WASHINGTON-Jim Balsillie, chairman of Research in Motion Ltd., last week urged the United States to take a leadership position in reforming its patent system and promoting protection of intellectual property rights on the world stage. "This is the most important competitiveness and innovation issue...
LAS VEGAS-PayPal Inc. officially went mobile, launching a service that allows users to make purchases and send or receive funds via wireless phones. Wireless subscribers can use the offering-which the company quietly began testing several weeks ago-to send money to other registered PayPal members...
WASHINGTON-Network neutrality has emerged as a key sticking point in the debate regarding a scaled-backed communications draft bill-tentatively dubbed the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act of 2006-released by the House Commerce Committee late last month. Network neutrality generally refers to the ability to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-PayPal quietly launched a service allowing users to make purchases or send money to other users from a mobile phone. The world's largest supplier of online payment services is testing the offering, which allows users to send a text message indicating the...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court and Congress are jumping into the powder-keg patent debate, one encompassing a morass of complex issues increasingly confronting wireless and high-tech sectors at a time when innovation in knowledge-based economies is driving significant growth in developed and emerging markets alike. The...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—PayPal quietly launched a service for customers to make purchases or send money to other users from a mobile phone. The world’s largest supplier of online payment services is testing the offering, which allows users to send a text message indicating the...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-M-commerce software developer Obopay said it has snared $10 million in Series A venture funding. Obopay, which was founded last year, plans to offer a mobile payment service in coming months that would allow users to make purchases and manage funds from...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—M-commerce software developer Obopay said it has snared $10 million in Series A venture funding. Obopay, which was founded last year, plans to offer a mobile payment service in coming months that will allow users to make purchases and manage funds from...
LONDON—Moonlight Mobile launched an application that allows mobile-phone users to browse Amazon products and information from their handset. The company said users can check product prices and availability, read buyer ratings and add items to their shopping cart or wish list for future purchase....
If life is a journey, 2005 has been a long, strange trip for the wireless industry.Looking back at the events of this year only underscores how quickly this industry changes. We reported that Verizon Wireless launched Vcast service in January and committed to MediaFlo's...
MILPITAS, Calif.-GoRemote Internet Communications Inc. will partner with Skype to offer free wireless Internet voice services to business users.GoRemote, which provides managed broadband services, said it will bundle Skype's software with its Mobile Office client software. The companies hope to allow managers and chief...
EBay Inc. has agreed to spend at least $2.6 billion in cash and stock to acquire Internet startup Skype International S.A. The online auction company said it will pay $1.3 billion in cash and an equal amount in stock for Skype, a 2-year-old Voice...
SAN DIEGO-Verizon Wireless is offering a mobile blogging application to its subscribers. The carrier launched Rabble, a mobile blogging application from Intercasting Corp. designed to allow users to create and distribute homemade content. For a $3 monthly access fee, bloggers can use the application...
Verizon Wireless is offering a mobile blogging application to its subscribers under an agreement announced Thursday. The carrier launched Rabble, a mobile blogging application from Intercasting Corp. designed to allow users to create and distribute homemade content. For a $3 monthly access fee, bloggers...
NEW ORLEANS-A handful of new wireless recycling initiatives were announced at last week's CTIA Wireless 2005 show. A new phone recycling program by GRC Wireless Recycling pays companies for their unwanted inventory of retired cellular phones.The company's Wireless Industry Recycling program pays companies at...
Unsatisfied with the same old phone selection from your local wireless provider? Shopping for a unique device that will amaze your friends and colleagues? Look no further than the world of online phone auctions. Ebay and other online Internet auctions offer a staggering range...
SAN FRANCISCO-Mobile music, games and enterprise applications are beginning to flood the market, creating a buzz the industry hasn't seen in years. But while insiders salivate over "hockey-stick" projections for wireless data revenues, developers that haven't cultivated relationships with established carriers, publishers or well-known...
WASHINGTON-While new industry figures show top Republicans casting pro-technology votes more often than their counterparts in Congress, a review of fresh campaign finance data reveals top high-tech firms are hedging their bets on Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Without question, the outcome of this...
WASHINGTON-Mobile game publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. will offer 5.3 million common shares for an estimated $13 to $15 per share in an initial public offering, according to official documents filed Tuesday.The Los Angeles company plans to sell about 3.6 million shares, with stockholders looking...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-EBay Inc., the online auctioneer, has selected as its exclusive billing platform the Kenan/BP solution from CSG Systems Inc.Under the agreement, eBay also will deploy the CSG Kenan Invoice Designer, a pre-integrated module that will enable the online trading company to customize electronic...
WASHINGTON—InPhonic Inc. has deployed its patent-pending, two-way short message service technology in tandem with eBay to provide a real-time alerts and interactive response service called "Wireless Rebidding" that eBay subscribers can access for a flat monthly fee of $3.Nextel Communications Inc. has become the...
One man's asset recovery is another man's poison.Like a stylized garage sale, wireless equipment manufacturers are auctioning off excess inventories, which are being shipped to needy markets in the United States and developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Industry sources estimate the business...
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...
OracleMobile added support for two-way wireless messaging devices to its OracleMobile.com wireless Internet portal service, which Metrocall Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. both agreed to make available to their messaging customers.The two-way pager service, called Ask@OracleMobile, allows users to access information based on...
