REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Wireless Internet technology vendor Openwave Systems Inc. reported increasing revenues and a decreasing net loss and said it will continue its positive trend in the coming months.The news sent the company stock up about 7 percent to about $17.15 per share.Openwave said...
ICT Technologies Inc. and its operating company EurophoneUSA Inc. said they will partner with Korean mobile phone design company Uroa Tech to sell a range of wireless devices across the world, including an advanced GPRS device running Microsoft Corp.'s Smartphone operating system. RCR Wireless...
DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. network partner Edge Wireless L.L.C. deployed Alcatel's Multimedia Messaging Services system designed to enable Edge Wireless customers to send and receive MMS messages. Alcatel noted the service allows users to send messages to other MMS-enabled handsets and between e-mail addresses...
Two of the world's top five handset makers said they will flood the wireless market with push-to-talk mobile phones, a move that could turn PTT into a worldwide wireless necessity-much like voicemail and text messaging-in just a few short years. Siemens last week announced...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will host, operate and manage Western Wireless Corp.'s multimedia messaging service offering throughout the carrier's domestic CDMA coverage area.Ericsson noted that in addition to supplying the platform and integrating the application with Western Wireless' network and billing system, it...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it will host, operate and manage Western Wireless Corp.'s multimedia messaging service offering throughout the carrier's domestic CDMA coverage area.Ericsson noted that in addition to supplying the platform and integrating the application with Western Wireless' network and billing system, it...
BERNE, Switzerland-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute said it signed a cooperation agreement with the Fixed Line Multimedia Messaging Service Forum to cooperate on multimedia messaging for fixed-line subscribers starting next year.The groups said they are committed to promoting and supporting an industry standard for...
Maybe it's because of the imminent local number portability deadline, maybe it's because of the holiday shopping season launch, maybe it's because wireless data is starting to gain some traction, but advertising by wireless carriers has moved from the mundane to the entertaining.Gone is...
The Open Mobile Alliance industry standards group announced a major new specifications release aimed at breaking down the barriers between GSM and CDMA carriers. The specifications center around picture messaging and multimedia messaging services, allowing GSM subscribers to send MMS messages to CDMA users."The...
FORT MYERS, Fla.-InterOP Technologies L.L.C. recently announced it has signed multi-year service partnerships with Cellcom, First Cellular of Southern Illinois and thumb Cellular to provide short message service short-code functionality.InterOP's short-code platform features a Web-based architecture that allows carriers to securely create, edit and...
IRVING, Texas-Cingular Wireless' recently announced multimedia messaging service is based on Nokia Corp.'s MMS center, the companies announced.Nokia has managed to claim the lion's share of the MMS center market after it and other major infrastructure providers largely missed out on the market for...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. launched its Multimedia Messaging service, allowing customers to attach photos, text, graphics, music, video and voice to traditional text messages, and according to the carrier, send them to virtually any e-mail address or multimedia messaging service-capable mobile phone."One of the beauties...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported the results of a multimedia messaging trial it conducted with five wireless operators in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, figures the company said offer evidence that the market for mobile data services will grow to $212 billion by 2007.Nokia said it...
By rolling out services in two U.S. markets, Verizon Wireless has triggered momentum for CDMA2000 1X EV-DO technology, barely two years since the first launch of CDMA2000 1X services in the world.The EV-DO launches, which took place in San Diego and Washington, D.C., are...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless trade group 3G Americas released a new reference document that offers recommendations for multimedia messaging service interoperability. The group said network operators and infrastructure vendors jointly composed the document for GSM carriers in the Americas."The 3G Americas' MMS recommendations offer clear requirements...
IRVINE, Calif.-Comarco Wireless said it has rolled out new testing algorithms that allow its Seven.Five Multigenerational wireless test system to enhance quality of service for both voice and data networks in present and next-generation environments.The company said the new algorithms "can objectively measure voice...
BOSTON-New research shows the market for multimedia messaging services in the United States will grow from just $8 million last year to $900 million by 2007, and the number of active MMS users will increase from several hundred thousand in 2002 to more than...
ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Wireless technology company Wavecom SA announced it will open a research laboratory for the world's handset makers, a development studio that the company said will include all the latest handset technologies.The lab, which is essentially a computerized testing environment and not an actual...
CAIRO, Egypt-The country's first carrier, MobiNil, said it has launched a mobile multimedia messaging service using Nokia's solutions."The service, MobiNil Life, will enable MobiNil's more than 2.6 million subscribers nationwide to send messages combining text, images, graphics and sound in a single rich message...
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands-German wireline carrier International Telecom Network Operation Services (ITENOS), a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, said it will offer fixed-line multimedia messaging services through a new deal with LogicaCMG.The service will allow ITENOS customers, such as application service providers and content providers, to offer...
Nextel Communications Inc.'s dated handset selection is set to receive a jolt next month as the carrier is expected to begin launching new handsets based on the "Falcon" platform, which Motorola Inc. developed and will manufacture. The launch eventually should include seven consumer-oriented devices...
MANILA, The Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest mobile operator in the Philippines, launched multimedia messaging service interconnection with more than 30 MMS operators around the world and a new Java-based subscriber identity module card.Mobileway said it worked with Globe Telecom to help enable Globe's MMS...
Wireless Internet software provider Openwave Systems Inc. announced it could further its acquisition push with a new offering of $100 million in convertible subordinated notes due 2008. The company said it has no definite acquisition or investment plans. Openwave said it would use the...
