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A new study claims that 87% of children would like to watch television on their mobile phones. The research, from Quaestor, was carried out on children aged 10-12. Quaestor said that there were differences between genders with regards to preferences for potential content, with sport more popular amongst boys and soaps more popular with girls.… Continue reading Almost 90% of Children Want Mobile TV

Women represent 59% of all US consumers who play games on a mobile phone, according to Electronic Gaming in the Digital Home, a new study from Parks Associates. The research also says that women comprise 61% of all those who play mobile phone games for one to four hours per month and 58% of all… Continue reading Women Represent Almost 60% Of US Mobile Phone Gamers

Text messaging achieved an all time high in May, reaching 3.3 billion messages, according to latest figures released by the Mobile Data Association (MDA). Person-to-person texts sent across the UK GSM network operators last month increased by 26% on the total sent during the same period in 2005, beating the previous record of 3.2 billion… Continue reading UK Txt Msgs Reach 3.3 Billion For May

Mobile TV is looming ever larger on the horizon but industry figures say that it is content that will make or break the platform. Speaking at the Broadcast Live conference, Graeme Ferguson, director of global content development at Vodafone Group, said that consumers had made it clear that content is everything when it comes to… Continue reading Mobile TV Will Rely On Content

Mobile TV broadcast subscribers worldwide will reach 102 million by the end of 2010, a giant leap from 3.4 million in 2006, according to reports by In-Stat. Recognising that using cellular networks to deliver content that millions want to watch simultaneously requires much greater bandwidth than is currently available, carriers are turning to mobile TV… Continue reading Mobile TV To Reach 102 Million Subscribers By 2010

Sony Ericsson, in conjunction with Emap², is to start one of its biggest UK branding campaigns to date in support of its Walkman phone.The campaign (put together by Sony Ericsson, Mediaedge:cia and Emap²) will run across a wide range of Emap’s media platforms in an exclusive deal designed to promote the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone… Continue reading Sony Ericsson To Launch Campaign In Support Of Walkman Phone

Mobile TV will take off in a big way this year, according to a report by Informa Telecoms & Media, with the World Cup providing the spark for the launch of services across Europe. Informa predicts that the £300 million of revenue will come from users accessing streaming and broadcast services on their phones in… Continue reading World Cup To Kick Off Growth For Mobile TV

Orange plans to offer a UK broadband television service this year, in direct competition with BT and BSkyB’s converged television and internet product, due to be launched shortly.Orange, which recently rebranded ISP Wanadoo with the Orange moniker (see Wanadoo Makes Way For Orange Price War Brews Over Free Broadband), and Orange’s 15 million mobile subscribers… Continue reading Orange Announces “Free” Broadband TV

Vodafone has reported an overwhelming take-up for their mobile TV service, launched last year with BskyB. Sky Mobile TV, which is streamed straight to mobiles so doesn’t need to be downloaded, has signed up over 100,000 subscribers, and now experiences more than 70,000 streams per day. Speaking to delegates at MEM2006, the annual Mobile Entertainment… Continue reading TV To Go

The UK has been named the most digital country in Western Europe, in research by Informa Telecoms & Media. The Converging Media (CM) Index, published quarterly by Informa, gives the UK an index of 30.5 at ther end of 2005, compared to second place Finland’s 23.1. Steve Mullins, editor of Informa Telecoms & Media’s research… Continue reading UK Named Most Digital Country In Western Europe