Mobile Content Deals
–Venezuelan company NetPeople “seeks to expand its share of the Latin American mobile content market to 20% from its current 5% over the next four years, company president Orlando Carvallo told BNamericas“. Easier said than done, of course. NetPeople is seeking big-name brands to ally with (such as it has with Disney and Sony Pictures) for publicity campaigns, music, images and so on.
–Samsung has teamed with Twentieth Century Fox to offer mobile content based on the fantasy film Eragon. “Samsung mobile phone users in Europe will be able to exclusively receive free mobile contents such as film trailers, screensavers and wallpapers before the premiere of the movie Eragon as they download from the website.”
–DY Mobile has signed a licensing deal with Universal Music Canada to sell realtones to customers on Canada’s 4 largest wireless networks. DY promotes the content in newspaper ads.
–Soundbuzz is expanding on its music offering, signing a deal with Coruscant Tec to offer images to its customers. “Through this partnership Soundbuzz partners will have access to Coruscant
A Paris-based company, Actimagine, has invented a clever codec that allows to store a full movie on a 128Mb storage card.
I have personnaly watched Spider Man on a Nokia 6680. The result is very impressive in terms of image quality & fluidity.
More information on http://www.actimagine.com