RF Micro Devices Inc. agreed to privately place $250 million aggregate principal amount of 3.75 percent convertible subordinated notes due 2005.The company said the notes will be convertible into RFMD common stock at a conversion price of $90.17 per share. The conversion price will...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. introduced a new Web sited called TheFeature, aimed at industry professionals, academics, media and others interested in the mobile Internet space.The site is designed as an educational resource, offering networking features like open discussion forums and virtual business cards. It also...
In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both the network and in new WAP-compliant phones.The result is a greater array of handsets...
Easy Access Inc. has selected SeaGull Inc.'s Wireless-to-Host solution to wirelessly enable its EZ-Vote mobile voter registration management system.MG Financial Group has introduced wireless access to Forex market trading information.Geoworks Corp. announced its Mobile ASP solution will power a mobile information service for Abbey...
NEW YORK-Marvel Enterprises Inc. has teamed with Nokia Ventures Corp.-funded Riot Entertainment to develop and offer programs and other content for wireless devices based on popular Marvel Comics characters, including X-Men and Spider-Man. Programming will include games, icons, music, and community and chat forums....
Many entering the wireless application service provider space have concentrated much of their business on wirelessly enabling Internet content. That is, after all, the primary function of a wireless ASP.Not so, says relative newcomer 2Roam Inc. The company, launched this April, believes optimizing Internet...
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
SAN DIEGO-Zagat.com, one of the larger restaurant review and location content providers, has tapped Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. to wirelessly enable its restaurant guide.While it has made several deals with wireless carriers and portals to offer its content wirelessly, the deal with Wireless Knowledge makes...
As NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service continues to grow in popularity, several industry players are offering solutions to make i-mode content compatible with WAP phones.One such company, iJapan, recently introduced a multilanguage, multiplatform technology aiming to do just that-allow i-mode and WAP phones to read...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-CDMA-based wireless services will enable hundreds of millions of people to access multimedia content wirelessly, according to a study by Datacomm Research Co."The wireless Internet market will explode once operators begin delivering streaming media at reasonable prices. Our research shows that CDMA-based air...
NEW YORK-ABCNews. com will provide video, audio and text content to ScreamingMedia's network of Web and wireless subscribers, according to a content distribution agreement the two formed.
MONTREAL-Citing the frustration and difficulty of entering Web address URLs on Internet-enabled wireless handsets, a new firm called Rocketfinger Corp. said it has developed a method to make URL entry easier for phone users.Content providers may register their domain name at the Rocketfinger.com Web...
NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a new service that combines DoCoMo's i-mode service and SCEI's Playstation.Under the terms of the agreement, DoCoMo and SCEI will jointly combine Playstation with conventional i-mode, Java-enabled i-mode...
The Personal Communications Industry Association made another move designed to evolve the association into one that serves the global mobile Internet market.PCIA last week announced the PCIA Global Initiative, a new PCIA division designed to provide consumer and market data for the mobile Internet...
While there are several instant messaging solutions in the marketplace today, Invertix Corp. is using its IM Anywhere software product in ways that it says go beyond simple messaging.The company is looking to act as the go-between for the many content providers hoping to...
PacketVideo Corp. and Warner Bros. New Media unveiled plans to deliver Warner Bros.-created original animated content to wireless devices, including wireless phones and personal digital assistants, using PacketVideo's MPEG-4 streaming video software.Appropriately, Warner Bros. said it will use its Marvin the Martian cartoon character,...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. made several announcements regarding new content and services now available to its Nextel Online customers.Nextel said mobileID will deliver a subset of its personalized wireless Web services. MobileID enables customers to access information, such as movie times, restaurant locations and...
NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on a drawing board.The so-called 10 nines, or 99.99999999 percent reliability, is a Holy Grail...
Qualcomm Inc. and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility last week, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main-line new...
Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...
With a little help from concerned consumer groups and government researchers, voice technologies are forging ahead as a safe alternative to dialing while driving, while at the same time opening new revenue channels for advertisers and wireless carriers.Voice technologies include portals, which can be...
RESTON, Va.-Motient Corp. announced an agreement with Internet content leader Yahoo! Inc. under which Yahoo! will use Motient's eLink service and wireless network to provide Yahoo! users with wireless access to its content and services.Motient also released second-quarter operating results, posting a net loss...
Hoping to speed the adoption of wireless location-based technologies by operators nationwide, Phone.com Inc. introduced several new products at its Unwired Universe conference held last week aimed at tying location services to its wireless Internet platform.Most significantly, the company introduced a mobile location addition...
