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Watch Tribeca Film Festival Awards on Mobile Tonight!

You 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.

AEG Picks GoTV to Mobilize 2010 Music Fests

AEG Network Live announced that it chose GoTV Networks to create the mobile component of their 2010 music festivals. The two companies have worked together previously, most recently on the Michael Jackson Memorial, which GOTV set-up and executed within 24 hours of the live airing.

mSpot Adds PC Functionality to Mobile Movies

Today, mSpot–which streams movies to mobile devices–unveiled streaming-to-PC functionality for movies. With its new streaming-to-PC functionality, mSpot delivers on the hitherto futuristic promise that content will be platform-agnostic. Or, as Tsui puts it, “it is the first service of its kind to combine mobile and PC to deliver streaming full-length movies.”

Babelgum’s Metropolis Art Video Competition

Attention all artists! If you thought mobile and online content wasn’t a place for your paintings, sculpture and other works of art, think again. Babelgum is on the search for “the world’s best and edgiest artists.” The competition is an open call to all artists active in any visual medium to submit videos of their works.

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.

Mobile Video Views Soar on MSNBC.com

Since introducing video into MSNBC.com’s mobile web product in March, monthly video views have increased 207 percent, tripling the number of video views in just over four months. The report of this increase comes from a mobile consumer research survey conducted by InsightExpress. MSNBC.com’s mobile product is powered by Transpera, a mobile video delivery and ad network.

Create YouTube Videos with Your Mobile Phone

Nokia Opens Hollywood Research Center

In another breaking story, MobilizedTV reports that Nokia just opened a Nokia Research Center in Hollywood, headed by Rebecca Allen, previously a senior research scientist at MIT Media Lab Europe. Allen discusses what the Research Center will be up to in the coming months. A Spielberg iPhone app, anyone?

CTIA 2008: The Walls Are Crumbling…

At CTIA, MobilizedTV covers the trends. One of the biggest one is that the “walled gardens” created by carriers is crumbling, allowing outside mobile content to reach users. That’s due to the broadband mobile Internet, and a number of ways for Internet content creators to “mobilize” their content.

Targeted Advertising: Is Mobile the Holy Grail?

If advertising becomes the predominant model for mobile content, one of the reasons will be targeted advertising. That means that advertisers will be able to send ads to individuals based on their previous behavior and profile: send that pet food ad to the person who visits sites for veterinarians. Since the mobile phone is the most individual device, always on and always with you, it just might be the Holy Grail for advertisers.