Mobilog

Saturday, October 8, 2005

Star India Launches India's First Mobisode On Hutch Phones. WebIndia123.com:

Star India has become the first Indian television network to launch mobisodes, which are essentially one-minute video clips specifically designed to be watched on mobile phones. The channel has specially created mobisodes of Star One's highest rated comedy show---"The Great Indian Laughter Challenge" (TGILC), which is currently among the top 50 shows week-on-week in India.

The mobisodes of TGILC will be available through HutchWorld on GPRS-enabled Hutch phones from October 10. Hutchison Essar Corporate Vice President Naveen Chopra said, "Today a mobile phone is not only a means of communication but also a personalized mode of entertainment." [ContentSutra]
11:40:25 PM

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Announcing: The Official MIPCOM Blog. :

Mipcom, one of the biggest TV and broadcasting conferences in the world, held in Cannes, France, has invited us to do the official blog out of the conference, from Oct 17-21. So we will, in our usual depth and breadth...
The 21-year old conference and trade show, managed by Reed Midem, is part of the Reed Business family. I'm glad a big conference like Mipcom is on the cutting edge, and progressive enough to let us do this and be completely hands-off. It is also keeping in line with Mipcom's and Reed Midem's attempts to move with the industry and incorporate more and more digital media related sub-conferences, panels and exhibits into their line of conferences.
Particularly interesting is the Mobile TV sub-conference and the Mobile TV awards, on October 19.
I hope other big conferences learn from this...I can certainly see the likes of CES, NCTA, CTAM or CTIA becoming more open.
Mike Butcher, our London-based contributing writer (former editor at New Media Age, launch editor for Industry Standard Europe and most recently the editor of Netimperative) will be writing for us out of the conference. If you're going there and want to meet up with him, you can e-mail him here.
We will have the full slate: panels coverage, audio interviews, pictures, gossips and breaking news...see you in Cannes. [PaidContent.org]
11:40:09 PM

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BSkyB's Digital Media Activities: Movie and Sports Downloads. : This is from UK satellite giant BSkyB's (part of News Corp) latest SEC filing in U.S....some interesting plans on the online and mobile content downloads:
"Subscribers to our current broadband internet services are able to download an application that provides access to Sky Sports programming on their PC, including match highlights, interviews, programme clips and Sky Sports News bulletins ("Sky Sports Broadband"). Before the end of calendar 2005, it is envisaged that DTH subscribers who subscribe to both Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2, and who have broadband internet access, will be able to download Sky Sports Broadband to their PC for free. It is envisaged that subscribers who subscribe to both Sky Movies 1 and Sky Movies 2, and who have broadband internet access, will be able to download for free an application that provides access to a Sky Movies 'on demand' service ("Sky Movies Broadband"). Sky Movies Broadband is planned to include a selection of approximately 200 movies at launch, which it is planned will increase over time. It is envisaged that subscribers taking a Sky World Package (the pre and post 1 September 2005 package containing all of the Sky Premium Channels), and who have broadband internet access, will be able to download both Sky Sports Broadband and Sky Movies Broadband for free.
More in extended entry... [PaidContent.org]
11:22:21 PM

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| 05.10.09 | Weekly i-mode Business Newsletter. i-mode Business Strategy. Weekly Newsletter. 1. T-Mobile leads PR on open garden open mobile internet; 2. StarHub plans 15-20% take of CP revenue; 3. Japan plans for 7m digital TV handsets in 2006; 4. Fourteenth i-mode launch - O2 Ireland; 5. KDDI sets pace ahead of DoCoMo in subscribers, songs and viewers. [i-mode Business Strategy]
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