Just like the beginnings of the wired Internet, content on the wireless Internet is growing by leaps and bounds. Wireless Internet users now can schedule a flight out of Denver, challenge a stranger to a game of chess, check their stocks and access all...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of the Apes through the Club Nokia Web site."We are pleased to provide our customers...
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...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of the Apes through the Club Nokia Web site."We are pleased to provide our customers...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunBurst OnDemand service, allowing customers to access real-time information by typing a request into their wireless handsets. The service includes 15 types of OnDemand content and regularly scheduled InfoAlert services providing news, sports, lottery, stocks, horoscope, daily jokes,...
NEW YORK-Sony Corp. said it has reached an agreement to deliver its product using Yahoo!'s Internet facilities.This agreement includes development and distribution of a Web site; e-commerce; advisory services; and content integration and promotion.
Even though third-generation services are not yet available on mobile phones, one Belgium-based company is betting that 3G telematics services will be just as big, if not bigger.Acunia NV, Leuven, Belgium, crossed the Atlantic at the beginning of last year to set up a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The recent news that T-Motion, the mobile portal division of Deutsche Telekom, will charge Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) users for certain previously free mobile data services has been praised by mobile application developers. T-Motion is the first European mobile portal to start...
BEIJING—China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, launched its Uni-Info wireless data service on 1 August. The carrier will charge customers a connection fee and will transfer a content fee to the service provider offering the content, such as China's top three portals Sina,...
TOKYO—NEC, the leading high-tech enterprise in Japan, and Cybird, a mobile content provider, partnered for a content business in Korea. Under the deal, NEC acquired 15.4 percent of Cybird Korea, a business unit of Cybird in Korea. SK Telecom, the largest mobile carrier in...
NEW YORK-The mission of Pure Matrix Inc., a Boulder, Colo., start-up, is to make mass customization of mobile data nice and easy so customers will use it more and place greater value on its delivery and the carriers that transmit it.A European wireless carrier...
NEW YORK-The free spirits from the domain of Internet content development lamented their "don't tread on me" approach to government, whose intervention is seen as beneficial in 20: 20 hindsight."One mistake the technology industry made everywhere, especially on the West Coast, was sending a message...
SAN DIEGO-Now that wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp. has set up deals with many of the world's major chipset makers, mobile-phone manufacturers and carriers-and is a technology standard for the Third Generation Partnership Project-the company is turning its eyes toward a new link in...
MINNEAPOLIS-Circata, a Minneapolis wireless infrastructure enabler, and the Trading and Development Partnership Co., a partner of the Saudi Telecom Co., will sell and distribute Circata's products and related technologies in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.As part of the exclusive, three-year agreement, the companies...
NEW YORK-Casio Inc., Dover, N.J., the American subsidiary of Tokyo-based Casio Computer Co. Ltd., has made a $5 million investment in iAnywhere Solutions Inc., a division of Sybase Inc.Casio, which makes handheld computers and has developed an encryption technology to compete with that of...
With less than two years in the game, software platform provider Stick Networks has already made a name for itself with its flagship Personal Digital Network, a wireless platform that incorporates seamless integrated communications with advanced content delivery capabilities, to offer end users a...
NEW YORK-Volantis Systems Ltd., Guildford, England, has crossed the pond and established U.S. offices on both coasts to market its new Mariner software, which is designed to improve the speed, display and usability of data delivered over any wireless or wireline device on today's...
NEW YORK-Even without next-generation wireless networks, Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley are at work on myriad ways to improve delivery and presentation of Internet content to end users, as demonstrated at last week's Flashforward2001 conference.San Francisco-based Macromedia Inc. convened the meeting here to update...
LONG BEACH, Calif.-OmniNet Media Corp., a Long Beach, Calif., developer of wireless point-of-purchase advertising and delivery networks, has entered into a three-year, $5 million equity line of credit agreement with Greystone Venture Partners LP.OmniNet, whose stock is traded over the counter, is working on...
Unplugged Games Inc. officially released its MobileStage gaming product, a wireless video game platform for carriers designed to increase revenues through multiplayer games and specialized billing systems."It, in many ways, is the core of our business," said Eric Goldberg, founder and president of Unplugged...
While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and other, more advanced wireless...
SAN CARLOS, Calif.-Vizario Inc. announced a new software technology designed for widespread deployment in mobile phones, personal digital assistants and PCs.The company said its consumer technology features a client/server publishing tool that allows content carriers, promoters and content providers to distribute media assets to...
Personal digital assistant maker Palm Inc. released its much-anticipated earnings report last week, showing better-than-expected revenues and a positive outlook for the coming year.Wall Street jumped at the news, sending Palm's stock up about $1 per share. By Friday, the company's stock was selling...
