Posts Tagged ‘cell phones’
mSpot Bets on Mobile Movies
Nov 17 by Debra Kaufman | 2 CommentsIn October, mSpot launched a new VOD movie services, across all carriers and on 30 handsets. According to mSpot CEO Daren Tsui, the company worked with Sprint to launch a long-form entertainment channel, with movies and episodic TV. The S-VOD (subscription video-on-demand) service took off, cementing Tsui’s belief that–despite what many in mobile say–people are happy to watch long-form programming on the mobile phone.MobilizedTV spoke with Tsui about how the business of mobile movies is doing and what mSpot plans for the future (hint: think iPhone).
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Cell Phone Novels: Blockbusters in Japan
Feb 12 by Debra Kaufman | 1 CommentThe idea of reading a novel on a cell phone is new enough; that someone would actually write a novel using a cell phone keyboard seems unbelievable. But it’s a huge trend in Japan, and this article in the New Yorker goes into detail on the people writing the novels and those who are reading them.
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Sep 23 by Debra Kaufman | 4 CommentsAdobe Systems is well-known for Flash. But now the company has launched Adobe Open Screen, to get Flash onto devices of all types, from mobile phones to ATM machines. “It’s almost trivial to publish content on the web today,” says Adobe director of technical marketing. “We’d like to bring some of that ease of publishing and distribution to the device industry.”
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