Digital security and mobile content provider VeriSign Inc. said it plans to spend $30 million in cash to acquire software developer CallVision Inc. Seattle-based CallVision provides Web-based billing and data analysis applications to operators including T-Mobile, Bell Canada, TelstraClear and Australia's AAPT. The company's...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Digital security and mobile content provider VeriSign Inc. said it plans to spend $30 million in cash to acquire software developer CallVision Inc. Seattle-based CallVision provides Web-based billing and data analysis applications to operators including T-Mobile, Bell Canada, TelstraClear and Australia's AAPT....
After just 18 months on the job, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced that its chief marketing officer, Clent Richardson, plans to leave the company March 1. Nortel has not named a replacement and said only that Richardson's decision was based on personal reasons and that...
LONDON-Content delivery company MBlox got mired in Crazy Frog's marsh this week. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company was fined $70,000 by U.K. watchdog group Icstis for powering Jamba's content offerings to wireless users. Hundreds of consumers complained to Icstis about the VeriSign Inc. subsidiary, saying...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music downloads.Verisign noted that Jamster was reviewing Melodeo's MobilDRM digital rights management product, which has been approved by four music labels...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc. said its Jamster subsidiary is working with Melodeo Inc. to develop a digital music platform that will support full-track music downloads.Verisign noted that Jamster was reviewing Melodeo's MobilDRM digital rights management product, which has been approved by four music labels...
SEATTLE-Mobile gamers continue to rely on carrier decks for their wireless entertainment even as off-deck businesses continue to gain traction, according to the latest figures from M:Metrics.The firm's most recent monthly survey found that 90 percent of wireless game consumers discover and purchase titles...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Jamster is hoping to scrub its image with a worldwide rebranding effort. The content provider launched a marketing campaign touting a new logo, redesigned Web site and new print, TV and online advertisements. The company, which sells content directly to consumers via...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Jamster is hoping to scrub its image with a worldwide rebranding effort. The content provider launched a marketing campaign touting a new logo, redesigned Web site and new print, TV and online advertisements. The company, which sells content directly to consumers via...
The high-flying mobile content industry is experiencing some turbulence as two leading content providers issued sobering announcements. Disappointing earnings from its content business led VeriSign Inc. to lower its third-quarter revenue forecast late Thursday. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company expects total revenue for the...
SAN FRANCISCO-Executives from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., VeriSign Inc. subsidiary Jamster!, WiderThan, Orange SA and others took turns discussing the future of wireless content and the mobile Web during the Mobile Software Value Chain forum here, while Opera Software used the event to announce plans...
Third-party content provider Jamster! has once again come under fire as an independent U.K. regulator upheld nearly 300 consumer complaints about the company. Jamster!, a subsidiary of VeriSign Inc., failed to block the publication of a scathing rebuke from the Advertising Standards Authority, which...
Acta Wireless Ltd. is hoping to act as the bridge between having a good idea and turning it into a company. "Our ability is to pick trends early," explained Anders Schonberg, one of Acta's three partners.Acta toes the line between venture-capital company and consulting...
The rising tide that is the mobile-content industry is hitting choppy waters for some publicly held content providers. Dwango Wireless is the latest company to get pummeled by the waves. The Seattle-based aggregator saw its shares plummet last week on news that it posted...
Controversial messaging company SMS.ac is hoping to scrub its image by issuing consumers' rights guidelines for wireless companies. The text-messaging company issued a six-point Consumer Bill of Rights calling on messaging and content providers to offer clear pricing, effective customer service and money-back refunds...
Carriers and content providers increasingly are targeting younger users in a scramble to push revenue-generating content and applications into one of the few remaining growth market segments. But marketing to teens, "tweens" and even grade-schoolers can be a perilous endeavor. Last week, a group...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. continued to dismantle its garden walls Tuesday, announcing its first deal with a WAP-based, off-deck content aggregator.The No. 1 U.S. carrier inked an agreement with Bango, which sells mobile music, games and other content through both the Internet and mobile storefronts....
Shares of Sybase Inc. jumped more than 7 percent Thursday after the infrastructure provider and wireless software developer posted higher-than-expected second-quarter profits.The company said a 21-percent increase in its mobile business helped boost the company to a quarterly net profit of $15.9 million, or...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-DDD Group plc, which provides three-dimensional software and content, said it signed a development agreement, as well as a two-year software licensing agreement with a large mobile handset manufacturer.The development agreement is valued at $900,000 for the first handset, said the company.The...
Faced with increasingly crowded shelf space on carrier decks, content providers are gaining traction by marketing directly to U.S. consumers with Web-based storefronts of their own. And carriers are slowly warming to the idea. Off-portal marketing of ringtones, wallpapers and other "personalization" content has...
LONDON-Jamster said it plans to offer a rap collective for mobile phones, an effort to duplicate the success of the popular ringtone character Crazy Frog. Crazy Frog has moved from ringtone to chart topper on the U.K. singles chart and has even garnered a...
LONDON-Jamster said it plans to offer a rap collective for mobile phones, an effort to duplicate the success of the popular ringtone character Crazy Frog.Crazy Frog has moved from ringtone to chart topper on the U.K. singles chart and has even garnered a video...
The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
The Mobile Marketing Association and wireless carrier association CTIA released guidelines outlining policies for wireless carriers and content providers marketing to consumers. A committee including all five Tier 1 operators helped draft the nine-page document, which addresses issues including advertising and promotions, opt-in and...
