TOKYO-Mobile Internet shopping is no longer a futuristic idea, but a daily practice, at least for early adopters in the browser phone-advanced nation of Japan.The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications estimates the Japanese mobile-commerce market will expand from 4.2 billion yen (US$35.8 million) in...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
Wireless Web site enabler 2Roam Inc. announced several new deals last week, one of which the company hopes will propel it into new and more profitable markets in the Asia-Pacific and European regions."In the last 90 days, 2Roam has really expanded its business," said...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Nextel Communications Inc. Wireless Web Service customers will now have access to CBS SportsLine.com content thanks to an agreement between the two companies.SportsLine.com will provide access to up-to-date coverage of a wide variety of sports on Nextel phones with the latest scores,...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Streaming media technology provider Luxxon Corp. released its Mediator Streaming System, providing wireless operators with a comprehensive streaming media solution incorporating Luxxon's Mediator Transcoder and Mediator Server.The company said the system enables operators to adapt and deliver streaming audio and video from...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless Mobile Web customers now can access an information provider, Afronet.com, focused on content by and for the African-American community.Afronet.com offers customer's daily news updates, business news, access to personal advertisements, entertainment news, and restaurant and nightlife listing for major cities."Afronet.com is...
Motorola tried to square up to recent hard times with a series of announcements from product launches and contract wins to brokered alliances and games.The announcements made last week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, include the launch of a five-strong portfolio...
SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said will allow wireless users to view large, complex images.LizardTech, which currently designs technology to transmit high-quality images over the Internet,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-America Online Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. reported a comprehensive services, content and marketing agreement to provide America Online's features and services to customers as part of VoiceStream's wireless Internet service.Under the multi-year agreement, AOL members, AOL Instant Messenger users and VoiceStream Wireless...
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sentica, a wireless convergence company, announced a new pact with entertainment software company Electronic Arts aimed at establishing itself as the delivery vehicle for all interactive wired and wireless gaming companies.The agreement will enable the delivery of mixed media content and notifications...
Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is a good way for wireless customers to experience large data files.PacketVideo Corp. has jumped...
TheRightSizeTheRightSize Inc. released its new Rosetta Stone wireless software for the Palm family of personal digital assistants, which the company said uses information from online retailers to help shoppers search for their favorite brand and style of clothes. The service also can find sizes...
NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today?That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of Jigami, Rosh Haayin, Israel, developer of the trademarked 3Gate platform and content switch.Carrier trials are...
According to recent reports, wireless gaming is spreading nearly as fast as computer viruses pretending to be pictures of tennis stars. By 2005, more than 200 million wireless phone users in the United States and Europe, 80 percent of all wireless customers, will play...
So far, the question has been: Who drives the traffic?Do content providers for the wireless Internet push user traffic for wireless carriers, increasing their revenue stream, or do carriers support the survival of content providers by exposing wireless Web users to content?Executives for newly formed...
With consumers continuing to buy into wireless services, "push" and "pull" solutions are coming to the forefront as a way to provide information to consumers and provide additional revenue streams for both carriers and businesses. But, thanks to wired telecommunications use of unwanted telemarketing,...
TOKYO-Japan Telecom Co. Ltd., the country's third-largest wireless operator, reported subscribers for its Internet-enabled cell phones reached 5 million customers."Thanks to communications functions and content such as ringing tones, we have been able to make ourselves popular with customers," the company said in a...
Nine months after investing an initial $33 million into its mobile Internet services development company Microcell i5 Inc., Canadian wireless operator Microcell Solutions Inc. introduced its i.Fido wireless data services to its Fido personal communications services customers.Microcell's wireless Internet offering will face stiff competition...
Newly named Leader of the Pack FCC Chairman Michael Powell got it right last week when he declared that wireless is the killer app.He's not alone. Each week, there are hundreds of new companies that believe the same thing and are trying to figure...
VIENNA, Va.-The Newspaper Association of America partnered with Aether Systems Inc. to create a wireless news gateway, which will allow users to access content from multiple participating newspapers, in an attempt to find out how best to offer mobile news and information.Users' preferences will...
NEW DELHI, India-Thai cellular companies foresee a big jump in use of WAP phones during 2001.About 70 percent of the 1.4 million new handsets that Advanced Info Service (AIS) expects to sell this year will use WAP technology, according to Yanyong Akrajindanon, vice president...
ANNANDALE, Va.-Nextel Communications licensed Invertix Corp.'s ScanixT Packet Data wireless optimization software, which it expects to deploy throughout its network this year.Invertix said the software processes engineering data and recommends network adjustments to improve the delivery of Internet content to wireless devices.
In a move to transform itself into the chief platform enabler among software developers and carriers, Qualcomm Inc. has developed an open, CDMA-based technology that will allow third-party users to write applications for mobile phones from a variety of vendors.The product, known as Binary...
