LiveBridgeMark Irwin has been promoted to vice president of finance at contact center services company LiveBridge Inc. Irwin joined LiveBridge in 1999 as corporate controller. He directed the company's accounting and finance division.MotorolaMotorola Inc. named Valerie Di Maria corporate vice president of communications and...
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) announced Wednesday that Cingular Wireless, Sprint PCS and France Telecom have joined its efforts to fight spam and viruses.The nonprofit coalition was founded last December by a group of communications and technology companies to fight messaging abuses and...
Mobile instant messaging is expected to take another step forward this week with an announcement that Nokia Corp. will expand its offerings of IM-friendly handsets. The world's largest handset manufacturer will build on a two-year relationship with Oz, a Canadian software developer, to embed...
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...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The wait appears to be over for Motorola Inc.'s new A630 device, as T-Mobile USA Inc. is offering it on its Web site for $300. The device is one of 20 phones Motorola plans to release this quarter.The unique device looks like a...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Software and technology developer Aeronix Inc. launched Zipit Wireless Messenger, a portable instant messaging device for use on wireless home networks or Wi-Fi hotspots. Targeted for young IM users, Zipit uses 802.11b/g technology and requires no monthly service fee. The $100 device is...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. inked a new deal with Oz Communications Inc. to install the company's instant messaging software into select Samsung mobile phones. The deal is the latest in a series of significant customer wins for Oz, a privately held company...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported the commercial availability of its Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile-powered MPx220 smart phone, which is an update of its previous MPx200 model. Motorola said the new handset will be available using Cingular Wireless L.L.C. service at Best Buy stores beginning Oct....
PARIS-PushMessenger launched an instant messaging and presence server (IMPS) for mobile operators and Internet service providers, the wireless software developer said Tuesday. The company's ISP/Carrier Edition allows for the convergence of computers, fixed and mobile phones, enabling users to be connected simultaneously to several...
Depending on your perspective, mobile instant messaging either has taken off like a rocket or is still idling on the launching pad. Like many other applications, IM has been a hot topic in wireless circles for years. And as with many of those other...
MONTREAL-Oz has secured $27.3 million in investment capital from VantagePoint Venture Partners, the Canadian mobile instant-messaging provider announced. Oz hopes to expand its presence in the European and Asian markets with the new capital and plans to move into other mobile messaging markets. The...
Once relegated to outdated handsets and overpriced basic voice services, prepaid customers increasingly are being catered to with the latest handset technology and services to go along with more rational pricing plans. 7-Eleven Inc. and Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. last week each launched their...
Both Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG announced beyond-the-ordinary handsets, with Nokia's phones offering unusual designs and Siemens' handset providing a unique service.Capitalizing on mobile-phone users' penchant for style, Nokia unveiled three new camera phones at a fashion event in Shanghai, China.The Nokia 7280, Nokia...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless users can send and receive Yahoo! instant messages though a new, full-color graphical interface, the companies announced Wednesday."Instant messaging has exploded in the U.S.," said Jim Ryan, vice president of data product management and business marketing for Cingular, "and this gives our...
Research In Motion and T-Mobile USA Inc. today launched the first BlackBerry device to feature a phone form factor, the BlackBerry 7100t."We think this is going to attract a whole new audience to BlackBerry," said Mark Guibert, vice president of corporate marketing at RIM.The...
Mobile instant messaging is going mainstream. Maybe.Wireless IM use is growing, with 32 percent of all mobile messaging using an IM service in addition to, or instead of, short message service texting, according to a study commissioned by America Online, Inc. AOL said it...
Mobile instant messaging is going mainstream. Maybe.Wireless IM use is growing, with 32 percent of all mobile messaging using an IM service in addition to, or instead of, short message service texting, according to a study commissioned by America Online, Inc. AOL said it...
MONTREAL-T-Mobile USA has partnered with mobile messaging company Oz to deliver four pre-loaded instant message services on a new Nokia phone, the companies announced Thursday.A clamshell handset featuring a fold-out QWERTY keyboard, the Nokia 6800 will feature instant messaging options from Yahoo!, MSN, AOL...
Siemens AG and Motorola Inc. made handset news Wednesday.Siemens' new CX70 mobile phone features "push and talk" (PaT) walkie-talkie functionality based on open specifications.PaT is based on the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), a platform that is also being used for future multimedia services, including...
Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. customers will have access to e-mail and instant messaging on their handsets, thanks to two new agreements.Verizon, the nation's largest wireless carrier, inked a deal that provides MSN Mobile services to its customers with Get It Now-enabled phones....
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Continuing its marketing focus on the youth segment, T-Mobile USA Inc. reported its Gold Sponsorship of the 2004 Summer X Games in Los Angeles scheduled for next week, as well as its continued sponsorship of the T-Mobile Action Sports Team.The team this year...
Continuing the recent flood of camera-phone announcements, Samsung released plans for a 3.2-megapixel digital camera phone, the SPH-S2300, that it said includes features that align its capabilities with those of a digital camera.The phone includes a 3X optical linear zoom, along with a 4X...
SAN DIEGO-LG Mobile Phones and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. released two new GSM handsets, the L1150 and the G4015.Both phones include color screens, instant messaging capabilities and polyphonic sound with downloadable ringers. The dual-band G4015 is available now through AWS retailers and can be...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Passengers flying on Emirates' A340-500 aircraft can now check and send e-mails from personal laptops while in transit using Tenzing's in-flight products.The e-mail services are powered by an onboard Wi-Fi hot spot. Tenzing charges $20 per flight for unlimited use of...
