Content-Sharing

Buongiorno, Mobixell Team on Mobile Content-Sharing Service

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on October 11, 2006 - 12:51pm.
Milan, Italy - Buongiorno, a distributor of mobile entertainment content, announced on Wednesday a partnership with Mobixell Networks, a developer of mobile multimedia applications, that will allow mobile carriers to offer content-sharing among users. The service will use Boston-based Mobixell's Viral Mobile Content Sharing system and Milan-based Buongiorno's Digital Marketplace Platform, and allow mobile users to share multimedia content with one another and carriers to track peer-to-peer viral content exchange.

Movie Studios, NFL Petition FCC to Ban TiVo Content-Sharing Feature

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 23, 2004 - 4:45am.
San Jose, Calif. -- A number of Hollywood movie studios and the NFL have filed papers with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking to block approval of a service from digital video recorder firm TiVo that would allow users to send recorded programs to laptops and PCs, the Associated Press reported. The TiVo To Go feature would also enable users to share shows with a limited number of friends -- but the copyright holders do not believe TiVo has installed sufficient safeguards against piracy. "We don't have a problem if you want to move the content to your summer home, or your boat, but the TiVo application does not require any kind of relationship with the sender," Motion Picture Association of America executive vice president Fritz Attaway told AP. "It could be to a nightclub in Singapore."