NEW YORK—Java 2 Micro Edition company LogicChain Inc. announced Crisp Partners acquired an equity stake in the company, and plans to form a new mobile content services company called Crisp Wireless.The new company will be focused on mobile content, entertainment and multimedia applications and...
LA JOLLA, Calif.—Bitfone Corp. released the company's flagship product, iBroker, in an effort to tap into the growing multimedia messaging market.Bitfone said its product allows users to send multimedia content using pictures and animations stored on a carrier's database, or users can wirelessly access...
LA JOLLA, Calif.—NewsTakes Inc. released a new product for packet-based wireless network operators and wired Internet companies that NewsTakes said allows users to control how they view and—more importantly—pay for streaming media content.The company's patent-pending product, Packet Choice, allows users to choose customized viewing...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Wireless Internet software company WiredPocket released its new WP.AutoMapping version 1.1, which the company said is a fast and easy Web-to-wireless conversion tool for content providers and corporations.WP.AutoMapping 1.1 has a server-based engine called PocketProducer the company said instantly analyzes, summarizes and...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Walt Disney Internet Group today announced two major content distribution deals-moves that come just one week after the company announced a distribution agreement with Taiwan Cellular Corp.-proof Walt Disney is moving rapidly into the worldwide wireless Web industry.Today, Walt Disney Internet Group...
LONDON—Gaming company Arena Technik Ltd. announced a buy-out agreement with Gameplay plc, under which it acquired all technology assets and software associated with gaming service Wireplay.Arenatek executives plan to offer cross-platform gaming services to content owners and wireless carriers. The company said its service...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan, is accelerating preparations for the launch of its commercial-based 3G service Oct. 1.NTT DoCoMo initiated an experimental 3G service last 30 May on a limited basis only to 4,500 select users. Although some users have experienced...
TOKYO-NTT Group is performing a field test for a very high-speed wireless system based on NTT's proprietary advanced wireless access (AWA) technology. Unlike conventional wireless LAN systems, NTT's Biportable 5 GHz system provides up to 36 Mbps data rates. NTT Corp., the holding company...
LOS GATOS, Calif.—Software solution provider Streaming21 Inc. and global services company EDS are partnering to offer next-generation streaming technology solutions for transmitting and playing digital video and audio over the Internet and broadband networks.Users will be able to customize and interact with content and...
FREMONT, Calif.—Wireless gaming company Synovial Inc. scored a major deal today with Sega of America under which the company will offer Sega's video game content to handheld devices and next-generation mobile phones.Synovial will use its development toolkit, code named SYN, to bring the games...
DURHAM, North Carolina, United States—Pinpoint Networks released the newest version of its mobile applications platform, Fuel, which the company said will allow carriers to bill for content on a per-use and subscription basis."Fuel enhances a carrier's mobile offering by enabling billing for mobile content...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, United States—Walt Disney Internet Group today said the company's wireless content will be distributed to Taiwanese mobile users under an agreement announced today with Taiwan Cellular Corp.Starting in October, the Disney Mobile service in Taiwan will offer wireless logos, screensavers and...
TOKYO—KDDI Corp. and five other firms will jointly perform Japan's largest field test for mobile commerce in November. Unlike other conventional mobile commerce services, their system will provide settlement services via a virtual bank account. These firms are planning to launch commercial service in...
SEATTLE, United States—Just a month after Canadian carrier Telus Mobility announced it would switch from an airtime billing system to a pay-per-use system, the carrier added Mforma Corp.'s games and entertainment package to its content offerings. Under the agreement, Mforma will offer its content...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Under an agreement announced today, Mexican wireless carrier Telcel licensed Pumatech Inc.'s Browse-it software to give its Palm OS users the ability to surf Web content in HTML format, both on and offline.
NEIUWEGEIN, the Netherlands—TDC Mobile International and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced their plans to create a pan-European revenue-sharing WAP gateway, which the companies said will give content providers a simple, unified method to offer their services to Europe's 320 million mobile customers.The situation now,...
LONDON—Just days after the initial launch of MIGway, the new joint venture between TDC Mobile International and CMG Wireless Data Solutions, the companies announced they will offer wireless access to MSN Hotmail e-mail services to select European carriers.MSN Hotmail is one of the world's...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Walt Disney Internet Group today said the company's wireless content will be distributed to Taiwanese mobile users under an agreement announced today with Taiwan Cellular Corp.Starting in October, the Disney Mobile service in Taiwan will offer wireless logos, screensavers and ring tones....
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Under an agreement announced today, Mexican wireless carrier Telcel licensed Pumatech Inc.'s Browse-it software to give its Palm OS users the ability to surf Web content in HTML format, both on and offline.
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Motorola Inc. today announced it will add travel functions, including the ability to make flight, car and hotel reservations, to its Mobile Office Solution.The company's mobile office product offers traveling businesspeople wireless access to corporate e-mail, calendar and address book information. Through today's...
TOKYO—104 Inc., a leading mobile Internet platform provider, along with CMG Wireless Data Solution, a business unit of CMG Group, will jointly provide a platform for mobile Internet content distribution. The firms announced the agreement on Aug. 15. Based on the deal, both firms...
By The wireless application developer community is suffering, according to WirelessDeveloper.com President Konny Zsigo. "Fifty percent of the content developers have either left the space or gone out of business," he said. "You're going to have to be smarter now than before."The reason, he...
With wireless operators expected to spend billions of dollars in the next several years introducing high-speed data capabilities onto their networks, the need for a return on investment is paramount. If consumer's current uptake of wireless data is any indication, ROI may be hard...
RALEIGH, N.C.-High Speed Net Solutions (d/b/a Summus), developer of mobile multimedia solutions, announced a new video solution that runs applications on cellular handsets enabled by Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW technology.High Speed Net Solutions' BlueFuel Video software features an Efficiency Engine, BlueFuel applications, BlueFuel Create content...
