8 posts and columns on mobile video

Socialcam’s User Retention Strategy, Part One: A New Look for the Web Interface

in Social on May 22 at 1:00 pm PT

Socialcam has millions of users. So how will it keep them all?
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Verizon Finds an Innovative Way for Customers to Bust Through Their Data Caps

in Mobile on May 22 at 7:05 am PT

The carrier details plans for Viewdini, a service designed to help its 4G LTE customers find videos from a variety of sources, including Netflix, Hulu Plus and Xfinity.
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Color’s Plan C (Or Is It B.5?): Becoming Verizon’s Live Mobile Video Partner

in Social on May 7 at 8:15 am PT

Color, the famously overfunded social app shop, is still looking for its first big hit.
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News Byte

Skype for Windows Phone Hits Beta

in News on February 27 at 4:51 am PT

The long-expected version of Skype for Windows Phone has been released as a beta at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It boasts a new user experience that’s tied in to the Windows Phone interface, Metro.

Viddy Scores $6M for Social Mobile Video

in Social on February 7 at 6:00 am PT

The category of social mobile video start-ups is going to stick around for a while, if only because it seems to keep attracting investment dollars.
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HighlightCam Stitches Mobile Videos Into Automagical Highlight Reels

in Mobile on November 29, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

The HighlightCam app for iPhone and Android helps make raw video footage more punchy and interesting by condensing mobile clips and editing them together.
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Netflix CEO: iPad, iPhone Streaming Not a Priority

in Mobile on January 29, 2010 at 7:53 am PT

While unveiling the iPad this past Wednesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted it as “the best device” for watching mobile video. And that may well prove to be the case–but not for mobile video from Netflix, because at this point, the DVD-by-mail pioneer has no plans to bring its subscription-based streaming service to the iPad, or to the iPhone for that matter.

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Americans Watching More TV Than Ever, Nielsen Says

in News on July 8, 2008 at 12:06 pm PT

The more things change, the more they stay the same: In May, Americans watched more hours of television than ever before, according to Nielsen. In May, Nielsen reports, the average American watched 127 hours and 15 minutes of television, which comes to something just over 4 hours a day. That’s up 4 percent from 121 hours, 48 minutes in May 2007. There are some signs of change elsewhere in the data, however.