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...most enthusiastic entrants into mobile content isn't a media company at all. The NBA has made mobile phones a key part of its marketing strategy by offering fantasy leagues, team wallpaper, game stats and video highlights for mobile phones. With network-television audiences shrinking and cable-TV viewers so dispersed, mobile phones present a unique opportunity for the league to reach its fans through the one line they always have open. Later this year, Apple plans to shake up that industry even further. The company that transformed digital music is jointly developing a cell phone with Motorola. Called...
...handle all this sophisticated video and music content, the big carriers are making massive investments in their networks. Sprint is pouring $1 billion into an upgrade this year, and Verizon is rolling out its high-speed data services network. At least for now, they will be the gatekeepers (Sprint has taken a stand against cell-phone porn, a big business overseas). Meanwhile at least one carrier is already bypassing the small companies for cell-phone services: Verizon is relying on household names like CNN and NBC (for news) and Comedy Central and VH1 (for entertainment) to attract users...
Launch a left-wing talk-radio network in a medium ruled by the bully pulpiteers of the right? They said it couldn't be done. Air America Radio exec Jon Sinton recalls the loud whispers before last year's start-up: "They said, 'Liberals aren't funny or engaging. A concept of a liberal network is stupid...
...movement has aroused fears of vigilantism. Mexican President Vicente Fox has called groups like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush said last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...
NOTE: Tomorrow’s regional semifinal contest in Amherst will be broadcast nationally on ESPN-U and Altitude at 3:30 p.m., with regional coverage provided by CN8 in Massachusetts, Cox New England, and Metro Sports Network in Kansas City...