Disney's Sweeney sees mobile TV as "critical"
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Disney Media Networks Co-Chairman Anne  Sweeney said on Wednesday the ability to watch television on  mobile devices is a "critical" area of growth as wireless  service providers begin offering live TV services next year.
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Texas Instruments Inc. has begun developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile phone screens in three years.
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The largest theater chain in the U.S. is testing pager-like device that warn management about use of cell phones or other audience disruptions.
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The U.K. mobile giant wants to find a way to disentagle the Czech wireless and fixed-line businesses.
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A company with offices in Palo Alto and Seoul called Thin Multimedia Inc. demonstrated a possibly disruptive concept: a kind of embedded IPTV that could endow handsets with the capacity and functionality of living-room set-top boxes.  The fact that Korean telecom giants are investing billions of won in mobile IPTV in areas where DVB-H is already popular, is indication that there could be a real spoiler in the midst for portable digital television.
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Europe is slightly ahead of other   continents in developing mobile television, but lack of joint   radio spectrum for the service means it may lose its   leadership, regulators and industry leaders said on Thursday.
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A National Association of Broadcasters study contends that mobile digital television has the potential to become a multi-billion-dollar annual industry in America...but only if the standardization process is resolved by February 2009.
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LOS ANGELES  - Bill Gates predicts a  future for the entertainment industry in which traditional  broadcast television is rendered irrelevant. It's a positive  vision, however, because new and better business models made  possible by technology are emerging.
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Texas Instruments Inc. has begun  developing a chip that could bring television shows to mobile  phone screens in three years.
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(InfoWorld) - Buying digital music from a mobile phone is too difficult and the music and mobile phone industries need to improve the process to meet demand, the chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group Corp. said on Wednesday. A study last year found that only 8.5 percent of people who own a phone that can be used to download and purchase music actually did so, saidÂ Warner Chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr.,Â speaking at the opening session of theÂ 3GSM World CongressÂ in Barcelona on Wednesday. "Why? It's expensive, it's complicated and it's slow," he said. "It's amazing that we've generated as much revenue as we have given how cumbersome the experience can be." Forty percent of mobile phones in the U.K. have music players, said Ralph Simon, chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum for the Americas, speaking at the same event. This year, US$9 billion in revenue is expected to be generated from mobile music, including ring tones and over-the-air downloads, Bronfman said. While MTV's core customers are typically young and technically savvy, even they find buying mobile content too difficult, said Mika Salmi, president of global digital media for MTV Networks, a Viacom unit. Simplifying the process is key, he said. For example, business models that make it easier for customers to pay for content could boost take-up, he said. MTV encourages operators that it works with to sell subscriptions, which it has found increases use because customers know exactly what they'll pay. Buying a ring tone is an example of the complexity people can face. On average, users must click 20 times in a process that takes around two minutes to buy a ring tone, Bronfman said. Buying digital music on a phone is similarly complicated, he said. "So many platforms aren't capable of even the most basic content configurations, like a track bundled with a video," Bronfman said. That means buying the same content that would typically be included in an album over a mobile phone would be comparable to having to visit three stores to buy the album, its liner notes and the art work, he said. Apple's iPhone, the combined MP3 player and mobile phone expected to hit the U.S. market later this year, is a step in the right direction, Bronfman said. "Before it's even hit the market it has raised the bar in terms of what users expect with a user interface and what music phones should do," he said. Now it's up to other mobile phone makers to meet users' expectations. "For those who invent with a similarly inspiring vision, the opportunity is immense," he said.
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The CEO of one of the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s largest mobile brands said Tuesday that VoIP on mobile phones would likely be as commonplace as it will become on PCs due to what he called Ã¢â¬Ëtechnical issues.Ã¢â¬â¢
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The EU's decision to back a single standard for TV on mobiles could see the UK fall behind, warn analysts.
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By Mongkol Bangprapa, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Dec. 9--Media activists yesterday warned iTV Pcl that it should not move  so quickly to protect the commercial interests of the station that it puts the  dignity of the media profession at stake.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Saturday Night Live" has gone mobile.
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By Chandra Devi  QTELMEDIA Malaysia, the technology provider behind DiGi's enhanced MobileTV service, is confident that mobile TV will take off in a big way locally with its  availability on GPRS and EDGE mobile devices.
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Blog: TV ratings company expanding to monitor cell phone
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Mobile phones were meant to  revolutionize the subscription music business. But if that  revolution were to be televised today, it would consist of  nothing but dead air.