At a sold out gala dinner in London, the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) unveiled the winners of the coveted Meffys awards which seek to honour the most influential players in the mobile entertainment industry from across the world.

As capable handsets and network capability each become less of a gating factor, Orange, O2, and Vodafone are teaming up to test a new broadcast mobile TV service in the UK.

Boosting its iPad offering is reported to have allowed ABC to double the number of advertisements incorporated into the ABC Player application tailor made for Apple's latest hugely popular mobile video platform.

StarHub, who calls itself Singapore's fully-integrated info-communications provider, has developed a new mobile TV service from a single back office in order to round out its overall multi-screen video solution.

Taiwanese systems integrator N-Type has turned to Envivio headend technology in order to enhance the mobile TV capabilities of Taiwan's largest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), adding new support for adaptive streaming for iPhone customers.

theChanner has launched what it claims to be the first social mobile TV tuner, a service that offers live global Internet TV while providing mobile viewers an opportunity to discover TV, watch and participate, sharing their opinions with their social networks.

In a burst of activity, streaming mobile video services provider Rubberduck Media has made technical enhancements to its core system and opened up a new trial in South America.

Wireless technologies and services specialising venture capital firm Nexit Ventures has day announced a Euro 4 million investment in Octoshape a provider of mobile media delivery technology.

Software developer SPB Software has updated the Windows Mobile version of its flagship application SPB TV to version 2.0 and the program is now free-of-charge and subscription-free due to advertising revenues support.

Erik Moreno, SVP of Corporate Development for Fox Networks Group, and Salil Dalvi, SVP of Mobile Platform Development for NBC Universal Digital Distribution, will b ethe joinnt heads of the Mobile Content Venture (MCV).