Entertainment/Games

Mobile content firm says profits up 125%

Bango, the mobile content enabler, has reported a 121% increase in revenues up to £7.53 million and 125% increase in gross profits up to £2.19 million in its preliminary results ending 31 March 2006. This follows the company’s

Digita and Nokia signed world's first commercial DVB-H mobile TV platform supply contract

 Digita and Nokia have signed the world's first commercial DVB-H mobile TV platform supply contract. Nokia will deliver to Digita its Nokia Broadcast Solution (MBS) 3.0, which is a service management solution for DVB-H services. The MBS 3.0

Sky to trial MediaFLO in UK

Qualcomm and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) have announced that the broadcaster is to carry out its own evaluation of MediaFLO’s technical capabilities in a ten channel trial in the UK.

World Cup unlikely to blow mobile content market wide open

Not going to happen this time around

Industry leaders speaking on a panel at the FT's Mobile Conference 2006, said that the football World Cup being held in Germany this year would not be the spur for mass

3 releases mobile games advertising inventory

New specialist ad-space for games brands to drive traffic to their games

Mobile media company 3 has launched a new section of advertising inventory targeted at mobile games companies. The ad space, located on the 3 games portal,

Giesecke & Devrient teams with Amiga to offer high quality mobile entertainment

Amiga-enabled Mega memory GalaxSIM cards provide content portability across devices

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), a leading supplier of smart cards and system solutions for mobile communications, payment and identification, and Amiga, a provider of cross-platform enabling technology for

CoreMedia collaborates with Microsoft for convergent content services bridging the gap between mobile music and the PC

CoreMedia, a technology specialist in DRM, has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to create an interoperable, trusted platform for seamless exchange of premium protected content between mobile and PC platforms.

Mobile networks go broadcast with Ericsson

Ericsson has successfully trialed mobile broadcast technology for distribution of multimedia services, such as mobile TV, over 3G networks. The trial, performed in Stockholm, Sweden, was the first live use of Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS).