Posts Tagged ‘4G’
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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Is Mobile Video Ready for Primetime?
Apr 14 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAt NAB 2010, Saul Berman, partner and global executive of IBM global business services, a kind of big blue think tank, gave a keynote address on the readiness of mobile video for “primetime” viewing. “Mobile video usage is in its early stage, but adoption has grown steadily since 2007,” said Berman, who showed a graph that represented that usage increasing from 5 percent in 2007 to 17 percent in 2009.
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45 U.S. TV Stations Now Broadcast to Mobile Devices
Mar 22 by Debra Kaufman | 5 CommentsThe Open Mobile Video Coalition, which represents 900 broadcast TV stations, just reported that 45 U.S. TV stations across the nation are now broadcasting to mobile devices. Mobile Digital Television, which was standardized and launched in 2009, is promoted as the ideal “one to many” delivery method that efficiently uses the broadcast station’s existing radio frequency spectrum.
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Mobile Monday LA Panel Looks at Content
Nov 05 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsMobile Monday Los Angeles tackled the topic of mobile content, opening the evening with remarks from MobiTV’s Jack Hallinan, who was named Mobile Ambassador at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards. He listed some astonishing statistics about the growth of mobile TV, quoting InStat’s estimate that wordwide viewership will expand from today’s 54 million to 300 million by 2013. “We’ve seen a migration in the last year or two shifting from a focus on advertising towards a focus on content,” he said. “In the early days, content was minor league. Now you have a tremendous uptick in mobile content players, including big players like ESPN, CNN, Comedy Central. Sports, news, comedy and entertainment are the big drivers. Everything will happen on mobile.”
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Mobile Excellence Awards: Deadline Approaches!
Jul 29 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentAugust 31 is the deadline for submitting to the Mobile Excellence Awards. The presenting sponsor for the MEAs are 4G; the corporate sponsor is Saffron Digital; media sponsors are MobilizedTV, Mobile Marketer and others. Another carrot to mobile creators who might be waffling about submitting to the MEAs: the producers of the MEAs will choose companies from the pool of finalists to sit on the mobile entertainment panel/press conference at 4Gworld in Chicago, Sept 15-17th.
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Producers Guild of America: What Every Film, TV and New Media Producer Needs to Know about the Mobile Industry
Jul 01 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsA guy walks into a bar. It’s the old start to an older joke, but in this case the guy is comedian Jackie Gleason and his character Joe the Bartender. Those very early TV screens weren’t much bigger than the size of today’s mobile screens. “Jackie Gleason invented the mobile shot,” said the Producers Guild’s John D. Heinsen. “That’s what we need to find today: that new talent, the new Jackie Gleason who will invent this new experience of original content for the mobile platform.”
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