Major carriers are using third-party hosting services to gauge consumer activities to arrive at pricing models for m-commerce services.The operators, which include AT&T Wireless Services Group, Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp., have been using Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway to...
ATLANTA-Arizan Corp., which develops wireless document technology, has partnered with Air2Web, a wireless platform provider, to integrate the Arizan Mobile Document Platform with Air2Web's Mobile Internet Platform, allowing the delivery of document content to any wireless user."Access to document information is the Achilles' heel...
SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless advertising company SkyGo Inc. announced an alliance with OmniSky Corp. that could lead to widespread use of wireless advertising over OmniSky's service.Under the deal, OmniSky will refer its content partners to SkyGo, which will offer its wireless marketing services. SkyGo, which is...
NEW YORK-In an effort to appeal to global service providers, MobileQ, a software and solution provider, launched the MobileQ MyScape, a multilingual product that enables wireless Web users to customize the content they access on their wireless devices.The product, based on the MobileQ flagship...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will open a commercial channel called Nokia Tradepoint that will allow application and content developers to offer their solutions throughout a wide market area and directly reach their target customers."The e marketplace will be an ideal distribution channel for...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
LOS ANGELES-Last week was a big one for wireless gaming enthusiasts, with dozens of announcements hitting the wires in conjunction with the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. A variety of companies, both large and small, announced their wireless gaming plans to take advantage...
If data is the center of gravity for future networks, Tahoe Networks thinks it has found the missing link in the wireless industry that can propel it to success.Tahoe Networks, a startup with $38 million of seed money in its first round of financing,...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The battle between Handspring Inc. and Palm Inc. rose to a new fevered pitch this week as Handspring announced a spate of new services and applications for its personal digital assistants, a move that comes just one week after both companies announced...
NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital PocketNet customers with interactive games for multiple players.The New York-based start-up began offering "a limited...
Intel Corp. may be one of the newer chip players in the wireless space, but it already is attracting a green eye from the older mainstays.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and others have seen how Intel Corp. has dominated the mobile computer market with its...
NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into increasing amounts of usage.Where there is a business problem, so too exists a business...
LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Digital Island Inc. at $3.40 per share, which would make Digital Island a wholly owned subsidiary of Cable & Wireless. Digital Island would remain based in San Francisco and led by its...
WHEATON, Md.-Not even the faster speeds and packet-based design of GPRS networks can save the WAP standard, which is of such poor quality that operators will continue to be forced to improve it with proprietary WAP extensions, The Shosteck Group said in a recent...
For the introduction of its initial wireless data offering, Leap Wireless International Inc. went back to its roots. The flat-rate, all-you-can-talk carrier will launch the first channel of its Telephone Entertainment Network, in Chattanooga, Tenn., where the carrier debuted its Cricket wireless voice service...
NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent Networking.WIN has not succeeded in its ultimate goal of "freeing carriers from the grasp...
China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest wireless operator in China, recently announced plans to create a wireless Internet setup much like NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service in Japan, but the company faces some significant challenges due to a cash-strapped population, cloudy government regulations and network...
LONDON-Psion plc has teamed with One-Ed Dot Com, a Malaysia-based joint venture between the Kedah State Development Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Widuri Canggih Sdn Bhd and Virtual Applications Technology Sdn Bhd, on an "e-school" project that may make traditional hard-copy textbooks obsolete.The Psion netBooks will...
MONTREAL-Airborne Entertainment and AT&T Wireless launched PocketBoxOffice via AT&T's PocketNet wireless Internet service.The new service delivers short bursts of original content designed specifically for wireless devices, including The Funniest and CraniumCrank, Dear Abby, Fashion Wire Daily and News of the Weird.
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The announcement by NTT DoCoMo of a five-month delay to its wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) launch must have been music to the ears of Irwin Jacobs, the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Qualcomm. While the major wireless operators in Europe have remained...
NEW DELHI, India-The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing a rapid growth of short message service (SMS), which is not only beginning to contribute significantly to operators' revenues, but is also setting the stage for future mobile data services. The Philippines continues to be the most...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Uncertainty related to the future of Scandinavian mobile prepaid calling plans, less preferred here than in Western Europe generally, is largely due to the struggle to migrate customers to more expensive products and emerging technologies that could fundamentally change the relationship between vendor...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
