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What’s next in telecommunications?

As the most influential executives in the telecommunications
industry gather this week in Las Vegas for their annual powwow, they’re
more likely to be talking about TV than phones.

Judging from the diverse list of keynote speakers, it’s easy to see
that the phone business is readying itself for cataclysmic change. The
traditional telecommunications market has already begun consolidating in anticipation.

New technology developments are making it possible for content owners,
such as Disney, and Internet companies, such as Google and Yahoo, to
also become competitors to the cable and phone companies, since these
companies will also be able to deliver telephony and video services.

MercuryNews.com | 03/20/2006 | Startup to wed mobile games with live TV shows

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Dialing into the fast-growing market for mobile games, a San Francisco-based startup is poised to unveil a new service on Monday that it hopes will make television viewers as hooked to their cell phones as they are to remote controls.

AirPlay Network Inc. said it will introduce a lineup of cell phone games tied to live television broadcasts. While watching TV, subscribers could use their cell phones to compete against others in “real time'’ by predicting plays in sports, choosing winners on reality TV shows or picking answers on game shows.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Content challenge for mobile TV

How to make content compelling enough for a small screen is the question taxing the minds of broadcasters who want a piece of the mobile phone pie. To get one perspective on the issue, Click spoke to Gideon Bierer from MTV Networks.

Este artículo utiliza el ejemplo de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno en Torino para explicar lo complejo del nuevo panorama mediático y las enormes oportunidades en newmedia.

NBC partnerships build new Olympic platforms - Yahoo! News

It’s unlikely that even the most ardent Olympics fan can sit at home to watch all 418 hours of NBC’s coverage from Turin, Italy. The network, therefore, pumped up its online presence and entered alliances with Google, ESPN.com, Apple, TV Guide, MobiTV, Zingy and other companies to extend its reach far beyond the television set.

Business Week Online 

The software giant may finally have figured out how to crack the wireless business.

Say this much for Microsoft: It never gives up. A decade after it started flogging a shrunken-down version of Windows for electronic devices other than PCs, the Redmond (Wash.)-based software titan is finally making a meaningful mark on the vibrant market for mobile phones.

What’s going on here is that Microsoft has finally started to figure out the mobile industry — and to spot the places where it can exert the most leverage.

Technology News: Laptops Will Use SIM To Connect To Both 3G And Wi-Fi Networks

At the mobile world’s annual gathering, the 3GSM World Congress, the GSM Association (GSMA) and Intel Corporation today announced an initiative to facilitate and drive the adoption of the GSM family of technologies in laptop computers, to enable users to connect and seamlessly roam across global mobile networks.

The GSMA and Intel will collaborate to develop guidelines for integrating 3G modems and SIM cards into laptop computers, enabling automatic connection to both 3GSM networks and Wi-Fi networks around the world - using the same SIM card technology used by mobile phones today.

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Britain’s BT Group Plc said on Tuesday it had signed up Virgin Mobile UK as its first customer for a service that will make the UK mobile operator Europe’s first to launch mobile TV on cell phones.Bid target Virgin Mobile, Britain’s fourth-largest mobile operator that is majority owned by UK entrepreneur Richard Branson, will use BT’s Movio wholesale mobile TV product to offer up to 5 digital television channels and 350 radio channels on mobile phones.

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Some operators such as Hutchison Whampoa’s “3″ units, Orange and Vodafone Group Plc already stream TV channels over their 3G mobile networks, but experts say this cannot be a mass market solution because it could clog bandwidth if too many people watched the service.

BT Movio by contrast will broadcast signals that will be picked up by a microchip inside the phone.