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CES 2011: It is the year of mobile
Jan 06 by admin | No Comments2011 is indeed–finally–the year of mobile. I’ll be in Las Vegas covering all things mobile this week. Stay tuned for more stories. But here is some of the first mobile-related news to come out of International Consumer Electronics Show 2011:
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Mobile Entertainment Summit is this week!
Dec 06 by admin | No CommentsThe Mobile Entertainment Summit will take place at the Universal Sheraton in Universal City on December 7 and 8. It’s not too late to sign up to come, and I urge anyone interested in the intersection of film/TV and mobile to attend. If you’re a moviemaker of any stripe, a professional in any of the industries surrounding the TV/film industry, or any kind of professional content creator, there will be something for you at the Mobile Entertainment Summit.
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Dallas Videofest goes mobile
Sep 23 by admin | 1 CommentVideofest, founded in Dallas in 1986 by filmmaker/film professor Bart Weiss, has a history and a mission statement of “specializing in fiercely independent, imaginative, unusual, provocative and sometimes description-defying electronic media.” This year, Videofest teamed up this year with the city’s D magazine to add a mobile flavor to this year’s festival.
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Mobile moviemakers: submit to MEA’s Peoples Choice Award today!
Aug 23 by admin | 1 CommentDo 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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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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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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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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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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Mobile Excellence Awards now open for submissions
Jun 03 by admin | 2 CommentsAttention 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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Video on the Smartphone: Making Money Yet?
May 07 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAt a Digital Hollywood panel “Video on the Smartphone,” talk focused on the latest trends in mobile devices, mobile content and the business strategies to make money. For broadcast mobile services such as FLO TV and MobiTV, this summer will be telling: The hotly anticipated FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament will take place in South Africa…and on mobile phones.
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Watch Tribeca Film Festival Awards on Mobile Tonight!
Apr 29 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsYou don’t have to go to New York anymore to experience the Tribeca Film Festival. In fact, you can watch the Festival Awards Show tonight (April 29) on your mobile phone with Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFF Virtual). With TFF Virtual, the “new media” extension of the Tribeca Film Festival, anyone anywhere can enjoy free live streaming video coverage of the Festival Awards Show on April 29 as well as view short films from past festivals, and celebrity interview highlights from the red carpet, among other content.
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Winners of 2010 Babelgum 3rd Online Film Festival
Apr 27 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentBabelgum just announced the winners of its third Online/Mobile Film Festivals. The work of first place winners in the categories will be screened along with the inaugural Stoli Emerging Filmmaker Award during the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28.
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FCC’s Genachowski to B’casters: Make Way for Mobile Broadband
Apr 13 by Debra Kaufman | 1 Comment: the FCC will continue with its program to create incentives for broadcasters to voluntarily give up some spectrum in order to power the growing demand for mobile broadband. The national broadband plan calls for 500 mHz of spectrum in the next five years, from multiple groups, “not limited to but including broadcast spectrum.”
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Spectrum: Use it or Lose It, says NAB Prez
Apr 12 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsOMVC (Open Mobile Video Coalition) opened the show with a big announcement: the first end-to-end Mobile DTV ecosystem, in Washington, D.C. Launching on May 3, this test model will feature 20 technology partners and nine TV stations, delivering to an undetermined number of Sprint customers.
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MobilizedTV at NAB 2010: Mobile DTV Update
Apr 11 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobilizedTV will be at the National Association of Broadcasters’ 2010 NAB Show for the next four days, and posting at least once daily. NAB 2010 marks MobilizedTV’s second anniversary as a publication about content on mobile devices.
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Study mobile filmmaking at USC and UCLA!
Mar 10 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsWant to learn how to conceptualize, writer, produce and post produce mobisodes? If you live in Los Angeles, you’ll have two opportunities to learn from mobile content pioneer Frank Chindamo, president/Chief Creative Officer, Fun Little Movies. By the end of the class, you’ll have posted your first three episodes of a mobisode.
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AP Live: Did You Watch the Red Carpet on Your Phone?
Mar 08 by Debra Kaufman | No Comments“My original reaction when I read about it on MobilizedTV was one of high skepticism,” says one MobilizedTV reader. “You can’t watch Flash on an iPhone.” But skepticism turned to admiration, he says, at 3 pm on Sunday when the Oscars Red Carpet began.
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Watch the Oscars Red Carpet on Your Mobile Phone
Mar 05 by Debra Kaufman | 10 CommentsIn a move by Associated Press (AP) and their technology partner Livestream, AP Live Entertainment is debuting this Sunday at the Oscars Red Carpet. This new video widget will enable viewers to watch celebrities parade down the Red Carpet live on the iPhone, iPod, Blackberry, or Android.
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Video for the iPhone 101: Studying Mobile Filmmaking
Mar 03 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentUp until now, making mobile content has been trial and error. But now you can actually study mobile movie-making at U.S. universities. MobilizedTV sat down with Bart Weiss, a professor in the film & video area of the art department of the University of Texas at Arlington. Prof. Weis has not only been teaching mobile movie-making to a group of students, but, as founder of VideoFest–a 22-year old video festival–has encouraged a mobile angle.
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