MobiTV, Inc. is broadening support to its managed technology platform carriers and operator customers with a robust and secure Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution that enables users to store content on their mobile device and watch it offline wherever they want.
MobiTV, Inc.'s DRM solution will allow for a number of business models including subscriptions, rental, content metering, and sharing of content across multiple devices and platforms. By having the same DRM solution on all platforms, MobiTV, Inc.'s technology allows easy authentication with minimal involvement by the end user.
"It was imperative for us, as multi-screen distribution becomes core to our business, to create a solution that allows for consumption of content on multiple screens and platforms, whether someone is on a plane or sitting in front of their home television," said Cedric Fernandes, VP Technology, MobiTV, Inc. "This solution provides the ability to track and supply content rights for the end user as well as the device, creating new business models around the multi-channel screen viewing concept."
Dolce & Gabbana will broadcast the Fall/Winter 2010/11 Women's Fashion Show live on iPhones and Android Mobile devices (Google), which are the two most popular smartphones worldwide (82% of the market share of the total browsing market in the USA and 70% in Europe).
The dates are:
D&G > Thursday, 25th of February from 3pm (GMT +1);
Dolce&Gabbana > Sunday, 28th of February from 1pm (GMT +1).
Always a pioneer in the technological experimentations of the digital communications market, in 2005, Dolce & Gabbana was the first among fashion brands to broadcast the fashion shows live on its official website www.dolcegabbana.com. This season the fashion shows will be available again on: live.dolcegabbana.com as well as on the brand's official Facebook page - www.facebook.com/DolceGabbana.
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced FLO-EV, the next evolution of the FLO air interface for new deployments of mobile TV and other advanced broadcast mobile media services. Intended primarily for international markets, FLO-EV builds on the success of FLO technology to enable a rich suite of mobile content and services with greater channel capacity and significant performance improvements. FLO-EV is designed to help wireless operators lower the deployment costs for delivering multimedia content to mobile devices.
Analysts have predicted the global market for mobile media services will surpass $90 billion by 2018. Adoption of mobile media is being driven through a combination of increasing consumer awareness and industry investment. Wireless operators, broadcasters and content providers are all seeking to implement the best technologies to drive new mobile media business models.
FLO TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, and mophie today announced they are teaming to create a series of products that will bring live mobile TV to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms.
The products, which are expected to begin shipping in the first half of this year, will bring the award-winning FLO TV mobile TV service to the cutting-edge mophie juice pack, letting consumers view their favorite live entertainment, sports and news from the world’s top entertainment brands on their iPhone and iPod touch.
Samsung Mobile and Sprint announced today that the Samsung Moment has been selected as the first phone to showcase a demonstration of a Mobile Digital TV chip. The Samsung Moment will receive live digital TV using Samsung’s Mobile DTV Chip, the world’s first single-chip solution for the recently approved Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) Mobile Digital TV standard. The ATSC Mobile Digital TV chip will allow Samsung Moment to receive live TV programming from local broadcast stations, including prime-time network programs, local news and sports and emergency alerts.
The companies also announced that the Mobile DTV-equipped Samsung Moment was selected for a showcase with Sprint customers in the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore markets during the first quarter of 2010 — this is the first-ever consumer showcase of this technology. The Moment was selected because of its 3.2-inch AMOLED display screen, which delivers crisp colors, bright pictures outdoors, and wide viewing angles. Samsung was the co-developer of the ATSC standard that is making mobile digital TV broadcasting possible on mobile phones, laptops, USB drives and other mobile devices.
If you like watching videos on your cell phone then you may want to check out Vuclip. Vuclip is one of the most widely-used mobile video search portals in the world, and the only mobile video service that dynamically transcodes, optimizes and delivers any Web video to any mobile phone across all wireless networks in real-time.
The service is free, although standard carrier data charges apply. Vuclip also enables online publishers and content owners to mobilize their video content through its “white-labeled” Vuclip Video API Program. Vuclip has 40 employees and is based in the Silicon Valley, with offices in Beijing and Delhi.
Verizon Wireless said today it has added TLC as one of its exclusive channels on V CAST Mobile TV. TLC is part of Discovery Communications, and now popular shows such as “Cake Boss;” “What Not to Wear;” “Little People, Big World” and “18 Kids and Counting” will be available to V CAST Mobile TV customers.
