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Mobile Highlights at CES 2010

If you’re interested in content on mobile devices, visit CES (Consumer Electronics Show) January 7 to 10, 2010. Mobile content will play a major role in numerous areas on the show floor as well as in the conference portion of the show.

Mobile Monday LA Panel Looks at Content

Mobile Monday Los Angeles tackled the topic of mobile content, opening the evening with remarks from MobiTV’s Jack Hallinan, who was named Mobile Ambassador at the 2008 Mobile Excellence Awards. He listed some astonishing statistics about the growth of mobile TV, quoting InStat’s estimate that wordwide viewership will expand from today’s 54 million to 300 million by 2013. “We’ve seen a migration in the last year or two shifting from a focus on advertising towards a focus on content,” he said. “In the early days, content was minor league. Now you have a tremendous uptick in mobile content players, including big players like ESPN, CNN, Comedy Central. Sports, news, comedy and entertainment are the big drivers. Everything will happen on mobile.”

New York Times Weighs in on Mobile Competition

“It is gratifying to see that the leviathans of mobile telecommunications in the United States are finally drawing the attention of regulators and Congress,” begins today’s editorial in the NY Times. This editorial is a must-read for anyone interested in the mobile eco-system in the U.S. The editorial posits some of the questions related to exclusivity and the dominance of the Big Four: Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile.

Universal Integrates iTouch/iPod with “Fast & Furious” Blu-Ray Release

When Universal Studios Home Entertainment announced yesterday that it’s releasing iPhone/iPod Touch apps that integrate with its Blu-Ray release of Fast & Furious, it should really come as no big surprise. It’s just more blurring of the lines between content platforms and delivery mechanisms. Kudos to Universal Studios Home Entertainment for taking a creative step forward.

So What’s Happening in Mobile Content? Powerful Devices and Fast Data Networks Have Changed the Game

Since the beginning, content developed for mobile phones has been a game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds. Like a painter who is tasked with creating art on a very small canvas with only one color, mobile content developers did as much as they could with the resources at their disposal. Fast forward to now.

The game of low bandwidth and slow processing speeds is ending very, very quickly. High speed networks and mobile broadband are becoming increasingly ubiquitous.

Mobile GPS Opens Doors to Content, Commerce

At a Digital Hollywood session last week, panelists considered the impact of GPS and location-based services (LBS) on mobile content and commerce. By 2014, there will be a 46 percent growth in GPS-enabled mobile phone shipments worldwide. “We’re seeing evidence there’s big growth here and that mobile commerce and location based services are overlapping. It looks like there’ll be traction.”