Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Former presidents Bush, Clinton to keynote CTIA show

Former Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton are scheduled to appear for an hour-long joint keynote session at 9:30 a.m. March 29 during...

Mobliss offloads messaging biz to New Motion

Mobliss Inc. made its exit from mobile messaging official, selling off its assets in the space to digital company New Motion Inc. for an...

IMG acquires Nunet for mobile media

Entertainment media giant IMG jumped onto the wireless video field with the acquisition Nunet AG, a Cologne, Germany-based mobile media company.Terms of the deal...

Leap plans mobile music service with Musiwave agreement

Leap Wireless International Inc. plans to offer a new mobile music service through its Cricket brand, thanks to a new partnership with mobile music...

Third Screen to use Telephia research

Third Screen Media will partner with market research firm Telephia to help wireless advertisers target their marketing messages.The mobile marketing company said it will...

Monday, Jan. 29, 2007

Nokia opens search for new global ad agency

Nokia Corp., the world's leading handset maker but a laggard in the U.S. market, has begun a search for a new global advertising agency....

Verizon Wireless pummels Cingular with 2.1M postpaid adds in Q4

Verizon Wireless announced it captured 2.3 million net new customers in the fourth quarter, numbers that show it continues to dominate other national carriers...

Analyst Angle: Forces of Nature

Editor's Note: Welcome to our Monday feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

One-stop ad shops

The latest player in the wireless advertising arena hopes to provide a one-stop shop for companies looking to deploy marketing campaigns across mobile platforms....

Game porting help goes virtual

Content providers and application developers often cite fragmentation as their most difficult and costly challenge. But like a handful of other startups, Mobile Complete...

And the monkeys shall lead: ROK bets on Monkey-reading-news TV against others

As tier-one carriers vie to lure users with eye-catching video clips of hit TV shows and music stars, Patrick Kearney is hoping to draw...

Yahoo rides mobile focus during fourth quarter

Yahoo Inc. is hoping a new online advertising system and an increased presence in wireless can help it close the widening gap between it...

The Name Game: AT&T’s plans to phase out Cingular brand rife with challenges

AT&T INC. HAS A HISTORY as a highly respected brand. Cingular Wireless L.L.C., its name and image conjured out of thin air just a...

Hollywood’s close up with the third screen : NBC, CBS, Fox experiment with a variety of ways to integrate TV and cellphone

Hollywood is no stranger to change. It continues to ride a wave of new mediums, distribution channels and formats. Major television studios and networks...

Prepaid, resale boost Cingular’s record quarter

Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s last quarter before being absorbed by parent company AT&T Inc. resulted in a company-record 2.4 million net customer additions, up from...

NextG tries to get jump on AWS rollout

It's only been a few months since the close of the Federal Communications Commission's advanced wireless services auction, and carriers aren't expected to begin...

Career builder

While nothing new for the inside-the-Beltway crowd, it may be noteworthy to the great consuming masses just how incestuously intertwined telecom policy-making and lobbying...

The coveted handset upgrade cycle: As always, the question is ‘when’?

The late chess grandmaster Edward Schuyler Jackson used to regale anyone who would listen with stories, stories with a point. One featured a Wall...

High-tech interests against increased spectrum for public safety

Mobile-phone and high-tech sectors urged the new Democratic-led Congress to oppose any effort to dilute the pool of auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum, a major...

Watchdog group doubts gov’t numbers on broadband users

As Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin pushes for a wireless alternative to the telephone-cable TV broadband duopoly, and the Bush administration predicts it...

Study: MVNOs appealing outside of target demographics

Mobile virtual network operators have definite target demographics that they're trying to lure away from mainstream wireless operators with a unique approach to service...

‘Broken process’ in ringtone sales: EMI lawsuit against InfoSpace may underscore need for aggregators

Wireless operators increasingly are cutting ringtone aggregators out of the loop, opting instead to make deals directly with recording labels. But as EMI Entertainment...

Sprint bids for own iDEN users

Rarely does a handset launch embody the challenges and strategies of a carrier and its vendor partner as clearly as the recent offer from...

Nokia shows smarts with margins on low ASPs

Nokia Corp.'s earnings report last week may well have drawn sighs of relief from many in the industry. The Finnish handset vendor established that...
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