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-- Orange launching 60 TV channels in France: Orange is gearing up to launch a mobile TV service in France that will feature 60 channels of high-quality video on the carrier's 3G and UMA platform, Unstrung reports . The service is the first of its kind to use 3G and UMA (or Wi-Fi) to offer seamless...
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Orb Networks has launched an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that brings users' home media collections to their mobile devices. OrbLive , which is available for $10 or as a free trial on the App Store, can pull media ranging from music to videos, photos, webcams and live TV. The application...
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For most of the sports-viewing world, the big news in the deal announced today between ESPN ( NYSE: DIS ) and the Bowl Championship Series is the price tag—an estimated $500 million—and the apparently inexorable move of major sports from free over-the-air broadcast to subscription-supported cable. But...
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BSkyB ( NYSE: BSY ) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange , T-Mobile , Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp ( NYSE: NWS ) unit is bringing...
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-- Mywaves Adds Indian Studio Content To Platform: Mukta Arts , a 30-year-old film studio in India, is bringing its content to mywaves to promote upcoming films and pictures from its existing catalog. The new channel will include trailers, behind-the-scenes interviews, music videos, outtakes from films...
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Software maker Adobe ( NSDQ: ADBE ) and chip designer ARM Holdings are bringing web-based Flash to mobile phones, set-top boxes, televisions, cars, and personal media players the companies said today. The two are working together to optimize Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR for mobile devices based on ARM...
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The National Football League has confirmed that it won't be putting out an iPhone version of its NFL app anytime soon, despite the relative popularity of the Major League Baseball's app for the device, reports alleyinsider.com . Why? The NFL already has a lucrative, exclusive deal with wireless...
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MediaFLO USA expects to nearly double the number of markets it serves by the end of next year, and is working hard at developing temporary channels and original content for its mobile broadcast TV service, according to Bob Bradley, MediaFLO USA's Senior Director of Content and in charge of licensing...
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Thumbplay , a New York-based mobile entertainment company, said today it is trimming its workforce for what they are expecting to be a prolonged economic downturn. Thumbplay wouldn't specify how many employees would be let go, but confirmed it was much lower than the 25 percent reported by Silicon...
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Less than one month after Barack Obama moves into the White House, the FCC will be overseeing a major airwaves transition that will require TV broadcasters to hand over analog spectrum to wireless carriers who are eager to start building out 4G networks. Wireless carriers recently bought rights to the...
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-- Thumbplay Goes On Deck with Cellular South: Cellular South is now featuring Thumbplay's mobile entertainment portal on the deck of many of its phones, marking one of the first times a U.S. wireless carrier has used a off deck content portal for its storefront. The store will offer 100,000 digtial...
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Sprint ( NYSE: S ) is sponsoring an online TV series based on the popular TV show Heroes, which premiered last night on NBC.com, Hulu, and on Sprint phones. Prior to the premier, more than one million fans voted for a character that will star in the action series. Called Heroes: Destiny , the four-part...