PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. announced today it will acquire Enthusiasm Technologies Inc., a developer of Web-based data extraction and processing technology, for about $5.3 million"This is a value-added, powerful additional to our growing offering of local, personalized information services," said Timothy A. Timmins,...
TOKYO-The value of wireless Internet transactions in Japan will grow from $336 million in 2000 to more than $5 billion in 2005, according to a report from Japanese research firm Jupiter Media Metrix K.K."Japanese consumers are more willing to pay for mobile content because...
NEW YORK-AirMedia has embarked on a common carrier strategy for Internet content provision with the late January introduction of its new "Wireless Hub.""This will be a worldwide automated marketplace, with a back end and front end to enable mobile content and services," David S....
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS entered an agreement with Tribune Media Services, a provider of information and entertainment products, providing Sprint PCS customers with access to content from TMS' Web site, Zap2it.com, via Sprint PCS' Wireless Web service.The service gives subscribers access to daily TV...
AlterEgo Networks Inc. wants all devices to be treated equal. To that end, the company introduced its line of Adaptive Network Servers designed to enable enterprises to extend applications and content to wired and wireless users regardless of device type, data source, network connection...
AT&T Wireless wasted little time in exploiting its relationship with Japan's NTT DoCoMo in an attempt to jump start its wireless Internet offerings. AT&T, which received nearly $10 billion from the Japanese telecom giant, signed an agreement with DoCoMo and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc....
Openwave Systems Inc., the offspring of Phone.com and Software.com's recent union, became the darling of Wall Street last week following its announcement to introduce a new browser for packet-based GPRS and third-generation wireless networks, and it already has a customer in KDDI of Japan.The...
Mounting brick walls between businesses remain obstacles in an economy that integrates by the day. But XMLSolutions Global aims to turn barriers into networks by bringing its expertise into the flawed territory of WAP.Extensible Markup Language, often exalted as the meta-language for third-generation m-commerce,...
LONDON-Terra Mobile and Digital Island plan to partner to improve the delivery of content and services to GPRS devices.The agreement calls for Digital Island to deploy its Footprint Content Delivery Network to Terra Mobile's GPRS services to help build a test bed to improve...
Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly enabled sites grows daily, the lack of access and content these sites provide has...
NEW YORK-A host of players behind the scenes is pulling the complex strings required to amplify and simplify the end-user experience with billing and customer relationship management for the increasing variety of wireless services.With six or seven operators in each major market, price no...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will consider abolishing analog cellular technical rules that require cellular carriers to set aside a portion of their networks for the AMPS standard."We accept staff's recommendation to initiate a rule-making to review the Part 22 Cellular rules to...
AetherAether Systems Inc. introduced version 1.1 of its ScoutWeb software component of the ScoutWare product suite. The new version supports SSL encryption as well as various other levels of encryption security, enabling users to access Web content and applications via standard SSL connections that...
Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun.The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to "transform wireless devices into personal entertainment terminals...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS reached agreements with Walt Disney Internet Group, ConsumerReview.com and BarPoint.com to provide content via Sprint's wireless Web offering.The Walt Disney Internet Group deal will provide news headlines and summary digests from ABCNews.com; sports headlines and scores from ESPN.com; entertainment news...
By tweaking network technology, user behavior, business models and industry structure, Cisco Systems Inc. is flexing its muscles in the wireless Internet space.The company, known for its end-to-end network enterprise solutions, plans to expand its expertise into the wireless arena.This involves paving the way...
GENEVA-With the world's first third-generation (3G) mobile systems due to come online in Japan in less than a year, Europe's wireless operators are gearing up for an intense round of bidding for the right to be among the first to offer broadband wireless services...
As industry spends billions of dollars on spectrum and banks on a future driven by third-generation wireless phones and mobile commerce, there is every reason to believe the serious business of tomorrow is actually child's play.While wireless executives with sweaty palms write checks to...
As likely winners begin to emerge in the re-auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s PCS licenses, it looks like these permits will be used in large part by major wireless players to shore up more spectrum, either to meet capacity needs today or for third-generation...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard, after signing off on a $106 billion communications deal with far-reaching implications for wireless and other high-tech industry sectors, announced his resignation last week."Our work here is done. It is time for me to go," said Kennard last...
HONG KONG-Chinadotcom Corp., Asia's leading Internet Company, has signed an agreement that will allow Nokia Corp. to supply the broadband technology to generate Internet traffic to its networks.Chinadotcom will source its content and services from its subsidiaries like KP.com, Stame.com and Beijing Digital Ark."This...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. signed a multimillion dollar deal with PacketVideo Corp. to deliver full-motion video and audio content to mobile devices.The content will include news, sports highlights, movie trailers and video e-mail for Java-enabled wireless devices like wireless phones, smart phones, handheld devices, wireless...
While the market for consumers who might want to watch streaming video or listen to streaming audio on their wireless devices is debatable, chip manufacturers are going ahead with plans to integrate streaming content technology into chips in case that demand materializes.Toshiba Corp. unveiled...
