RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. reported a partnership with XSVoice Inc., an enabler of live wireless audio, to provide Nextel Online customers access to live, on-demand streaming audio.With the service, Nextel customers can use their handsets to click on a specific content category and access...
PLEASANTON, California, United States—FunMail plans to introduce version 2.0 of the FunMail Wireless Messaging solution, which can process more than 100 animated messages per second, or more than 8 million per day, at the 3GSM show. "This all new 2.0 version of FunMail...
SAN DIEGO, United States—PacketVideo is targeting carriers with pv3 Mobilemedia system, a new multimedia delivery system that includes encoding, transmission and decoding products that enable delivery of high-quality audio and visual content and applications to mobile devices over current networks.Currently in trials with carriers,...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse Technology announced its enhanced messaging services will operate on Texas Instruments' OMAP platform for 2.5- (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) wireless devices, a combination the companies believe will allow for more rapid deployment of applications, including mobile e-mail, multimedia messaging,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—A new Swedish company announced its formation to vie for the fourth GSM license that Sweden's telecom regulator PTS plans to award by mid-2002. Edge Mobile said it will use GSM, Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) and wireless local area network...
MURRAY HILL, New Jersey—Lucent Technologies introduced its MiLife Intelligent services gateway to enable mobile operators to develop and deliver enhanced voice and data services for third-generation (3G) networks."With the Mlife ISG, mobile network operators can quickly introduce new services, such as city guides, that...
TAMPERE, Finland—Tahoe Networks said it is helping European operators create mobile data service business models that will reverse the decline in average revenue per user (ARPU) through a six-month educational program for carriers."Mobile operators are starting to recognize that intelligent and scalable networks are...
LONDON—The Wireless Village standards group released its version 1.0 specifications for wireless instant messaging, prompting a range of new product and service announcements from Wireless Village members.The standards group said the specifications will allow universal interoperability between wireless and wired instant messaging and presence...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced its MiLife Intelligent services gateway to enable mobile operators to develop and deliver enhanced voice and data services for third-generation networks."With the MiLife ISG, mobile network operators can quickly introduce new services, such as city guides, that provide...
BERLIN—Berlin is a city undergoing a rebuilding and refurbishment program the likes of which few other cities in Europe have experienced in modern times. Against this backdrop of transformation, Deutsche Telekom used the grand opening of its high-tech offices in the city to announce...
GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...
TOKYO—Three Japanese carriers and three industry associations are going to set up an organization to evaluate mobile Internet content on 28 February. The organization, called Mobile Content Evaluation System Association, will work out a system to evaluate mobile Internet content and discuss the cost...
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for delivering multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless' Express Network data service as a test platform.The company said the trial consisted of the transmission of...
BEIJING—China Mobile is not satisfied with the slow adoption of its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services. At the end of 2001, only 1.5 million of its 145 million mobile-phone subscribers used GPRS.Some users could not make or receive phone calls during busy hours,...
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands—Royal Philips Electronics said it has successfully concluded a trial of its solution for the delivery of multimedia content and applications over wireless networks using Verizon Wireless' Express Network data service as a test platform.The company said the trial consisted of the...
SAN DIEGO—In a move the company said would help it focus on its operations this year, Leap Wireless International Inc. laid off 16 employees from its Backwire e-mail newsletter and WAP operations.The carrier said the layoffs include 6 people from its San Diego headquarters...
BEIJING—A group of Chinese content providers announced a joint effort aimed at protecting and defending intellectual property rights in a move to support the country's growing Internet and wireless industry.Sina.com, ByAir, New Palm and Any8.com are among the content providers involved in the effort.
WAYNE, N.J.—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Audible Inc. have been testing a jointly developed automated wireless download capability designed to extend Audible's content delivery platform to compatible handheld devices via high-speed wireless networks.
HAYWARD, Calif.—AvantGo Inc. announced it won its first patent, which covers technology for synchronizing content between a device and a server over a wireless network. AvantGo said the technology is a core part of its synchronization offering, which supports Pocket PC, Palm Inc. and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Manx Telecom, Europe's first commercial third-generation (3G) operator, has chosen Calaba's wireless directory and search engine software in an effort to provoke greater uptake of mobile data services. Manx Telecom, which turned its diminutive network on last month, said that the full-color...
TORONTO—Bell Mobility has launched a new service that will read news, weather and e-mails to subscribers over their mobile phones. The service, called VoiceNet, also understands thousands of different accents. It is the latest product to emerge from BCE's C$70 million (US$43.7 million) convergence...
NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems said it has concluded successfully an MPEG4 compliance interoperability test with Samsung Electronics.The companies conducted the trial to determine whether Emblaze's wireless media platform is interoperable with Samsung's cdma2000 1x network, thereby allowing it to transmit multimedia content.Emblaze said it supplied...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse's VoiCD music portal product.Comverse said its portal allows users to listen to music tracks, download ring tones and send music...
MANILA, Phillipines—Short message service (SMS) technology remains a dominant force in the growth of data services in Asia, despite the availability of more advanced technologies, such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a recent report by London-based analyst...
