Archive for the ‘Devices’ Category
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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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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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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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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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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