Simpson's mobile content to sell direct
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Network operators bypassed. D'oh! As hype for the Simpsons movie builds up, Jamba has announced that mobile content to go with the film will only be available from its subscription portal.â¦
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Dan Farber: "It's not hard to imagine a contextual ad showing up every time you Twitter something. Twitter 'I am drinking beer with friends' and a Budweiser ad shows up. Now imagine the Twitter revolt." Oh yes there would be quite a revolt, a powerless one, unless there was an alternate service we could all switch to and then assuming we could get off our asses and actually switch. Yeah, we're good at screaming, but not too great at acting, here. I'm a bit of a Twit, myself, and I'd find it revolt-worthy if they tried to interrupt or punctuate discourse with product placements, but then Twitter's destiny is, imho, to be acquired by a phone company and sold as a feature that gives users a reason to use one brand of phone over another. Not as a way for advertisers to hitch their "messages" on our discourse. We've seen how well that has (not) worked with advertising on email. Not likely to work much better on Twits. Imagine if Nokia offered a cell phone with Twitter built-in, a checkbox for SMS users (default on?) -- "Do you want to send SMS messages to your buddy list?"  Don't you think the kids would go for that? (Maybe they can already do it, it's likely that I'm that cluelss.)
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One reason that mobile users don&#39;t access more content from a mobile phone, like video clips, is because finding content is cumbersome -- but that should change in the future with intelligent network services, said one expert speaking on a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show.Currently, smartphone users may not be accessing as much content or online services as they&#39;d like because it&#39;s difficult to do so. &quot;If to discover content you have to type in a URL, it&#39;s never going to happen,&quot; said Muzibul Khan, vice president of product management and engineering at Samsung Telecommunications America.He suggests that using voice commands is the best way to look for content from a mobile phone. &quot;Voice is the most natural medium,&quot; he said.But Intrinsyc&#39;s CEO thinks that even voice command technology is rooted in the past. &quot;We&#39;re talking about a paradigm for Web searching that was built for the PC,&quot; said Glenda Dorchak, who is also chairman of Intrinsyc.While there may be a transitional period in the near future when voice or other improved search techniques are used for content discovery on mobile handsets, ultimately a more intelligent system will prevail, she said. In the future, a context-aware, server-driven system will emerge, where the network will forward relevant and useful content to users. The type of content that users will get will depend on their location and other preferences that they&#39;ve set.Key to that vision will be multiple radios in mobile devices working together. She imagines a time when a phone might have Wi-Fi, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPS (Global Positioning System), Bluetooth, satellite and WiMax, each finding and delivering information to end-users, possibly simultaneously. The phones will be smart enough to pick the most appropriate network for delivering the content, she said.But running that many radios in a single device consumes power and requires sophisticated algorithms, so she suggests a few years will pass before it happens. However, the technology already exists to support part of that vision, such as converged cellular and Wi-Fi offerings that roam between the networks without dropping voice calls.In the meantime, operators and content providers are working to figure out exactly how to deliver video to users now. The Tivo generation wants to be able to choose what they want to watch and when, said Jeff Finkelstein, multimedia product manager for Palm. &quot;They don&#39;t want to wait for the headline news to start on the hour,&quot; he said.However, companies building mobile broadcast TV networks around the world like DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld) would likely disagree.Easier sharing capabilities could boost mobile video use too. For about the past year and a half, statistics about how much video people watch online from their PCs haven&#39;t changed much, said Frank Barbieri, CEO of Transpera, a company that provides technology behind mobile video services. &quot;Maybe in five years the phone could surpass the Web in terms of video snacking,&quot; he said.
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NT Media Corp. (OTCBB:NTMM), a diversified media and entertainment company, announced today that it plans to launch a M-Commerce (Mobile Commerce) Venture. NT Media plans to make select Digital content available for mobile devices, most of which is expected to be valued under $10.
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Verizon Wireless said on Monday it will offer music video downloads from Warner Music Group, opening up a new potential source of revenue for the No. 2 U.S. mobile provider.
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The company has formed an agreement with mobile developer and publisher Dwango Wireless to launch the service - Napster Mobile - across the US and Canada in 2005.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47267)  has announced the addition of Mobile Media 2006: The Future of Personal  Media Distribution to their offering.
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Earlier today, Mforma and Marvel Enterprises announced the mobile entertainment industry&#39;s largest content licensing deal to date.
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By Kirsty McLuckie  AS ODD WAYS TO market your property go, it looks like a first for Scotland. Last week this paper reported on the home owner using internet phenomenon YouTube to help sell her penthouse.
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InfoWorld - In the third content deal in as many days, Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube.
