IRVINE, Calif.—Mobile search provider go2 said it delivered more than 24 million unique user sessions in 2005, marking a 51-percent increase from its 2004 usage figures.Wireless users viewed more than 210 million pages of local information from go2 last year, the company said; popular...
SAN ANTONIO, Texas—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. subscribers can use their phones to access photos, e-mail, instant messaging and address books from their Yahoo Inc. accounts.Yahoo’s latest effort to expand into wireless uses a Nokia 6682 handset that can also receive custom news, weather and sports....
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc announced that it is working with Google Inc. to develop mobile search services, which Vodafone plans to integrate into its Vodafone Live portal. The Google search results would be delivered via Vodafone's high speed data networks and the product is designed...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration faces increased pressure to take a tougher stance on trade with China, a development that could lead to strained relations with the Asian giant and possibly complicate the near-term efforts of U.S. mobile phone vendors to compete for more billion-dollar contracts...
With a new venue, La Fira Barcelona, and more than 50,000 attendees, this year's 3GSM World Congress combined old and new in a splendid way-and showed once again that the more things change, the more they stay the same.The industry picked up a few...
LONDON—Vodafone Group plc announced that it is working with Google Inc. to develop mobile search services, which Vodafone plans to integrate into its Vodafone Live portal. The Google search results would be delivered via Vodafone’s high speed data networks and the product is designed...
BARCELONA, Spain-Software giant Microsoft Corp. announced it acquired Paris-based mobile search company MotionBridge. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in June 2000, MotionBridge powers mobile search services for operators including O2 plc, T-Mobile International, Orange SA and Sprint Nextel Corp. On Sprint...
Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA are among the backers of Fon, a Spanish Internet software company with plans to create a global network of 1 million shared Wi-Fi hot spots by 2010. In its first round of funding, the three-month-old company said it...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee seemed cool to the idea that broadband-pipe owners should be able to require some bandwidth hogs-like Voice over Internet Protocol providers, Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-to pay to access their broadband pipes. "I think the refrain of this committee ought...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Commerce Committee seemed cool to the idea that broadband-pipe owners should be able to require some bandwidth hogs like Voice over Internet Protocol providers Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. to pay to access their broadband pipes. "I think the refrain of this...
MADRID, Spain-Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA are among the backers of Fon, a Spanish Internet software company with plans to create a global network of one million shared Wi-Fi hot spots by 2010. In its first round of funding, the three-month-old company said...
New agreements, contract details from Philadelphia and a smidge of a slowdown in product certifications kept Wi-Fi circles buzzing last week. In Philadelphia, reports surfaced early last week that the city had worked out the terms of its contract with Earthlink Inc. for the...
WASHINGTON-U.S. tech firms, bedazzled by Internet, wireless and other business opportunities in China's massively underserved market, find themselves facing intensive scrutiny and criticism from Congress, human-rights groups and others for adhering to the communist government's censorship policies. Chinese censorship, a growing controversy that complicates...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The packed mobile search playground got even more crowded as digital marketing company iCrossing Inc. unveiled a new business unit. The company launched mCrossing, which it said will use text messaging and wireless search results to deliver advertising campaigns on wireless phones. ICrossing...
SEATTLE-Yahoo has the early lead in the race to become the wireless Web portal of choice for U.S. consumers, according to new figures from M:Metrics. An average of nearly 13 million consumers per month accessed Yahoo's services from their handset during the fourth quarter...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-More than two dozen companies are backing a preliminary "best practices" agreement for wireless Internet content, according to the World Wide Web Consortium.Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 "provides guidelines for creating a consistent and positive user experience across the rapidly growing number of...
SEATTLE-Yahoo has the early lead in the race to become the wireless Web portal of choice for U.S. consumers, according to new figures from M:Metrics. An average of nearly 13 million consumers per month accessed Yahoo's services from their handset during the fourth quarter...
Opera Software unveiled what it called a "WAP killer" last week, going global with its Web browser for Java-enabled mobile phones. Opera Mini uses a proxy server to format traditional Internet content for small screens-thereby bypassing the need for WAP technology and allowing users...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-A 1,500 square-mile high-speed wireless data network covering Silicon Valley is being planned by the area's civic and business leaders. A coalition called Smart Valley agreed to begin collecting bids for the wireless broadband network.Smart Valley members include the San Mateo County...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. launched a personalized tool bar that allows PC users to share Web pages via text messages. The tool bar-installed in a desktop computer-includes a "send to" option that can be used to send an excerpt or entire page through e-mails,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Shares of InfoSpace Inc. edged downward despite a solid fourth quarter that helped the company nearly double its annual profits.The Internet and mobile search provider reported a net fourth-quarter income of $37.9 million, or $1.14 per diluted share, up from $18.9 million, or...
BOULDER, Colo.-The Mobile Marketing Association is hoping to lay the foundation for mobile search revenues with a new document outlining potential business models, industry challenges and consumer needs. Calling mobile search "the next significant value creation opportunity for mobile operators around the world," the...
When Cingular Wireless L.L.C. managed to squeeze the launch of its 3G network into the last month of 2005, the move catapulted 16 major metropolitan cities into the spotlight as the most competitive 3G markets in the country. Cingular rolled out its BroadbandConnect service...
Boston's neighborhood business districts may soon be bustling with free Wi-Fi hot spots thanks to the city's Main Streets economic development project. But Boston's free project is different from those proposed in other large U.S. cities. First of all, Boston said its Wi-Fi project...
