Mobile Content Bits: BBC Worldwide-Radio Times; MTV; Linkin Park; 5.4 Billion Mobiles

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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