—ESPN (NYSE: DIS) ScoreCenter: ESPN Mobile has launched a third app on the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App Store: ESPN ScoreCenter is a free app that will be sponsored at launch by Lexus, and delivers real-time scores, live game info, game summaries and statistics to iPhone and iPod touch users in…

While media companies have been quick to jump on the application bandwagon, Disney (NYSE: DIS) reported today that its focus on the mobile web has started to pay off—traffic to its mobile Disney.com site increased by a record-breaking 38 percent in the first quarter. The company reported that mobile page…

—Mission Impossible, Samsung? Samsung has signed a deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment to package the three Mission Impossible films with new Samsung Delve phones bought from Alltel (NYSE: AT). The trilogy will be on microSD cards; buyers will receive a mail-in redemption card they’ll have to send in to get…

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has turned to mobile video on demand services in South Korea to see if the service can help stem the piracy of its movies and TV shows that regularly turn up for free on the internet. On Friday, Disney-ABC International Television, the studio’s international distribution arm, announced…

For most of the sports-viewing world, the big news in the deal announced today between ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and the Bowl Championship Series is the price tag—an estimated $500 million—and the apparently inexorable move of major sports from free over-the-air broadcast to subscription-supported cable. But, as we suggested yesterday, it…

Mobile social network platform provider envIO networks has appointed former Vantrix head Manish Jha as president and CEO of the company. He replaces the company’s co-founder and previous CEO Prakash Iyer, who takes up the position of Chief Technology Officer. Jha, who arrives from Vantrix, a Montreal-based mobile content application…

An interesting product placement deal from Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), where its phones will now become part of the Disney’s theme parks from now on, thus extending beyond its deal with Disney-owned ESPN (NYSE: DIS). As part of this new deal, VZW phones will have the ability to find restaurants,…

Would Disney (NYSE: DIS) consider buying Electronic Arts? That’s the suggestion being floated by Heard on the Street’s Martin Peers at the WSJ. With EA’s stock at its lowest point in more than seven years, competitors and other media giants may decide that now is the time to try to…

The controversy surrounding next Tuesday’s vote at the FCC on white spaces is heating up as bigger names enter the debate. The regulatory agency will vote on whether to open the unused spectrum for auction, however there’s continued debate about the potential for interference with adjacent airwaves. Because of that,…

Fans of Photo Hunt rejoice. ESPN (NYSE: DIS) Cameraman, a new application just launched on the App Store, will seem familiar to regular users of the photo-comparison game that sits like a small TV on so many bars. Bringing a strong sports element and higher-quality photography into the mix, the…

—MobiTV gets ABC content: MobiTV has struck a deal with Disney-ABC Television group to distribute ABC Mobile, a channel which includes full-length episodes ABC series,  Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, Samantha Who? and Ugly Betty, among others. ABC Mobile also features additional content from ABC Daytime, ABC Family and ABC News.…

A group of executives from MediaFLO USA, MobiTV, MTV, Disney (NYSE: DIS) and Fox sat in on an afternoon panel that addressed the various business models and use types that comprise the mobile TV space today and where they hope to see things going as more models and technologies converge.…

Development Deal With Korean Mobile Game Company Com2uS: Disney (NYSE: DIS) Interactive Media Group’s mobile content division, mDisney, inked a deal with Com2uS to develop mobile games for Disney to publish and distribute in the United States. Disney Puzzle Family will be the first game released under the agreement later…

ESPN (NYSE: DIS) has the right to simulcast Southeastern Conference (SEC) games on mobile under a new 15-year deal with the powerhouse athletic conference. The deal, reported by SBJ to be worth $2.25 billion, includes simulcasts of live games—including football and basketball—on ESPN Mobile TV. As was the case with…

Our sister site PaidContent.org is reporting that ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and Major League Baseball’s Advanced Media group (MLBAM) are extending their digital rights deal through 2013. Staci Kramer covered the news in two posts, one of which covers the basics, and in another that includes interviews with ESPN’s John Skipper…

But that we knew…Forbes does a good roundup of Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) extensive mobile efforts, focusing on content and applications, after its disastrous forays in MVNO land. Imagine all of what it could have done in the content space with the hundreds of millions it spent on ESPN and Disney…

U.S. smartphone users spend an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes a month browsing the mobile Web, whereas their British counterparts spend about two and a half hours a month, according to a report released by M:Metrics today. The discrepancy in the duration is due to the relative popularity…

Radio Disney has launched a mobile offering, unsurprisingly developed with mDisney (NYSE: DIS). The Radio Disney Mobile Web Site lets people with web-enabled mobile phones receive Radio Disney information and services including the ability to listen to Radio Disney, see the last ten songs played on Radio Disney, find local…

Reports that Sonopia was shutting down spread like wildfire yesterday, but its founder Juha Christensen, said today it’s not true. The company is still alive, but drastically scaling back its business and essentially hibernating until the U.S. MVNO market turns around. Sonopia has eliminated all of its U.S. employees from…