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Auryn animates illustrations for iPad

Remember 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.

TV series House’s mobile summer vacation

The 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.

Free EZTakes Mobile Movie for MobilizedTV Readers!

Now 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.

Digital Hollywood talks iPads and Flash

On the first day of Digital Hollywood, a group of cognoscenti got together to talk about “The iPad-Tablet-SmartPhone Immersive Consumer.” The panel looked at the impact of the Apple iPad. “It’s a two-part question,” said Kapczinski. “How many iPads have been stolen to date? And is the iPad taking over the world?”

Mobile Entertainment and More at NAB 2010

At NAB 2010, MobilizedTV produced two panels on mobile: one on mobile entertainment and another on mobile as a marketing tool for Hollywood. Bart Weiss–founder of Videofest and a professor at University of Texas at Arlington who teaches mobile movie-making–was on the entertainment panel and talked about his experiences on the show floor and on the panel.

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?

FCC’s Genachowski to B’casters: Make Way for Mobile Broadband

: 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.”

iPad Teleprompter to Launch at NAB 2010

Bodelin Technologies, an Oregon-based manufacturer of computer related technology, will debut its professional teleprompter for the Apple iPad at the National Association for Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas in April. According to Bodelin sales & marketing director Peter White, this is the first professional teleprompter to take advantage of the new iPad platform.

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.

The Brewing Battle Over Spectrum

Why should you care about the TV spectrum? In short, because the battle that’s brewing over it will impact TV, broadband and mobile. The argument from the wireless industry is that most people watch TV over cable or satellite, making OTA (over-the-air) a decreasingly important means of TV watching. The broadcasters are circling the wagons.

Shooting People and Babelgum: a Mobile Content Partnership

Shooting People and Babelgum announced a strategic relationship on the opening day of the 60th Berlinale, in Berlin, Germany. With the terms of this partnership, a Shooting People curated selection of short films in the genres of Fiction, Documentary, Animation, Music Videos and Artists’ Film, will reach a global audience via Babelgum’s online platform and its free application for Apple’s iPhone & iPod Touch and Google’s Android devices.

Cross Media NYC Conference to Highlight Mobile

The first CROSS MEDIA NYC conference, to examine the media business in a cross media world, is slated to take place Wednesday, March 10 at the Scholastic Theater in New York from 6pm to 9:30pm. “Cross media is the business of media crossing platforms, and the revenue streams, where the money is,” explains McGarry. “Mobile is likely to be one of the cornerstones of what will become cross media.”

Mobile Tools for Producers: Do You Need an App?

In a NATPE 2010 panel sponsored by the Producers Guild of America and its New Media Committee and Mobile Committee, moderator and producer John Heinsen of Bunnygraph Entertainment and a group of panelists talked turkey about some of the real life tools required to produce mobile content.

CES 2010: Mobile Wrap-Up

One billion people will own a smartphone by 2013. That statistic was bandied about in the days before CES and the best description of the ecosystem that will make mobile content, entertainment, commerce and marketing/advertising an immense force in the media landscape.

The energy behind Mobile DTV is impressive. The Open Mobile Video Coalition has been busy making alliances and convincing manufacturers to build devices that are compatible with the ATSC signal. Having watched the painfully slow creep towards High Definition for nearly two decades, the speed with which Mobile DTV has been standardized and productized is breath-taking.

Rhythm NewMedia Updates Mobile Advertising with Brand Building

MobilizedTV spoke with Ujjal Kohli, CEO of Rhythm NewMedia about the status of mobile advertising, with an update on the progress his company has made in 2009. Here’s what he had to say:2009 has been a very good year for mobile advertising. The mobile web has grown a lot; all the mobile ad networks have seen that growth. Most of it is display advertising to support the sale of mobile content, games or ringtones. All of that culminated in the $750 million sale of AdMob to Google.

Will Black Friday be a mobile shopping day?

The pundits are out in force declaring that mobile–more specifically the smartphone–is going to be the shopping tool par excellence for this Christmas season, which officially begins on the ominously named Black Friday. I do wonder, however, how much wishful thinking is going into the belief that shoppers will be checking their smartphones for sales and shopping tips. Drop MobilizedTV a note to let us know your Black Friday (and, in general, Christmas) shopping habits. Does it involve your cell phone? And if so, how are you using it?

AFI DigiFest: New Media Struts Its Stuff

Why does the AFI get involved with digital?,” asked Nick De Martino, Senior Vice President, Media and Technology of the American Film Institute. “It’s about the storytelling. From the very beginning with the nickelodeon, the technology has enabled these stories to be delivered. What’s interesting to me is, does the platform influence the story or is the story eternal? What happens as the platform changes? Do people have to create technology platforms in order for the story to be fully told?”

Digital Holllywood: Discussing Broadband Content

Moderated by Interactive TV Alliance CEO Allison Dollar, a group of panelists discussed the issues involved in creating successful business models and creative content for broadband platforms: Jen Pate and Barb Machen, co-creators and co-executive producers of “Jen and Barb: Mom Life,” Oren Katzeff, vp/gm. Demand Media Entertainment (which runs Crack); Rafi Fine, co-CEO of Fine Brothers Film; Mark Warshaw, chief interactive officer/co-founder of The Alchemist; and Will C. Rogers, CEO of Rooftop Comedy.

Digital Rights Part 2: Points of Conflict and the Possibilities for Change

This is Part 2 of a two-part article by Ben Clasper, vp at Counterpoint Systems, a leading provider of rights and royalty accounting software. Despite DRM appearing to have been laid to rest, the industry is not making conciliatory moves towards its customers. Instead, it’s started looking at alternative methods, and there are two very worrying recent advances in this area. Copyright theft is not in dispute and this is not a defense of those that in engage in it. There is a huge issue to be addressed but it needs a different approach.

Fox Mobile Studios’ Brainstorm: Branded Entertainment Part 2

Branded mobile entertainment just got a wintergreen punch with Fox Mobile Studios’ Brainstorm, an eight-episode scripted comedy series for mobile and online platforms that revolves around Altoids, “The Curiously Strong Mints.” MobilizedTV spoke with both Michael Wallen, vice president/creative director for Fox Mobile Studios in Part I, and now, in Part 2, with Steven Amato, a partner in Omelet, a hybrid creative and entertainment agency that produced Brainstorm.