Nextel Communications Inc. is introducing mobileID's personalization platform to its wireless Internet customers this week, marking the first commercial deployment of mobileID's Integrated Personalization Platform.The IPP allows users to personalize their wireless Internet experience by self-provisioning a profile based on their preferred likes and...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Wireless Data Forum and NetRatings Inc. have joined forces to study the impact of advertising on the wireless Internet.There has been much speculation about the potential efficacy of advertising on the wireless Internet, said CTIA."A number of important...
The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry.Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks.Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the attention of many powerful and nontraditional...
SBC Wireless Inc. said it plans to roll out wireless Internet services by the fourth quarter and named InfoSpace Inc. as the underlying platform provider for the service. SBC carriers Ameritech Cellular, Pacific Bell Wireless, Nevada Bell Wireless, Cellular One and SNET all will...
WASHINGTON-Several instant messaging companies, telecom carriers and Internet service and content providers have formed an organization dedicated to achieving true instant messaging interoperability among competing platforms.The IMUnified coalition said it intends to create specifications by the end of August that will allow interoperable instant...
ChinaChinese Internet portal Sohu.com said its content will be expanded to mobile networks in several Chinese provinces. The content, including news, stock quotes, travel information and weather data, is used today by operators in nine provinces. China has experienced only lackluster wireless Internet use,...
NEW YORK-Dream House Software Inc., Orinda, Calif., expects to begin beta testing in August of its new AnyWhereMobile Internet Service, designed to give subscribers remote access to their personal computer files.This represents the next phase of evolution from the company's earlier product, Retriever, which...
The mainstream media's honeymoon with WAP technology ended long ago, but the relationship has deteriorated so much lately that the entire affair seems ready for marriage counseling. One reason for the discord is media has a new mistress-iMode.While the press and analysts have largely...
Aether Systems Inc. is involved in yet another joint venture launch, this time with Sylvan Learning Systems Inc., to introduce MindSurf, a company aiming to provide mobile computing infrastructure targeted at the education community.The wireless education venture was created to link students, teachers and...
BellSouth Wireless DataMichael McGarry was appointed regional vice president, Central Region, for BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. McGarry's team will be responsible for selling Interactive Messaging PLUS and industry solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to joining BellSouth, McGarry held vice president of sales positions...
TantauTantau Software Inc. released its Wireless Internet Platform version 2, which features enhancements for back-end connectivity, content personalization and information delivery. In addition, the company announced a strategic agreement with Hewlett-Packard Co. to co-market mobile e-services solutions designed for financial institutions that combine the...
NEW YORK-Any wireless carrier that frets about competition on its turf should consider SmarTone Telecommunications Holdings Ltd., the fourth licensee in Hong Kong.The city-state has a population of 6.9 million, of whom 4 million already are mobile customers. Serving this market are six mobile...
NEW YORK-Merger and acquisition activity involving American companies shed some of its recent hyperactivity, slowing down last quarter to its lowest level since early 1998, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported.Among companies releasing the dollar amount of their transactions, aggregate deal value dropped to $248.1...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles and Terra Networks set up Terra Mobile, a new company charged with developing and operating the Telefonica group's global mobile Internet portal.Telefonica Moviles will control 51 percent of the new company, with Terra Networks controlling the remaining 49 percent.The Internet portal...
REDMOND, Wash.-America Online Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they have agreed to provide AOL content to AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers.Beginning this fall, PocketNet customers will have access to AOL's suite of wireless services, including MovieFone's local movie listings and AOL email, news,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless introduced a wireless Internet service called Mobile Web, featuring the ability for users to create custom home pages.Subscribers can configure a personal home page by dictating which text message alerts they wish to have sent to their phone, as well as...
In a Dallas factory once used for making bombs during World War II, Stick Networks Inc. is building a new class of wireless Internet services it hopes will prove just as explosive.Much has been discussed about the convergence between the Internet and wireless networks....
WASHINGTON-On land and in air, the ever-popular mobile phone-America's favorite toy in the New Millennium-is creating headaches for government, industry and citizens, and raising serious safety questions with no easy answers.Last week, federal regulators and lawmakers zeroed in on two growing areas of concern...
A broadcast radio alternative is fast approaching that will allow drivers to access a variety of audio newspaper and magazine content in their cars using a wireless Internet connection.More than three years in the making, American Autocast Corp. plans to launch an "autocast" service...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed updating wiretap laws for the Internet Age, despite concerns that federal law enforcement already may be exceeding constitutional privacy rights with a new system that conducts Internet surveillance.On Monday, the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, chaired by...
The term wireless application service provider has been tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly is a wireless ASP and why is it so popular at this stage of the wireless Internet industry?A traditional ASP model is the implementation of an application that...
NEW ORLEANS-Siemens Carrier Networks L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Information and Communications Networks Inc., introduced Quickstream, an end-to-end broadband access network solution for wireless carriers.Siemens said by using symmetrical digital subscriber line technology to overcome in-house distribution and wiring challenges, Quickstream can...
LONDON-U.K. wireless operator Orange plc announced a $752 million wireless Internet strategy, including numerous acquisitions, investments, partnerships and content agreements.Dubbed OrangeWorld, the initiative aims to take "wirefree communications beyond two-dimensional voice and data and into intelligent interactive response to individual customer requests and the...
NEW YORK-Three companies have joined forces to create a professional services joint venture providing end-to-end implementation of wireless content delivery and m-commerce applications.The participants include Internet business strategy firm K2 Design Inc., venture capitalist Unwired Ventures Inc. and wireless content delivery consultants SilverCube Inc.The...
