California-based mobile video service provider Vuclip today launched India’s first independent mobile movie portal — Starlight Cinema. This would offer users the option of watching shortened feature films, movie clips, songs, reviews and trailers. Movies can be downloaded on low-end feature phones as well, without the need to download any application. Offering 9,000 movie clips …
Tag Archive: Mobile
Sep
19
Pay-TV affordability crisis to leave widespread cord-cutting
TV and mobile operators “face an affordability crisis,” said Craig Moffett, senior analyst at Bernstein Research, in a client note. He went on to raise the spectre of video cord-cutting in an era of steep unemployment and declining real income. Services like Comcast’s cable TV packages and AT&T Mobility data plans only keep getting more …
Sep
15
China ad spend set to grow by 15%
China – Ad spend in China is expected to see a 15.2% growth to reach RMB347 billion, GroupM China in its latest study concluded. The forecast titled ‘This Year, Next Year: China Media Forecasts”, attributed the growth to several factors such as television audience size, and expansion in the internet, outdoor and mobile media. Ad …
Sep
01
Google reveals Hong Kong’s smartphone habits
People use smartphones for different things. If you’re a smartphone user in Hong Kong, chances are you use it for search, social networking and comparison-shopping. Online shopping, not so much. That’s according to Google, which previewed results of an upcoming global smartphone survey on Tuesday in Hong Kong. The full results – which cover 30 …
Aug
25
Good luck to Yingluck in telco revamp
Thailand’s new Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has an extensive to-do list of economic reforms, but none will be more closely scrutinised than the sector she is most intimately linked to: the country’s long-coddled telecommunications industry. A former top executive of one of Thailand’s largest mobile telecommunications concerns, she must quickly push ahead with forming an …
Aug
17
Older users bored of social networks
Social networks must seek out new customers and innovate applications to maintain their meteoric growth rates, as fresh evidence of technology fatigue emerges. A Gartner survey of 6,295 consumers in 11 global markets reveals that 24% are using their favorite social media site less than when they first signed up. While that trend is more …
Aug
04
Multiscreen video to drive transcoding investment
Multiscreen video distribution is about to drive a whole new wave of investment. Increasing mobile video traffic is set to push the market for video transcoding products past $460 million in 2015, new research from In-Stat has revealed. Read more: Multiscreen video to drive transcoding investment | News | Rapid TV News http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2011080214079/multiscreen-video-to-drive-transcoding-investment.html#ixzz1U1dY0mpX
