Yearly Archives: 2007

Cingular to offer real-time video sharing

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. plans to launch a live, one-way video sharing service that will work during a voice call. The carrier said it plans...

ROK offers the ANSA

ROK Entertainment Group announced the U.S. launch of ANSA, a new question-and-answer text messaging service that costs $1 per answer.A white-label offering ROK is...

Google, China Mobile ink mobile search deal

Google Inc. and China Mobile finally unveiled a pact to deliver mobile search services.China's largest carrier said its Monternet WAP portal will use Google...

RIM licenses Kodiak’s push-to-talk

Kodiak Networks announced a global licensing agreement with Research In Motion Ltd. to include mobile applications-including push-to-talk functionality-on BlackBerry handsets. Kodiak's applications already are...

Sprint Nextel and friends set to demo WiMAX devices, services

Sprint Nextel Corp. and its WiMAX infrastructure vendors said they will demonstrate devices and applications using the technology, including mobile TV, during the Consumer...

Paramount goes direct to mobile consumers

Paramount Pictures is the latest mainstream media giant to target consumers on the wireless Web.The Viacom subsidiary launched a mobile portal designed to serve...

Consumer electronic giants push new DRM solution

The digital rights management playing field got a little more crowded as four of the world's biggest consumer electronics companies released services for a...

Mobile gaming to hit $6.1B in revenues in 2010

The worldwide base of mobile gamers will more than double by 2010 as publishers develop better games and carriers market the offerings more effectively,...

Worst of the Week: AT&T, BellSouth and Domestic Partnerships

Hello!And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this...

Virgin Mobile USA tops 4.6M customers

At the close of a year that saw Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. introduce penny texting, hybrid price plans and an ad-time-for-airtime service called SugarMama,...

Second time a charm? MetroPCS files for $1.1B IPO

Regional, flat-rate carrier MetroPCS Communications Inc. filed for a $1.1 billion initial public offering, and plans to use the money to expand into new...

Sprint Nextel puts advertising account up for grabs

Citing a need for "fresh thinking," Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's No. 3 cellphone provider, which spends $1.6 billion in marketing, has placed the...

Chertoff pledges to work with Congress on public-safety spectrum

WASHINGTON-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he would cooperate with Congress if the new, Democratic-controlled House and Senate pursue legislation to increase the supply...

‘Maury’ fans to get localized text messaging contests

MindMatics L.L.C. is powering a text-message contest in two markets centered on NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution's daytime talk show "Maury."The company launched an...

Verizon Wireless catches the puck

Verizon Wireless announced a multi-year deal to become the "official wireless service provider" of the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players'...

Executives abandon plans to auction mobile media startup on eBay

A startup focused on mobile media sharing has aborted plans to auction itself off after receiving zero bids on eBay.Mojungle.com allows users to record...

Washington universities file Bluetooth suit against handset vendors

Patent-related lawsuits are part of the high-tech landscape. Here's a new twist: a nonprofit group representing the state of Washington's public universities has filed...

Groovr.com joins networking field with text messaging service

The instant gratification that comes with the quick snap of a cellphone photo or a text message to friends has taken on a new,...

NextWave pays $13.3M for muni Wi-Fi vendor

NextWave Wireless Inc. has agreed to acquire Go Networks Inc., which develops Wi-Fi networks for campus and municipal deployment. NextWave will pay about $13.3...

Cingular re-ups with Motricity

Cingular Wireless L.L.C., the nation's largest cellphone carrier, announced it will renew its content distribution deal with Motricity. Terms of the agreement were not...

MTV’s N Mobile arrives on cellphones

The N, a TV channel for teens developed by MTV, will be available on Sprint Nextel Corp.'s mobile TV service, the companies announced. MTV's...

WSCA renews Cingular contract

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. landed a big contract renewal from the Western States Contracting Alliance, through which the carrier currently provides service to more than...

Alcatel-Lucent closes on $320M UMTS purchase

Just as 2006 came to a close, so too did Nortel Networks Ltd.'s sale of its UMTS radio access business to Alcatel-Lucent. The $320...

IDC: 50 million wireless gamers by 2010

Mobile gaming in the United States will gain steady ground over the next several years even as titles get more expensive, according to new...

Spain to get new MVNO

Spanish triple-play telecom company Ono plans to begin a mobile virtual network operator business later this year, using the network of wireless carrier Telefonica....
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