The first day of Digital Hollywood was the mobile-heavy day and hence our mobile-heavy coverage. Tomorrow will be a broadband-online one..some musicand mobile tidbits below:.
– Overheard: Target.com to launch its online music service soon…it is all ready, to be launched in time for the holiday season, and some talks that it might be working with Apple on this one.
– Napster’s Re-reinvention: Napster is heading for another re-invention of its business model..from what I’ve heard, it is going to re-re-launch Napster.com as a content destination brand, and the music service will be Web-based rather than the current software client based, and I also heard that cliched phrase: trying to become the MySpace of music. But wait a sec, isn’t MySpace already that?
– MobiTV’s 500K Subscribers: MobiTV, the mobile TV subscription service running on a few carriers in U.S.( Sprint PCS, Cingular and several regional carriers), through two carriers in Canada, and on Orange on UK, has publicly announced the number of subscribers for its service, for the first time: the figure: 500K. That’s still a small audience relatively speaking, but big enough that content providers are taking the mobile video/TV medium seriously.
– Qualcomm MediaFlo Countdown Clock: Qualcomm is betting big time ($800 million) on this one: it is reiterating that its mobile streaming TV service will be launch on company-owned MediaFlo technology by October 2006, in face of skepticism by analysts and industry observers. I am one of those observers, and hence in public interest, I’m launching a MediaFlo Countdown Watch…in exactly a year from now, MediaFLO would have launched on ——– network. I bet is is one of the Chinese operators, rather than a U.S. or European one.
– Veoh Networks: The startup’s online P2P TV service launched in beta today..more details on the company, which received venture funding recently, here
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