MONTEREY, Calif.-AirPlay Networks Inc. announced plans to launch a series of mobile games based on live TV broadcasts. The San Francisco startup said it will allow subscribers to predict plays during sporting events, compete against contestants in game shows, and pick winners and losers...
CAMBRIDGE, England-Mini-base station developer Ip.access Ltd. picked up $8.5 million in funds to develop in-building third-generation access points for homes and small businesses. Scottish Equity Partners led the round, joined by Intel Capital and Rothschild Gestion. The company said it has successfully produced and...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-ScanR Inc. launched a service enabling mobile-phone users to take pictures of whiteboards and documents, e-mail them to the company for processing, then direct the results to an e-mail address or fax number in PDF format. With the scanning, copying and faxing...
WASHINGTON-Cellular companies and disability advocates appear to have reached a compromise over proposed changes to a revised standard for mobile-phone hearing-aid compatibility, resolving a dispute that escalated in recent weeks and threatened the prospect of carriers and manufacturers meeting the next Federal Communications Commission...
Do Europeans like chocolate as much as South Koreans? What about Americans? If we're talking food, the question is crazy. But because we're talking about LG Electronics Co. Ltd.'s new Chocolate mobile phone, which has done well since its release in South Korea in...
CHICAGO-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is using PCTel Inc.'s Roaming Client software as part of the carrier's BroadbandConnect service, according to PCTel. Cingular launched its BroadbandConnect UMTS/HSDPA network late last year in 16 markets. PCTel said it is providing a custom version of the platform for...
WASHINGTON-Cellular companies and disability advocates are at odds over industryproposed changes to a revised standard for mobile-phone hearing-aid compatibility, a dispute that has escalated in recent weeks and whose resolution could help determine whether carriers and manufacturers meet the next Federal Communications Commission compliance...
Motricity Corp. is building on its relationship with Alltel Corp., inking a deal to deliver content and wireless Internet service to the operator's subscribers regardless of device. The agreement, which will be announced this week, expands on Motricity's pact to supply wireless Web service...
Sling Media Inc. launched a software package allowing wireless subscribers to view TV broadcasts on Windows Mobile devices. The developer announced a beta version of the much-awaited offering, which sends video from a cable box through an Ethernet cable to a handset running Windows...
Money continued to pour into the mobile marketing space last week as VeriSign Inc. inked an agreement to shell out $250 million in cash for wireless messaging and content services provider m-Qube Inc. M-Qube powers mobile storefronts and marketing campaigns for media companies and...
WASHINGTON-Despite concern about the potential for collusion at the upcoming advanced wireless services auction and the need to head off any problems by limiting bidder information, federal officials admit they have pursued only a handful of cases where suspected abuse led to enforcement action....
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Mobile game publisher Kayak Interactive has rebranded as Blaze after consolidating with European subsidiary Synergenix Interactive. The move follows the integration of Chasma Interactive Publishing, which Kayak acquired last April. Blaze has offices in London and Stockholm, Sweden, and plans to retain...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-PayPal quietly launched a service allowing users to make purchases or send money to other users from a mobile phone. The world's largest supplier of online payment services is testing the offering, which allows users to send a text message indicating the...
SAN FRANCISCO-Content providers will need to deliver compelling programming for mobile video to grow beyond the young, male demographic it currently attracts, two new reports indicate. Mobile TV is already drawing a key demographic for advertisers, according to Telephia. Wireless users between the ages...
RESTON, Va.-Sprint Nextel Corp. announced it is teaming with the Associated Press to allow reporters to file 60-second video clips from the 215 cities and 466 airports where the carrier offers high-speed wireless access. The service uses SNAPfeed, a "store and forward" video application...
WASHINGTON-The ground shifted under the telecommunications regulatory landscape March 19 when the Federal Communications Commission did nothing-or at least nothing official. By not acting, the FCC granted a forbearance request from Verizon Communications Inc. that its high-capacity broadband network not be subject to common-carrier...
AURORA, Ill.-The city of Aurora, Ill., a suburb about 40 miles west of Chicago, awarded two contracts this month as it prepares to launch a citywide Wi-Fi network that is scheduled to offer free public Internet access as well as public-works and public-safety services.SkyPilot...
TORONTO-Nortel Networks Ltd. said its insurers have agreed to put $228.5 million toward Nortel's settlements of a pair of class-action lawsuits that stemmed from an accounting scandal. In February, Nortel agreed to pay more than $2.4 billion in cash and stock to settle the...
BRISTOL, United Kingdom-Icera Inc., a wireless soft modem company based in the United Kingdom, announced it secured $40 million in a Series C round of venture funding. Amadeus Capital Partners led the round, with existing investors Accel Partners, Atlas Venture and Benchmark Capital also...
WASHINGTON-Online wireless retailer InPhonic Inc. unveiled a business unit targeting small business users. The company launched Wirefly.biz, an Internet storefront hawking products and rate plans designed for home office workers and small businesses. The site carries offerings from Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Sprint Nextel Corp.,...
Regional telecommunications operator Ntelos Holdings Corp. reported strong growth in the fourth quarter and full-year 2005, generating wireless operating revenues of $73 million during the final three months of 2005 and $280 million for the year. Ntelos Inc., the company's prior incarnation, was a...
Verizon Wireless' full-page advertisement in The Denver Post's March 22 edition, prominently displayed on page 5 of the newspaper's front section, trumpets: "IT'S THE NETWORK" and "#1 in Customer Loyalty in Denver," both well-worn marketing phrases for the nation's second-largest carrier in the standard...
LAS VEGAS-BellSouth Corp. unveiled a pre-WiMAX wireless broadband back-up system for businesses' Internet connections. The carrier said the system allows customers to activate a Wi-Fi hot spot at a business location, with a WiMAX backhaul, in the event the wireline network goes down. The...
EarthLink Inc. has already invested about $121.5 million into its soon-to-launch mobile virtual network operator, Helio, according to the company's recently filed annual report. In addition, EarthLink stated that it has already provided Helio with 27,000 customers. EarthLink stated that its joint venture with...
