Vodafone Spain has launched a free mobile TV app for Android handsets that allows users to access to the 10-channel Vodafone TV service it offers over the Internet, including TV commercial channels La Sexta, Antena 3 and Telecinco. Called Vodafone Aplicacion TV, the app also gives access to pay DTT channel Gol TV, which airs […]
Envivio, provider of video processing solutions, has added support for the new Windows Phone 7 operating system to its multi-screen video head ends based on the 4Caster C4 family of encoder/transcoders. The enhancement will maximise video quality by using high quality H.264 compression—Envivio Extreme encoding—and provide support for the advanced playback and content protection features […]
Sogecable-owned TV channel Cuatro is launching as a Virtual Mobile Operator later this month. In partnership with KPN and using Orange celular coverage it Will use the brand Cuatro Movil. Cuatro Movil’s mobile will offer contract and pre-pay oprions and will make phones including the Nokia x2, Acer Liquid E, Huawei U8110 or Nokia 2690, […]
AT&T and Microsoft have confirmed an October 15th launch of U-verse TV on Xbox 360 for U-verse customers, which enable access to the U-verse TV experience on their existing Xbox 360s, replacing the need for an extra receiver in the home. AT&T is the first TV provider in the US to offer live TV service […]
Regular local broadcasts over mobile TV are coming on special devices by the end of 2010 and should reach phones within the next few years, backers of a nationwide US initiative stated at the CTIA Enterprise & Applications show in San Francisco, undeterred by the recent failure of FLO TV. The Open Mobile Video Coalition […]
Qualcomm is in the process of shutting down its mobile broadcast FLO TV service. Wholesale customers, such as those on AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, will not be immediately affected. The white-label service, which is resold by both carriers, will continue running as is for the foreseeable future. But that is likely to change down […]
blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, has formed a partnership with Evri, the real-time content discovery engine. Under the terms of the agreement, Evri’s new multimedia apps, including EvriThing Tech, EvriThing Gossip and EvriThing Baseball, will be enhanced by video from blinkx’s Mobile Video Index, which contains millions of videos from […]
comScore, a specialist in measuring the digital world, has released data from its comScore MobiLens service showing that the number of people viewing video on mobile devices has increased 66 per cent in the past year to 12.1 million mobile consumers across the EU5 countries (UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy). The UK and Italy […]
Telegent Systems has outlined its roadmap for driving new industry standards for best-in-class picture quality, system cost and power consumption in the analogue TV receiver market. Telegent’s roadmap builds on its market leadership position, with the company having shipped more than 90 million free-to-air mobile TV chips into handsets sold globally since pioneering the technology […]
Telus, Canada’s third-largest wireless phone company, is asking the country’s broadcast regulator to ensure rivals can’t distribute television content exclusively to their mobile subscribers. Telus is using public hearings that began this week into Shaw’s $1.9 billion purchase of Canwest Global Communications’s television assets to argue against content exclusivity. Telus, which competes with Shaw and […]