Last week was, it is fair to say, a rather momentous one for North American mobile broadcast TV. Firstly, the sad news that, having struggled defiantly against the dying of the light for a good while now, Qualcomm announced that it was suspending sales of its D2C FLO TV service and devices with immediate effect; [...]
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Cisco ambitious on video calling with umi, but will there be takers?
by Anthony Cox on October 12th, 2010
With up front costs of $600, and ongoing fees of $25 per month, Cisco’s marketing will have to be pretty good to sign up subcribers to its TelePresence service, umi. And while it may have two USPs- introducing video calling to the TV rather than the laptop or desktop, and almost certainly better quality- that [...]
A number of us – predominantly, but by no means exclusively, the chaps amongst us – have spent a goodish part of the past month content in the knowledge that pretty much any time we switch on the TV, there will be twenty two men in brightly coloured shirts attempting to hoof a ball into [...]
Will mobile and the Internet move the broadcasting goalposts?
by Dr Windsor Holden on October 7th, 2009
A glimpse of the future. In 2016 (or 2017, or even 2018), English football supporters will be outraged when Wolverhampton Wanderers (or Hull City, or Wigan Athletic) sell the exclusive television rights to their home matches to Vodafone (or O2, or whatever brand emerges from the Orange/T-Mobile merger). Questions will be asked in Parliament; spleens [...]
It appears that we have a disagreement amongst chipset manufacturers. Mobile TV is on its uppers, according to Yannick Levy, CEO of DiBCom. No it isn’t, says Weijie Yun, his counterpart at Telegent. Well, I’ve paraphrased a little. Before chiming in with my own six penn’orth, let me elaborate. At Computex last month, Levy said [...]
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