“The Twentieth Century Fox studio, a veteran of the big screen and the TV screen, is about to break into an entirely new realm: the really little screen, the kind that comes on a cell phone. In what appeared to be the first arrangement of its kind, Twentieth Century Fox said Wednesday it would create a unique series of one-minute dramas based on its hit show ’24’ exclusively for a new high-speed wireless service being offered by Vodafone PLC, the world’s biggest cell phone company,” Seth Sutel reports for The Associated Press.
“Vodafone will begin offering the one-minute episodes in January in the United Kingdom, coinciding with the start of the fourth season of the show on a satellite TV service,” Sutel reports. The ‘mobisodes,’ as they’re being called, will be introduced later in 2005 in up to 23 more countries where Vodafone operates, mainly in Europe, as well as in the United States through the company’s Verizon Wireless joint venture.”
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MacDailyNews Take: One would hope that this news will not escape Steve Jobs and the iPod team at Apple. If compelling multimedia content becomes available, Apple’s iPod should be there in a leading capacity.