Ed: A bit late in streaming out some remainign coverage from MEM conference held two weeks ago in London [by Peggy Anne Salz] This was the key message of Javier…

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Not much insight in the sparsely-attended session on content management solutions, although there was a small amount of finger pointing about who exactly is holding up the development of more…

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I’m flabbergasted that there’s no wireless network here. It’s a mobile conference! Not even the option to be fleeced for £5 an hour for an in-house service. I wasted a…

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We’ve ran out of space, really...(very busy day today)...we have lots more coverage from the MEM conference in London, which we’ll be streaming out over next week. Stay tuned… Our…

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Day two in the old agricultural shed (yes, that’s the venue, or at least it former avatar). Pete Tong was ‘in the house’ last night to dish out the Mobile…

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MTV’s Angel Gambino told me afterwards that the patterns of use for all five of MTV’s mobile TV services are very similar to those of broadcast TV in terms of…

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“The mobile business is show business,” said MEF Americas chairman Ralph Simon - who treated us to his version of Gnarl’s Barkley’s Crazy (just for a split second, thankfully...) and…

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At Islington’s Business Design Centre for the Mobile Entertainment Market 2006. It’s like a giant greenhouse, only much colder.From this morning’s keynote’s… Melissa Goodwin, VP interactive and telephony and creative…

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The panel was looking for someone to blame for the slow development of new business models for music on mobiles. DoCoMo’s SED Voytek Siewierski said the equipment and ambitions of…

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From the session on understanding, packaging and marketing mobile TV: Peter Cowley, director of interactive media at Endemol, said it had served 10 million video streams in the past 18…

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Informa Telecoms & Media has issued a report at the MEM conference claiming that “mobile games, music and TV & video will be worth a total of US$25.9 billion by…

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Today and tomorrow is the big Mobile Entertainment Market conference in London...I was there last year and it was a lot of fun. This year, our London contributor Jemima Kiss,…

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Later this week is the big Mobile Entertainment Market conference in London...I was there last year and it was a lot of fun. This year, our London contributor Jemima Kiss,…

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WSJ: GreatCall, a San Diego-based start-up, plans to target baby boomers and their parents. The service, called Jitterbug, will offer a Samsung-built phone with large buttons, easy-to read text and…

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Well. technically I’m back in LA, but some left over coverage from the MEM conference earlier this week in London: I heard about a rumor that Apple has been trying…

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Mike Yuen, gaming group director at Qualcomm, explained how innovative, cross-platform game design could lead to mass-market adoption of mobile gaming at MEM05. Yuen listed the biggest games of the…

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You certainly don’t hear the acronym MMS anymore...for good reason. It hasn’t really turned out to be the money spinner that SMS was. Surprisingly, a subsection of MMS, picture messaging,…

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I have tons of more things from the MEM conference...flying back to LA today but will stream out the other stories over the next week. Had tons of fun in…

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Well, the Europe vs U.S. divide is a truism many in the industry swear by. The thinking goes: Europe, because of high mobile penetration, handset giants and smaller concentrated markets…

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At the MEM conference over the last two days in London, some of our readers asked me if I was a bit too harsh on MForma, the U.S. mobile content…

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Leading figures in the mobile gaming industry came together at MEM05 to disucss the need to “deliver quality titles to market—identifying testing, porting and digital rights management as key issues”.…

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Stefan Rust, Director, Wireless Business Development, Sun Microsystems, gave an interesting presentation at MEM today about the general value chain in mobile content business and as part of that, talked…

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Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam and now the chairman, Rush Communications & Chairman, Def Jam Enterprises, gave the second day keynote at the MEM conference in London today.…

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Some random thoughts from day one of the Mobile Entertainment Marketplace conference in London. -- A trade show just on mobile entertainment? How novel. Only 90 percent of them are…

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This is not necessarily an observation from just this conference...over the last year, the US-based mobile video aggregator MobiTV has become the darling of the content community (much to the…

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