Content & Mobile Marketing

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will create a new, customizable Web portal through an agreement with MyWay.com. The co-branded site is expected to launch in the second quarter. …

Looking to join the wireless portal game, Internet infrastructure software firm Inktomi Corp. inked several deals last week with industry players in an effort to collect all the pieces necessary …

NEW YORK-To simulate third-generation wireless before its deployment, Finland’s Sonera has just embarked on a new program, Sonera Mspace, said Kaj-Erik Relander, the company’s executive vice president. In partnership with …

NEW YORK-Despite all the cheerleading about the new economy as a global village, the best bets for investments in telecommunications, the Internet and electronic commerce reside in the United States, …

Financial analysts are beginning to conservatively incorporate potential wireless data revenues into their valuations of wireless carriers, and many are looking to the future, realizing wireless operators should be evaluated …

While most wireless companies are looking toward consolidation in the one-way paging market, Scout Electromedia is looking toward overlooked markets to broaden its appeal. Scout Electromedia, a term the company …

DESERT SPRINGS, Calif.-Riverbed Technologies Inc., which has now merged with Aether Systems Inc., announced its ScoutWeb product is now commercially available. ScoutWeb is part of the company’s ScoutWare product line …

NEW YORK-Last May, 25 technology companies established the ASP Industry Consortium, Wakefield, Mass., to accomplish a delicate but important mission. Bring some order to the burgeoning and somewhat chaotic application …

Broadband. It is a familiar term being tossed around the wireless industry like a hot potato, but its relatively new status is making its definition, applications and implications elusive to …

British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless …

NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission 700 MHz auctions in May will be “a significant industry-transforming event and near-term catalyst … in the race toward wireless data,” John Bensche, senior analyst …

LCC International Inc. has launched a radio-frequency exposure and regulatory compliance program designed to help wireless operators and site owners comply with standards and guidelines mandated by the Federal Communications …

While most in the wireless industry seem fairly positive that wireless Internet services are going to be the next big growth cycle of the future, few have solid ideas on …

ATLANTA-The Weather Channel said its weather.com Web site will provide content and services to the oramobile.com wireless portal from OracleMobile.com, a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.

XYPoint made several enhancements to its wireless phone location services last week through partnerships with Vicinity Corp. and GeoVector. XYPoint partnered with Vicinity to provide wireless customers with location-based information …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association said Thursday that it is eliminating 10 positions as it “recharges its organization to further advance [the] wireless industry.” “In 1999, PCIA had the best …

WASHINGTON-When wireless customers begin to really use their wireless phones to access the Internet, who will they use? An Internet service provider of their choice or will they be forced …

NEW ORLEANS-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a two-way wireless communications module called @ctiveLink for the Visor handheld computer from Handspring Inc., the first ReFLEX-based two-way wireless data solution for a Palm …

RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with Aether Systems, Amazon.com, eDispatch.com, Wireless Data Inc., IBM and MicroStrategy to offer wireless Internet applications unique for businesses through Nextel Online. Nextel Online …

NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. has been relatively quiet about its plans for the wireless Internet, but last week it announced a number of initiatives to propel itself into this arena. …

Phone.com Inc. unveiled a new Wireless Application Protocol-based system that can change software settings and roaming configurations on handsets after they have been purchased using over-the-air provisioning technology. The system, …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-PacketVideo said Finland’s Sonera Corp. will conduct field trials of its wireless multimedia services this summer. PacketVideo’s MPEG-4 compliant software-based encoding, decoding and transmission-management products enable wireless carriers …

America Online Inc. took its AOL Anywhere strategy further into the wireless space last week with the introduction of its AOL Mobile Messenger service, created through several strategic deals with …

NEW ORLEANS-Several Wireless Application Protocol announcements were made at Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last week. RTS Wireless demonstrated its Advantage WAP Gateway e-commerce solutions Datalink.net said it joined the …

NEW YORK-The telecom/wireless sector of U.S. industry stood out last year, riding high on an overall rising tide of venture capital investments, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ “MoneyTree Survey.” Taken in aggregate, …