ATLANTA-Comverse Technology Inc. has agreed to license two patents for voicemail and call-forwarding technology from BellSouth Intellectual Property Marketing Corporation, BellSouth said late Thursday.The deal is part of a legal settlement reached in December after the two companies sued each other over the two...
Struggling to shore up decreasing revenues from voice usage, U.S. carriers agreed last October to a set of messaging guidelines they said would allow them to be MMS-interoperable by the end of 2004. While the target date is long past, it appears they're now...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. reported that regional wireless operator Triton PCS Inc. selected its Comverse Mobile Data Gateway Version 4.0 to expand the carrier's WAP services.Comverse noted the MDG Version 4.0 solution was fully compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance WAP 2.0 standard and...
NEW YORK-Comverse said Telefónica Móviles Perú, the largest carrier in Peru with 2.1 million subscribers, selected it to provide its voice mail and multimedia messaging service center solutions."Telefónica Móviles Perú delivers applications that offer our subscribers the latest developments in the wireless market and...
CANNES, France-Comverse Technology Inc. announced two new operator deals as well as a series of product upgrades in conjunction with the 3GSM trade show.First off, the multimedia software and systems vendor announced Greek mobile operator Q-Telecom purchased its Converged Real-Time Billing Solutions, Multimedia Messaging...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. Wednesday unveiled a service that delivers text notification of a missed video call in the first frame of the video message.Dubbed "Who Called for Video," the new offering is a call completion service allowing users to receive missed video call...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Carriers and technology companies continued to court the mobile instant messaging market with two announcements Tuesday.Sprint PCS said it will launch new Java-download IM applications designed to replicate a desktop PC experience for its AOL and MSN users. The applications are offered...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc. unveiled a software offering designed to help carriers detect and block spam, the technology company said Wednesday.ISMS Shield is a three-tiered platform providing detection, prevention and management capabilities of unwanted text messages, Comverse said. The product is designed to adapt...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse introduced its Comverse MMS Exchange, a central hub that allows multiple network operators to interconnect their multimedia messaging services. Operators currently must implement separate routing connections and interconnectivity agreements to provide seamless MMS services, said the company. MMS Exchange creates a central...
LiveBridgeMark Irwin has been promoted to vice president of finance at contact center services company LiveBridge Inc. Irwin joined LiveBridge in 1999 as corporate controller. He directed the company's accounting and finance division.MotorolaMotorola Inc. named Valerie Di Maria corporate vice president of communications and...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse introduced its Comverse MMS Exchange, a central hub that allows multiple network operators to interconnect their multimedia messaging services.Operators currently must implement separate routing connections and interconnectivity agreements to provide seamless MMS services, said the company. MMS Exchange creates a central hub...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Wireless technology company Comverse Technology Inc. reported increasing revenues and a positive net income, although investors seemed leery of the company and sent its stock down slightly to $22.31 after the news.Comverse scored sales of $245 million for its third quarter, up 27...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Cricket Communications Inc. has selected Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Center system for multimedia content delivery.Comverse said Cricket will be able to support high-volume personal and applications-based multimedia messaging for its subscriber base of 1.5 million customers with the MMSC system.
Once relegated to outdated handsets and overpriced basic voice services, prepaid customers increasingly are being catered to with the latest handset technology and services to go along with more rational pricing plans. 7-Eleven Inc. and Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. last week each launched their...
SAN DIEGO-Cricket Communications Inc. will deploy Comverse's Multimedia Messaging Service Center to offer content to its 1.5 million customers.In addition to offering content to state-of-the-art handsets, the service will allow users whose phones don't support MMS to experience new services via a branded Web...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Messaging suppliers Comverse and Tecnomen both announced multimedia messaging service center contracts Wednesday.Comverse said Telefonica Moviles Espana selected its MMSC to be deployed with a third-party MMSC to support high-volume personal and application-based multimedia messaging in Spain.Telenor Pakistan and its infrastructure provider Siemens...
For all the play Voice over Internet Protocol snags in the wireless arena, a new and broader technology is lurking to gulp it up. Media over packet technology, as it is called, will also threaten to make multimedia messaging services obsolete. But its arrival...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. said it has rolled out its multimedia messaging service center for small wireless operators.The product, known as Compact MMSC, is low cost and provides most of the benefits of the full-size product, according to the company."In addition to serving as...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. said it has signed a licensing deal with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to market the i-mode mobile gateway around the world.The i-mode service has been one of the mainstays of DoCoMo's activity in the past few years, clutching 41 million subscribers...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Investors cheered as Comverse Technology Inc. announced it reversed its losses to report a positive net income in its first fiscal quarter. The company also raised its forecast for the rest of the year, according to reports.Comverse's stock was up more than 7...
MOSCOW-Comverse said five wireless carriers in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have selected its multimedia messaging service center for commercial deployment.The carriers include Kyivstar in Ukraine, Telekom Serbja, Mobi in Bosnia, Bakcell in Azerbaijhan and K-Mobil in Kazakhstan.The value of the deals was not...
In their spare time after work and on the weekends, three tech-savvy guys in Petaluma, Calif., in about six months have managed to surmount a technical hurdle that the multibillion-dollar U.S. wireless industry has not yet resolved after more than a year of effort.Paul...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse said it will supply a multimedia messaging service center for Brazil's largest wireless carrier Vivo."Vivo already offers the FotoTorpedo to its customers, and with the significantly increased use of the service, we decided to scale up the platform and take full advantage...
With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb and flow of multimedia traffic.Its platform, known as GX-MMS, will serve not only as...
