STAMFORD, Conn.—SmartServ Online Inc. said it will partner with "one of the largest wireless carriers in North America" to offer the carrier's subscribers access to financial content and the ability to use SMS to monitor global markets.The "Powered by SmartServ" application will allow subscribers...
DUBLIN, Ireland—O2 has announced plans to establish a new content platform that will encourage digital media firms to create "viable business models" based on selling content to mobile operators.The pan-European operator revealed details of its plans at a digital media conference in University College...
TOKYO—Cybird, a leading mobile content provider, announced that it tied up with China.com for content distribution services in China.Upon the contract, Moeasy, a subsidiary of China.com, will distribute fortune-telling content to mobile users in Beijing and Shanghai with charges. Cybird did not disclose the...
MONTREAL—SMS content aggregator and SMS operator Atlas Telecom Mobile (ATM) has licensed Oz Communications Inc.'s Mobile Communities Solution to power its SMS-based content services. Specifically, ATM will use Oz's MCS technology to provide information and new alerts via SMS for this summer's Soccer World...
LOS ANGELES—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. continued to bolster the content available on its mMode wireless data service through a new deal with PriceGrabber, which will offer a shopping comparison application."We're always looking to provide additional value to our customers—and PriceGrabber clearly delivers," said Andy...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will begin licensing patents for its proprietary W-CDMA technology in an attempt to encourage worldwide implementation and reduce procurement and production costs.DoCoMo's W-CDMA network, which is not directly compatible with what European operators hope to eventually deploy, is currently...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Wireless content management company WebUnwired announced it changed its name to Net6 Inc., a move the company said better reflects its expanded business focus.The company said the Net6 name reflects its network-based technology, which the company said adds a "sixth sense" to...
TOKYO—KDDI, the second-largest telecom operator in Japan, on 1 April launched its third-generation (3G) service based on cdma2000 1x technology, entering the highly competitive Japanese high-speed data market.In Japan, NTT DoCoMo, the country’s leading operator, launched its 3G service under the brand name of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indosat Multimedia Mobile (IM3) said it will continue its free General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offering until the end of April, with an additional extension possible. IM3 originally set its free GPRS services schedule for November 2001 through February.Sumedi Kirono, IM3's director of...
TOKYO—Coca-Cola Japan, NTT DoCoMo and Itochu jointly announced that they will establish Coca-Cola vending machines with which i-mode users can purchase a can of Coke without cash using i-mode mobile terminals throughout Japan. Starting in April, the three firms will set up several hundred...
AUSTIN, Texas—Metrowerks announced the shipment of its new CodeWarrior Development tools, a set of tools that enables application and content development for Tao Group's Intent, a portable media platform for consumer appliances. Metrowerks said the new toolkit allows developers to create and deploy content...
GENEVA—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming exchanges (GRX) are rapidly emerging as a profitable new service niche in Europe and around the world, as mobile operators get serious about GPRS and struggle to come to grips with the complex roaming and billing issues surrounding...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc., the largest mobile carrier in Japan, and Bouygues Telecom, the third-largest operator in France, announced they reached a license agreement over i-mode services in France. Following the technology transfer agreement, Bouygues Telecom, a telecom business unit of Bouygues SA, is going...
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HELSINKI, Finland—Norwegian telecom operator Telenor's competitors in Scandinavia are puzzled by the Oslo-based operator's decision to price at the high end for multimedia messaging services (MMS). Telenor intends to charge MMS users a price of US$1.40 to send images and pictures via their cell...
OTTAWA, Ontario—Security solution provider Cloakware Corp. announced digital media developer DataPlay Inc. will use Cloakware's patent-pending code to secure its ContentKey content promotion and activation software applications.Cloakware's code transformation technology will stop unlawful access to, or reproduction of, content offered through DataPlay's ContentKey technology."Protecting...
FAIRFAX, Va.—IBM Corp. entered an alliance with Trust Digital LLC. to provide secure data on mobile devices.Using password protection, data encryption and a variety of administration control measures, Trust Digital's encryption software, PDASecure, will safeguard mobile information stored on IBM's expansion memory card, Microdrive,...
THE HAUGE, The Netherlands—KPN Mobile said it will begin offering mobile data services based on i-mode, the technology developed by its Japanese partner NTT DoCoMo, on 18 April. The operator said it has reached agreements with more than 50 national and international content partners...
NEW YORK—LocatioNet announced two partnerships, with Geographic Data Technology and Coherent Networks, to complement its offering to wireless carriers.GDT will offer additional mapping content to LocatioNet's existing solution with its extensive mapping coverage of North and South America. And Coherent Networks will add positioning...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Airtuit and TeleCommunications Systems (TCS) announced they will integrate their technologies to create a wireless messaging solution for the enterprise.TCS' Commercial Messaging Service, which allows text messages to be sent across diverse wireless carrier networks and devices using the recipient's phone number, will...
LONDON—Hoping to counter competition from Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s i-mode service, U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc is planning to roll out a more graphically enhanced version of its Vizzavi Web portal in Europe, according to Reuters.Vodafone's current Vizzavi site, which it jointly owns with...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Mobile communication applications provider iTouch, founded in Cape Town, South Africa, and listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced financial results for the year to December 2001, with revenues up 260 percent on 2000, margins on the increase and cash available...
SUDBURY, Mass.—Carl Yankowski, the former chief executive officer of Palm Inc., and Abbot Gilman, founder of Broadband Access Systems, joined the advisory board of Thinmail Inc., the company announced.Thinmail's platform provides access to e-mail and rich multimedia content via phone, fax, pager, and personal...
RESTON, Va.—America Online Inc., continuing its wireless strategy of partnering with carriers to distribute its content, announced a deal with Nextel Communications Inc. to offer its popular AOL instant messaging and e-mail programs over Nextel's packet-data network.AOL has signed content agreements with numerous wireless...
