Verizon Wireless is expected to make headlines once again at the International Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, unveiling a full-track mobile music download service. The carrier, which last year launched its Vcast offering at CES, looks to expand the service with...
Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. jumped Thursday morning after the company reported strong third-quarter sales of its BlackBerry devices. RIM reported $560 million in revenue during the period, up 53 percent from last year's third-quarter revenue of $366 million. Third-quarter diluted per-share earnings...
WATERLOO, Ontario-Shares of Research In Motion Ltd. jumped Thursday morning after the company reported strong third-quarter sales of its BlackBerry devices. RIM reported $560 million in revenue during the period, up 53 percent from last year's third-quarter revenue of $366 million. Third-quarter diluted per-share...
LONDON-Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is poised to become the primary channel for mobile video in Europe, according to a study from Frost & Sullivan. Manufacturers will launch DVB-H services on a trial basis by 2008, the research firm predicts, and operators will...
Wireless developers really do own the short end of the stick. Whereas Microsoft Corp.'s Windows system largely dominates the computer industry, there is no such unifying platform in wireless. Developers in the mobile-phone space are left with a dizzying array of choices from Java...
LONDON-Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB-H) is poised to become the primary channel for mobile video in Europe, according to a study from Frost & Sullivan.Manufacturers will launch DVB-H services on a trial basis by 2008, the research firm predicts, and operators will lure...
Deals were announced and applications launched last week as the large wireless vendors fanned the flames of the hot and getting-hotter mobile content market. L.M. Ericsson said it will distribute ring-back tones from EMI Music's catalog of music as part of Ericsson's hosted ring-back...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sendia Corp. teamed to provide real-time, on-demand wireless access to account information within Salesforce.com targeted at sales professionals.Cingular will resell Sendia's WorkSpace customer relationship management application on several of its devices. The offering, which is expected to be launched...
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. reported $48 million in revenues in its second quarter, up from the $24.6 million it posted in the same quarter last year. Sales of phones with the company's operating system tripled over the same period to 7.8 million phones in the quarter....
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. reported $48 million in revenues in its second quarter, up from the $24.6 million it posted in the same quarter last year. Sales of phones with the company's operating system tripled over the same period to 7.8 million phones in the quarter."In...
NEWTON CENTRE, Mass.-The big appear to keep getting bigger as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. accounted for half of the 188 million phones sold in the second quarter, according to research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. However, such gains came at the expense of...
The big appear to keep getting bigger as Nokia Corp. and Motorola Inc. accounted for half of the 188 million phones sold in the second quarter, according to research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. However, such gains came at the expense of others in...
Last week's unexpected exit of PalmSource Inc.'s chief executive officer was counterbalanced by the company's new deals with PalmOne Inc., valued around $187 million. However, PalmSource's future is still unclear at best, and some industry analysts believe its long-term viability is now suspect. "The...
LAS VEGAS, Nev./PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. said it will offer an upgrade program to Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 on some HP iPAQ handhelds as well as plans to support the new version of the software platform in its future mobile offerings. HP iPAQ handhelds...
WESLEY HILLS, N.Y.-The creators of Answers.com announced the launch of a test version of its Internet search engine for wireless devices. GuruNet Corp., which owns Answers.com, announced Tuesday that users of Web-based devices such as the Treo, BlackBerry and Windows CE-supported handhelds can access...
The buzz surrounding mobile TV continues to grow with three separate announcements this week. Nokia Corp. is leading a seven-company team working to launch a pilot effort to test mobile TV technology and consumer experiences in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.MTV, Digita, Elisa, Nelonen,...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-The mobile-phone market grew at a staggering pace during the critical fourth-quarter shopping season, according to a variety of research reports. Further, that growth stretched from low-end phones to high-end smart devices. Mobile-phone shipments rose to 195 million units in the fourth...
Sprint PCS said it is including over-the-air technology with seven of its new Vision handsets, enabling the carrier to perform remote software upgrades and fix bugs on devices already in the hands of consumers. Sprint said its Wireless Software Upgrade provides a cost-effective way...
When it comes to wireless data, perhaps 2004 should be called "The year of the untapped enterprise market." Even as a small army of software developers and device manufacturers rushes to put mobile devices in the hands of on-the-go workers, businesses around the world...
Mobile users will get a little help battling the bulge with two new applications aimed at dieters. Wireless entertainment publisher Digital Chocolate said it plans to work with Atkins Nutritionals Inc. to develop wireless content for carb counters. The first of the planned applications,...
Wireless entertainment publisher Digital Chocolate plans to announce an agreement next week to work with Atkins Nutritionals Inc. to develop wireless content for carb counters. The first of the planned applications, Atkins 2Go, will allow users to look up carbohydrate counts for different foods...
ROK Entertainment Group said its ROK Player allows multimedia memory card-capable mobile phones to play content-loaded multimedia chips on the full screen of their handsets rather than in letterbox formats. "We have already licensed a wide range of content from comedy to music and...
CAMPBELL, Calif.-Berkana Wireless Inc. introduced its BKW9000-based radio reference design kits.The kits are designed to speed development of cellular handsets and handhelds based on the BKW9000 line of single-chip quad-band GSM/GPRS CMOS RF transceivers, said the company. The company is offering kits supporting 2.5-generation...
Nokia Corp. used its Nokia Mobility Conference last week in Monaco as a platform to showcase several new products, including its new smart-phone offerings: the Nokia 7710 widescreen multimedia smart phone, the Nokia 3230 megapixel smart phone and the mid-range Nokia 6020 camera phone....
