Mobile TV
Just had a note from Bruce over at ROK TV with some wicked news. They’ve just officially launched the service in Thailand, with local mobile operator AIS.
Since the service soft-launched in February, AIS have already recruited 60,000 subscribers - and now are looking to grow into several hundred thousand within a matter of months.
Great news! [...]
Had a note from Ben at Sentinel Entertainment about their new horror mini-series. ‘Corpse’, starring Philip Jackson and Oliver Chris, is now available to download to your mobile in eight weekly episodes.
Aging thespian, Harold Brazier (Philip Jackson) is hammier than a gammon sandwich. However, when he’s upstaged by a stand-in he begins to find his character’s [...]
Not even 24 hours ago, Motorola announced that their new Z8 phone had been used to make the world’s highest phone call, from the top of Mount Everest. Bet you reckon they couldn’t top that? Not for want of trying!
weComm, the leader in interactive mobile data solutions, today announced that it has delivered Sky Anytime [...]
Link: ElectricNews.net:News:RTE goes mobile with Three
The partnership will see RTE shows such as ‘The Late Late Show’, ‘Off the Rails’ ‘Tubridy Tonight’ and ‘Show Me The Money’ being made available to both pre-pay and bill-paying Three customers at a rate of EUR0.50 for a period of 24 hours.
“We see your mobile as being your personal [...]
Link: ElectricNews.net:News:Consumers more excited by GPS than mobile TV
According to recent research by Canalys, consumers aren’t bothered with mobile TV - and seem to be more interested in getting GPS on their handset.
The research showed that whilst 51% of those surveyed in Europe said they were interested in mobile TV, quite an impressive 62% said built-in [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile TV predicted to be a hit
Being rather sad, I was thumbing through the BBC News website over the weekend on my mobile whilst enjoying a nice cup of tea and breakfast in bed. This story caught my eye, and I meant to blog about it - but forgot til I [...]
Having announced the worlds first video-on-demand mobile TV service over 2.5G yesterday, I figured it was time to give ROK TV a whirl and check it out in a bit more depth.
To get going, it’s really simple. Click on ROK’s website, and select your country. A list of phones - with pictures (in case you’re [...]
In another first for SMS Text News, we bought you this story earlier today (see this post). As promised, here’s some more info.
ROK Entertainment Group, UK-based developer of mobile entertainment services and technologies, today announced the provision of the worlds first video-on-demand (VOD) mobile TV service streamed over mass market 2.5G GPRS. The up-graded VOD [...]
Just had a brief note from Bruce over at ROK, to let me know they’ve just launched a world first - true video on demand (VOD) over 2.5G GPRS. This means that ROK TV viewers are now able to forward, reverse and pause the non-live channels on ROK TV. Wicked!
More details and a press release [...]
ROK have just received a whoppin’ $7 million investment. Did you read about that last week? I got the news from Bruce on Friday but I’ve only just managed to get it up. What a coup eh? ROK is rocking!
ROK Entertainment Group, UK-based provider of mobile entertainment services and technologies, [...]
If you’re an SMS aggregator or similar in North America and you don’t have much in the way of TV related services — or want to draw upon the experience of a UK company who’ve been dealing with the text-mad UK public, read on. Siren are on the hunt for partners. And they’ve got [...]
Continue ReadingI always have good things to say about Siren. I really like their strapline, ‘the digital engagement agency’. Heh. Really cool.
They’ve won MTV. What a coup. Get the beers in!
Siren, the digital engagement agency, today announced an exclusive, multi-year agreement with MTV Networks UK & Ireland to [...]
Link: Chelsea FC strike YouTube deal | New media | MediaGuardian.co.uk
Chelsea have struck a deal to show archive footage and club news on YouTube, the first such deal to be done by a Premiership football club.
The deal will see content from the club’s subscription channel Chelsea TV appear in a branded area of the [...]
Have a read of Mark’s post here — he’s managed to get his Slingbox working with his X-Series handset. I need to have a go at doing this. Still haven’t got round to getting a slingbox!
Mark had a few technical issues which, as he explains, were resolved by Darren of the [...]
Link: geekTV 3G Mobile TV Channel for 3 UK
Mobile media company Player X and operator 3 UK have teamed up to launch geekTV, the only made-for-mobile TV channel on 3 UK’s network. The channel is a mixture of well-known entertainment brands such as Miami Vice and American Dad, original IP and [...]
Get in! That’s good news. ROK’s TV service is now working with high spec Symbian 3 handsets such as the Nokia N71, N73, N80 and N93.
ROK TV’s patent-pending technology delivers video streaming to mobile phones over mass-market 2.5G GPRS at a faster frame rate than any existing 3G TV service.
ROK [...]
Mashable published a link to the grainy and shaky mobile camera phone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution.
The person doing the filming wasn’t very good at keeping the camera steady… it’s all over the place. Whatever your perspective on the execution, the footage is compelling, particularly as the mass media here in the UK [...]
Paul caught this one and forwarded it over.
Have a read of this article..
I’ve quote some points for you:
Michael Schaefer, 46, an IT specialist from Ealing, west London, was charged £950 in just four days by O2 after using his 3G (third generation) phone to view TV for just two hours.
3G phones offer high-speed access [...]
Link: Earn Money From Sending Us Your Footage
Found this on craigslist… mobile phone video is now so commonplace that ads such as this are popping up all over the place.
It is official Britain is the most violent country in Western Europe! BBC News reported in October this year that the British are less likely than [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Technology | Personalised adverts on mobile TV
Mobile TV viewers in Norway will be served personalised adverts as part of a two-month trial.
Banner adverts will be sent to mobile phones and tailored to the individual user under the trial by broadcaster NRK, a mobile TV pioneer.
“Advertisers see value in people being interested [...]
I know and rate Oli Madgett, Siren’s Client Services Director, so I was interested to hear about their new service, Integrate, which has just been launched. Integrate does what it says on the tin. It aggregates viewer votes in real time via multiple mediums such as SMS, IVR and web, and crucially provides the [...]
Continue ReadingThis in from Steve of iTAGG:
I own a Palm Treo 750v on Vodafone and it is a 3G phone. But I have just realised I’ve been duped? It doesn’t actually come with video calling, the 3G is for data only!!! What!!! Why did I not read the smallprint!! I saw [...]
Link: BBC NEWS | Business | Mobile TV sports viewing is on the move
Two decades later, the telecoms industry is still trying to come up with a winning formula to provide sports fans with action they can view “on the go” - only this time, the chosen vehicle is the mobile phone.
Interesting summary of the [...]
Continue ReadingHave a look at this Youtube video of Michael Jackson’s recent performance, if you can call it that, at the World Music Awards.
Now, what I found fascinating was:
a) the coverage was available on Youtube within hours of the actual performance (yes, you’re meant to wait until Channel 4 broadcasts it in full [...]
Link: World’s First Unified SMS, MMS, Voice and Video Short Code - Esato news
The Sun newspaper has launched a User Generated Content initiative which allows mobile users to submit content and interact with its brand via the Short Code 63000. The Short Code, provided by MX Telecom, is provisioned for SMS, MMS, Voice and Video [...]
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