The sun was setting and my 4-year-old was getting restless when the outfield scoreboard at Coors Field provided a welcome diversion.Take a photo with your camera phone, the promotion urged, and send it in. The winning shot would be posted on the scoreboard for...
A trio of independent wireless operators have partnered with Interop Technologies to deploy a range of wireless features such as short message service, multimedia messaging, wireless application protocol and over-the-air device management services.Rural Independent Network Alliance, which serves wireless operators in the western United...
TIER-ONE CARRIERS IN THE FALL OF 2004 committed that they would be fully MMS-interoperable, enabling U.S. consumers to send photos, video clips and other goodies to users on any other nationwide network.We're still waiting.U.S. network operators generally claim to be fully interoperable with their...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
ROK Entertainment Group announced it acquired Blubox Software, a data optimization and compression developer. The mobile technology and software developer views the deal as a logical path toward allowing users to store and manage their photos online."Blubox have created the most powerful, user-friendly and...
AT&T Mobility has joined rivals Verizon Wireless Sprint Nextel Corp. and trend-starter T-Mobile USA Inc. in offering an unlimited messaging option for family plans. AT&T Mobility's unlimited family messaging plan allows all lines on a family plan to send and receive unlimited domestic SMS,...
Mobile security software developer AdaptiveMobile said it pocketed $14 million in a second round of funding.Doughty Hanson, an early-stage venture capital fund, led the round, joined by Noor Financial Investment Co. and Intel Capital. AdaptiveMobile said it plans to use the cash to expand...
Stalwarts in media are increasingly bullish on driving their audience's eyes and ears to just about every channel imaginable. But just as these powerhouses are finally finding their online groove, they're efforts are being re-doubled on the next frontier in media-mobile phones. Fox Interactive...
AdMob is teaming with mobile media company mywaves to power click-to-video advertisements on wireless phones.The offering will allow wireless Web surfers to click on a banner ad to watch a video from a landing page, and save the clip to their phones or send...
It appears T-Mobile USA Inc. has held out long enough. The No. 4 carrier has fallen in line with its three larger rivals and announced that it too will increase text-messaging rates from 10 cents to 15 cents per message, beginning June 1.As revenues...
Mobile content aggregator Buongiorno SpA said it will spend $5.6 million to acquire HotSMS BV, an Amsterdam-based mobile advertising firm.HotSMS works with traditional advertising agencies and claims to have deployed more than 1,000 mobile campaigns for clients including Coca-Cola, Heineken, McDonald's and Universal Music....
The four national wireless carriers might be in near lock-step when it comes to voice plans, but each take distinctly different tacks when putting together messaging strategies. However, the various flavors of messaging packages-based on in-network, type of message or number of message-may be...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
User-generated content and online communities typically conjure images of teens huddled over their computers creating profiles, sharing video clips and flirting. But David Bankston's view of Internet communities includes such unlikely suspects as the U.S. Department of Defense, CH2M Hill, ABC News and the...
Whether it's goofy pet photos, front row at a rock concert or eyewitness to disaster, the spread of camera-equipped phones has enabled up-to-the-minute photos for social networks and citizen journalism of the most compelling sort. In fact, as camera-equipped mobile phones have penetrated the...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRNews.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
ATLANTA—Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has turned to flat-rate bundles for messaging. The move mirrors pricing strategies from other national carriers, some of which have been offering flat-rate bundles for messaging for about a year and a half, according to a Current Analysis research note. The...
SINGAPORE—Motorola Inc. has decided to turn up the volume—the volume of handsets it sells, that is—by releasing five new, entry-level handsets in pursuit of the proverbial "next billion" subscribers in emerging markets. The American handset maker made the announcement today at the opening day...
NEW YORK-Advertisers will have to devote a line item in their budget toward mobile marketing by 2007, an expense that could reach into the millions of dollars for some companies. How the mobile advertising market will develop is anyone's guess, but it will happen;...
Two recent studies reflect that while consumers are snapping up camera phones-and snapping pictures-they are not sending them wirelessly and, therefore, carriers are missing out on a potentially vast revenue source. This is particularly true of major public events, such as the upcoming World...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-VeriSign Inc.'s direct-to-consumer mobile content business continues to erode. The company reported $77 million in revenues from its Jamba and Jamster businesses during the first quarter, down 32 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005. While the decline in revenue was expected-the...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—VeriSign Inc.’s direct-to-consumer mobile content business continues to erode. The company reported $77 million in revenues from its Jamba and Jamster businesses during the first quarter, down 32 percent from the fourth quarter of 2005. While the decline in revenue was expected—the...
DALLAS—Wireless carriers will likely miss out on a key data-revenue opportunity at this summer’s World Cup tournament in Germany, according to SmartTrust. The mobile device management company estimates spectators will capture 4.5 million images on camera phones during the four-week event, but fewer than...
