Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.As adoption of the wireless web grows, so too does the Holy Grail of advertising:...
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a $1 million settlement with a Hong Kong wireless content firm in connection with a state probe into consumer complaints about charges for third-party services that were not authorized."As the first content provider to adopt advertising standards...
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. has tapped LiveWire Mobile to power a new ringback application that allows subscribers to choose pre-selected content channels rather than individual tracks.Ringback Playlist, as the offering is marketed, offers 12 channels consisting of five ringback tones that are rotated every...
CallWave Inc. shelled out $9 million in cash to pick up WebMessenger Inc., a Los Angeles-based developer of messaging applications for smartphones.CallWave, a privately held company that claims 42 employees, targets business users with cross-platform applications for conferencing and other communications. The San Francisco-based...
Mobile music has been a one-hit wonder. But the big follow-up to the lucrative ringtone market may not be ringback tones, full-track downloads or any other single application. It may be advertising.Ringtone revenues in the United States will shrink in 2008, falling to $510...
Mobile video revenue will exceed $3.5 billion this year, driven by consumer demand for personalization and entertainment content on their mobile phones, according to new research from MultiMedia Intelligence.By 2012, the mobile video and mobile TV market will exceed $15 billion, including direct pay...
If there's one lesson to be gleaned from all the mobile TV trials in the last year or so, it's that users aren't very interested in paying for the stuff. In just the last couple of weeks: . Toshiba said it will shutter its Mobile...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Along with every one of my friends in this industry, from entrepreneurs to product managers at carriers,...
Mobile TV provider MobiTV said it now counts 4 million subscribers to its mobile video programming service. That's an increase from 3 million customers just 10 months ago.The rise is due in part to additional content deals the company has inked in the last...
Welcome to our weekly RCR Wireless Newscast. This week it's all about the Olympics, which are set to kick off Friday. Eyes from around the world will be on Beijing, and wireless users will have plenty of ways...
The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.--Celeno: Cisco led a $16 million Series C funding round into Celeno Communications, which provides semiconductors for multimedia...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Electronic Arts Inc. continued to grow its mobile revenues even as it disappointed investors with a $95 million quarterly loss.The publishing giant's wireless business generated $44 million in revenues during the period, marking a 33% year-over-year increase and a slight bump over the previous...
Once again, the Olympics will be seen as a kind of barometer for mobile data. But for wireless to perform alchemy at this year's games by turning consumers into gold, carriers and their business partners will need to put some marketing muscle behind the...
Things move quickly in the U.S. mobile entertainment ecosystem - unless you're an adult content vendor.From sex texts to moantones to bikini-clad models to full-on hardcore video, wireless porn is gaining traction in certain markets around the world. Wireless wantonness rang up about $1.7...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Patrick Maurer is no techie. "I can barely work my toaster," says the lanky 29-year-old sales rep...
Sprint Nextel Corp. overhauled its mobile Web service in an effort to deliver customized Internet content to subscribers.Sprint Web offers an adaptive home page that uses technology from ChangingWorlds to deliver content based on previous usage - a subscriber who constantly checks baseball scores,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The introduction of the iPhone was the most significant event in the 2007 wireless industry....
Stephen King fans can check out the author's latest work on their phones through a deal between Marvel Entertainment, CBS Mobile and Simon & Schuster subsidiary Scribner.The companies have teamed to produce 25 original video episodes based on "N," a previously unpublished story that...
Bango expanded its mobile analytics offering, adding a tool that allows publishers to track the number of unique visitors to their wireless Web sites.A hosted service available free to publishers who generate fewer than 100,000 page visits per month, Bango Analytics 3.0 enables developers...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Yay or Nay. Every week we'll review a new wireless application or service from the user's point of view, with the goal of highlighting what works and what doesn't. If you wish to submit your application or...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.With the launch of the 3G iPhone, there has been an incredible amount of media attention on...
A federal judge in Seattle ruled a class action texting lawsuit against T-Mobile USA Inc. will move forward, a development that comes as the mobile-phone industry offers to help federal regulators crack down on third-parties that send unsolicited commercial messages to subscribers.While third-party texting...
Cellufun announced a deal to bring a game show from cable television network GSN to mobile phones."Catch 21," which debuts tonight on GSN, combines pop trivia with the classic card game 21. The brand started as a free online game from WorldWinner.com and now...
