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Using Livestream Procaster, users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop. Livestream producers can start streaming live to the addressable iPhone and iPod Touch audience over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.
Livestream is the first to offer a turn-key streaming service that uses the new H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality included in the native QuickTime player that Apple has pre-installed on the iPhone. This means that Livestream producers do not need to obtain iPhone App Store approval to launch their own iPhone live streaming channel, nor do their viewers need to install any application. Streams are viewed using the iPhone's Safari browser.
Using Livestream Procaster, users can stream live from their webcam, video camera or even broadcast their PC or Mac desktop. Livestream producers can start streaming live to the addressable iPhone and iPod Touch audience over 3G or Wi-Fi connections, with less than five minutes of setup.
Livestream is the first to offer a turn-key streaming service that uses the new H.264 HTTP live streaming functionality included in the native QuickTime player that Apple has pre-installed on the iPhone. This means that Livestream producers do not need to obtain iPhone App Store approval to launch their own iPhone live streaming channel, nor do their viewers need to install any application. Streams are viewed using the iPhone's Safari browser.
Livestream has also provided a simple Representational State Transfer (REST) API for developers to integrate live streaming into their own iPhone websites or their own iPhone applications. Livestream Procaster includes a free streaming encoder, which means that no third party application or license needs to be purchased in order to stream live to the iPhone using Livestream.
According to Nielsen, mobile video viewing continued its upward trend, with over 15 million
Americans reporting watching mobile video in Q2 2009. This is an
increase of 70% versus last year - the largest annual growth to date.
Furthermore, Nielsen notes Americans are increasing their overall media consumption, and media multi-tasking is part of the equation, according to new data from The Nielsen Company's most recent Three Screen Report.
Transpera and InsightExpress shows msnbc.com mobile video delivery has grown rapidly. Since first introducing video into the msnbc.com mobile web product in March, monthly video views across the full suite of msnbc.com mobile product offerings has increased 207% -- that's an impressive 3x more video views in just over 4 months.
msnbc also claims 60% of its mobile users are the most sophisticated class of smartphone user: they are savvy, active, and shop online.
The study surveyed mobile users who watch mobile video at least once a week, and found that:
- 58% get more of their news from the mobile phone than ANY OTHER source, vs. only 10% of those who have never viewed mobile video.
- 78% rely on their mobile phone for up-to-the-minute information, vs. only 19% of those who never viewed mobile video. For the mobile video enthusiast, accessing timely news and information media on mobile is the priority.
With this in mind, msnbc.com's full suite of recently launched mobile video products, spans several mobile platforms and brings brand marketers even more options for reaching the highly engaged, mobile fan.
The
global number of users paying for mobile video services will grow
five-fold from 2008 to 2014,surpassing 534 million, with a substantial
proportion of mobile net additions coming from emerging markets,
according to the latest report by Pyramid Research the
telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network
Video is increasingly making its way into the mobile space across developed and emerging markets. “Pyramid Research estimates that the global number of users paying for mobile video services directly delivered to their handsets will grow five-fold from 2008 to 2014, surpassing 534 million at the end of the period,” says Derek Medlin, senior analyst at Pyramid Research and author of the report. “This is equivalent to 8.5 percent of all mobile subscriptions, up from the current 2.5 percent level,” he adds.
“The availability of improved devices and networks are contributing to a higher level of adoption and spending on mobile video services,” says Medlin. “Pyramid Research believes that a substantial proportion of mobile net additions in the next five years will come from emerging markets, especially in Asia/Pacific, and will drive a 37 percent growth in total mobile subscriptions from 2009 to 2014,” he explains. Markets such as Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea already lead in terms of mobile video penetration of subscriptions, but Pyramid also expects important uptake in India in the next five years.
“Looking ahead, Asia/Pacific will remain in the top spot, attaining more than 281 million subscriptions by 2014, although we expect Latin America to grow at the fastest pace, increasing at a CAGR of 39 percent from 2009 to 2014,” Medlin says. “Because of intense competition in the video market, operators have to be creative when launching new services; to meet surging demand for video, mobile players are making network upgrades, reducing data charges, improving content, and offering more advanced handsets,” he adds.
In the near future, handset users in the dark will able to hold video conferences. The Samsung SCH-W760 has a camera on the front sensitive to infrared spectrum so that users can hold grayscale video calls in complete darkness. The images will be in black and white.
With this phone it would also be possible to video "Strangers in the Night," car thieves and drunk friends dancing at parties.
The Samsung SCH-W760 is a slider phone with a 3 megapixel camera, DMB reception, Bluetooth, and a 2.8-inch AMOLED display. The Samsung SCH-W760 also offers an MP3 player, e-dictionary, mobile printing, and flashlight.
Hey you could even catch vampires and werewolves on the Samsung SCH-W760.
It will only be available to SK Telecom customers in Korea.
The results--aggregate usage statistics from 15 representative
QuickPlay-powered services over the first quarter of 2009--reveal that
consumer demand for streaming and mobile video download content remains
strong.The findings, compiled between January 1 and March 31, 2009, show that the number of total live TV and video streams viewed in the first quarter increased significantly from the previous quarter while the number of unique streaming viewers also experienced a noticeable increase over the same timeframe. In regard to downloads, the total number of mobile video downloads experienced a slight increase.
Video Streams
- Total number of live TV and video streams increased by 61% from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009
- Total number of unique viewers increased by 11% from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009
- Average streams per user decreased slightly from 17.4 in Q4 2008 to 15.7 in Q1 2009
Video Downloads
- Total number of video downloads increased by 3% from Q4 2008 to Q1 2009.
- Average download per user rose from 6.1 in Q4 2008 to 6.3 in Q1 2009.
