GigaOM:
Text messages and banners on the mobile web are the most noticeable kinds of wireless ads, according to new research from Parks Associates, but mobile video and click-to-call campaigns draw the best response from consumers. S (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Which phone should you buy: Droid or Eris? Go with the Droid! — “Like many phone buying Ame (Read More)
VentureBeat:
YouTube is going to roll out 1080 pixel high-definition video later this week, as the video portal steps up its quality to compete with other sites. The new standard is a notch above its highest level at 720-pixel resolution. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Kyte, which gives high-end media publishers a way to distribute video on mobile phones, is launching support for Android and Nokia devices. (That’s on top of existing support for the iPhone and Blackberry devices.)The San Fra (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Executives from Tudou—one of two companies left fighting it out to be the YouTube of China—were in San Francisco earlier this week to meet with investors and do a little schmoozing.I met up with CEO Gary Wang and COO Sam Lai, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Talk about a long wait.It took Vidly two months and 17 days (or 6,739,238 seconds by their count) to make it into Apple’s app store.The San Francisco-based startup, which used to be called TwitVid.io and is backed by angel in (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Turns out TV execs had nothing to fear from DVR.Initially the networks worried that DVR users would fast-forward through commercials.Read the rest of this story »See Also:TiVo Sues AT&T And Verizon Over DVR Patent Infringemen (Read More)
Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge:
Los Angeles- The National Basketball Association (NBA) has released a new live mobilevideo application, for platforms including Apple's (NASD: AAPL) iPhone and the Google (NASD: GOOG)Android Marketplace, which will cost $40 p (Read More)
TechCrunch:
With the iPhone 3GS, the possibilities are endless. In July 2009, Harold Smith and Graham Mcbain took the iPhone 3GS, and made the first prototype of the OWLE Bubo, which we covered on CrunchGear. Now, just four months later, (Read More)
VentureBeat:
A new phone called Droid is about to hit the market at the end of October that most likely will have the glitz and power to bury the iPhone.So much so that I’m canceling my iPhone contract today. I’ll smugly wait out the rest (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Bambuser, the European mobile video streaming startup attempting to de-throne Silicon Valley’s Qik, has today launched its Android application on the Android market. That brings their mobile live video service to Symbian s60, (Read More)
WebProNews - eBusiness News, Search News, and Business Videos:
It's no secret that online video is popular, from Hulu to YouTube the number of Americans watching video continues to increase. In the SES session "The Next Wave for Online Video," the panelists focused on optimizing online v (Read More)
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The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has opened a public review period for the latest version of its Global Mobile Advertising Guidelines. The MMA says the guidelines are designed to provide an industry-standard framework t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
WiMAX, the next-generation technology that will replace aging Wi-Fi networks with smarter, faster Internet access, is slated to launch in the Bay Area in 2010. But a small cadre of software developers will be able to access t (Read More)
VentureBeat:
“Nobody ever got fired for buying TV,” our panelists agreed, yet mobile video traffic is growing 30 percent per month at some sites. Mobile traffic is becoming easier to track in detail than PC traffic, with location and user (Read More)
The Marketing Technology Blog:
This is incredibly fascinating and quite a game changer for the mobile market. Layar has launched in the Netherlands. Duke Long sent me a link to this new technology… Layar calls it a mobile augmented reality browser. I ca (Read More)