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ANNAPOLIS, Md.—TeleCommunication Systems Inc. said it filed a lawsuit against Mobile 356 Inc. and WiderThan Americas Inc. claiming the companies infringed on its patents. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.TCS alleges the companies infringed its...
TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...
CrystalVoice Communications, which provides enterprise voice communications software solutions, appointed Harvey White chairman of its board of directors. White most recently was chief executive officer of Leap Wireless.EquantInfrastructure services company Equant said Benoit Merel will become its acting chief financial officer. He replaces Jacques...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Newly merged mobile messaging company Mobileway-InphoMatch has teamed with Mobile Entertainment Europe, a mobile entertainment provider in Canada and Europe in an effort to bring mobile entertainment to the emerging U.S. market, the companies announced yesterday."With more than 140 million wireless subscribers, the...
InphoMatch Inc. and Mobileway will merge to create a new U.S.-based mobile messaging company with more than 200 carrier connections.While terms of the deal between the two privately held companies were not disclosed, InphoMatch Chief Executive Officer Neville Street described the agreement as "a...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-Wireless content and entertainment company Mforma Group Inc. announced it scored a whopping $44 million in venture funding in its first institutional round. General Catalyst Partners, eFund and Bessemer Venture Partners led the round.The news comes on the heels of several major funding...
Wireless messaging applications in the United States typically involve voting for reality TV show contestants, participating in trivia contests or requesting some sort of information, and most cost a few dollars or less. But one company is hoping to expand the functions of text...
In their spare time after work and on the weekends, three tech-savvy guys in Petaluma, Calif., in about six months have managed to surmount a technical hurdle that the multibillion-dollar U.S. wireless industry has not yet resolved after more than a year of effort.Paul...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Messaging company InphoMatch Inc. announced it delivered almost 2 billion text messages in the first quarter, up from 650 million messages in the first quarter of last year. The company said it delivered more than 4 billion intercarrier short message service messages last...
Text messaging interoperability company InphoMatch announced plans to expand into the wireless content market with its new InphoMatch Interactive (Imi) platform, which the company said takes the headache out of distributing wireless applications."We're not trying to sell a platform, we're trying to sell a...
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,"...
T-Mobile USA Inc. announced a major new instant messaging strategy through a deal with IM company Oz Communications. T-Mobile said it will use Oz's gateway and client technology to manage a standards-based instant messaging service, one that can work with desktop IM services including...
SEATTLE-Qpass Inc. and InphoMatch Inc. announced a platform for mobile operators and content partners that will allow premium short messaging service events to be delivered and charged to any subscriber's phone bill regardless of their carrier relationship.Under the agreement, InphoMatch's InphoAccess message delivery solution...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Wireless interoperability company InphoMatch said T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom will now be able to send text messages to non-GSM wireless subscribers in the United States.InphoMatch manages the text messaging interoperability agreements for T-Mobile USA Inc., as well as a variety of...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association announced cross-border, inter-carrier text messaging services enabling text messaging between customers of major U.S. and Canadian wireless service providers have been launched.Participating are Canadian service providers Bell Mobility, Microcell Solutions (Fido),...
CHANTILLY, Va.-The march toward global interoperable text messaging took another step forward as messaging giant LogicaCMG Wireless Networks and InphoMatch Inc. announced they will connect their inter-carrier text messaging systems.Text and multimedia messaging providers have recently begun harping on the need for global messaging...
Editor's note: At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the news events that made headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2002 in...
The text messaging industry in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds, and most agree it has the potential to be huge. The application is really the first major win for the nascent and struggling U.S. wireless data market for consumers, and...
MobileSpring Inc. and InphoMatch Inc., rival vendors for short message service interoperability solutions, have been working together during the past few months to ensure their cross-carrier messaging systems are themselves interoperable.The teaming comes as no real surprise. By making sure their systems can work...
BELLEVUE, Wash.—VoiceStream Wireless now offers inter-carrier text messaging to all its subscribers, regardless of handset type or service plan, the company announced.VoiceStream is using InphoMatch Inc.'s InphoXchange technology platform. VoiceStream follows AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless in making it possible for wireless...
DENVER, United States—Spurred by recent announcements across the globe and a bold move by AT&T Wireless Services, network operators in the United States are scampering to open up their short message service (SMS) systems in hopes recreating the tremendous success of SMS in Europe."I...
