RealNetworks to Run Cingular Mobile Video Service

CNN/Money picks up a Reuters story that reports Cingular Wireless plans to use RealNetworks video streaming technology to deliver video to mobile phones. The Cingular video service will be introduced at year-end to coincide with the carrier's rollout of its 3G network. According to the article, "Cingular also plans to use a mobile version of RealNetworks RealArcade video games."

Roger Entner at Ovum said, "If Microsoft had won this contract the battle for the mobile media player market would have been close to being over. This is version 2.0 of the media player battle. It shows that somebody is fighting back."

Seems like RealNetworks is making some inroads in the mobile market. First the deal with Sprint to stream music to handsets and now this...