BOSTON-MessageMachines Inc., which provides advanced messaging solutions, and Mirapoint Inc., which provides Internet messaging infrastructure products, have teamed to enhance the messaging and notification capabilities of Mirapoint's product lines.In short, MessageMachines will integrate its cross-device messaging platform's alert, notification, routing and wireless instant-messaging capabilities...
Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant offering.While the company hadn't yet filed as of Friday in the bankruptcy court that...
Microsoft Corp.'s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company's new initiative .NET as the software player's latest strategy to extend its monopoly.Analysts think that, in spite of the antitrust lawsuit still pending in the U.S. appeals court against Microsoft, the...
An overlooked and potentially huge segment of the mobile-phone market is eagerly following the exploits of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys. This segment watches PG-13 movies and, in general, must be dragged kicking and screaming to middle and high school.This segment is the...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., has been authorized by the Ministry of Information and Industry to sell voice mail and short message service technologies to service providers in China.Six Chinese mobile operators including Guangdong Mobile, Shanghai Mobile, Liaoning Mobile, Hei Longjiang...
NEW YORK-As part of its wireless data strategy, TeleCorp PCS officially launched two-way short message service in all its markets May 18 and is offering its customers free three-month trials, Gerald T. Vento, chief executive officer and board member, said at the Lehman Brothers...
NEW YORK-Third-generation technology is completely unnecessary for taking advantage of data opportunities, which are growing even though widespread consumer adoption may be years away, according to speakers at the recent WirelessWednesdays "Killer Mobile Applications and Opportunities" seminar."The widespread belief that you need 3G to...
NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as alternative providers, said Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of RIM."Paging carriers have tried to...
NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent Networking.WIN has not succeeded in its ultimate goal of "freeing carriers from the grasp...
While carriers' network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the applications."Applications are everything," said Adam Guy, senior analyst of mobile wireless research for The Strategis...
NEW YORK-With up to seven competitors in some large markets, price wars have begun that are not sustainable as a long-term business case for carriers, telecommunications executives said last week at the "Kagan Wireless Telecom Summit.""Verizon missed its additions significantly. When the big guys...
NEW DELHI, India-The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing a rapid growth of short message service (SMS), which is not only beginning to contribute significantly to operators' revenues, but is also setting the stage for future mobile data services. The Philippines continues to be the most...
The monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) of Southern Cone cellular operators fell more than 50 percent during the last five years. In 1996, a cellular user in Argentina spent US$95 per month and one in Chile US$63, and those same subscribers paid US$45...
Three industry heavyweights announced plans to create universal standards for mobile instant messaging and presence services, a move that further validates a small but growing segment of the wireless industry.L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. established last week the Wireless Village, which the...
NEW YORK-Not surprisingly, the number and size of mergers and acquisitions for which a dollar value was made public declined markedly in all industries when compared to the same period a year ago, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Announced transactions involving U.S. companies totaled 2,224, down...
Instant messaging, the simple act of writing to another person in real time, is a big deal.This fact has been proven by the popularity of America Online Inc.'s instant messaging program, which became a subject of debate during the Federal Communications Commission's hearings on...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Inc., MSN, and Motorola Inc. announced an agreement to provide consumers access to MSN's Hotmail e-mail and Messenger instant-messaging communications services as well as content from MSN Mobile on Motorola's wireless two-way messaging device, the Talkabout T900. Arch will provide the...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Communications is talking up legislation that would deregulate the broadband industry using the way wireless is "regulated" as a model, noting the wireless industry was exempted from state regulation when the Communications Act was changed in 1993.The bill advocated by Verizon would have...
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. took a bold, albeit peculiar, step last week, announcing it is suspending indefinitely principal and interest payments on all its funded debt, including its credit facility, vendor financing agreements, senior notes, dividend payments and preferred stock.Globalstar was supposed to pay $45...
Most mobile companies are looking to make the Internet wireless, giving their customers a chance to search for information on their favorite stock or movie wherever they are. Spyonit, a subsidiary of 724 Solutions Inc., is taking mobile media one step further, offering its...
TOKYO-FunMail Inc. will start Beta testing its wireless animated instant messaging service on Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo's i-mode system.The service is designed to allow i-mode users to send color animated messages by entering a few Japanese characters on their i-mode handset. Messages can...
NEW YORK-Bell Mobility, Toronto, plans a series of initiatives this year to expand its data and Internet services and move toward third-generation wireless, Pierre Blouin, president and chief executive officer of the company, said Jan. 11 at a press conference.Under an agreement valued at...
PDA technologyBlue ImpactBlue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint's location platform and services, allowing the Visor to access all CellPoint location services offered by...
Multiplier IndustriesMultiplier Industries Corp. released its new line of rechargeable replacement batteries for Motorola radios. The line, which features polycarbonate plastic material with greater impact strength, includes the 1,400 mAh capacity M9012; the 1,700 mAh capacity M9012C; the 1,600 mAh capacity M9009; the 2,100...
