Archive for 'Content Deals' Category
Eisner’s Vuguru Releases New Series on V CAST
14 March 2008Verizon Wireless and Michael Eisner’s independent new media studio Vuguru said the other day that “The All-For-Nots” series will air on Verizon Wireless’ V CAST Video service this week. This is part of an ongoing triple-play strategy by Michael Eisner.
“The All-For-Nots,” Vuguru’s second original series, will debut on V CAST in the Music and Showcase […]
SK Telecom Moves Deeper into Asian Music Industry
7 March 2008- Buys Joint Control of Taihe Rye & Gets Super Girl Li Yuchun
- Makes It Harder for US Labels
- Impact on Apple Unclear
How important is music to the health and well being of mobile phone operators?
Well, South Korea’s largest mobile phone service SK Telecom this week purchased a 42.2% share of the Chinese music company […]
UVuMobile, GlobalTakeoff Partner to Offer Indian Content
5 March 2008UVuMobile has entered a mobile video hosting agreement with ethnic entertainment content provider GlobalTakeoff (GTO).
Under the terms of the agreement, GTO will use the uVuMobile hosting platform to distribute digital media Indian content to a community of more than 2.5 million Indian American households in the US via the company’s mobile unicast delivery networks. Beginning […]
Yahoo to Launch Go 3.0 in Europe, Unveils Mobile Content Management Service
5 March 2008 Yahoo said this week that its Go 3.0 service will soon be available for a number of European countries. Yahoo Go 3.0 is a mobile application that gives mobile phone users access to a number of interactive applications.
Within the next two months, European users in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK will be […]
Mippin Brings New Content to Mobile Phones
29 February 2008Mobile content portal Mippin has launched a video feature that it hopes will enable users to access video clips referred to in RSS feeds directly on their mobile phones.
The service comes from a joint development partnership between Mippin’s parent company Refresh Mobile and blueapple.mobi, which provides direct-to-consumer mobile search and a transcoding video delivery service.
Mippin […]
Thumbplay Adds 7,000 Sony BMG Content Pieces
22 February 2008Thumbplay, which calls itself the largest and fastest growing mobile entertainment content destination in the States, has a new distribution agreement with Sony BMG that’ll add more than 7,000 pieces of content from Sony BMG to Thumbplay’s mobile entertainment catalog.
Thumbplay’s four million or so users will be able to access ringtones, music videos, wallpaper, voice […]
Microsoft-Yahoo - Perhaps the First Internet/Mobile Internet Combo
8 February 2008Rethink Research’s Peter White did the following analysis on the impact that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo could have on the Internet, particularly the mobile Internet. For more information, please e-mail charles@riderresearch.com.
Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo, and the hostile reaction from Google, has dominated the week’s technology news, and if the deal goes through, […]
A&E, Entertainment Tonight Test New Mobile Content Tool Kit
8 February 2008Mobile entertainment content destination Thumbplay has introduced a set of tools to let TV stations and content creators design mobile content storefronts.
The first customers of this service announced are Entertainment Tonight and A&E Television Networks (AETN).
Thumplay’s new toolkit allows the creation of widgets, storefronts, and search-based integration that broadcasters can use to promote and sell […]
Google Says Domo to NTT DoCoMo
1 February 2008Japan’s mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo is pairing up with Google to provide Google’s Internet search and other services on its handsets. NTT DoCoMo may soon offer Google’s Map for Mobiles on its i-mode handsets and it is exploring ways to make Google’s other services, like Gmail and YouTube, easier for its users to access.
NTT […]
Zodigo: Mobile Content Search Engine That Needs No Mobile Device to Use
1 February 2008Interactive TV software developer Zodiac Interactive has announced a new mobile content search engine, Zodigo, currently being shown off at the Demo 08 conference.
Zodigo is a software platform built for digital TVs, Blu-ray and HD-DVD players, gaming consoles, and Web sites like Zodigo.com. Yes, Zodiac is hoping that you will use your plasma TV or […]