TLC, a top 10 cable network for women and one of the most widely distributed cable networks in the United States, features high-quality docu-series and reality-based programming that engages the heart and mind by transporting viewers into the lives of real-life extraordinary characters. TLC programs are entertaining, unfiltered and always reveal something to learn along the way.
Nokia today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, an entertainment hub that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming in one compact 3G device. With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise - by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones - this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience.
Watch TV. Anywhere. Thanks to the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition's DVB-H technology, programs burst through the QVGA 2.4" screen in full-colour, crystal clear, sharp images. Plug in 3.5mm headphones for personal viewing or use the loudspeaker option to share the experience with friends and family.
With one-click access to live broadcasts, the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition can pick up the best channels around.
Consumers eager to watch their favorite television programs, sports and news while on-the-go can satisfy their mobile TV craving as the handheld FLO TV Personal Television hits shelves across the nation yesterday. The much-anticipated device from FLO TV Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, delivers live and time-shifted content via the award-winning FLO TV mobile TV service and will be available at Amazon.com and Best Buy. In addition, RadioShack will begin selling the device online and in stores this holiday season.
As part of the launch and for a limited time, FLO TV also announced that the first six months of subscription service will be bundled into the overall retail price of $249.99, after which point a monthly service subscription fee will be charged.
FLO TV Personal Television is the first portable digital television to offer all these features in one package:
Multicast Media Technologies, Inc., announced today the addition of live streaming and on-demand video for the iPhone and iPod Touch to its comprehensive, hosted Multicast Media Suite solution.
A market leader in live Internet broadcasts and on-demand video, Multicast is the first online video platform provider to offer the complete set of functionality needed to transcode, manage, deliver and display content on the iPhone. With the new version, Multicast is opening new channels of communication for companies to deliver interactive rich media content directly to their staff, prospects, members, and customers.
According to Nielson Online, there were 6.4 million iPhone users in the United States as of April 2009. Of the total number of users, 2.6 million people watched a video on their iPhone, and 16 percent were moved to action through mobile advertising.
Kyte, the online, mobile and social video platform for live and on-demand content, today announced that media companies and brands will now be able to tap the Kyte Platform to reach audiences with video initiatives across four major mobile platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia. After launching application frameworks for the iPhone and BlackBerry earlier in the year, Kyte will now broaden this support to include Android and Nokia. Kyte’s latest mobile application frameworks are extensions of its core platform, a broadly adopted end-to-end solution for the production, distribution and monetization of online and mobile video.
Available beginning in the first quarter of 2010, Kyte’s Android and Nokia application frameworks deliver online Kyte channels as fully native Android and Nokia applications, enabling companies to cost-effectively converge their online and mobile audiences into a single community. Core interactive Kyte features such as real-time chat, comments and ratings, the ability to share content, and real-time viewer count are presented in a dynamic interface. The applications also include activity notifications to indicate new content and chat messages and come equipped with mobile-specific modules that can be dynamically configured, including:
Sprint today announced that it will be the only wireless carrier to offer live NFL Network game telecasts via its exclusive NFL Mobile Live application and on Sprint TV beginning Nov. 12 when NFL Network televises the first of its eight-game Thursday Night Football schedule. Both NFL Mobile Live and Sprint TV are available at no additional cost to Sprint data subscribers with a data plan.
The first televised game features the San Francisco 49ers hosting the Chicago Bears on NFL Network. NFL Network’s Thursday night telecasts will be available to Sprint subscribers including games on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26) and special NFL Network games on Saturday, Dec. 19, and Christmas Day (Friday, Dec. 25).
One of Sprint’s most popular applications, NFL Mobile Live reached 1 million users more quickly than any other application in the company’s history during the 2008 season. Usage of NFL Mobile Live nearly tripled since the 2008 season, making it Sprint’s No. 2 most-popular sports and news app behind Sprint TV. Sprint subscribers can download NFL Mobile Live by texting NFL to 7777 (standard text-messaging rates apply). More information is available at www.sprint.com/nfl or www.nfl.com/sprint.
mSpot, Inc. launched today mSpot Mobile Movies a service that offers instant streaming of full-length feature movies available on-demand to millions of mobile phone users. mSpot Mobile Movies is available on all four major U.S. carriers (Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T) via mSpot's mobile web. The service is available on 30 handset devices, which includes the iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile and many high-end feature phones, reaching over 40 million subscribers.
To access mSpot Mobile Movies, go to m.mSpot.com on your mobile phone. Individual movies cost $4.99 each, or subscribe to a monthly Movie Club membership which cost $9.99, $12.99 or $15.99 per month. A credit card is required to purchase a movie or membership. The phone’s web browser is used to access the movie instantly, no need to wait for download or syncing to a PC.
