Archive for February, 2008



Mobile Game Powerhouse Com2Us Brings its Experiences with “Micro-Billing” to North American Mobile Entertainment Industry. SAN FRANCISCO - Game Developers Conference - Feb. 18, 2008 - An audience of mobile game developers, publishers and industry dignitaries will get in on the latest trends in new revenue models for mobile games, hosted by Com2uS’ North American [...]

Mattel Partners with Screenlife, LLC and Warner Bros. Consumer Products to Bring Seinfeld Back into America’s Living Room with the New Scene It?(R) Seinfeld DVD Game

Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Interactive Media, 19 Entertainment, FremantleMedia and Apple, for the first time, have partnered to bring music fans all of the contestant performances from Season Seven of television’s most popular show exclusively on the iTunes Store. Kicking off with the “American Idol” Top 24 semifinalists this week, customers can purchase music performances [...]

Motorola has successfully completed its acquisition of Soundbuzz Pte., Ltd., a leading
pan-Asian music provider. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This latest deal opens the door for Motorola to extend its Greater China music platform, MotoMusic, to India and Southeast Asia.

Motorola has successfully completed its acquisition of Soundbuzz Pte., Ltd., a leading
pan-Asian music provider. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This latest deal opens the door for Motorola to extend its Greater China music platform, MotoMusic, to India and Southeast Asia.

According to the a new study by the Nielsen company, more than 13 million households with
television sets that can only receive analog broadcasts are currently unprepared for the transition to all digital broadcasting that is scheduled for February 18, 2009, according to the Nielsen Company. Another 6 million households have at least one television set [...]

Using a technology called MIMIEO, students at Northwestern University will poll thousands of people
during the February 24th ABC broadcast of the 80th Annual Academy Awards. Participants will be asked to rate each Oscar nominated movie ad, as well as rate how likely they are to go see the movie. Graduate student Rohit Bhat [...]

According to a new Nielsen study, Playback from Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) is increasing the amount of time people spend watching television. According to latest data from The Nielsen Company, in comparing total television usage (Live viewing plus DVR playback) for persons 18-49 in November, 2007 to total television usage in November, 2005 the researhers [...]

dotMobi, the consortium behind .mobi - the only Internet address created
specifically for mobile phones - today announced that award-winning country
music artist Tim McGraw has launched a mobile Internet site:
mcgraw2go.mobi.

Ever since podcasting was introduced, the question has been the same: Will anyone listen? The answer is definitely “Yes.”
Research firn eMarketer estimates that the total US podcast audience reached 18.5 million in 2007. Furthermore, that audience will increase by 251% to 65 million in 2012. And of those listeners, 25 million will be “active” users [...]