SAN FRANCISCO -- A California company believes e-mail shouldn't be just for smartphones and the application should be compatible with voice and text messaging.As the annual CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2008 kicks off today in San Francisco, SEVEN is unveiling its new Integrated...
The answer to that old "WAP or app" debate? It might be, both.Ever since the early days of WAP - which, yes, was often crap - media companies and advertisers have struggled with how to approach users on their phones. While wireless Web sites...
Motorola Inc. last week upped its bet on Linux, christening a new version of its Java/Linux platform and claiming that the open-source operating system will be used on as much as 60% of its phones "in the next few years."The manufacturer initially announced plans...
The guys who founded Atlas Mobile are back with a community-based contest offering for mobile phones and PCs.Isaac Babbs, Andy Riedel and Ken Scott unveiled Tapatap Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that allows members to create and play "photo contests" for prizes. The...
The guys who founded Atlas Mobile are back with a community-based contest offering for mobile phones and PCs.Isaac Babbs, Andy Riedel and Ken Scott unveiled Tapatap Inc., a San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that allows members to create and play "photo contests" for prizes. The...
Clear Channel Radio selected VeriSign Inc. to launch a suite of mobile radio services for the broadcast giant. Clear Channel in May announced a mobile effort that the company said would expand to around 100 of its U.S. stations by the end of 2008.Clear...
Mobile gaming revenues in Latin America will triple in the next five years, according to new figures from EJL Wireless Research.The Redwood City, Calif.-based market research firm said the Latin American market will grow from $65 million last year to $195 million by 2011...
VIENNA, Va.—In a move to expand its mobile product development expertise, Induslogic Inc., which provides outsourced product development, said it has agreed to acquire Lambent, a mobile product engineering services company based in Nagpur, India. Lambent, which was established in 2000, adopted Qualcomm Inc.’s...
In the wake of reports that a mobile trojan dubbed Redbrowser.A had been encountered in Russia, the major security firms working in the mobile space issued cautious alerts to their clients and made restrained public statements. The muted response seemed to reflect the stance...
SAN FRANCISCO-Akira Technologies launched its Publisher 2.0 Web-based publishing and content management tool, which the company said allows users to create interactive content for mobile devices. Akira noted the product allows customers to deliver industry-standard digital content, including video, audio, images, text, vector graphics...
SAN FRANCISCO-Akira Technologies launched its Publisher 2.0 Web-based publishing and content management tool, which the company said allows users to create interactive content for mobile devices.Akira noted the product allows customers to deliver industry-standard digital content, including video, audio, images, text, vector graphics and...
LONDON-Mobile entertainment publisher Telcogames Ltd. said it has acquired Magic Productions Ltd., a Paris-based developer of games for smart phones running Symbian- and Microsoft Corp. Windows-powered smart phones. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.In addition to broadening its portfolio of titles, Telcogames said...
SAN FRANCISCO-AG Interactive and SI Mobile announced an exclusive multiyear partnership that calls for the companies to distribute premium content from Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit Issue through AG Interactive and SI-branded mobile, instant messaging and online channels. Products will include video ringtones, wallpapers, videos, eGreetings...
Nokia Corp. is hoping to create a framework for Java-based developer tools with this week's expected announcement that it has joined Canada's Eclipse Foundation. Nokia said it will contribute software and developers to a new Eclipse project that seeks to create tooling support for...
Perhaps no surviving mobile technology has suffered the pummeling WAP has endured since its over-hyped introduction in 1999. But after six years of being tied to the whipping post, it seems the technology has finally regained legitimate attention with the mobile-marketing community first in...
Music companies are rushing to bring streaming music services to U.S. wireless users, but while the technology exists to provide radio-like offerings to wireless users, the viability of a radio-like business model in wireless is far from clear. Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless entertainment publisher Mobliss will distribute Guppy Games' "Tank Wars" to major North Americans carriers this year, the companies said Thursday.The turn-based strategic single and multiplayer game will be the first Guppy title available for both BREW and J2ME handsets in the United...
The "moan tone" industry is already getting crowded.Brickhouse Mobile and New Frontier Media said this week they'll bring R- and X-rated pillow talk from porn stars to U.S. wireless users, disclosing details of a deal announced earlier this year. The offerings will include groans,...
Wireless entertainment publisher InfoSpace Mobile officially rolled out its gaming division at 3GSM World Congress Monday. The announcement of Infospace Games was expected from the Bellevue, Wash.-based publisher, which recently acquired gaming companies Atlas Mobile, IOMO Ltd. and elkware GmbH. InfoSpace said the new...
NEW YORK-The Wall Street Journal will provide content for a new business and financial news service for wireless handsets, the company announced Tuesday.The Wall Street Journal Mobile will provide market, stock and commodities data, as well as personalized portfolio information and general business news...
Like a cat with full jaws and claws, GSM technology does not need to proclaim its strengths. The numbers tell the story. Up to 1.18 billion subscribers place and receive calls over GSM networks around the world, almost 10 times the next-largest competitor, CDMA...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Java's popularity among mobile developers is soaring, according to a new study by Evans Data Corp.J2ME, Sun Microsystems' mobile version of the popular platform, is currently being used by 40 percent of mobile developers, and another 24 percent are evaluating J2ME for...
BASINGTOKE, England-T-Mobile International launched Motorola Inc.'s music-focused E398 handset to T-Mobile's customers across Europe.The phone includes a color screen, a VGA-quality digital camera with flash, an integrated MP3 player, MPEG-4 video playback and what Motorola describes as "3D stereo surround-sound vibration sensory technology." Capitalizing...
TOKYO-A new mobile software solution from Aplix Corp. and Motorola Inc. allows Java developers and content providers to debug an application as it runs on a handset.The solution, based on Aplix's JBlend platform, supports the KVM Debug Wireless Protocol (KDWP) and features a proxy...
