Mobile Content Bits: Vivendi Games?; Data Price Cuts; Reuters MoJo Mk2; iPhone Speed Cap
Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net:
—What’s Happening With Vivendi Games Mobile? Possible Sale Coming: What is going on with Vivendi Games Mobile, the mobile gaming unit of VG which is now part of Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) after the merger? We have been hearing rumblings of the mobile unit being disposed of, but haven’t been able to confirm to whom. Activision/Vivendi (EPA: VIV) Games’ PR has not returned our e-mails…
—Reding Again Beating Drum For Roaming SMS, Data Price Cuts: EU telcoms commissioner Vivianne Reding is again trying to get roaming mobile internet costs reduced across Europe: ”I count on the French presidency and on the European Parliament to help the commission solve this problem very soon.”
—Reuters’ Mobile Journos Go To The DNC, Minus The Mobile: Reuters’ mobile journalism project is reprising its Davos roving-reporter experiment at the Democratic and upcoming Republican conventions - but without a cell phone in sight. Out goes the N95 and in come video cameras, Flip Cams and Sanyo HDs, each handed to more than 40 delegates.
—Orange Admits To Capping iPhone 3G Speeds: Orange has admitted to capping 3G network speeds at 384Kbps for French iPhone customers. Orange said that the network speeds were capped to preserve network stability, but that it intends to raise the download cap for iPhone users to 1Mbps by Sept. 15.
Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Mobile, Companies, France Telecom, Orange, Reuters, Vivendi
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