Arts and entertainment
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Skycore targets Valentine’s market with MMS
February 7, 2008
Forget the rose. This Valentine’s Day you can send your loved ones multimedia messages with special holiday notes right to their mobile phones.
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Cellit powers Valentine’s Day event for Museum of Contemporary Art
February 1, 2008
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art is using Cellit LLC's display technology and real-time text-messaging service for the museum’s “Digital Post Office of Love” event.
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Myxer reaches 5M users and 12M monthly mobile downloads
February 1, 2008
Mobile content provider Myxer marked an industry milestone with over 5 million users and 12 million mobile downloads per month.
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YouTube launches mobile site with more features
January 28, 2008
Online video destination YouTube has introduced a new WAP site, a move that further validates the power of mobile video.
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Metacafe enables consumers to send short-form videos to mobile
January 28, 2008
Video entertainment Web site Metacafe and mobile content providers Nareos Inc. and Zed are trying to make it easy for users to find the videos they like.
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Mobile game developer turns watching TV into an active experience
January 28, 2008
Ever wish you can play along with television game shows or even live sports events? Seek AirPlay.
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Platinum Studios to use Creditz for comic book sales app
January 25, 2008
CEO America Inc., the exclusive U.S. licensee of the Creditz Digital Currency System, has signed a licensing and marketing agreement with Platinum Studios Inc., a firm that adapts comic book characters for all media.
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MyLifeBrand debuts Greg Brady community
January 23, 2008
Web and mobile service MyLifeBrand allied with brand consultancy The Blake Project to launch an online Greg Brady community.
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Fox Interactive takes Photobucket mobile
January 18, 2008
Fox Interactive Media Inc.’s Photobucket, a Web site that offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing, is debuting Photobucket Mobile to open its service to existing users and prospects.
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BlackBerry Pearl users can receive streaming video
January 15, 2008
U.S. and Canadian BlackBerry Pearl users no longer have to worry about on-device storage area or long waits to view downloaded content.
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Gameloft taps Bango for payments and tracking
January 11, 2008
Mobile game developer Gameloft didn’t want to play the odds with its mobile commerce efforts, so it turned to Bango.
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YouTube star Tay Zonday allies with Waterfall Mobile
January 9, 2008
YouTube phenomenon Tay Zonday and Waterfall Mobile are launching a direct-to-consumer mobile community powered by Waterfall Mobile’s Msgme platform.
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American Idol producer picks mobileStorm for email
January 8, 2008
Fremantle Media, producer of television shows such as “American Idol” and “The Price is Right,” has tapped mobileStorm Inc., Los Angeles, as its email service provider for the United States.
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Handmark to buy Astraware game studio
January 8, 2008
Mobile media firm Handmark has agreed to buy smartphone gaming studio Astraware, bringing the PDA game developer into the mobile phone space.
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Mandalay Media in reverse merger with mobile content producer Twistbox
January 3, 2008
Mandalay Media plans to buy mobile content producer and publisher Twistbox Entertainment Inc. in a reverse merger deal.
