Universal multimedia messaging service interoperability among U.S. Tier 1 carriers moved closer to becoming reality with two agreements unveiled last week. T-Mobile USA Inc. users can exchange pictures and video clips with subscribers of both Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint Corp., the three carriers...
Universal multimedia messaging service interoperability among U.S. Tier 1 carriers moved closer to becoming reality with two agreements unveiled Thursday.T-Mobile USA Inc. users can exchange pictures and video clips with subscribers of both Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint PCS, the three carriers announced. While...
When it comes to mobile phones, Sprint PCS has long been in a class of its own. Since the carrier's beginnings, Sprint has traveled its own path in the handset market. Instead of relying on stock phones, Sprint has carved out its own phone...
VeriSign Inc. said it will acquire Santa Cruz, Calif.-based picture-messaging company LightSurf in an all-stock transaction valued at $270 million. VeriSign said the deal adds a picture component to its text and multimedia messaging offerings to carriers."We are very excited about the strategic value...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Canadian carrier Rogers Wireless announced it will use picture messaging software from LightSurf Technologies Inc. Canada's Bell Mobility and U.S. wireless carrier Sprint PCS also use LightSurf software."We are thrilled to advance our leadership position in outsourced MMSC solutions with partners like...
In their spare time after work and on the weekends, three tech-savvy guys in Petaluma, Calif., in about six months have managed to surmount a technical hurdle that the multibillion-dollar U.S. wireless industry has not yet resolved after more than a year of effort.Paul...
With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb and flow of multimedia traffic.Its platform, known as GX-MMS, will serve not only as...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-MmO2 in the United Kingdom said it will conduct a multimedia messaging campaign that will award the photogenic winners modeling contracts with Premier Model Management.The campaign, conducted by picture-messaging company LightSurf Technologies Inc., will allow camera-phone users to take pictures of themselves...
RCR Wireless News has been naming a "Person of the Year" for 10 years. This year's candidates are the most diverse. In fact, one of them isn't even a person. The criterion for person of the year is simply this: Who had the greatest...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility said it will sell the new Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. SPH-a600 camera phone, and that it will offer a picture-sharing service through a new deal with camera-phone technology company LightSurf.Using Bell Mobility's Picture Messaging service, customers will be able to send and...
SEATTLE-It appears PictureIQ Corp. is shutting down its operations, making the company perhaps the first casualty of the picture messaging market.A message on the company's Web site said PictureIQ is shutting down. The company's telephone lines have been disconnected, and e-mails sent to company...
It appears PictureIQ Corp. is shutting down its operations, making the company perhaps the first casualty of the picture messaging market.A message on the company's Web site said PictureIQ is shutting down. The company's telephone lines have been disconnected, and e-mails sent to company...
Philippe Kahn foresees a global society transformed by mobile phones with integrated digital cameras.As industry analysts predict the vast majority all mobile phones will include cameras in the next few years, Kahn expects the ramifications of such a picture-capable culture to be extensive and...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.-Picture messaging company LightSurf Technologies Inc. released its new Global Exchange for MMS product, which the company said offers a real-time content publishing, distribution and management solution for wireless operators and third-party providers of mobile content."In order to drive ARPU, premium content...
Those in the industry agree digital rights management is a key issue for wireless, and as a result there are several companies and a range of peripheral players looking to cash in on solutions to the problem.However, the complicated nature of the subject, as...
LOS ANGELES-The winners of the "World's Smallest Film Festival," an event held in conjunction with last week's CTIA trade show in New Orleans aimed at showcasing films designed for next-generation mobile devices, have been announced.The festival's categories range from animation to commercial to music,...
SANTA CRUZ-LightSurf Technologies Inc. released the LightSurf 5 Multimedia Messaging Platform, a suite of services designed to assist operators in delivering mobile data offerings.The solution includes services for push- and pull-based themed media alerts, media and message album storage, a multimedia file download gallery,...
CANNES, France-Messaging giant LogicaCMG announced it will resell LightSurf Technologies Inc.'s picture messaging management software in its line of multimedia messaging services products.LightSurf's technology integrates third-party content and allows users to purchase, store, and share multimedia files. Sprint PCS uses LightSurf technology for its...
LAS VEGAS-Eight industry players received awards at the Comdex show from Andrew Seybold's Outlook 4Mobility for their contributions to the wireless industry.The companies include AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Digit Wireless, Lightsurf Technologies Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Sprint PCS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Verizon Wireless and WildSeed."The...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS and LightSurf Technologies Inc. launched a digital camera allowing Sprint PCS Vision customers to shoot, view and send pictures from their mobile handset.The $70 camera can hold up to 15 pictures and is compatible with Samsung Corp.'s A500 and N400...
MobileSys Inc., a wireless infrastructure provider, acquired wireless application software company BITMO, a move MobileSys said will allow it to add voice browsing, speech-recognition and device- independent browsing to its customers.LightSurf Technologies Inc. will join the growing list of companies developing software to support...