YouTube has been available for many mobile phones for over a year, now, YouTube is offering a new version of the mobile
YouTube application for more operating systems.
The Mobile YouTube is optimized for most Windows Mobile and Symbian
Series 60 devices (a list of supported Nokia S60 devices is available here). The mobile app is also much faster -- up to 90% faster starting up, searching, and video
loading. Better video quality is due to the video being automatically
optimized to the users of a W-iFi or 3G network.
To get the app, visit http://m.youtube.com from a supported mobile
device. They plan on more improvements in the future.
This is the first time that Samsung Mobile and Paramount Digital Entertainment have worked together to bundle full-length feature films(s) to add promotional value to its mobile products,
The microSD card is available with the purchase of the Delve from
February 20 through April 16, from participating Alltel Wireless retail
stores and authorized dealers. For the first time you can play Flickr videos back on your phone from m.flckr.com. Formerly users could upload video from their phones but soon they can play them back on a variety of handsets.
The video player is based on the
Yahoo! Video Platform and takes advantage of its ability to serve
content to a wide variety of phones with different specs. They will launch video playback out over the coming weeks for
handsets that support streaming video, starting with the iPhone and
iPod Touch today, and more later.
The new m.flickr.com design makes it easier to view photostreams and sets, and puts recent activity front and center. Added capabilities include, adding contacts, favorite images, and change your privacy and permission settings as well as exploring the latest "interestingness" photos.
iPhone users have have been testing a beta version since. October. New versions are planned smartphones
that support browsers like Webkit, Firefox Mobile, and Opera Mobile.
MySpace mobile now offers streaming video. MySpace’s beta mobile video allows users to will view videos they’ve uploaded or have marked as a favorite.
MySpace used RipCode’s On-Demand Video Transcoding technology that supports several different handsets.
Premium content, including branded channels such as TMZ, National Hockey League, National Geographic, The Onion, College Humor, etc., are now available on mobile devices. Because MySpace is transcoding video on-demand, there is no longer need to store the entire MySpace video library in multiple mobile formats, thus saving significant hardware, energy and storage resources.
Accessing and viewing video from mobile devices is a data intensive service. MySpace mobile users are advised to consult their mobile data plan to avoid excessive fees. MySpace mobile video quality, as with all mobile services, is dependent on individual device capabilities as well as network speed and connection.
"Eventually, we'll give customers instant access to any movie on any device with an Internet connection and a screen," said Keith Morrow, Blockbuster's chief information officer.
The story also reports that Blockbuster could use the technology in airports. Where travelers download movies from Blockbuster kiosks to portable media players.
The service will be built on the new software platform from Microsoft, "Live Mesh." The platform allows Internet devices to share data.
Live Mesh will work with Macs and Windows Mobile smartphones in the near future.
Morrow also suggests there could be a system that would notify parents if their kids tried to watch a movie during homework time.
FlyCast's mobile broadcast network is one of the first of its kind to be available for BlackBerry smartphones. It will be available as a free download from the FlyCast mobile website (mobile.flycast.fm) beginning November 1st.
The FlyCast network delivers radio, video and podcasts over mobile broadband and Wi-Fi networks to mobile devices. A free alternative to satellite radio, the FlyCast network has experienced explosive growth in users and content since its launch in January 2008.
that offeris exclusive entertainment and lifestyle programming, that can be viewed and downloaded at www.nokia.co.uk/n96.
Nokia describes it as: "The next step in mobile entertainment, offering bespoke, timely and lifestyle led insights into topics we all love: motoring, fashion, gadgets, comedy, culture and homes; delivered in feature packed 96 second programs."
Mobi4BIZiwill make its market debut in the U.S. supporting
the BlackBerry Bold smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM)
(Nasdaq: RIMM). Mobi4BIZ is a video-centric application for mobile consumers
and business professionals that combines live TV and VOD content.
Mobi4BIZ will have at its foundation CNBC, with video content and up-to-the minute stock market data from official CNBC ticker. Other anticipated partners include Bloomberg Television, FOX Business and TheStreet.com. Mobi4BIZ features user-driven programming, where the consumer creates a watch list and all content discovery within the application is related to that list.
Utilizing an operator's 3G network and video-telephony capable handsets, IME combines the reliable simplicity of a voice call with multimedia, providing subscribers with a dynamically-generated, visual interface for finding information, content and entertainment using video call minutes on a per-minute basis rather than using data minutes.
Once IME is deployed in an operator's network, a subscriber with a video-calling plan would simply dial a phone number (like 411) and be presented with a menu of dynamic visual options, like movie trailers & times, traffic, music, shopping and more. Further, because the interaction takes place via a video call session, it is charged at per-minute fee, vs. eating into a subscriber's data allowance. Subscribers elect video-calling plans, an extension of the voice and data minute plans widely used, when a video-telephony capable phone is purchased
dotMobi, the company behind .mobi -- the only ICANN-approved
Internet address designed specifically for helping consumers find mobile
content -- announced the inclusion of Mobizoft video content adaptation data into
the award-winning DeviceAtlas, the definitive source of mobile handset information
for mobile content developers.
As part of this agreement, Mobizoft will gain licensed
access to the DeviceAtlas database, which will also improve the breadth and
width of their own device database and capabilities.
Cricket Communications, announced a flat-rate unlimited
mobile video service that allows users to view one-to-four-minute-long video
clips directly from select handsets. Videos available include music videos,
artist interviews, music documentaries, sports clips from
The courses are presented by some of the most prominent thought leaders in their respective fields, including Tom Peters, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Ken Blanchard and Bob Rosner.
"This initial offering from the Chalk / MindLeaders partnership tackles the most pressing issues in corporate America today and will help companies engage and develop their leaders and managers while fostering productivity", said Stewart Walchli, President & CEO, Chalk.
