Gaming highlighted a rash of announcements made today at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless I.T and Entertainment show in Las Vegas, providing a peak at what might be some of the hot-selling offerings for the holiday sales season.Nokia and AT&T Wireless said...
LAS VEGAS-The Fox TV network is planning a major new wireless effort centered on one of television's most well-known families-the Simpsons.Homer, Marge and the rest of the cast of the hit animated series will soon make the jump to wireless, said Jim Beddows, Fox's...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Legend Mobile said it has entered into an agreement with LogoManager of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for the development of branded mobile products based on certain properties under license to Legend. The first product expected from the new agreement is AlphaMobile MB based...
Twelve of the nation's top wireless carriers have joined forces to launch a common short codes, a service that will be commercially available next week. The program will allow TV stations, movie studios and virtually any other business to purchase a five-digit text messaging...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless is managing a wireless trivia contest in conjunction with the MTV Video Music Awards. Users can opt-in to the trivia contest through MTV's Web site and can answer various text messaging questions for a chance to win $25,000 and appear on the...
SEATTLE-Streaming-video company RealNetworks Inc. today announced a deal with Sprint PCS to offer an Internet-style media player to Sprint's Vision customers-an offering that marks a significant change in RealNetworks' wireless strategy.RealNetworks will offer its content, which includes feeds from CNN, NPR and others, through...
Verizon Wireless announced its subscribers will be able to vote on the selection of the most valuable player in the WNBA All-Star game using a short code voting system.Fans can pre-register for the wireless voting directly from their Verizon Wireless phones by sending the...
Executives from the nation's largest wireless carriers met last week in an effort to hammer out the details of a universal short code system, according to industry sources.Future meetings have been scheduled with an eye toward having the system commercially up and running by...
MANKATO, Minn.-Midwest Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless properties from three partnerships providing wireless service in Iowa under the name Cellcom.Midwest said the properties include wireless licenses for 17 counties in Iowa rural service areas 3, 11 and 12 serving 28,000 current...
Midwest Wireless signed a definitive agreement to acquire wireless properties from three partnerships providing wireless service in Iowa under the name Cellcom.Midwest said the properties include wireless licenses for 17 counties in Iowa rural service areas 3, 11 and 12 serving 28,000 current Cellcom...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. named Jeffrey Fox group president of communications where he will oversee the company's human resources, network services and information technology departments. Fox previously served as group president of Information Services at Alltel.In addition, Mike Flynn was named assistant to the...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Content deals continue to funnel through the pipe, with a range of handset makers, carriers and content companies announcing deals in the area.First, application provider SmartServ Online Inc. said it scored a major deal with an unnamed global handset maker to include the...
WARREN, N.J.-Mobile virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA is looking to tap into the hype surrounding the Fox TV show "American Idol" with its own text messaging campaign.The move is a response to AT&T Wireless Services Inc., which has a major deal with Fox...
NEW YORK-Wireless marketing company Enpocket announced it will conduct a detailed text-messaging campaign through a new deal with 20th Century Fox for its upcoming movie "Phone Booth."Enpocket said the promotion will kick off with a text message to all of the members of the...
NEW ORLEANS-Wireless industry leaders have agreed to implement universal short codes, and wireless users could see cross-carrier short code applications within the next few months.The board of directors for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association voted Wednesday to go ahead with the plan. The...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said its subscribers will be able to vote on the NBA's Most Valuable Player using the carrier's text messaging services during the 2003 NBA All-Star Game on Sunday.The exclusive offering is the first application from Verizon's new deal with ESPN and...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Fox Broadcasting reported a deal enabling AT&T Wireless customers to text vote and give "thumb up" for contestants on Fox's American Idol television show.AT&T Wireless said its sponsorship will include a range of wireless tie-ins including a promotional...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Football giant Fox Sports released a new wireless game in partnership with games developer Sorrent, which will initially be available through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS."Football has become synonymous with Fox Sports. Our new wireless football game, 'On Field Live,'...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS customers will be able to vote wirelessly every week on the Fox Sports Virtual Coach question featured every week on Fox NFL Sunday from any PCS Vision-enabled handset. Once the Virtual Coach question appears on the show, viewers vote real-time...
NEW YORK-Merrill Lynch & Co. and certain of its stock analysts are the target of at least two class action lawsuits filed in June in connection with Aether Systems Inc., Owings Mills, Md., a provider of software, services and support for connecting the desktop...
RESTON, Va.—Wireless data carrier Motient Corp., proving that it's still a viable company after recently emerging from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring, announced Fox Filmed Entertainment deployed an initial batch of Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry devices powered by the carrier's eLink software."We needed...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of the Apes through the Club Nokia Web site."We are pleased to provide our customers...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of the Apes through the Club Nokia Web site."We are pleased to provide our customers...
