MUNICH, Germany-Device maker Siemens announced a new music downloading device and service that it will sell to wireless carriers, following MmO2's introduction of the offering last week. Siemens said it is in advanced negotiations with an unnamed U.S. wireless carrier for the offering.O2 last...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week dipped its toe into the dirty waters of digital pornography, an emerging issue with financial and intellectual property implications for mobile-phone operators globally.Last Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was designed to focus primarily on the use of peer-to-peer networks to distribute...
LONDON-End2End has rolled out a mobile digital rights management solution and announced a first commercial customer in Europe.End2End's DRM solution, which is based on the Open Mobile Alliance version 1.0 DRM specification, is being used to protect content offered by the pan-European portal. End2End...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday reauthorized the Federal Trade Commission but did not deal with the controversial digital rights management issue. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) offered but then withdrew an amendment that would have overturned a recent court ruling requiring Verizon Communications Inc....
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. released a new version of its Mobile Internet Toolkit for developing wireless applications, a product the company said includes support for digital rights management functions.The company's Mobile Internet Toolkit 4.0 includes the Digital Rights Management version 1.0 from the Open Mobile...
Those in the industry agree digital rights management is a key issue for wireless, and as a result there are several companies and a range of peripheral players looking to cash in on solutions to the problem.However, the complicated nature of the subject, as...
NEW ORLEANS--ACCESS Systems America announced at CTIA Wireless 2003 that its Premium Content Subscription Server now supports digital rights management based on the Open Mobile Alliance 1.0 specification."DRM will help prevent the illegal distribution of mobile content while providing new business models like content...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. will release its new e525 GPRS/WAP mobile handset at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, next week. The phone features a fold-form design, built-in antenna and integrated camera. It also includes two color displays, three picture formats, MMS capability, a picture...
LOS ANGELES—Oberthur Card Systems unveiled its SIMphonIC 3G Composer, a software tool for developing and simulating applications and services on 2G and 3G UMTS networks, this week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes.Oberthur Card Systems demonstrated three types of application development on Java...
HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom announced its Digital Rights Management and content protection security technology and services are being used to provide secure data transmissions in new wireless applications from Honeywell and XM Satellite Radio.Certicom's technology will be used by Honeywell to deliver its Flight Information Systems...
