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Mobile future: TV, power and the 'internet of things'
News In a keynote at the Cambridge Wireless International Conference last week, Andrew Gilbert, executive VP and president of chipmaker Qualcomm's internet services/MediaFLO technologies and Qualcomm Europe, took the audience... [06 May 2009]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Mobile TV is an area close to Qualcomm's heart: its big-in-the-US MediaFLO data broadcasting tech is a rival to current European favourite DVB-H. As Disruptive Analysis analyst Dean Bubley speculates, writing on his... [21 May 2008]
Qualcomm snaps up spectrum for £8m
News In February Qualcomm announced the successful trial of its MediaFLO mobile video service with broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting. US technology giant Qualcomm has bought part of the UK radio spectrum for £8m. [16 May 2008]
Row over European mobile TV standards
News But industry commentators say other mobile TV platforms such as the Qualcomm-backed MediaFLO and DAB-IP, as used by Virgin Mobile, should not be ignored. Omar Javaid, VP of global strategy and business development for... [19 Jul 2007]
Mobile telly to hit the big time in five years?
News Chris Khouri, associate media and broadcasting analyst at Datamonitor, told silicon.com the European mobile telly landscape is set for "strong growth" between 2009 and 2012 owing to the analogue to digital switch-over freeing up spectrum... [31 May 2007]
Editor's Blog: Define this
Comment That term has many connotations but in the world of operators and comms equipment providers the distinction is normally subtle - does it mean video streamed over 3G or video content broadcast using technologies such as DVB-H,... [23 May 2007]
Brussels calls for mobile TV unity
News It's not the only standard that has been used in Blighty: BT has chosen DAB-IP for its Movio service and Sky has dabbled with Qualcomm's MediaFLO. The EC has recommended the industry pick a single mobile TV standard - or... [19 Mar 2007]
No more mobile telly for the UK?
News Sky carried out a technical trial of Qualcomm's MediaFLO standard in Manchester following a similar pilot of the tech last year in Cambridge. Robin Crossley, strategy adviser on technology for BSkyB, said the trial... [13 Feb 2007]
Nokia reveals business threesome
News A third option, MediaFLO mobile TV technology touted by Qualcomm, is being trialled by BSkyB in the UK. Nokia has kicked off this year's 3GSM conference with a raft of new products for work and play. Olli Pekka... [12 Feb 2007]
Verizon unveils live TV service for mobiles
News Verizon Wireless' VCast TV is the first mobile TV service to use a dedicated video broadcast network built and owned by Qualcomm, called MediaFlo. Sprint Nextel, which also offers a video service over its 3G cellular... [08 Jan 2007]
Motorola and Nokia DVB-Hugging
News DVB-H is just one of many competing standards of mobile TV being trialled around the world, including DAB-IP, used by BT and Virgin Mobile, and MediaFLO, the Qualcomm-owned standard being piloted by Sky. [11 Sep 2006]
3 gets exclusive rights to ITV content
News A number of mobile broadcast systems are already being trialled in the UK, including DVB-H by O2, DAB-IP by BT and MediaFLO by BSKyB. No need to miss Celebrity Love Island or Emmerdale again. Mobile network 3 has buddied... [07 Aug 2006]
Sprint Nextel already looking to 4G
News Verizon Wireless has already agreed to work with Qualcomm, which is developing a network especially for mobile TV using a technology it calls MediaFlo. During a keynote speech at Yankee Group Research's Wireless... [28 Jun 2006]
World Cup kicks off $300m mobile TV bonanza
News Informa predicts the victor in the standards war will be the Nokia-backed DVB-H, set to sell in the region of 63 million mobile telly devices, with MediaFLO next in line with sales of 14.5 million. Although the two... [07 Jun 2006]
Leader: Why mobile TV is important
Leader When it comes to broadcast mobile TV, standards such as DVB-H, MediaFLO, DAB-IP and DMB have been bandied about. These are important for equipment vendors - people like Nokia in the case of the first example (DVB-H),... [05 Jun 2006]
