SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it is the leading investor in the GameWorld.com's current investment round. GameWorld produces end-to-end game and application publishing solutions for rapid inexpensive development by independent designers.GameWorld's applications, which include multiplayer games, education, m-commerce and interactive TV, can interoperate across wireless...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A year after the launch of mobile Internet services in South America, almost all the cellular telephony operators are offering Internet services, although exclusively in the major cities of the region and without generating profits.Entel PCS of Chile is the most advanced,...
TOKYO-Mobile Internet shopping is no longer a futuristic idea, but a daily practice, at least for early adopters in the browser phone-advanced nation of Japan.The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications estimates the Japanese mobile-commerce market will expand from 4.2 billion yen (US$35.8 million) in...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
With President Bush banking on churches, synagogues and mosques to do what government policies and free-market forces cannot, it is only fitting that a faith-based approach be adopted by the wireless industry in the face of a variety of woes that will only worsen...
Many discussions about what's inherently wrong with the wireless Internet, m-commerce or mobile data in general seem to end up placing the blame squarely on the device. It's too big. It's too small. It's too slow. It's not powerful enough.It definitely is rough to...
As carriers and companies worldwide rush to offer all kinds of location-based services, one consulting firm is warning that location-based services may not live up to the wireless industry's expectations.Telecommunications and new media advisor firm Analysys released a report cautioning that location-based services may...
NEW YORK-Why wait for 3G, whenever that might be, when you can provide multimedia services over wireless networks today?That is the message of Nehemiah Davidson, chief executive officer of Jigami, Rosh Haayin, Israel, developer of the trademarked 3Gate platform and content switch.Carrier trials are...
As the dark clouds of an uncertain market crouches, Infospace is seeking to renew itself with the old guard.The company, which provides services for wireless devices, merchants and Web sites, lost three key members of its management staff, triggering stock-market slides, downgrades and a...
Early expectations of the wireless Internet sweeping the country have suffered the realities of the limitations the service offers in comparison to the wired Web. While the number of wirelessly enabled sites grows daily, the lack of access and content these sites provide has...
BOSTON-The mystery of how mobile location services will make money could be solved by the increasingly popular and consumer-friendly appeal of mobile commerce and its related advertising, both of which will account for $8 billion in revenues by 2005, predicts research and analyst firm...
NEW DELHI, India-Several leading GSM operators in the Asian region have announced plans for migration to 2.5-generation (2.5G) services during 2001. Many of them hope to roll out commercial General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) services during the year, but mass expansion of the new...
NEW YORK-Before mobile commerce can reach the goal of providing a value-added revenue stream for wireless carriers, it must fulfill its potential as a value-added service for their customers."Today m-commerce is a subset of e-commerce, and it's having problems. It's not taking off. You've...
With the holidays upon us, shopping has become the talk of the town these days. While many reports have emerged highlighting the increased use of e-commerce as a way of avoiding long lines at stores this holiday season, little to date has been mentioned...
NEW YORK-The potential mobile-commerce revolution may well be in the intensive care unit, "but we're not ready to declare it dead," said David Bishop, director of wireless/mobile services for The Yankee Group, on Nov. 29.By year-end 2005, domestic carriers could realize a collective $3.7...
As wireless Internet traffic becomes more of a reality, more and more firms are expected to pop up interested in measuring that traffic.Media Metrix is perhaps the most popular Internet tracking firm today, measuring surfing activity of all sorts on traditional landline Internet systems....
WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission, appearing to be staking out regulatory jurisdiction over the nascent mobile Internet industry, said it will examine a wide range of wireless consumer protection issues next month at a two-day workshop here."Mobile wireless Internet and data technologies raise many of...
It's more than a rhetorical question. The future of the wireless industry arguably rests on the answer. Unless a workable and effective advertising model for m-commerce is developed, billions of dollars invested on spectrum licenses, network construction and the rest will be wasted. And...
Sun Microsystems Inc. officially threw its hat into the wireless Internet ring last week with a broad set of announcements unveiling a dedicated wireless organization within the company, launching new communications software and establishing a $100 million venture fund specifically for the wireless market.Sun...
While wirelessly enabling various types of applications is generally the one common element among wireless application service providers, most agree that value-added services and applications added to this core platform will be the basis of wireless ASP competition.With this in mind, wireless ASP Mobilize...
SAN DIEGO-In a move to get access to BEA Systems Inc.'s WebLogic E-Business Platform and other m-commerce tools and services, Stellcom Inc. agreed to join BEA's Professional Service Provider program.Stellcom, a wireless systems integration firm, was previously a BEA Technology Alliance Partner, and worked...
HONG KONG-The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is generally regarded with something between scorn and indifference in Hong Kong among industry sources, and mobile operators will not even reveal subscriber numbers for the service.This contrasts with the bullish claims of Scott Goldman, chief executive officer...
MOSCOW-Russian wireless carriers, which this year considerably expanded their client bases thanks to radically decreased prices, registered a major average revenue per user (ARPU) decrease from more than US$215 two years ago to US$36 for one Russian carrier this year. Therefore, carriers have launched...