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DotMobi, the group that promotes and manages the mobile-phone top-level domain, is publishing a list of specifications for virtually all phones on the market in a bid to make life easier for developers.While such lists are available from other companies, this one will be cheaper, making it more accessible to smaller developer companies and individuals, said Paul Nerger, vice president of advanced services and applications for dotMobi.Unlike the PC market, where most computers and widely used browsers comply with accepted standards, mobile phones each have different specifications and attributes. Developers must tweak their applications and content for different phones, even those running the same operating systems, so that the content fits onto the phone screen and so that applications work properly on phones that might not have certain capabilities.In the U.S., the same phone might even have different requirements based on the operator that sells it, since service providers sometimes disable features. That makes it hard for developers to build applications that can be used by a very wide population of phone owners.While dotMobi&#39;s list doesn&#39;t solve that problem, it does make it easier for developers to identify characteristics of phones and deliver applications to them that will work well. That should encourage more mobile development, Nerger said. &quot;Our job is to make the mobile &#39;Net happen,&quot; he said.The database will be free for anyone to view and browse. Developers can also choose to buy dotMobi&#39;s device detection software, which they can use to detect attributes of phones that are connecting to their Web pages in order to deliver content and services that best suit the devices. The price for that was set to cover costs for dotMobi, Nerger said. Developers will pay US$99 a year for the software; dotMobi customers will pay $79.DotMobi first announced that it was developing the list, which aims to include phones for sale worldwide, in the middle of last year and originally intended to release it at the end of 2007.One developer of a similar list thinks the dotMobi effort will be good for smaller developers, but likely won&#39;t meet the needs of bigger companies. Mobile Research maintains a database of all phones sold in the U.S. Workers there actually buy each phone, testing them for over a thousand different attributes, said David Adams, the founder of Mobile Research.Subscribers to the list, such as mobile Web sites, mobile application developers and content providers, plug it into their databases so that when a phone hits their sites, they can deliver the formatted site or content to fit the phone.Subscribers pay upwards of $10,000 per year for the list, which is continually updated.DotMobi is compiling its list by collecting information from a variety of sources, including phone makers like Nokia and operators like Vodafone. It will also use the data available from WURFL (Wireless Universal Resource File), an open-source project that compiles information about phones around the world, collected from users and developers. DotMobi isn&#39;t planning to buy and individually test each phone and so Adams suspects the list won&#39;t cover as many attributes as his.Mobile Research counts Microsoft, Google and T-Mobile among its customers.
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Serial entrepreneur plans discount mobilephoneco
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(InfoWorld) - News Corp. and VeriSign Inc. will create a joint venture to provide entertainment materials, such as ringtones, video clips, and graphics, to a potential audience of over 1 billion mobile phone users worldwide. To form the new company, News Corp. will buy for about US$188 million a controlling interest in VeriSign's Jamba subsidiary, a provider of mobile entertainment, the companies announced Tuesday. Founded in 2000, Jamba was acquired by VeriSign in mid-2004 for about $273 million. News Corp. will combine Jamba with assets from its own Fox Mobile Entertainment unit to create the joint venture, which will continue using the Jamster brand in the U.S. and the Jamba brand worldwide. The joint venture will distribute entertainment materials from music and media companies, as well as create original content. It will release its first products "soon" after the expected close of the deal by the end of this year. The joint venture' first two releases will be a mobile store for News Corp.'s MySpace social networking Web site and mobile material from News Corp.'s animated television series "The Simpsons," such as video, screensavers and ringtones. For News Corp., this deal continues its aggressive move into the online space, which included spending over half a billion dollars last year to acquire MySpace and other Web sites owned by Intermix Media Inc. As handsets become more sophisticated and mobile communications improve, mobile phone users are increasingly demanding content and services previously limited to PCs. Media companies like News Corp., as well as Internet giants like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., are busy finding ways to deliver their content and services to mobile devices. They see the mobile space as the next frontier for Internet services and digital media, supported by subscription fees and advertising revenue.
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LOS ANGELES  - Mobile ESPN is back on the line. After hanging up its branded cellular phone package in September, the Walt Disney Co. is re-entering the wireless business with a pair of deals announced Thursday with Verizon Wireless and MediaFlo USA.
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MySpace is moving into new territory. On Monday, the Fox Interactive Media property announced it would launch a series of new, ad-supported mobile Web sites targeting mobile device users.
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In a matter of days, Verizon Wireless will unveil a service that, for the first time, lets cell-phone users watch programming from the likes of Comedy Central, Fox, and MTV right on their handsets. If TV via handset takes off, wireless carriers and cell-phone makers will win big.
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The content distributor announced its plans to make Internet video available for mobile platforms at CES, marking yet another option for consumers in an already crowded field.