Spike TV Powers Up Its Mobile Content and Announces the First-Ever Ringtone Deal With Comic Book Icon Stan Lee: At Comic-Con today, Spike TV, a division of VIACOM Inc.'s MTVN Entertainment Group, announced its first-ever original
ringtone deal with Spider-Man(R)(1) co- creator and legendary comic book writer Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment, Inc.
Wave3 promises content revolution: A new application called Wave3 claims to provide a ‘fundamentally new way’ of delivering and accessing mobile
content – by changing the way networks stream feature-rich applications and content to deliver high quality interactive
media to mobiles.
Voice Services for Mobile Marketing: Lots of Options!: Let's talk voice-based mobile marketing. There are lots of opportunities for marketers to leverage voice for mobile marketing
campaigns.
Mobile Ready Expands Direct-2-Mobile Features: Mobile Ready Entertainment Corp (PINKSHEETS: MRDY) today announced that it will soon be releasing a newer expanded version
of their new Direct-2-Mobile product solution which enables an advanced level of direct marketing and sales of mobile content.
GoLive! Mobile Launches MobiCart Web Site Plug-in: GoLive! Mobile, a company that focuses on improving the mobile market by offering content management, mobile messaging and
billing solutions, this week launched its new MobiCart Web site plug-in.
Nokia targets content sharing with Twango buy: Nokia is taking aim at the mobile content sharing market with the announcement that it has bought media sharing company Twango.
Very Competitive Mobile Market In US: FCC: CTIA has filed a letter with the FCC promoting the competitiveness of the US mobile marketplace and refuting the “circulating
myths” about the European mobile marketplace being more advanced.
Now local search gets profitable for local business. Announcing Local Leap from Vertical Leap: Vertical Leap, pioneer of managed search engine marketing, has launched Local Leap, a new search optimisation service specifically
for businesses whose market is local, rather than global.
Mobile search to reach $715 million by 2011: Researchers predict that mobile search will bring in about $715 million by 2011. That is roughly 15% of the entire mobile
spend, according to the report.
Superpages Adds Video To Local Search Site: Superpages becomes the second major local search destination to add video advertising after Citysearch did so recently (in
partnership with TurnHere).
Web, Mobile Content Distributor Harmony Media Gets $4.5 Million: London - Harmony Media Group, the parent company of digital film publishing provider Filmnight Digital and online/mobile
content distributor Saffron Digital, announced on Monday that it has raised $4.5 million in a new funding round, led by Beringea
Capital.
Alpheus comments on Google's mobile search box: Regarding the news that Google is readying a mobile content search box, please see the comment below from Alpheus, which
can be used if you are writing on the topic.
Mobile Search in the US: Competition for the US mobile search market promises to be fierce, thanks to the large US online ad market and strong pushes
by portals.
i411 Powers Local Search at ListaOnline.com: SAO PAULO, Brazil and HERNDON, Va., July 20, 2007 -- Publicar S.A. has implemented the i411 Discovery Engine to power the
popular local search destination ListaOnline.com.
Africa: Mobile Video News Service: MTech, a leading African mobile content provider, and sports marketing company OSMi announced earlier this week that they
had won the rights to power mobile Premier League highlights and news service across Africa (excluding South Africa). However,
these broadcasts exclude South Africa.
Google Finds Mobile Search More Challenging Than Expected: According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, Google is working on a search service designed to help consumers find
mobile content such as ringtones, games, and other paid content. But the project isn't going that well.
