Universal, MTV to Make Music, Video Mobile
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Universal Music Group in Santa Monica, Calif., is joining with MTV to allow music, videos and other content on mobile devices.
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The string of digital music pacts continued Tuesday as Universal and SendMe Mobile announced a pact that will bring the label's music to the mobile content provider's service.
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The outlook for mobile music in 2005 can be summed up in one word: more.
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Music Choice and Sprint are launching a music service that allows mobile phone users to view short videoclips and listen to radio-like programming on their handsets.
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The mobile phone and music industries are hoping to kick-start mass-market consumption of music over mobile handsets by unveiling on Monday a new, low-priced flat-rate service intended to challenge Apple's plans to offer music on its iPhone device.
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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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Warner Music Group  announced on  Wednesday new deals with two leading mobile operators to  deliver its mobile music content across the Middle East, North  Africa and Europe.
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The mobile carrier aims to compete against Apple with its own music downloading service
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(InfoWorld) - Adobe Systems' Flash video, the format that made Web video a hit, is coming to mobile phones. On Monday at theÂ 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Adobe announced video will be included in Flash Lite 3, the next version of the Flash runtime environment for mobile phones. Licensees should be able to get the new software in the second quarter of this year, and Adobe hopes consumers will see it in action by year's end, said Anup Murarka, director of technical marketing for mobile and devices at Adobe. Adding video to Flash Lite will simplify the process of creating and distributing mobile video, which now forces mobile operators to use a fragmented set of special tools, according to Adobe. "The same video tools they use for delivering Web content can be used for delivering mobile content as well," Murarka said. Although relatively few mobile users are watching video on their phones today in most countries, carriersÂ and entertainment companies are starting to bet bigger on the new medium. Last week, a division of Time Warner signed a deal with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson for use of the company's technology to deliver news and cartoons, and U.S. operator Amp'd Mobile signed on Hollywood partners to create original mobile shows. The drive to put short video programs on tiny cell-phone screens follows the exploding popularity of short, relatively low-quality clips on Web sites such as Google's YouTube that use Flash video. With the upcoming version of Flash Lite, carriers and content companies will be able to use the same Flash server for mobile as for Web video as well as the same streaming protocol and the same encoding tools and processes, Murarka said. Videos probably would have to be resized for small handset screens but would not have to be completely re-encoded, he said. This will make it easier and faster to get shows onto handsets, he said. Flash Lite videos can be presented in a variety of forms, including streaming video, downloadable clips, and screen savers, and within Flash-based applications, according to Adobe. In addition, because the video capability is part of Flash Lite, it will be easier to integrate it with software for using video, such as channel selectors and play, reverse and fast-forward controls, he added. More than 200 million phones have been shipped with Flash, Adobe said Monday. That includes both Flash Lite and FlashCast, a client-server platform that lets carriers send content to phones in the background so subscribers can use it even outside the network's coverage area. About 120 million of those Flash phones shipped in 2006, and that was the first year when a majority of them -- about 70 percent -- were sold outside Japan, Murarka said. Japan's NTT DoCoMo was an early adopter of the technology, delivering a FlashCast news and information service called i-channel, which has more than 8 million subscribers, according to Adobe. Â
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We're supposed to be excited that our mobile phones are getting to be more and more like mobile TVs, thanks to developments like Verizon Wireless's just-announced deal to bring YouTube videos to its V Cast service.
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Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group -- three of the four major recording companies -- have licensed their catalog of music to Saratoga Springs-based Wurld Media, the firm said Wednesday.
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The music video business, long synonymous with MTV and more recently identified online with Yahoo Launch and AOL, is about to get even more competitive thanks to cable and Internet convergence.
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Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks will next year launch its first local channel in Africa, the final global outpost for the music video and kids' broadcaster and its 100th channel worldwide.
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The deal will allow MTV to offer its Web site visitors the ability to play along with, or remix, their favorite songs.
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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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Universal Music, home to artists such as U2, The Killers and Audioslave, will make its catalog of recordings and music videos available for free on an ad-supported Web site launching later this year, the site's operator said Tuesday.
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Universal Music Group, the world's  largest record company, and advertising conglomerate WPP are  expected to unveil a 50-50 joint venture on Tuesday to link top  brands with famous artists, The Times newspaper said.