SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. announced a joint marketing and development alliance with Motorola Inc., among other vendors, in an effort to fold various wired and mobile access points into a unified system for enterprise communications. The overall effort is aimed at combining functions of desktop...
TOKYO-PacketVideo Corp. said it will work with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to bring mobile music to the Japanese market using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile Media technology. The companies are introducing Windows Media capabilities-including Microsoft's digital rights management offering-into NTT DoCoMo handsets through Universal pvPlayer, PacketVideo's...
High Tech Computer Corp. wants its day in the sun and plans to begin selling phones under its own "HTC" brand, a departure from the anonymous, original design manufacturer role the company has played over the past several years in supplying smart phones and...
A warm and fuzzy-toned embrace of an open source, mobile Linux operating system sought by an alliance led by Motorola Inc. and Vodafone Group plc, among others, and announced last week drew both optimism and skepticism among analysts, who await further details-and results. Motorola...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.—Motorola Inc. and a handful of handset vendors, along with two major network operators, have agreed to establish a global Linux-based software platform for mobile devices, the companies involved announced. The alliance, which plans to solicit more participants, could stand directly against other...
TAIPEI, Taiwan—High Tech Computer Corp. wants its day in the sun and plans to begin selling phones under its own "HTC" brand, a departure from the anonymous, original design manufacturer role the company has played over the past several years in supplying smart phones...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced plans to offer an upgraded push e-mail service for business users with Microsoft Corp. Windows Mobile-enabled devices. The service, which is set to launch next week, pushes e-mail messages as well as calendar items, tasks and contact information from Microsoft’s...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. last week upped the ante in its long-running patent dispute with Nokia Corp. by filing a third lawsuit against the Finnish handset vendor, this time with the United States International Trade Commission, seeking to bar imports and sales of Nokia’s GSM...
TAOYUAN, Taiwan—High Tech Computer Corp. said it signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire Dopod Holding Corp. The transaction value will not surpass $150 million, said the companies. Dopod will become a subsidiary of HTC following the share acquisition.Dopod is a four-year-old mobile device...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates-Phone junkies have been speculating for months about i-mate's forthcoming slim Smartflip handset ever since photos of the device were posted on the Internet earlier this year. Now the company has offered a more concrete glimpse of the handset in its...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. said it plans to extend Microsoft Corp.’s "Live Anywhere" technology onto its BREW platform in an effort to provide a "unified gaming universe." The chipmaker used its BREW 2006 Conference to showcase an integrated gaming offering across Microsoft’s Xbox Live, MSN...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Phone junkies have been speculating for months about i-mate’s forthcoming slim Smartflip handset ever since photos of the device were posted on the Internet earlier this year. Now the company has offered a more concrete glimpse of the handset in its...
WARREN, N.J.—Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. wants its users to have a sugar mama who will help them earn free airtime—and advertisers are stepping up to fill that parental role. The youth-oriented prepaid brand is forging ahead where other service providers thus far have feared...
The upcoming AWS auction of 1700 MHz and 2100 MHz spectrum, now slated for August, raises the question of how many frequency bands might be jammed onto a handset and whether that poses technical challenges for component and handset vendors. The answer, at least...
Motorola Inc. will finally bring its much-touted MOTO Q smart phone to market as you read this, probably the last time it will announce a handset far in advance of its launch, to avoid tipping off competitors and so its executives won't have to...
OTTAWA, Canada-Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol software developer SIPquest said it picked up $7 million during its third round of funding, money that comes as the company works to rename itself FirstHand Technologies. FirstHand sells mobile client and server software through equipment vendors, systems...
Virgin Mobile USA L.L.C. wants its users to have a sugar mama who will help them earn free airtime-and advertisers are stepping up to fill that parental role. The youth-oriented prepaid brand is forging ahead where other service providers thus far have feared to...
REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp.’s MSN is hoping to move onto the mobile marketing playground with the acquisition of Third Screen Media. MSN is negotiating to buy out the Boston-based company, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Representatives from Microsoft and Third Screen...
OTTAWA, Canada—Mobile Voice over Internet Protocol software developer SIPquest said it picked up $7 million during its third round of funding, money that comes as the company works to rename itself FirstHand Technologies. FirstHand sells mobile client and server software through equipment vendors, systems...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Verizon Wireless plans to be the exclusive provider of Motorola Inc.'s Q smart phone. Although the carrier has not said when it plans to begin selling the phone, Motorola Chief Executive Officer Ed Zander recently said the device likely would become available in...
DUBLIN—Mobile Top Level Domain Ltd., the driving force behind the mobile Internet domain extension .mobi, said the .mobi suffix will be available through 16 domain name registrars. The company said certain mobile industry associations will be able to register their Web site address as...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.—Verizon Wireless plans to be the exclusive provider of Motorola Inc.’s Q smart phone. Although the carrier has not said when it plans to begin selling the phone, Motorola chief executive officer Ed Zander recently said the device likely would become available in...
LONDON—Symbian Ltd., the privately held software firm that offers operating systems for mobile handsets, offered first quarter results showing increasing revenues and unit shipments. The company said 11.7 million devices running its software were shipped in the first quarter, up 73 percent from the...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Visto Corp. entered mobile e-mail fray in China as it announced it would join a Chinese partner in providing push e-mail service to enterprises and professionals in the world’s largest mobile market. The California company will join Lenovo Chinaweal System & Service...
