BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless launched wireless alerts service for its Mobile Web and Mobile Messenger customers, allowing them to receive scores during the college football bowl season.The service, powered by InfoSpace Inc., allows subscribers to choose to receive scores at the end of the game...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless and Internet software and application services provider InfoSpace Inc. said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California approved its bid to purchase certain Excite.com media assets.InfoSpace said the assets will increase the company's position in the search and directory...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—YourMobile/PWS announced it plans to team with InfoSpace Inc. to integrate its personalized ringtones and phone graphics into InfoSpace's wireless platform."Through this relationship, wireless carriers, media companies, and marketers will be able to more effectively deliver and monetize multimedia applications—such as ringtones...
PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming a mainstay among adults age 35 and over.The latest Mobinet study, which covered 2,400 mobile-phone users in...
PLANO, Texas—A new study shows short message service chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming a mainstay among adults age 35 and over.The latest Mobinet study, which covered 2,400 mobile-phone users in six countries, was...
Major carriers are using third-party hosting services to gauge consumer activities to arrive at pricing models for m-commerce services.The operators, which include AT&T Wireless Services Group, Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Alltel Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp., have been using Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway to...
LAS VEGAS-Cingular Wireless said it will launch its first operational standards-based General Packet Radio Service in the United States, dubbed Cingular Wireless Internet Express, in its GSM markets in California, Nevada and Washington during the second quarter. The GPRS service is the company's first...
Newly named Leader of the Pack FCC Chairman Michael Powell got it right last week when he declared that wireless is the killer app.He's not alone. Each week, there are hundreds of new companies that believe the same thing and are trying to figure...
As the dark clouds of an uncertain market crouches, Infospace is seeking to renew itself with the old guard.The company, which provides services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, lost three key members of its management staff, triggering stock-market slides, downgrades and a...
WASHINGTON-Eight wireless location companies announced they have joined together to form the Wireless Location Industry Association, created to act on behalf of wireless location firms as a whole.Founding members include Cell-Loc, GoAmerica Inc., Cambridge Positioning Systems, Indexonly Technologies Inc., SignalSoft, iProx and ViaVis Mobile...
Extolling them as "wings of light," Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company identifies the four-pronged blitz as optical infrastructure, wireless access, Internet Protocol services to create...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Under a nonexclusive agreement, Lucent Technologies Inc. will market InfoSpace Inc.'s wireless platform to its customers. InfoSpace said its platform provides an end-to-end solution and includes such features as real-time stock quotes, commerce capabilities, personalization and localization.In addition, InfoSpace's geo-coded technology and services...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless introduced an instant messaging service called My Wireless Window in California, Nevada, Chicago, Dallas and Tulsa, Okla.The IM solution is based on InfoSpace Inc.'s platform and is integrated with Microsoft Corp.'s MSN Messenger service. The company said it will launch the service...
As wireless Internet traffic becomes more of a reality, more and more firms are expected to pop up interested in measuring that traffic.Media Metrix is perhaps the most popular Internet tracking firm today, measuring surfing activity of all sorts on traditional landline Internet systems....
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless application service provider 2Roam Inc. announced it has appointed Thomas Jackson chief executive officer and Jeff Hansen as senior vice president of marketing.The new CEO comes to 2Roam from OpenTV, while Hansen formerly was vice president at Saraide.com prior to its...
CHICAGO-Was last week's Personal Communications Industry Association GlobalXChange show a success?It depends on who you ask. While some exhibitors complained loudly about the lack of traffic, others said they received more attention since some traditional large vendors opted out of the show.Before the event,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. unveiled several implementations of its wireless Internet services platform by such companies as Nortel Networks, SBC Wireless, Virgin Mobile and Indian firm Tata.Nortel and InfoSpace have teamed to jointly offer the InfoSpace platform with Nortel's wireless network infrastructure to service providers....
SAN JOSE, Calif.-FusionOne Inc. said it will provide its Internet-based synchronization services to InfoSpace Inc.'s Wireless Internet platform. FusionOne's services are based on a store-and-forward, transaction-based architecture that synchronizes information across both compatible and otherwise incompatible systems, the company said.
The end is near.That is the prophecy heralded by the principals of Phone.com Inc. and Software.com Inc., which last week said they will merge in what is the largest announced wireless Internet transaction to date."Together, we are going to be an incredible force," said...
SBC Wireless Inc. said it plans to roll out wireless Internet services by the fourth quarter and named InfoSpace Inc. as the underlying platform provider for the service. SBC carriers Ameritech Cellular, Pacific Bell Wireless, Nevada Bell Wireless, Cellular One and SNET all will...
Looking to give end users greater control of their personal information via wireless devices, InfoSpace Inc. added two services to its wireless Internet platform that will allow users to interact with various financial and e-mail accounts from a single device.The new financial service will...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless introduced a wireless Internet service called Mobile Web, featuring the ability for users to create custom home pages.Subscribers can configure a personal home page by dictating which text message alerts they wish to have sent to their phone, as well as...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association reported that Christopher Galvin, chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola Inc., will be the opening keynote speaker at PCIA's GlobalXChange."As one of our longstanding industry leaders and supporters, Mr. Galvin has a unique vantage point from which...
CALGARY, Alberta-Wireless location service provider Cell-Loc Inc. and InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for wireless devices, reported an agreement the companies say will result in the speedy rollout of advanced location-based wireless Internet services to mobile-device users in North America.Through the agreement,...
