Optibase today announced that its IPTV streaming platforms are enabling SmartVideo, a provider of mobile video, to deliver full motion TV to Verizon and Cingular mobile subscribers in the United States.

Georgia-based SmartVideo is using the Optibase MGW 5100 TV streaming platform to encode and transmit live video received from satellite provider Crawford Communications over a dedicated network to SmartVideo's facilities.

At SmartVideo, the video is decoded using Optibase's MGW 200 decoders and transmitted using SmartVideo's proprietary technology to cell phones and other smart handheld devices. The content offering includes news, weather, sports and children's programming from ABC news, NBC Universal, Fox Sports, The Weather Channel and others.

SmartVideo uses Microsoft Windows Media 9 to provide live and download-and-play television content to video-enabled cell phones and other handheld devices, via current and next-generation cellular and Wi-Fi systems.

Qualcomm and Microsoft will work together to port the Windows Mobile to Qualcomm chips, reports Infoworld. Their collaboration will help extend the battery life of devices.

Will free mobile TV follow free WiFi networks? Newspapers already have video feeds. Unplug and play.

CBS plans to debut an ad-supported free broadband channel as soon as today, reports Broadcasting and Cable. The channel will feature mainly original content, with some material connected to programming currently on CBS. The site will most likely not launch with full-length episodes of shows airing on the broadcast network, although the network plans to stream full-length episodes of shows online in the future.

Although the CBS broadband site will be free, they have been testing different pricing strategies for online offerings of its network shows. It recently lowered the price for online episodes of Survivor from $1.99 to $.99, adding ads to the stream as well.

CBS recently had success with ad-supported streaming of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament, earning more than $4 million in ad revenue from online Webcasts. It also runs an online only talk show devoted to Survivor.

ABC begun steaming four of its series this week. Disney-ABC debuted their two-month trial site streaming episodes this Monday.

Sling Media's Slingbox puts your tv programming on the internet, live or on demand from your computer. Orb Network offers a similar service, routing home TV or PC media to distant PCs, handhelds and even cell phones.

Intel and NDS Group, the leading digital pay-TV provider in Sweden, recently announced a trial system to demonstrate TV over WiMAX.

Using the WiMAX IEEE 802.16-2004 standard and the soon to be ratified IEEE 802.16e, Intel and NDS will also collaborate on industry and market development. The trial takes place at Intel's Wireless Competence Center (IWCC) in Kista, Sweden and demonstrates the first system to show WiMAX TV services including live TV, VOD and integrated electronic program guide (EPG) delivery to an Intel Centrino mobile technology based notebook over 802.16-2004 and 802.11.