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Toshiba mobile TV subsidiary Mobile Broadcasting Corporation is shutting down, after failing to attract enough interest, the company said Thursday. "The number of subscribers has not reached a sufficient level to sustain operations and, following a thorough review of operations, the company has...
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Toshiba mobile TV subsidiary Mobile Broadcasting Corporation is shutting down, after failing to attract enough interest, the company said Thursday. "The number of subscribers has not reached a sufficient level to sustain operations and, following a thorough review of operations, the company has...
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The companies behind Mobile 3.0, publishing houses Burda and Holtzbrinck together with South African media company Naspers, are reportedly about to end their plans to launch a DVB-H network in Germany. The consortium won the license to provide the service in January this year and started test transmissions...
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TV placeshifting operator Sling Media plans to sell an iPhone version of its Sling Player through the iTunes Store after its alpha version has been modified to accommodate the handset's new SDK. Sling gave a demo of its player at Apple's ( NSDQ: AAPL ) Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco...
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After the Dish Network paid $712 million for airwaves in the last spectrum auction, there was a ton of speculation as to what the satellite TV company was going to do with it. Now, the company says it is thinking of using the licenses to build a mobile TV service with the help of a yet-to-be-determined...
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South Korean handset manufacturers LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung have agreed to work together on a mobile TV technology that they hope will become the North American standard. The idea is to combine LG's Mobile Pedestrian Handheld (MPH) and Samsung's A-VSB (advanced-vestigial sideband) into something...
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Is mobile TV gaining momentum or isn't it? In recent weeks, both Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) and Qualcomm have said the service isn't getting the take up it had expected, with the Finnish handset maker dramatically declaring it was " a bit in a turmoil ." According to an IHT feature on the...
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Qualcomm ( NSDQ: QCOM ) is apparently keen to use its MediaFLO technology for services other than mobile TV. I'll just quote Kamil Grajski, vice president of engineering for Qualcomm and president of FLO Forum, talking to Telephony Online : "A good example is Yahoo.com. Every time you look at...
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Does the Open Mobile Video Coalition know something about mobile TV others don't? While both Nokia ( NYSE: NOK ) and MediaFlo have recently acknowledged that mobile TV hasn't picked up the traction they'd expected, the OMVC, an 800-strong coalition of local broadcasters announced at the National...
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The European Commission has thrown its complete weight behind mobile TV standard DVB-H, but that still might not make mobile TV a success in Europe, reports IDG . First off, there's the slight problem of a lack of business models. Second, DVB-H is a broadcast standard, and as John Strand, analyst...
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Mobile operators have set their sights on mobile TV, rolling out their own services with partners like MediaFLO. But a number of vendors are looking to offer other solutions, such as using local TV broadcasters' digital spectrum. Late last week, LG (SEO: 066570) announced a technology it's pushing...