NEW YORK-Zingy, a New York-based mobile entertainment provider, has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide MSN members with access to content that includes ringtones, screen logos, group graphics, voice messaging and greetings and other services."MSN has attracted a very progressive and...
LAS VEGAS-Along with continuing to combine various industry standards groups, the Open Mobile Alliance said it will initiate a new interoperability testing program to cover a variety of wireless data technologies, ranging from multimedia messaging services to digital rights management.Under the OMA's new release...
DENVER, United States-Santa's helpers will be able to stuff stockings with a new gift this year-wireless data.U.K.-based wireless entertainment and publishing company Digital Bridges plans to sell packaged, prepaid ring tones through a major U.S. retailer by the end of the year, with wireless...
By launching a service-based business group, enhanced open standards portfolio and partnerships to enhance a variety of wireless applications, Motorola Inc. has spread its dragnet to collect carrier contracts.As multimedia services continue to take center stage, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company is attacking next-generation services...
ATLANTA-Wireless development company Digital Orchid Inc. announced it scored an exclusive license to sell Nascar-related content to AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS subscribers.The company will offer breaking news, live timing, scoring leaderboard and driver data.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-A year after going live, South African network operator Cell C announced it has managed to acquire 1 million subscribers on its network. The operator has also constructed 700 live base stations with a plan to have 1,500 in place by June...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Echoing comments from many sectors of the industry, research firm IDC concludes that the market for wireless gaming "is emerging as a viable long-term opportunity for game developers and publishers, wireless carriers, and wireless handset providers," according to a the firm's new report...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo said it forecasts only 320,000 FOMA third-generation subscribers by the end of March 2003, a decrease from its early predictions of more than 1 million subscribers by end-March. NTT DoCoMo launched FOMA service in October 2001 and uptake has been much less...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom-Among the key issues worrying investors and wireless protagonists surrounding European third-generation (3G) in Germany and France includes the question of how many operators the markets can support.Skeptics are coming out of the wireless woodwork to question whether greenfield operators can survive...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-A patent infringement lawsuit brought by ISCO International Inc. against SuperConductor Technologies Inc. and Conductus Inc. came a step closer to a close this week.In a Markman Hearing, in which the court defines the meaning of terms in the patent claims, the...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-Portal Software Inc. said Poland-based Polkomtel S.A. has launched multimedia messaging service using Infranet, Portal's convergent billing solution. "Mobile operators are finding that the key to profitability for GPRS services lies in having the flexibility to introduce compelling data and content services to...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Vodafone has unveiled the latest stage in its data strategy. Vodafone Live is a menu of services accessible from camera phones, which will allow customers to receive and send picture messages, downloads games and ring tones, and send and receive voice and text...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless provisioning company Pixo Inc. announced Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Southern Europe, Africa & Middle East business will resell the company's Mobile Download Server.The download system server software that allows carriers to manage delivering wireless content and Java applications over the air to...
CARY, N.C.-Pinpoint Networks Inc., which sells content platforms to wireless carriers, announced it raised $4 million in venture funding from its new investor New Enterprise Associates.The investment brings Pinpoint's total funding to more than $18 million since its was founded in 1999.
SEATTLE-Billing and content management company Qpass Inc. released a new version of its software platform, dubbed Prosperity Series, which the company said allows carriers to change way they sell and charge for wireless data, from text messaging to Java-based application downloads.Tom Trinneer, vice president...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced alliances with Digital Bridges, End2End, InfoSpace IN-FUSIO and MForma as part of its new Openwave Mobile Connect Program, the newest branch of the Openwave Developer Network.Openwave Mobile Connect's goal is to gather and feed Java and multimedia content...
LAS VEGAS-Moviso L.L.C. unveiled its new V4 technology platform, designed to support the production, presentation and distribution of mobile media content across all wireless networks, billing systems, handset protocols and electronic storefronts.The platform is currently in use by Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile and...
LAS VEGAS-Mobile content provider Cellus USA announced nReach will sell Cellus wireless content through its Mobile Content Kiosk.The kiosks allow consumers to order wireless content, including ringtones, logos, pictures, greetings, SMS games and sports scores, for instant delivery to their wireless phones. Customers will...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea's mobile payments made for purchases of digital content or other inexpensive products may face a disruption as the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), the country's top trade regulator, has decided to force mobile service providers to provide users with a paper...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, gained merely 2,200 new subscribers for its third-generation (3G) services in September, which brought NTT DoCoMo's total FOMA or 3G service subscribers to 135,700 at the end of September, according to the Telecommunications Carriers' Association (TCA).NTT...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Content providers looking to launch reverse-billed short message service (SMS)-based services are calling on cell-phone operators to increase the price limits set for each message. U.K. operators are said to be actively considering the request in an effort not to dissuade content...
HELSINKI, Finland-Sonera said it has awarded Nokia Corp. a contract to supply an advanced delivery server for downloading mobile content such as Java games, polyphonic ringing tones and Symbian applications to mobile phones."We see the Delivery Server as an important piece in the puzzle...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Mobile games aggregator nGame has been acquired by its U.S. partner Mforma. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company will become part of what its new owners claim will be the largest wireless content distributor in EuropeThe move coincides with a new report identifying mobile gaming...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. reported it would begin marketing its FOMA T2101V 3G mobile phone designed for the carrier's i-motion video-clip transmission service Sept. 27.DoCoMo said the handset can save up to four 15-second or two 30-second video messages from incoming calls, and a remote...
