Lights. Camera. Cellphone Action.

Spike Lee is teaming up with Nokia, the cellphone maker, to direct a short film comprising YouTube-style videos created by teenagers and adults using their mobile phones.

Full-length shows, even movies, growing on cellular

Today, only about 7% of mobile subscribers (cell and data) watch video on their phones, he says. But the industry is poised for major growth: Mobile video revenues at domestic carriers jumped to $308 million in the last three months of 2007 from $112 million in the same period a year earlier, according to Nielsen Mobile.

Guerrilla Mirror Phones - Rogers Video Phone Ads

Rogers, one of the key mobile phone companies in Canada, used clever “mirror phone” guerrilla ads to promote their new video phone service.

Can User-Generated Content Generate Revenue?

In the US, eMarketer projects that the number of user-generated content creators will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012. The content is being read, seen and heard, too. The number of consumers of user-generated content will increase from 94 million in 2007 to 130 million in 2012.

Mobile TV To Be Biggest Ad Revenue Generator By 2010: Report

Jupiner predicts that spending on mobile TV advertising will grow from $335 million in 2008 to more than $2.5 billion in 2013. Total annual global spending on mobile advertising will hit $1.3 billion in 2008, rising to $7.6 billion by 2013. China and the Far East will remain the largest regional market for mobile advertising, because it includes the massive population of China and the advanced mobile markets of Japan and South Korea.

New Satellite Will Supply TV To Cell Phones

The satellite is designed to provide 10 to 15 live television stations for mobile phones in the future. It is powerful enough to not require a dish to receive broadcast.

Instant Digital Prints (and Polaroid Nostalgia)

Now, Polaroid wants to conjure up those golden analog days of vast sales and instant gratification — this time with images captured by digital cameras and camera phones.

This fall, the company expects to market a hand-size printer that produces color snapshots in about 30 seconds.

Web firm to offer TV streaming to iPhone

Two leading UK broadcasters are exploring a service that would allow live streaming of their programmes to Apple's iPhone.

London-based web TV technology specialist Best Before has developed server-based technology called Millicent that allows a broadcaster or other content producer to provide an edited video feed to be watched on the iPhone without needing to hack into the handset.

3 takes your mobile phone to the cinema

3 is one of the most innovative mobile phone companies in the world. The Vizux iWear goggles are exclusively available in 3 stores this week, using pocket-sized video glasses to “make the big screen as portable as your mobile”. Tiny high-tech displays inside the glasses create a virtual screen that’s the equivalent of watching a 62-inch plasma TV.

Older Adults Shifting To Mobile Phones From Landlines

In a survey conducted in the fourth quarter of last year, Harris Interactive found that about one in seven adults only uses a cell phone, up from roughly one in 10 in 2006. The percentage of adults with landline phones has dropped slightly to 79% from 81%.

Projectors to magnify cell-phone cinema

"Pico projectors" that are small enough to carry around in a shirt pocket are expected on the market later this year. Eventually, the technology will be tiny enough to be built into phones and portable media players.

Intel reveals its vision for mobile phone evolution

Intel has set its technicians working on a new initiative that it hopes will get mobile devices piggybacking on other devices its user may come across, as well as making use of the increasing number of sensors--such as cameras and GPS--within the device itself.

Sony Films headed to Mobile Phones

LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - Sony Pictures Television is looking to launch the first movie network on mobile phone in the United States. The studio has signed a deal with AT&T and MediaFLO USA to launch the linear channel as one of two exclusive channels coming to the newly announced AT&T Mobile TV with FLO service in May.