Mobile

MocoNews Review With Video: AT&T’s MediaFLO Is Best Chance For Mobile TV To Take Off - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 14 May 2008 11:31 AM PST

The just-launched AT&T (NYSE: T) Mobile TV service is so good I watched the two-hour long 1982 comedy The Toy, featuring Richard Pryor without even really realizing it. In retrospect,…

LG, Samsung Team Up In Pitch For (Yet Another) North American Mobile TV Standard - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 10:35 AM PST

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…

Virgin Mobile Confirms Talks With SK Telecom - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 14 May 2008 07:34 AM PST

A day after sticking with “no comment” as a response, Virgin Mobile USA finally admits the news we broke last week—it’s in discussions with SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM). Rafat first…

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Thomson Reuters and RIM Launch $150 Million Mobile App Fund - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 12 May 2008 08:44 AM PST

In a strange but logical pairing, RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), the makers of Blackberry, along with media giant Thomson Reuters (NASDAQ: TRIN), is launching a $150 million venture capital fund that…

Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 08 May 2008 11:35 AM PST

From our sister site MocoNews: Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled…

Sprint-Clearwire: Our Coverage In Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 08 May 2008 07:12 AM PST

From our sister site mocoNews.net… A lot going on since Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel and Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) confirmed their agreement to combine their WiMax wireless broadband business to form…

Sprint-Clearwire: Google’s Role Too Big? Pay-For-Access Deal Raises Net Neutrality-Like Concerns - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 07 May 2008 08:45 AM PST

Over the last year, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has made its presence known in the wireless industry, not for its applications, but instead, for its position on open access. The internet…

It’s Official: Massive WiMax Deal Closes, Merging Clearwire And Sprint With Outside Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 07 May 2008 05:53 AM PST

Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) and Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel confirmed this morning that they have a definitive agreement to combine their WiMax wireless broadband businesses to form a new company with…

Earnings: Virgin Mobile’s Q1 Was Tough; Looking At Strategic Opportunities For Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 05 May 2008 03:27 PM PST

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) released its first quarter earnings today, showing that results were substantially lower compared to the year-ago period, however, were at the upper end of expectations for…

Nielsen Finally Combines Mobile Web Traffic With PC Online Use - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 02 May 2008 09:50 AM PST

Nielsen has released a new reporting service that combines audience measurement for online and mobile called TotalWeb. The service, which is operated by the Nielsen Online unit, claims to show…

Virgin Mobile USA: Will Anyone Buy It? - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 01 May 2008 11:17 PM PST

We wrote earlier today on our sister site MocoNews about the runup in the Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) stock today. Though the company declined to give NYSE any reason…

AT&T’s MediaFlo Mobile TV Service To Launch Next Week; Pricing Will Make It DOA - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 30 Apr 2008 11:34 PM PST

AT&T (NYSE: T) Wireless will finally launch its much delayed mobile TV broadcasting service next week, and it has made all the necessary moves to make sure it never really…

@ EconSM: Traditional Media Companies Fight The ‘Lumbering Giant’ Tag - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 29 Apr 2008 02:00 PM PST

Lumbering giants of the past or the prime innovators of the moment? That was the question moderator and EconSM conference editorial director Elizabeth Osder put to a panel of old…

Buzzd Raises First Round For Location-Based Mobile Networking - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 24 Apr 2008 09:31 AM PST

Buzzd, which is developing a location-based social network that revolves around entertainment listings, plans to announce today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of capital in a first round…

Comcast, Time Warner And Cox Pull Out Of Pivot - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Apr 2008 03:32 PM PST

Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Cable and Cox Communications have pulled out of the Pivot joint venture with Sprint (NYSE: S) (the fourth cable partner, Advance/Newhouse Communications, declined…

Apple Buys Microprocessor Chip Firm; Possible Use With iPhone and iPods - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Apr 2008 10:44 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has finally done something with its cash, although spending a tiny part of it, after much speculation of what it would do: it has bought a boutique…

Sony BMG Joins Nokia’s Comes With Music Program - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 22 Apr 2008 04:19 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG is the second record label to join Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) Comes With Music pre-bundled music initiative. At a London joint press conference, the pair said Nokia…

Nokia Denies Paying Universal Music Group High Fees For Comes With Music - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 18 Apr 2008 11:02 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is denying reports—including ours—of a deal to pay Universal Music Group $33-35 per handset for access to its music on the handset maker’s upcoming Comes With Music.…

FCC Duped By Google In Auction: Republicans - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:16 AM PST

There’s quite a bit being written on the remarks of some Republican senators that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) “gamed” the 700 MHz auction, and “duped” the FCC...Bloomberg has the quotes. Their…

Broadband Content Bits: Discovery’s Planet Green; TommyTV; Alicia in Africa; myLifetime - 1 Comment
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 17 Apr 2008 09:55 AM PST

-- Discovery’s Planet Green Launches Shows with TreeHugger.com to Blog in Tandem: In a bid to generate new media buzz before turning Discovery Home into Planet Green, Discovery’s Planet Green…

Updated: Nokia Paying Universal Music $35 Per User For Comes With Music? - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:25 PM PST

More unconfirmed rumors as to how much Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is paying Universal Music Group for its music to be a part of Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service, from THR:…

CBS Launches Citizen Journalism Site For Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 15 Apr 2008 08:26 AM PST

CBS (NYSE: CBS) News has quietly launched a citizen journalism site, where users can upload photos and videos directly from their mobile phone, for everyone to see. Last week the…

@ CTIA: Playboy Launches Mobile Initatives At Hugh Hefner’s Sky Villa - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 07 Apr 2008 06:39 PM PST

One of the most controversial mobile content plays is pornography, and last week at CTIA, arguably the biggest name—Playboy (NYSE: PLA)—launched a series of mobile initiatives. Perhaps because of the…

Ad Industry Roundup: Job Numbers; Conde Nast; NBCU/Fox; AzoogleAds; Modernista; McDonald’s; Omnicom - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 02 Apr 2008 02:51 PM PST

-- Online jobs post first year-over-year decline: Online job vacancies posted an unusually poor showing last month, as the Conference Board said listings fell slightly by 21,200 from March 2007…

CTIA: Qualcomm: MediaFLO In 58 Markets; Adding 5 Or 6 Per Quarter - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 01 Apr 2008 02:39 PM PST

During the company’s presentation at CTIA, Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) execs highlighted the company’s emerging, non-core businesses, including its MediaFLO wireless video service. Division president Gina Lombardi acknowledged that MediaFLO hasn’t…