LONDON-By the end of the year there are expected to be 16.7 million wireless portal end users in Europe's top 15 markets, according to a study released by The Strategis Group.The study, European Wireless Portals: Strategies & Market Positioning, projects that the year-ending holiday season...
LONDON-British mobile carrier Orange plc said it bought Ananova Ltd., a new media division that includes an animated Internet newscaster, for $142.5 million in cash from the U.K. Press Association. Orange said Ananova provides access to innovative, digital news and entertainment services.The company, formerly...
Any industry that converges with the Internet has seen its entire model be destroyed and rebuilt. Like a tidal wave, it crashes and levels the playing field. For many, this tsunami of change is a disaster, destroying those caught unprepared. But this so-called disruptive...
MALAYSIA-Telekom Malaysia launched Wireless Application Protocol services based on Motorola Inc.'s Mobile Internet Exchange platform, leveraging content from Telekom Multimedia, the Internet and multimedia division of Telekom Malaysia.The first phase of service includes information services, personal information management and e-mail services. The second phase...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp., Australia's dominant telecommunications provider, "hates to be considered an incumbent because we transitioned to a New Age company years ago," said Philip Wise, managing director of its Mobile Consumer Division.To provide a full suite of services, the company is involved in...
NAPERVILLE, Ill.-Spyglass Inc. released the latest version of its Prism content delivery and transformation technology for wireless operators and content providers.Prism version 3.1 supports Extensible Markup Language, content sources and support for transforming content into compact Hypertext Markup Language, as well as Wireless Markup...
NEW YORK-smartRay.com announced partnerships with seven national, international and regional carriers, including Nextel Communications Inc.Under terms of the agreement with Nextel, smartRay.com said it will provide Nextel's wireless Internet customers access to news content via a link to mobile.smartRay.com.Nextel also agreed to promote smartRay.com's...
Arch Communications Group Inc. launched its two-way messaging service this week, positioning the new service as far away from the old paging paradigm as possible by using the brand Webster Internet Messaging."Fundamentally, at its core, it's a wireless e-mail service offering," said Ed Baker,...
LONDON-Sonera Zed Ltd. has agreed with Unilever and Hewlett-Packard Co. to test new mobile marketing solutions beginning in Finland this summer."Mobile marketing is one of the areas in which Zed wants to be a forerunner and develop new, advanced solutions," explained Juha Varelius, president...
BOSTON-A new report from consulting company Ovum advises current and potential players in the wireless market to develop wireless portal strategies and partnerships now and focus on the core aspects of place and personalization.The report, "Wireless Portals: Business Models and Market Strategies," predicts global revenues...
Palm Inc. introduced a wireless solution for its full line of personal digital assistants at PC Expo last week called the Mobile Internet Kit.The kit consists of a software upgrade that adds Palm's Web Clipping technology to the devices, allowing them to interact with...
GoAmerica Communications Corp. last week shifted its marketing focus from the consumer and individual user market to the corporate enterprise market by inking deals with EDS, an international information technology services firm with more than 9,000 corporate clients, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Inc."The consumer...
Aether Systems Inc. introduced an integrated wireless solution for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE-based Pocket PC products, sold by a variety of handheld computer manufacturers.Targeted specifically at large-volume corporate customer accounts, Aether's wireless Enterprise ISP solution includes the Pocket PC device, Sierra Wireless Inc. AirCard...
Due to an anticipated decrease in domestic South Korean sales related to the elimination of phone subsidies, Qualcomm Inc. expects lower order levels for its Code Division Multiple Access chipsets in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2000. Qualcomm said it did not expect the...
TOKYO-Since NTT DoCoMo launched its iMode wireless data service in February 1999, the number of mobile Internet users in Japan-more than 10 million as of the end of May-has taken off. As more users acquire browser phones, more content providers have entered the new...
BEIJING-The mobile Internet revolution is knocking on China's door. With 60 million mobile-phone subscribers and only 10 million people surfing the Internet using personal computers, Web access through mobile phones is a hot topic in China. Web portals, such as Sohu and Sina, and...
The lure of wireless Internet promises to transform the worldwide mobile industry. Carriers across the globe are risking it all on the future potential of the mobile Web. The difference between reshaping the wireless experience as we know it-and in the process realizing joyous...
Two-way messaging equipmentMotorolaMotorola introduced its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, featuring a full Qwerty keyboard with a flip-top screen and a four-line, 80-character display. It supports two-way messaging, wireless Internet e-mail and on-demand information services. It also features a private-time feature, which users may...
Remarkably, protagonists of the ongoing debate over third-generation (3G) spectrum auctions assume operator licensing is an issue to be considered in isolation. It is deemed unnecessary to consider the exercise anything other than a bureaucratic and self-contained procedure.Equally remarkable is users' needs hardly ever...
PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate Nortel's wireless data technology into HP's wireless hardware.Nortel is looking to capitalize on the...
Ellen Bork, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer, recently wrote a marvelously illuminating piece for The Washington Post that captured President Clinton's Pollyanna-ish view of high-technology in the New World Order.Bork contrasts, on the one hand, Vice President Gore's concern about the Internet's...
NEW YORK-Narus Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., introduced several new capabilities to its Internet business infrastructure solutions.These include content metering and Web commerce service modules for the Narus Billing Mediation System and new hardware-based, high-availability Narus analyzers with multi-gigabit performance.The company also introduced new Virtual...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Swedish telecommunications operator Telia reported it acquired more than 51 percent of Norwegian mobile operator Netcom ASA for $2.5 billion.Telia said the acquisition will strengthen its competitiveness in the Nordic region, with the combined company controlling about 28 percent of the Nordic mobile...
Europe is embarking on a third-generation license auction frenzy the rest of this year, and operators are not happy about it.Since the United Kingdom raked in a whopping $35 billion earlier this year, other countries are moving away from the traditional method of granting...
