HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Are you dying to know which Miss Florida USA 2004 contestant will win the bathing suit competition? Well, fear no more.Thanks to a deal between Tel-Air Interests Inc. and mobile marketing company Adversoft Inc., wireless users can be kept up-to-the-minute on all the...
LONDON-European operator MmO2 offered details on uptake of its mobile data services. The company said it has 643,000 GPRS users and 60,000 active customers for its recently launched O2 Active service, which offers ring tones, multimedia messaging service, games, music video, information and pictures...
Interest in the wireless enterprise market continues as Siemens, Colligo Networks, Aligo, Salesnet and Orsus Solutions announced new deals and products in the arena.First, Siemens Business Services Inc. announced the creation of its Mobile Enterprise Services Alliance, which the company said is a portfolio...
CHICAGO-United Airlines said it will begin offering two-way e-mail capability on its domestic flights using Verizon Communications Inc. subsidiary Verizon Airfone's JetConnect service.The in-flight service, which includes e-mail, instant messaging and text-messaging services, costs $16 per flight plus 10 cents per kilobyte of data...
America Online Inc. said it will stop selling and supporting its Mobile Communicator, which is based on Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry device.According to AOL's Internet site, the Mobile Communicator service will shut down Aug. 1. On the site, AOL suggested its customers move...
The 2003 JavaOne Developer Conference witnessed a collision of giants as Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. pushed their platforms, highlighting a division within a technology that seeks to avoid segmentation.Sun announced that wireless heavyweights like Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Siemens AG and Sony...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it launched a color-screen version of its Danger Inc.-produced Sidekick device, as well as introduced new rate plans for the wireless voice and data device.The color Sidekick is scheduled to retail for $299, which is $100 more than the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will launch a color-screen version of its Danger Inc.-produced Sidekick device June 6, as well as introduce new rate plans for the wireless voice and data device.The color Sidekick is scheduled to retail for $299, which is $100...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-The United States' wireless short message service and instant messaging markets are poised to grow to 75 million and 63 million subscribers, respectively, in 2007, according to research analysts at IDC.IDC expects wireless IM to become popular in the business market and widespread...
European carrier Orange SA said it will expand its relationship with Microsoft Corp. to offer text-messaging-based access to Microsoft's instant messaging and e-mail programs to all of Orange's 35 million customers.Under the deal, Orange customers will be able to conduct real-time MSN Messenger instant-messaging...
Starent Networks calls its solution voice instant messaging-with emphasis on the word "instant," thereby distinguishing itself from the prominent voice solutions already in the marketplace, including push-to-talk service and more traditional voice instant messaging, which suffer some degree of latency.Starent said several major carriers...
ATLANTA-Motorola Inc. released an innovative new cordless product aimed at taking advantage of the growing market for Internet instant messaging.Motorola's CD-sized IMfree device works much as a cordless phone, but connects to Internet messaging systems through users' desktop computers. The device runs on the...
REDWOOD CITY, California, United States-Openwave Systems, which sells wireless Internet and messaging software, reported new carrier sales and upgraded products, along with third-quarter results showing declining losses and shrinking revenues. Openwave said it expects to report similar sluggish results in the coming quarter.Telecom New...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc., which sells wireless Internet and messaging software, reported new carrier sales along with third-quarter results showing declining losses and shrinking revenues. Openwave said it expects to report similar sluggish results in the coming quarter.Telecom New Zealand and Taiwan Cellular...
LONDON-America Online Inc. has joined Symbian's Platinum Program. As a Symbian partner, America Online is able to develop its wireless instant messaging services and its predictive text input software for Symbian OS mobile phones as well as develop content-based services and applications for Symbian...
NEW ORLEANS-CommWorks and Togabi Technologies announced an agreement calling for CommWorks to resell and enhance its packet wireless voice and data products with Togabi's PacketCHAT real-time wireless communications platform. Terms of the agreement call for CommWorks to provide wireless carriers with push-to-talk and voice...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Trees', a joint venture mobile instant messaging initiative in the Netherlands, has launched a pilot service using an instant messaging platform from Italian company Acotel. Initially the pilot will be limited to a fixed number of users so use patterns and traffic levels...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless giant Ericsson said it created an interoperability test program for instant messaging and presence services and will work with IM companies Ecrio, magic4, MessageVine, Motorola Inc., Ruksun Software Technologies and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications."Ericsson is the market leader in Wireless Village-based instant...
CANNES, France-The Open Mobile Alliance standards body said it completed two interoperability tests in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress, and that it approved two new sets of specifications.The group, whose membership now exceeds 300 companies, said it approved its Client Provisioning version 1.1...
CANNES, France-ICQ, an instant messaging and online community owned by America Online Inc., announced it is working with wireless carriers across the world to extend its services to mobile users.ICQ (pronounced "I seek you") said it is working with Cellcom in Israel, E-Plus of...
LONDON-Acotel, the Italian wireless application service provider, has acquired Info2cell.com, the Middle East's first wireless applications service provider. Acotel's first acquired a 33-percent stake in Info2cell.com in 2000. Following the complete acquisition of the company, Acotel has linked the Info2cell.com development center in Jordan...
CAIRO, Egypt-Ericsson AB said it has been selected by Vodafone Egypt to deliver and install its GPRS, MMS and instant messaging solutions for its "Vodafone live," targeting more than 2 million subscribers."We are pleased to reinforce our long-term partnership with Vodafone Egypt," said Johan...
MONTREAL, Canada-Instant messaging company OZ Communications Inc. said its suite of products has again been tested officially compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance's Instant Messaging and Presence Services 1.1 specifications.
SHANGHAI, China-Motorola unveiled today in Shanghai, China, eight new handsets that feature EMS and MMS messaging technologies; Java capabilities; support for GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA; color screens; and polyphonic speakers.Included in Motorola's 2003 lineup are:the Motorola E365 features an embedded camera;the Motorola V600 also...
