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...
Nokia Corp. said it will divest a part of its multimedia messaging service technology to wireless services vendor 724 Solutions, a move 724 said will help it reach profitability by the fourth quarter of this year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Nokia said...
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...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Trade groups 3G Americas and the CDMA Development Group released technical specifications to allow GSM subscribers to send picture messages to CDMA users. The groups' new "Americas MMS Inter-carrier Implementation Guidelines" include technical and service-level requirement guidelines for multimedia routing, MMS relay/server connectivity...
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...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Messaging company InphoMatch Inc. announced it delivered almost 2 billion text messages in the first quarter, up from 650 million messages in the first quarter of last year. The company said it delivered more than 4 billion intercarrier short message service messages last...
Following are mobile infrastructure contracts announced in March:Ireland With Meteor for a core GPRS solution.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With First Cellular of Southern Illinois for MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products.Value: UndisclosedUnited States With MetroPCS for MMS equipment.Value: UndisclosedEricssonIreland With Meteor...
Corrections: In the "724's MMS product sends from one to many" story on page 15 of the Feb. 23 issue of RCR Wireless News, T-Mobile in Austria was incorrectly identified as using 724 Solutions Inc.'s X-treme MMS Accelerator. T-Mobile is not using the...
DALLAS-Alcatel announced First Cellular of southern Illinois will become the fist North American service provider to use its Multimedia Messaging Services. To date, Alcatel has installed its MMS Proxy Relay, WAP Gateway and Push Proxy Platform products in the carrier's network. With the service,...
ATLANTA-The U.S. wireless content industry continues to crackle with growing pains as Japanese gaming company Square Enix announced it will buy UIEvolution for a stunning $58 million in cash. The deal is the latest in a series of major mergers and acquisitions in the...
OBERHAUSEN, Germany-Killer marketing concepts, not killer applications, will help mobile operators reach potential mobile content customers, according to a new report from multimedia messaging company conVisual and consulting company ISI.According to the report, 300 billion SMS messages were sent in 2002, and 450 billion...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse announced the availability and operational deployment of Comverse MMS A2P Expeditor a dedicated, high-capacity delivery solution for high-volume application-to-person multimedia messaging services.The solution assists operators in minimizing problems caused by heavy volume, traffic bursts and event-based peaks associated with mass MMS push...
ATLANTA-Long known for its Internet technologies and services, VeriSign Inc. today announced plans to unify its telecommunications offerings and promote its brand to wireless carrier and content customers. The company today also announced it acquired the assets of Unimobile from Electronics For Imaging and...
DALLAS-Alcatel has entered an agreement with MetroPCS Inc. to provide the carrier with its Alcatel Multimedia Messaging Services product suite, allowing MetroPCS customers access to multimedia messaging via wireless devices. Alcatel said it is its first MMS contract with a CDMA operator in the...
COLOGNE, Germany-T-Mobile said it will offer a voice-driven "infotainment" portal for its German subscribers through a new deal with Net Mobile AG and VoiceObjects AG. The service combines the playback of real voice recordings with appropriate background noises together with SMS and MMS messaging...
COLOGNE, Germany-T-Mobile said it will offer a voice-driven "infotainment" portal for its German subscribers through a new deal with Net Mobile AG and VoiceObjects AG. The service combines the playback of real voice recordings with appropriate background noises together with SMS and MMS messaging...
Although wireless by and large caters to the consumer market, many of the industry's major mobile-phone makers zeroed in on the high-margin business user during the 3GSM show in Cannes, France.Nokia, the world's No. 1 handset manufacturer, used the show as a platform to...
CANNES, France-Thanks to Comverse Technology Inc., the interoperability gap between GSM and CDMA may soon become history.At this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, the company, using its Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), demonstrated multimedia-messaging interoperability between both wireless networks. "This demonstration marks...
DUBLIN, Ireland-NewBay Software announced it has partnered with Ericsson as part of the Ericsson Mobility World Programme. Under their agreement, Ericsson will promote and market NewBay's FoneBlog solution to mobile network operators worldwide. FoneBlog provides wireless users with a personal Internet Web site where...
PARIS-European mobile operators are set to enjoy a revenue increase of 7.5 percent this year and annual growth of 6.6 percent until 2006, according to a new report from consulting firm Arthur D. Little and independent brokerage firm Exane. The majority of the growth...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it will make Eastman Kodak Co.'s Mobile Service available to its Get It Now customers, allowing users to view, share, organize and store their digital photos in one place.Customers with Get It Now-capable camera phones can download the service to...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and Eastman Kodak Co. said the Kodak Mobile Service will be available to Verizon Wireless' Get It Now customers, allowing users to view, share, organize and store their digital photos in one place.Customers with Get It Now-capable camera phones can download...
Following are mobile contracts awarded in January 2004:AlcatelChina. With Gansu Mobile Communication Co., a subsidiary of China Mobile, for GSM/GPRS/EDGE network.Value: $14 millionCyprus. With Investcom for GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and mobile core network.Value: UndisclosedNetherlands. With T-Mobile for data over asynchronous transfer mode, gigabit Ethernet transport...
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...
