Comcast to deliver television shows to mobile phones
Comcast has announced that they are now going to provide mobile television services to their customers of wireless internet services.
The company is also considering providing voice services which would put them in direct competition with mobile service providers in the country.
Comcast is working with Clearwire to [...]
Nokia sells Mobile Broadcast Solutions unit to Wipro
World’s largest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has announced that they are selling their enterprise mobile TV unit to Indian IT firm Wipro.
This Nokia division has around 40 employees. This group specializes in developing mobile TV solutions…
Nokia spoke about selling this unit: “We wanted to focus on the [...]
Company’s Pocket-Sized Laser Projector to Bring ‘Big-Screen Viewing’ to Mobile Devices
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With the global mobile TV market expected to more than double from $7.9 billion in 2008 to $17.1 billion in 2012, according to the Yankee Group, a worldwide audience is already viewing YouTube videos, films and other content on the small screens [...]
AT&T Mobile TV now available in 58 U.S. cities
US based telecom giant AT&T has said that they are now offering their Mobile TV services in as many as 58 cities.
AT&T Mobile TV is now available in destinations including Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington DC.
The user however needs to have a [...]
Samsung collaborating with LG on Mobile TV standards
Samsung Electronics has announced that they are collaborating with rivals LG Electronics to develop a new standard for Mobile Television.
They are going to be helped by Harris Corp. which is an American broadcast technology company.
This technology would be designed to enable mobile devices to receive signals sent out [...]
AT&T Mobile TV service launched
US based mobile service provider AT&T has now launched their Mobile TV service.
They are currently supporting two mobile phones and charging USD 15 per month for 10 channels.
Incidentally, the service is very similar to the rival service provided by Verizon Wireless’ V Cast Mobile TV.
Both the companies are using Qualcomm [...]
Sony Pictures Television goes mobile
Sony Pictures Television has announced that they are now going to launch the first movie network on mobile phones in the US market.
They are working with AT&T and MediaFLO USA to launch their mobile channel on their mobile TV service.
They would provide content for one of the two exclusive channels coming [...]
AT&T set to launch Mobile TV service
US based telecom giant AT&T has revealed that they are collaborating with FLO to launch Mobile TV services.
The company claims that they would provide high-quality, live television content and sporting events from leading networks in addition to programming from exclusive channels.
The content would be provided by networks like CBS [...]
Mobile TV services very popular in Japan
The Telecommunications Carriers Association has stated in a report that the shipments of the mobile devices capable of television reception increased to more than 20 million units since its launch.
This mark was touched in December. This month itself saw sales of more than 1 million handsets.
The Mobile TV service [...]
Introduces Smart-Seg™ for Seamless Switching Between 1-Seg, 3-Seg and 13-Seg
Following the launch of its multi-standard single-chip offering for global mobile TV applications last month, MediaPhy today introduced the second member of its product family, the J-Solo™, designed specifically to address the rapidly growing Japanese mobile TV market. The all CMOS single-die J-Solo covers ISDB-T [...]
