Posts Tagged ‘iTunes’
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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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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Party Down with Starz Digital Media and AvatarLabs
Apr 26 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsParty Down–the original half-hour series about a group of Los Angeles cater-waiters who all harbor dreams of stardom–returned to Starz for its second season on Friday, April 23 (at 10:00 PM ET/PT). New is an iPhone app–the Waiter Wobble–from Starz Digital Media and Avatar Labs that includes a part drinking/part balance game.
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No Flash for You! Apple’s On-Going Bid to Rule the Content World
Mar 16 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentToday, MobilizedTV links to a blog post by author Jim Flynn, founder/CEO of EZTakes. Since most big media companies won’t license content for download without copy protection, and Flash has content protection features, Apple wants to keep Flash out so that Apple/iTunes will be the exclusive legal source of premium videos and e-books on all iPads, iPods and iPhones, says Flynn.
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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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Mobile Highlights at CES 2010
Dec 03 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIf you’re interested in content on mobile devices, visit CES (Consumer Electronics Show) January 7 to 10, 2010. Mobile content will play a major role in numerous areas on the show floor as well as in the conference portion of the show.
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NBC Entertainment’s Marc Graboff Keynotes at Digital Hollywood
Oct 21 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentAlthough MobilizedTV is focused on content on mobile platforms, we do make the occasional exception. We are attending Digital Hollywood at the Loew’s in Santa Monica (expect additional coverage over the next few days) and attended the conference’s keynote address, by Marc Graboff, chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. Graboff was interviewed by CNBC media and entertainment reporter Julia Boorstin.
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Generating Revenue from Mobile Content & iPhone Apps
Aug 27 by Debra Kaufman | No Comments“Generating Revenue from Mobile Content & iPhone Applications: Mobile Market Opportunities for iPhone, Advertising and Video Innovative Strategies for Mobile Apps that Make Money” was the topic of the Tech Supper Club held in Hollywood last night. The panel was moderated by SNL Kagen analyst John Fletcher, with panelists from Endemol, Viva Vision, and MIndmatics. The conversation quickly turned to iPhone apps.
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Apple to Enter Television Market, Predicts Analyst
Aug 21 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsAccording to Fortune magazine, Piper Jaffray’s senior analyst Gene Munster, who focuses on Apple, predicted that Apple will enter the TV making business within the next two years. Munster predicted that Apple could enter the TV market by 2011 with an Apple-branded television set with digital video recording and home media functions (music, movies, games, interactive TV) built-in.
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Babelgum Launches Coldplay iPhone App
Aug 04 by Debra Kaufman | 3 CommentsBabelgum, an independent mobile and web content platform, launched a custom iPhone application for Coldplay, activating Phase 2 of its partnership with the band. The free Coldplay Babelgum mobile application includes the brand new Strawberry Swing video along with the Coldplay video catalogue, a Coldplay news feed and a videogame.
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iPhone Novel on “Sexy Secrets” of U.S. History
Jul 23 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentIf you’ve got a ten minute coffee break at work, CoffeebreakReaders proposes you spend the time sipping your latte and reading about “the sexy secrets of the world’s hottest women” in the HOT HISTORY novels, available for iPhone and iPod Touch. “It’s an exciting, convenient new format that is perfect for today’s busy women,” says founder/writer Virginia Ann Harris. “Our fast-paced, fact-based sequential short-story quickies are ALL about love, lust and liberation.”
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QuickPlay’s Mobile DVR
May 19 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsBack in the 20th century, when Tivo was still in alpha, I was assigned to write an article on it. As I learned more about Tivo, I thought: this is exactly what I’ve been waiting for my entire TV watching life.
I had the mobile version of that epiphany with QuickPlay Media’s PrimeTime2Go, which is essentially a DVR for the mobile phone.
Amy Poehler’s “Smart Girls” Delayed
Oct 28 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentAfter ON Networks announced the launch of “Smart Girls at the Party,” a digital series created by actor/comedian Amy Poehler with Meredith Walker and Amy Miles, the release date was pushed forward due to Poehler’s impending due date.
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Jan 02 by Debra Kaufman | No CommentsBunim/Murray Productions is one of the bigger players in the reality TV space. MobilizedTV spoke with Mark Raudonis, vp of post production, on the company’s work in mobile for MTV, Spike, Lifetime and other networks. Of the six shows Bunim-Murray has in production (Real World, Challenge, Simple Life, Bad Girls, Road Rules and Murder), all have some mobile component.
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