STAMFORD, Conn.-I3 Mobile Inc. announced it will shut down its Pronto voice-activated information and content service and will continue to search for a potential strategic alliance, joint venture, merger or acquisition, or possible sale of the company. The company said it is in negotiations...
HERZLIYA, Israel-Israeli company CellTick Technologies said China Unicom will deploy its interactive broadcast system in XinJiang state.The platform allows operators to establish interactive communications with subscribers by using a mobile phone's control channel and enabling subscribers to receive continuous streams of content to handsets.
RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless application and technology company Summus Inc. scored a deal with international news agency Agence France-Presse to offer wireless news and photo content."AFP is excited about the opportunity to collaborate with Summus on ground-breaking and advanced ways to deliver news," said Yves de...
LONDON-Multimedia messaging services continues to drive much of the news in the wireless industry, with LogicaCMG and others announcing moves in the area.LogicaCMG announced an MMS framework agreement with KPN Mobile, and that E-Plus in Germany will be the first carrier to use LogicaCMG's...
NEW ORLEANS-Wireless industry leaders have agreed to implement universal short codes, and wireless users could see cross-carrier short code applications within the next few months.The board of directors for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association voted Wednesday to go ahead with the plan. The...
ATLANTA-Intec Telecom Systems announced the availibility of its Intec WLAN Solution, which allows the network usage capture, pricing and billing for a broad range of wireless local area network services consumed by roaming WLAN users. These services include WLAN user authentication, simple Internet access,...
NEW ORLEANS-Royal Philips Electronics and LogicaCMG announced an agreement to jointly supply multimedia messaging technology to mobile operators. The original equipment manufacturer umbrella agreement calls for the integration of Philips' Platform 4 Media Adapter transcoding engine into Logica's Multimedia Messaging Service Centre product range.In...
NEW ORLEANS--ACCESS Systems America announced at CTIA Wireless 2003 that its Premium Content Subscription Server now supports digital rights management based on the Open Mobile Alliance 1.0 specification."DRM will help prevent the illegal distribution of mobile content while providing new business models like content...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems Inc. and LocatioNet have partnered to launch Location JumpStart, an end-to-end location package for wireless carriers.According to the companies, Location JumpStart is designed to offer an easy-to-deploy, low-cost entry system to offer revenue-generating applications. Carriers will be able to offer selected...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems Inc., which provides location and messaging software and E911 services for mobile operators, launched TCS Alerts, an intelligent push/pull messaging platform that enables wireless carriers to manage notifications.TCS Alerts is 2.5-generation and 3G ready and it works with any structured content...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Motorola has intensified its efforts to gain market share among young mobile-phone users with the announcement of an alliance with MTV International.The handset manufacturer is keen to exploit MTV's understanding of youth culture and capitalize on development of new handsets with camera functionality....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has worked with Sony Music Entertainment to deliver SME music video content to cdma2000 1x-EV-DO trial users with BREW-enabled handsets."These technologies will represent an important new element of our mobile service business, and we look forward to using them...
CHICAGO-MTV International entered what it described as its biggest ever marketing collaboration in a three-year $75 million deal to allow Motorola Inc. to put the entertainment company's content into its handsets.The content will include ring tones, games, images, new MTV shows and vignettes in...
NEW ORLEANS-Xpherix Corp., provider of personalized mobile connectivity solution for the enterprise, will exhibit its BREW-certified iPhonebook in the Wireless Widgets Showcase booth and in Qualcomm's BREW Partner Pavilion at CTIA Wireless 2003.IPhonebook wirelessly links subscribers' mobile phones to existing Personal Information Manager content...
WASHINGTON-The wireless data arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said it plans to expand its focus to include the rapidly growing content creation community, and that content companies Jippii USA, Kargo, Mobliss, m-Qube, Moviso, News Corp. and Pinnacor have joined the group.CTIA's...
HUNTINGTON, N.Y.-CirckaMedia Inc. has released a Web service application programming interface for management of promotions and campaigns delivered to desktop computers and mobile communications devices.The CirckaAPI defines how developers may use various methods and classes to interface with CirckaImpact, a digital marketing platform enabling...
LONDON-European mobile data users are set to enjoy greater competition on tariffs and devices following the decision by T-Mobile to more than halve its mobile data charges and push the BlackBerry device to single business users and high-end consumers. In an attempt to stimulate...
TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, will launch a new location information service 3 March. The new location service, called Loco Guide, will provide local information based on the location identification functionality of mobile handsets.Twenty-three service menus, including restaurant information and transportation information,...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
CANNES, France-With the infrastructure market continuing to remain in the doldrums, most of the major infrastructure vendors are turning to 'managed services' as a fresh source of urgently needed revenue. The leading mobile equipment supplier, Ericsson, has admitted that it is now number one...
CANNES, France-Messaging giant LogicaCMG announced it will resell LightSurf Technologies Inc.'s picture messaging management software in its line of multimedia messaging services products.LightSurf's technology integrates third-party content and allows users to purchase, store, and share multimedia files. Sprint PCS uses LightSurf technology for its...
DENVER-As he demonstrated the strength of Palm Inc.'s new product, the Tungsten W PDA phone, senior product manager Stephane Maes showed how the market has segmented over the past few years. Palm recently visited RCR Wireless News to preview the new device the company...
CANNES, France-L.M. Ericsson flexed its muscles within and outside the 3GSM Congress with a series of announcements from interoperability testing to deals with carriers and content providers as well as a former semiconductor partner.The Swedish vendor signed a contract to supply UMTS gear to...
CANNES, France-RealNetworks Inc. announced two mobile media-related partnerships at this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The company said Hong Kong wireless operator CSL will cooperate with Nokia to provide mobile video services based on RealNetworks' technology. The video service will give mobile...
