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Flaneur iPhone Film Festival calls for entries
Jul 06 by admin | No CommentsThe Flaneur iPhone Film Festival is upping the ante on cell phone cinema film festivals. The Flaneur is running the first indie film festival held entirely on iPhones. The selected films will be viewable as a downloadable Film Festival app from the Apple app store (subject to the usual acceptance by Apple). “This is a proof-of-concept attempt to bring film and video to a whole new audience,” says organizer Jonathan Powell.
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Rhythm NewMedia CEO Kohli talks about mobile ads
Jul 02 by admin | No CommentsYesterday the mobile ad network Rhythm NewMedia announced the expanded capabilities of its mobile ad SDK to include picture-in-picture video browsing, interactive pre-roll video ads, and support for Apple’s new mobile operating system (iOS 4). MobilizedTV spoke with Rhythm NewMedia CEO Ujjal Kohli about the state of the art of mobile advertising.
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LATV Fest offers MobilizedTV panel and more…
Jun 24 by admin | No CommentsLATV Fest, produced by NATPE (the National Association of Television Programming Executives), brings together creative TV and digital content producers with development execs, agents, advertising executives, technology solution providers and others from July 12 to 15. MobilizedTV readers get a special rate.
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Find out how to make money with mobile
Jun 23 by admin | No CommentsThat is the question on everyone’s mind, and the topic that will be the focus on MobileBeat 2010. “The year of the superphone and who will profit” is the theme of VentureBeat’s third annual conference on the future of mobile, which will take place July 12 to 13 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. And MobilizedTV readers get a 15% discount on registration.
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Australia’s first mobile film fest open for submissions
Jun 22 by admin | No CommentsMobile Screenfest – Australia’s first mobile phone film festival –is giving away over $10,000 in prizes. “For the tech-savvy, budding photographer or emerging filmmaker, the competition is as simple as shoot, upload and win,” said a festival spokesperson, who says that the festival is open to submissions from the Australian public. “The Festival aims to recognize the growing global phenomenon of ‘shot-on-mobile’ content.”
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Ustream’s Mobilizer puts Miley Cyrus on mobile
Jun 21 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMiley Cyrus unveiled her new album Can’t Be Tamed exclusively through an iPhone app, five days prior to her record being available in retail stores on June 21.Through the free mobile app, created and powered by Ustream Live Mobilizer, Miley is hosting a full album listening party.
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Warner develops The Clique for online and mobile
Jun 18 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentAre you a fan of The Clique? Or perhaps your 12 year old daughter is one. The Clique is an Alloy Entertainment young adult (YA) book series written by Lisi Harrison. Now comes the live-action digital series–produced in association with Alloy Entertainment–which Warner Premiere says it will distribute “through digital online distributors such as iTunes, Amazon Video On Demand, as well as be on mobile platforms.”
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Mobile Video Award at the New Media Film Festival
Jun 16 by Debra Kaufman | 5 CommentsThe New Media Film Festival held its debut event this last weekend. Among the categories was one honoring the best in mobile content. The award went to Amanda Poore, a student of University of Texas professor Bart Weiss, a contributor to MobilizedTV and a teacher of mobile-moviemaking.
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Hollywood movie-based games go mobile
Jun 15 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIn today’s Los Angeles Times, reporter Ben Fritz notes that “the romance between Hollywood and the video game industry is hitting the skids.” Only one important point is missing in Fritz’s analysis: Hollywood movies haven’t stopped putting out games at all. They’re putting them out along with ringtones, wallpaper, mobisodes and photos–on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps.
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Q&A with Patrick Lopez, Vantrix for mobile video
Jun 14 by admin | No CommentsVantrix’s Patrick Lopez: Mobile Video is absolutely playing a role in re-defining how, when and why we watch TV. Consumers are also providing the content as well. No longer is content a one-way street, consumers can post videos and comments on what they see.
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Mobile Excellence Awards now open for submissions
Jun 03 by admin | 1 CommentAttention mobile mavens! If you’ve created amazing mobile content, technology, product, business or innovation, the third annual Mobile Excellence Awards is open for submissions. “We look forward to another spectacular year of new submissions, new products, new services and new technologies that raise the bar of excellence,” said Mobile Excellence Awards founder Sarah Miller.
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TV series House’s mobile summer vacation
Jun 03 by admin | No CommentsThe wildly popular series House, starring Hugh Laurie, is on hiatus for the summer. But die-hard fans can stick with the show via a mobile series produced by Retrofit Films. MobilizedTV sat down with Retrofit’s Chris Hanada and Tanner Kling to talk about the making of the mobile series.
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A First Look at 1st Video: video editing on the iPhone
May 19 by Bart Weiss | 4 CommentsOne might wonder why you would want to edit video on the iPhone, to which I say…why not! You could use editing tools to create a mix of home videos or mini personal documentaries right on the phone. . I spent some time editing on my iPhone with 1st Video and the following are my impressions.
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Urban Wolf Debuts on Crackle
May 12 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsLaurent Touil Tartour started out as a filmmaker. But he got himself into one of those “you’ll never make a film in this town again” scenarios in France, and decided that nothing could stop him from telling creative stories. Did he show them. Urban Wolf–which debuts on Sony’s Crackle, a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio on May 13–is a much -ballyhooed online dramatic series, made up of 15 four-minute episodes.
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MasterImage Brings Glasses-Free 3D to Mobile
May 11 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobilizedTV has written about 3D for mobile phones before, but MasterImage 3D stood out at NAB with its auto-stereoscopic (glasses-free) display for mobile phones. Its auto-stereoscopic 3D display was commercialized in 2009 in conjunction with the Hitachi Wooo. The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC,
brought MasterImage 3D, into the fold as a Consumer 3D Experience Lab project sponsor.
Free EZTakes Mobile Movie for MobilizedTV Readers!
May 10 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsNow there’s another good way to watch movies on mobile: and MobilizedTV readers get a chance to watch one for free. EZTakes offers 5,000 movies and TV shows that can be viewed on iPad, iPhone, Android and most other smartphones.
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