From mocoNews.net I see that the Japanese mobile telecommunications giant NTT DoCoMo has purchased 35 percent of the multimedia software company Packet Video for $45 million, according to Packet Video’s press release.
Packet Video has been working with DoCoMo since 1998, and its multimedia player software, pvPlayer, has been incorporated in more than 90 of the cellular operator’s phones, the press release says. As mocoNews.net notes, Packet Video is part of Nextwave Wireless, which has been under financial pressure and appears to be making Packet Video its flagship product.
I wrote in late June that Qualcomm’s FLO TV says it will offer a keychain-sized device that receives FLO’s mobile television signal and relays it to WiFi-enabled devices. That way, cellular phones and other electronic devices that aren’t specifically designed for FLO would be able to play the mobile TV programs.
Qualcomm hasn’t released the name of receiver’s manufacturer, but as I wrote in the article, Packet Video was developing that type of device. I don’t know whether Packet Video is the company supply the receiver, but it’s worth mentioning.
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