– BBC Worldwide’s Listings App: BBC Worldwide has released an iPhone app for its TV listings magazine, Radio Times. The app costs £1.79 and allows iPhone and iPod touch users to access TV and radio listings for 400 channels and stations. After the launch period, the app will increase in price to £2.99.
— MTV’s Ad For AT&T (NYSE: T) And LG: MTV has a new show out called The Phone, which will see contestants using an LG (SEO: 066570) handset on AT&T’s network to compete. They’ll need to send text messages and pictures, use the mobile internet and so on. It lacks the social aspects of Zed’s Rico al Instante. (release)
— Linkin Park: Rock band Linkin Park is eyeing the iPhone for further profits, signing a deal with Artificial Life for six applications — two a year for the next 3 years. The plans are to “release two interactive applications per year, featuring the band’s likeness and music in unconventional styles; the first launch is tentatively scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2009 pending approval”. Artificial Life (OTCBB: ALIF) gained fame as the developer of V-Girl, and saw sales more than triple last year.
— 5.4 Billion Mobile Users: ABI Research has predicted that the number of mobile subscriptions will grow from 4.3 billion this year to nearly 5.4 billion by 2013. (release)
— Nokia (NYSE: NOK) And USC In Research Deal: The University of Souther California and Nokia Research Center Hollywood have signed a collaboration framework agreement which will streamline the commercialization of USC’s inventions. The first project under this agreement with USC will focus on the advancement of Augmented Reality, which supplements a user’s view of the real world with three-dimensional computer graphic objects, providing a real-time, interactive and intuitive means of accessing and displaying spatial information. (release)
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