Yearly Archives: 2006

WAAT Media, Charismatix team to form Twistbox

LOS ANGELES—Mobile Entertainment company WAAT Media and mobile games developer Charismatix formed a parent company, Twistbox Entertainment Inc., which the companies said will represent...

HP pre-texting scandal pushes phone-records legislation

WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin confirmed the agency is investigating AT&T Corp. in connection with deceptive means used to obtain the phone records...

IPWireless to build NYC public-safety network

LOS ANGELES—New York City handed Northrop Grumman a five-year $500 million contract to build and maintain a wireless broadband public-safety network that will add...

Verizon Wireless taps Motorola for EV-DO Rev. A

LOS ANGELES—Verizon Wireless extended Motorola Inc.’s deal to supply the carrier with CDMA equipment, announcing that Motorola will supply it with EV-DO Revision A...

Worst of the Day: CTIA I.T. Day 1

Hello! And welcome to a special CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2006 edition of our column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of...

Lucent acquires Mobilitec

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it agreed to acquire Mobilitec, a privately-held provider of content management software for wireless service providers. Lucent said...

News Corp. spends $188M on Jamba venture

LOS ANGELES—News Corp. and VeriSign announced plans to form a mobile entertainment joint venture in which News Corp. will have a controlling interest in...

Brightpoint buys Trio

PLAINFIELD, Ind.—Wireless device distributor Brightpoint Inc. announced that its subsidiary, Wireless Fulfillment Services LLC, has agreed to buy all of Texas-based Trio Industries Inc.’s...

Enterprise spending on I.T. rising

Money is flowing again and major corporations often respond to sales pitches when choosing mobile technologies—great news for the wireless industry, according to Tuesday’s...

Give me a shout … literally

Two forces are creating a market for speaker-independent voice services on the handset, according to a player that believes it is poised to dominate...

Nokia expands content offerings with EA, Warner Bros. deals

WASINGTON—Nokia Corp. today announced deals to expand gaming and content offerings on its mobile phones, while also reaching an agreement to supply $580 million...

Nokia’s E62 at Cingular: An American resurgence?

Nokia Corp. knows how to get the buzz going.RCR @ CTIAClick here for complete coverage of the CTIA Wireless I.T. show. Click here for...

Mobile entertainment is for doers, not thinkers

In the heart of the world’s entertainment capital, Paul Reddick told content providers it was time to show him the money. RCR @ CTIAClick...

RealNetworks drops $350M for WiderThan

RealNetworks Inc. is buying itself a bigger space on the wireless entertainment playground with a $350 million acquisition of South Korean-based developer WiderThan Co....

U.S. Cellular expands Aeris deal

LOS ANGELES—Aeris, which provides machine-to-machine services, said it expanded its strategic agreement with U.S. Cellular Corp. RCR @ CTIAClick here for complete coverage of...

FCC delays decision on emergency alerts

WASHINGTON—Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin agreed to delay a decision on new emergency alert system rules expected to apply for the first time...

Sprint Nextel to offer pay-per-view movies

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Sprint Nextel Corp. launched a branded, pay-per-view movie service that offers nearly four dozen classic films and recent releases. Sprint Movies, which...

Bango teams with MTV for content

NEW YORK—Bango announced it has partnered with MTV Networks U.K. & Ireland to provide its browse-and-buy technology for MTV's new WAP site. The MTV...

TIA taps Seiffert to succeed Flanigan

WASHINGTON—The Telecommunications Industry Association looked inside and chose Grant Seiffert to succeed Matthew Flanigan as president beginning Jan.1. Seiffert has worked his way up...

Nokia updates L’Amour portfolio in Europe

ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. this week announced the pending launch of three new handsets in its L'Amour Collection line of fashion phones aimed at the...

Mobileplay launches ad-supported offerings

SAN FRANCISCO—Mobileplay Inc. said it launched an advertising-supported service that provides free access to news, games, lifestyle content and location-based services on wireless devices....

Alcatel/Lucent combo receives shareholder approval

The infrastructure industry's merger of the season looks to be a done deal, as Lucent Technologies Inc. and Alcatel Inc. announced that their shareholders...

Minneapolis, Silicon Valley forge ahead with muni wi-fi

Minnetonka, Minn.-based US Internet beat out more than 80 other companies for the city of Minneapolis' contract to build a 54-square-mile citywide Wi-Fi network,...

M2M module market to grow

Shipments of machine-to-machine modules are projected to more than triple by the end of the decade, particularly those modules that connect to a network...

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