SPB Software, a manufacturer of mobile applications, has announced the release of SPB TV for Android phones. SPB TV is a subscription-free mobile IPTV viewer, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world. SPB TV features exclusive and patent-pending usability innovations like picture-in-picture mode and gives the mobile subscribers easy access to over a hundred of international TV channels, directly from their phones.
SPB TV is available for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android platforms providing diverse mobile carrier customers with the next generation mobile TV experience.
SPB TV is available for smartphones running Android 1.5 with HVGA screen resolutions, as well as Windows Phones running Windows Mobile 5 and later Professional and Standard editions, S60 3d edition FP1 or higher, qVGA, VGA, Square QVGA, and WVGA screen resolutions are supported.
Blockbuster Inc. today announced plans to feature the Blockbuster OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola phones, giving Motorola access to the Blockbuster OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster's digital strategy by providing its library of premium digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time.
Through the agreement select Motorola phones will feature an exclusive Blockbuster OnDemand application, providing on-the-go download access to Blockbuster's digital library of thousands of current Blockbuster OnDemand movies.
The agreement will also further Blockbuster's multi-channel vision of eventually enabling customers to use the Company's Blockbuster OnDemand application with multiple consumer electronics and portable devices, such as PCs, portable media players, Blu-ray Disc players, personal video recorders (PVRs), set-top boxes, mobile phones and Web-connected TVs, to search Blockbuster's entire catalog of entertainment content and download available titles for rent or purchase, schedule movies for mail delivery through Blockbuster Online, or reserve titles for in-store pick-up at participating Blockbuster stores or at a Blockbuster Express branded vending machine.
If you own a Slingbox SOLO, PRO or PRO-HD, you can watch TV on your iPhone or iPod touch via Wi-Fi. Additionally, you can change channels and control your DVR right from you iPhone or iPod. There is no monthly fee; however, you will have to purchase the SlingPlayer for Mobile App for $29.99 from SlingMedia.com.
To watch TV of your iPhone or IPod you will need to install SlingPlayer on a PC or Mac on your home network. You will also need a high-speed (broadband) Internet connection of at least 256Kb upstream speed at home.
To watch TV away from your home, your Slingbox needs to have Internet viewing set up. The Slingbox AV, Slingbox TUNER, and Slingbox Classic are not fully supported for use with SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone & iPod touch.
ROK Entertainment Group, the mobile technologies, applications and services company, has today announced its streamed Mobile TV service, ROK TV, is compatible with the latest BlackBerry smartphones.
"This is great news for ROK and represents huge potential for the continued deployment of ROK TV," said Jonathan Kendrick, Chairman and CEO of ROK,"as BlackBerry users tend to be tech-savvy and hungry for information and entertainment on their mobiles."
ROK TV, one of a suite of revenue-generating mobile services produced by ROK, enables the stream of live and on-demand video to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G as well as over 3G and has successfully launched its subscription-based mobile TV service with several Operators worldwide.
DirecTV Group Inc. will allow its NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers to watch next season’s games on mobile phones as part of a $100 package. Fans paying $280 for National Football League games outside their home TV market can add access on handsets like the Apple iPhone, El Segundo, California-based DirecTV. The offer ends July 31.
Broadcasters and pay-TV operators are looking for ways to make money as viewers shift online. A Wi-fi link or access to a 3G high-speed wireless Internet service is required. Software will be provided on Apple’s iPhone AppStore by September.
The $100 package also provides computer access and additional TV features, which include the ability to watch eight games on a single screen, as many as 12 in high definition, a channel that shows scoring drives and another that condenses games down to 30 minutes.
For the first time, fans can be a part of the action by experiencing full-length live streaming of the games directly on their Sprint TV-capable phones. Through their phones, subscribers will also have front row seats to follow CONCACAF Gold Cup from the opening game kickoff in Los Angeles to the finals in New York with real-time game updates about their teams playing in the tournament, related news and tournament statistics, among other fun features.
Additionally, Sprint has teamed up with one of the most popular Mexican soccer legends, Luis Roberto Alves "Zague", to provide a one-of-a-kind pre-game experience at select matches in some U.S. cities.
At the games, fans can visit Sprint Mobile Experience to try firsthand how easy it is to enjoy real-time matches on the go on a wide range of Sprint phones.
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