BONN, Germany-T-Mobile International AG's subsidiaries in Europe are working with Google to boost wireless Internet use, the companies said Wednesday.The mobile arm of Deutsche Telekom said it is encouraging users to surf outside the walled garden, using the Internet giant's portal as a home...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. has launched a new search service that delivers results only from Web pages that are customized for the small screens of mobile phones.Google Mobile Web Search indexes sites that use XHTML technology, a hybrid of HTML and XML that is...
NEW YORK-Internet search giant Google acquired Dodgeball.com, a popular SMS-based, location-specific social networking service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Dodgeball.com allows users to "check in" at specific locations-a sporting event or concert, for instance-then sends text messages to member friends within a 10-block...
NEW YORK-Internet search giant Google acquired Dodgeball.com, a popular SMS-based, location-specific social networking service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Dodgeball.com allows users to "check in" at specific locations-a sporting event or concert, for instance-then sends text messages to member friends within a 10-block...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. added two new features to its mobile search service, allowing users to access information from its Google Local Web site through their cell phones.With the expanded service, wireless subscribers with XHTML-enabled handsets can find local business listings and access driving...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. has rolled out a movie-search service for wireless subscribers, allowing users to access show times and theater locations and phone numbers through their handsets. The offering expands on the Internet portal's local short message service search service, which was launched...
Internet search engine Ask Jeeves said it will bring its service to wireless devices later this year, joining an already crowded playing field of mobile-search providers. But whether wireless subscribers will use their phones to access search engines-or how they might do it-is anybody's...
Internet search provider Ask Jeeves plans to launch a search service for wireless devices later this year, the company confirmed Tuesday. A spokeswoman declined to give specifics of the planned service, but confirmed that Ask Jeeves will join fellow Internet search providers in the...
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.-Interchange Corp. launched a localized text-messaging search service that allows wireless users to find products, services and businesses from their handsets. The provider of local and national paid-search services unveiled SMS Local, which accesses listings by product, service, business name and location...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. will add post office protocol support to its Gmail service, allowing customers to wirelessly check their accounts on certain handsets.The Web search company will roll out POP support during the next few weeks, extending its free Web mail service to...
Yahoo Inc. has followed Google into the mobile-search arena, launching a service that allows wireless users to query its search engine over their handsets.Yahoo Search, which launched Wednesday, enables consumers to access conventional Web results, such as local business listings as well as maps...
Google has launched a beta test of a service that allows mobile users to access the Google database from handsets using short message service. Google SMS delivers local business and residential listings via Google Local and price comparisons through Froogle.com. Users also can access...
Google has launched a beta test of a new service that allows mobile users to access its database from their handsets using short message service. Google SMS, which debuted Thursday, delivers localized business and residential listings via Google Local and price comparisons through Froogle.com....
A quick Google of the acronym "TSI" can turn up at least 10 different companies, all using the same three letters to sell wildly differing products and services. However, Googling the word "Syniverse" turns up only one company-Syniverse Technologies Inc."It's like an alphabet soup,"...
SEATTLE-Miniature wireless camera company X10 Wireless Technology, known for its pop-up Internet advertisements, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week. The bankruptcy filing comes two weeks after a jury ordered X10 to pay $4.3 million in damages to three brothers who said X10 stole...
The Internet may be the most revolutionary communications medium ever, but that revolution comes with the burden of a boatload of questionable "stuff"-rampant pornography, anonymous access to prescription drugs, illegal music downloads, online gambling, fraud, hoaxes, plagiarism-all led by the granddaddy of all Internet-related...
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas-Sprint PCS launched its Rhapsody 411 music service providing its PCS Vision customers with access to Listen.com's library of digital music and information services. The service reportedly allows users to browse thousands of music recommendations, artist information, full-color artist images and album...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States-AT&T Wireless announced an agreement with Google to provide subscribers with Internet-ready mobile phones direct access to Google's search engine.The Google service, available to AT&T Digital PocketNet Service Premium Plan customers, automatically converts HTML Web pages for Wireless Application Protocol...
Cellemetry L.L.C.Numerex Corp. announced that its subsidiary, Cellemetry L.L.C., will incorporate Ida Corp.'s Global Trakit Data Center in its Cellemetry network, enabling automatic vehicle location and remote asset management. According to Geoff Girdler, head of the Numerex wireless communication group, "This powerful tool for...
Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a set number of wirelessly enabled Web sites. Some wireless operators have heeded said advice...
LONDON-Vodafone Group plc confirmed the content and technology partners chosen for its Global Platform and Internet Services Group. The partnerships will add design, custom content, advanced search technology, content integration and location-based services to the Vodafone Global Platform, which designs, builds and maintains Vodafone's...
LAS VEGAS-The computer industry is ready to stake its claim in the wireless market, evidenced by a range of announcements at this year's Fall Comdex show.Various PDA manufacturers and service providers made significant announcements at Comdex. And while wireless was but a footnote for...
PASADENA, Calif.-Google Inc. introduced its Google Number Search, a new feature of its search engine designed to streamline the process of entering text on Web-enabled mobile phones.The system allows users to enter URLs into a phone by only pressing each key once, instead of...
