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Top Ten (Innovative) Mobile Companies

MobilizedTV published Entrepreneur magazine’s Top Ten Mobile Companies in June 2009, and it’s been a hugely popular link. In the spirit of those who like their top ten lists, here’s Fast Company’s Top Ten Innovative Mobile companies for 2010. Of course the list leans towards handsets and networks. What is your Top Ten list for mobile entertainment companies?

AP Live: Did You Watch the Red Carpet on Your Phone?

“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.

Mobile Monday LA Panel Looks at Content

Mobile 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.”

More News from CTIA 2009

In a follow-up from last week’s news from CTIA 2009, the following is more news from the show. First, Julius Genachowski, chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) gave a keynote talk and, as part of its effort to gather information for the development of a National Broadband Plan, held a field hearing in San Diego to provide a West Coast perspective on spectrum availability, mobile applications and the role they play in the development of America’s broadband infrastructure.

iPhone App: Magnify Mobile Enables Free Video Upload and Sharing

Today, Magnify.net released Magnify Mobile, an iPhone app designed to make video uploading and sharing fast, easy and free. The iPhone app enables iPhone 3GS users to shoot, upload, store, and share personal videos on a Magnify-hosted channel for free. Users can instantly submit videos to channels that they create on Magnify.net and create playlists, make comments, reviews, and integrate design templates, content controls, site reporting, and monetization tools.

Q&A with Michael Jay Solomon, Chair of Getfugu Board

On July 22, Getfugu, a publicly traded company (OTCBB: GFGU) that offers a next-generation search tool for the mobile platform, announced that Michael Jay Solomon, founder and Chairman/CEO of Telepictures Corporation, which is credited with creating TV syndication in the U.S., has been named Chairman of The Board of Getfugu, Inc. Solomon was instrumental in introducing Western programming in China, Russia, India as well as several developing countries and was the first international distributor of the Grammy’s, MTV, and E Entertainment Channel.MobilizedTV spoke with Solomon about the future of mobile and Getfugu’s place in the ecosystem.

AP Mobile: News with a Bullet

After launching in May 2008, AP Mobile is now celebrating its first anniversary of providing a mobile news service from the respected Associated Press brand by debuting Version 2.0, a “significant update” to its Apple iPhone/iPod Touch app. At the one-year anniversary, AP Mobile reported that 55 million local stories have been read on www.apnews.com, since its launch. The mobile news service’s member organizations have also skyrocketed, from 107 a year ago to 1,000 local sources today. “We’ve also learned that mobile isn’t the third or fourth screen – it’s the first screen,” said AP’s Jeff Litvack. “It’s the first screen that people are turning to for their news and information.”

So What’s Happening in Mobile Content? Powerful Devices and Fast Data Networks Have Changed the Game

Since the beginning, content developed for mobile phones has been a game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds. Like a painter who is tasked with creating art on a very small canvas with only one color, mobile content developers did as much as they could with the resources at their disposal. Fast forward to now.

The game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds is ending very, very quickly. High speed networks and mobile broadband are becoming increasingly ubiquitous.

Mobile GPS Opens Door to Content, Commerce – Part 2

This is part 2 of a conversation at a Digital Hollywood considering the impact of GPS and location-based services (LBS) on mobile content and commerce. In Part 2, panelists consider the perspective of mobile operators and retailers, and the Nine Inch Nails app.

Linux to Offer Seamless Mobile App & Content Sharing

This interview with Andrew Shikiar, director of global marketing fo the LiMo Foundation focuses on the future of Linux in the mobile ecosystem. Shikiar talks about LiMo interest in creating a mobile standard around the Linux O/S.