• Texan CDMA flat-rate carrier Pocket Communications is establishing a new company, Pocket Communications Northeast, with plans to offer service starting Dec. 18. The company is starting with a $100 million investment from Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Pocket CEO Paul Posner. Its target markets are Hartford and New Haven, Conn.; Springfield and Pittsfield, Mass.; and Poughkeepsie, N.Y., officials said.
• Noting the bad economic news coming every day, Dada Entertainment announced that new Dada.net customers will be able to download 65 pieces of content in their first month for $9.99, or 15¢ each for any full-track DRM-free MP3, ringtone, wallpaper and game they choose. The initiative will launch this Friday, the traditional first day of shopping for the holiday season.
• Mobile TV solutions provider DiBcom said its latest generation mobile TV receiver enables free-to-air digital TV broadcasts on LG’s new multimedia handset, the LG KB770. By featuring DiBcom’s Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial (DVB-T) receiver, the LG KB770 is equipped to receive the standard free-to-air terrestrial digital TV signal that covers most European countries.