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What will the dominant mobile phone be in 2015?
Aug 25 by admin | 1 CommentSmartphones are the darlings of mobile devices, said ABI Research. In the mobile device landscape, laptop and smartphones are the bookends. In the middle? Many different devices trying to steal the marketplace, or eclipse the opportunities of the smartphone, including netbooks, portable media players, smartbooks.
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Mobile’s Pente Group: monetizing personalities and brands
Aug 24 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe Montreal-based Pente Group, founded in 2006, develops mobile apps by partnering with entertainment personalities (Akon, and Barry White) and consumer brands (Polaroid). Mobile executive Michel Besner–familiar to the Hollywood production and post community as the co-founder and president of Kaydara, a real-time 3D animation software–was named President.
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Mobile moviemakers: submit to MEA’s Peoples Choice Award today!
Aug 23 by admin | No CommentsDo you shoot content with your mobile phone? Then the Mobile Excellence Awards premiere Peoples Choice Award is for you. This award category is aimed at the non-professional, sole individual or creative collective producing original mobile programming or content application, produced outside the auspices of an established company. Students are highly encouraged to submit.
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Discovery launches FLO TV channel
Aug 10 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsDiscovery Communications just announced the launch of a dedicated mobile channel on the FLO TV network. The channel debuted Aug. 1 with 24/7 coverage of Discovery’s popular Shark Week. MobilizedTV sat down with Rebecca Glashow, Senior Vice President of Digital Media Distribution at Discovery Communications to talk about the launch.
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38 percent of U.S. adults access mobile Internet
Aug 04 by admin | 1 CommentAccording to a report published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a full 38 percent of U.S. adults now access the Internet via mobile phone.
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Hip hop’s Salacious Streets TV now on TracPhone Wireless
Aug 02 by admin | No CommentsHip hop and mobile–which share a demographic–are a match made in mobile heaven. A local California entertainment company, Deziak Entertainment, is busy proving that with its mobile video channel Salacious Streets TV, which offers original hip hop content.
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Cracked.com on iPad: A deep dive with Oren Katzeff
Jul 28 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentOnline comedy site Cracked.com, which currently delivers video content to nearly 3.5 million unique users a month, just announced the launch of Cracked.com for iPad. To get a deeper appreciation for Cracked.com’s move to iPad, MobilizedTV’s Debra Kaufman spoke with Katzeff about the launch.
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Mobile Apps contest launched by Consumer Electronics Association
Jul 27 by admin | 1 CommentThe Consumer Electronics Association announced that nominations are now open for its second annual Mobile Apps Showdown. Mobile application developers can submit entries to be judged by a panel of tech experts. Final round judging will take place live at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, to be held in Las Vegas from January 6-9, 2011. The winner will be announced on January 8, 2011.
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An app or mobile website? AdMob tells which works and why
Jul 26 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsThe good news: there is growth among all smartphone platforms and operating systems. The bad news: developers and advertisers need to think “cross platform” when it comes to content and advertising in the mobile space. Should a content creator spend resources on a great mobile website or on an app? And if it’s an app, should it be for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or all of the above? These are the questions facing mobile developers seeking to monetize their content.
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Three Trends Keeping Mobile Video in the Game
Jul 22 by Darcy Lorincz | No CommentsOnly a few years ago, video accounted for merely a fraction of the consumption on mobile networks. Cisco predicts that by 2014, video will account for 64 percent of the world’s mobile traffic, presenting a colossal challenge for mobile operators expected to deliver high-quality feeds on an array of devices, which are only getting bigger, smarter and capable of guzzling more bandwidth.
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MobileBeat 2010: The Year of the Superphone
Jul 14 by admin | No CommentsWhat’s a superphone? At MobileBeat 2010, Omar Khan, chief strategy officer of Samsung Telecommunications America for Samsung Mob!le, spoke about how a superphone is different from a smartphone, and what its future is.
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At MobileBeat 2010, HP talks about Palm
Jul 13 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAt the opening day of MobileBeat 2010, Accel Partners Rich Wong engaged in a Q&A with HP vp and CTO Phil McKinney. What was the rationale behind HP’s acquisition of Palm? “From HP’s perspective, it’s the fact that when you look at success in the marketplace, it’s the companies that control end-to-end, the entire experience,” said McKinney.
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Auryn animates illustrations for iPad
Jul 12 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsRemember what it was like to read your favorite picture book as a child? The illustrations were evocative, bringing the story to life. Now, with Auryn, those illustrations can truly come to life, as full motion animation on an iPad.
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POV on mobile
Jul 09 by Debra Kaufman | 5 CommentsPOV is an occasional opinion piece from MobilizedTV founder/editor Debra Kaufman. After over 20 years of covering feature films and the latest TV/cable fare, I am passionate about mobile media.
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World Film Collective teaches mobile filmmaking at World Cup
Jul 08 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsIf you’ve been keeping track of mobile metrics, you know that the World Cup has been a breakthrough event for many media entities. The World Film Collective, a non-profit organization based in the U.K., teaches filmmaking using mobile phones to young people in favelas, townships, and refugee camps around the world.
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Q&A with the Mobile Marketing Association
Jul 07 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsMobilizedTV sat down with Michael Becker, managing director for North America for Mobile Marketing Association, to talk about this 700 member company trade organization, which can be found in 40 countries around the world. With global headquarters in New York, the MMA also has regional branches in North America, Asia/Pacific, EMEA and Latin America. The association has its roots in the former Wireless Advertising Association, which stumbled during the dotcom bust, and re-emerged to become the MMA.
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