team, that is. Now T-Mobile UK users can buy a branded Samsung E270 handset preloaded with… Read more »
T-Mobile UK To Offer World Cup Video Clips
By Rafat Ali
T-Mobile UK, the official sponsor of World Cup, will video clips of key games from the tournament in Germany…besides clips, there will be… Read more »
Industry Moves: O2 Hires New Content Head; 3 Content; Endemol Mobile
By Rafat Ali
UK mobile network operator O2 UK has appointed Tanya Field as the new head of content development. IField will be responsible for O2′s conte… Read more »
Exclusive Football Right Don’t Mean Much For UK Operators
By Rafat Ali
This is a very significant trend, which you’ll probably see happening in U.S. as well, where leagues have and will see their grip on the rig… Read more »
Nokia To Launch Direct Handset Stores; UK First; Handset Sales
By Rafat Ali
I was not aware this would be the first time Nokia would be selling handets directly to consumers through online stores: anyway, it is launc… Read more »
Mobile Ad Management Firm Txt4 Gets $2.25 Million
By Rafat Ali
We missed this one earlier: Txt4, a London-based mobile advertising management services startup, has raised about $2.25 million in funding.… Read more »
London’s Times Online Launches Entertainment Listing On Mobile
By Sahad PV
London’s Times Online has launched a mobile version of its entertainment listing service The Knowledge. Mobile phone users can access the li… Read more »
ITN Offers News And Weather To Vodafone TV
By James Quintana Pearce
ITN has partnered with mobile network operator Vodafone to launch a 24-hour made-for-mobile news and weather mobile TV channel. It seems ITN… Read more »
James Murdoch on Mobile Video Business Models
By Rafat Ali
In an interview with World Screen, James Murdoch, the CEO of BSkyB, says it is early, but “it’s not so early that we can’t start to put thin… Read more »
Carphone Warehouse Ups Content Drive
By James Quintana Pearce
UK-based Carphone Warehouse has upped its mobile content push in readiness for a world where content will drive handset sales. A portal Phon… Read more »
Monstermob Acquires China’s W-Infinity Communications For $81.5 Million
By Sahad PV
UK’s Monstermob keeps bulking up: it has acquired another Chinese mobile content company W-Infinity Communications for $81.5 million, which… Read more »
Empire Magazine in UK Launched Mobile Portal
By Rafat Ali
And why is this important? From the description of it, this seems to be among the more ambitious attempts by magazines to extend into mobile… Read more »
BSkyB Maybe Planning Mobile TV Service
By James Quintana Pearce
The Inquirer: Nothing like a good supposition story… The Inquirer has suggested that satellite TV operator BSkyB is likely to offer a mobi… Read more »
Terraplay Gets $3.2 Million
By Rafat Ali
Terraplay, the Swedish mobile and connected gaming platform development company, has raised $3.2 million in funding. Investors in the round… Read more »
UK’s First Single For Mobile Phone To Release Next Month
By Sahad PV
Washington Post: An Anglo-Italian band is launching next month Britain’s first single that can only be bought by mobile phone. “Stop Me” by… Read more »
UK To Hold UK Spectrum Auction Next year; Hopes For M0bile TV Use
By Rafat Ali
UK media regulator Ofcom will hold a spectrum auction in Q1 of next year, paving the way for potential widescale deployment of streaming mob… Read more »
Hollyoaks To Stream Full Show on Mobiles
By Rafat Ali
In UK, Hollyoaks is to become the first Channel 4 show to be broadcast in its entirety on mobile phones…Channel 4 New Media, the company’s… Read more »
Robbie Williams Phone To Launch With T-Mobile
By Rafat Ali
Robbie “Can’t-Break America” Williams is continuing on his admittedly pioneering digital music expansion..he is launching a new phone made w… Read more »
Monstermob Expects Lower 2006 Profits On Regulatory Concerns
By Rafat Ali
UK mobile content biggie Monstermob said that the UK market was challenging after new regulatory controls took effect in September, and its… Read more »
O2 To Launch Advertising Across Its Network
By Rafat Ali
(behind subscription wall, so I only know the one line intro) European operator O2 is set to become the first UK mobile operator to launch a… Read more »
Some More Details on Virgin Mobile & NTL Deal
By Rafat Ali
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