Mobile TV News

Tele2 and Rubberduck launch Mobile TV services in Estonia
Oct 9, 2008 – Rubberduck Media Lab (Stockholm: ASP) has launched a mobile TV service in Estonia for Tele2. Rubberduck is managing Tele2's Mobile TV in Estonia including complete administration of the service using Studio:1, its technical backend solution.
News categories: Rubberduck, Tele2, Content Distribution, Estonia, Mobile

Mobile Television - At Least Five Years Away from Realisation
Oct 9, 2008 – A new report out this week from StrategyEye, 'Mobile TV - Separating Hype from Reality', concludes that receiving television on our mobile phones will not be an everyday reality for at least another five years.
News categories: StrategyEye, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile

VisualOn Announces Multimedia Software Solution for Texas Instruments OMAP35x Applications Processors
Oct 9, 2008 – VisualOn has announced software for TI (NYSE:TXN) OMAP35x application processors. The software supports essential functions needed to enable video for ARM-based applications, with support for larger screen sizes and higher resolution video.
News categories: VisualOn, Texas Instruments, Media Player, Mobile, Semiconductor

Abilis Systems Standardizes On ARC® For Mobile DTV Applications
Oct 9, 2008 – ARC International (LSE: ARK) has announced that Abilis Systems (SWX:KUD.VX) has taken a new license for ARC solutions that will help extend its range of mobile digital TV chips.
News categories: ARC International, Abilis Systems, Mobile, Semiconductor, Silicon IP

Orange cinéma séries: all the emotions of the cinema on three screens - mobile, PC and TV - from 13 November
Oct 8, 2008 – With the launch of Orange cinema series, Orange (Paris & NYSE: FTE) is offering a new way of watching films and TV series. All programmes are available on demand and and can be watched on any screen at any time depending on the circumstances.
News categories: Orange, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Mobile, Streaming

CEA Launches Mobile DTV Standard Group
Oct 8, 2008 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® seeks participation in a new Special Interest Group to address A/153 - the mobile/handheld addition to the ATSC broadcast digital television standards in the United States.
News categories: Consumer Electronics Association, Digital TV, Mobile, USA

Solaris Mobile ready to take Europe into a new age of mobile services
Oct 7, 2008 – Solaris Mobile has announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Content Distribution, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Qatar readies for world's first commercial Mobile TV service based on DVB-H and OMA BCast Smart Card Profile
Oct 7, 2008 – Qatar Telecom (Qtel) [Doha: QTEL] and Nokia Siemens Networks have signed the world's first commercial Mobile TV deployment contract based on DVB-H and OMA BCast Smart Card Profile technology.
News categories: Nokia Siemens Networks, Qatar Telecom, CAM, Content Protection, Digital TV, Mobile, Qatar

Consumer spending on mobile broadcast TV to reach $2.7 billion by 2013, but revenues to be hit by free to air services
Oct 7, 2008 – The increasing availability of mobile handsets capable of receiving free-to-air analogue and digital terrestrial TV signals will adversely impact the prospects for dedicated mobile broadcast TV networks, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
News categories: Juniper Research, Digital TV, Market Research, Mobile, Smart TV, Terrestrial