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HANNOVER, Germany-Opera Software ASA scored a major win, inking a deal to pre-load its Java-based mobile browser on T-Mobile International phones in Europe. The deal calls for a custom, branded version of Opera Mini with "T-Mobile's look and feel" to be embedded on three...

HANNOVER, Germany—Opera Software ASA scored a major win, inking a deal to pre-load its Java-based mobile browser on T-Mobile International phones in Europe. The deal calls for a customized, branded version of Opera Mini with "T-Mobile’s look and feel" to be embedded on three...

TOKYO—Japanese mobile browser company Access Co. Ltd. announced it plans to acquire IP Infusion Inc. in a deal valued at around $50 million. IP Infusion is based in San Jose, Calif., and supplies switching and routing products to the likes of Foundry Networks, L.M....

Opera Software unveiled what it called a "WAP killer" last week, going global with its Web browser for Java-enabled mobile phones. Opera Mini uses a proxy server to format traditional Internet content for small screens-thereby bypassing the need for WAP technology and allowing users...

Wireless is getting Googled. And, well, Yahoo'd. The Internet giants have made numerous headlines in recent weeks as they rush to become the premier destination on the wireless Web. And they're doing it in very different ways.Google Inc. fired the year's opening salvo earlier...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced it achieved profitability and increased license revenues in its first-quarter fiscal-year 2005 results, released this week.Openwave reported revenues of $83.6 million, up 9 percent from the previous quarter and up 23 percent from the year-ago quarter. Net income...

OSLO, Norway-Opera Software released a new version of its operating system for mobile phones. The company said the new version 7 features its desktop core engine and includes support for W3C's Document Object Model, Street HTML, JavaScript and bi-directional text."Opera 7 forms the basis...

OSLO, Norway-U.K. phone manufacturer Sendo said it will use Opera Software's mobile-phone browser in its Sendo X smart phone.Opera, which has less market share than other mobile browser suppliers, said its small-screen rendering technology reformats the Web to Sendo X's screen size to avoid...

TOKYO-Openwave Systems Inc. said Japanese operator KDDI has upgraded to Openwave Mobile Browser Version 6.2 for its first set of megapixel camera phones. The carrier uses Openwave's client and server WAP 2.0 technology to power its EZweb mobile Internet services.

NEW ORLEANS-Openwave Systems Inc. made a slew of announcements this week at CTIA Wireless 2003:the company introduced Openwave Voice MMS which integrates voice and data messaging capabilities;Openwave will partner with Network Associates to integrate McAfee Security's anti-virus technology into its MX messaging platform;RealNetworks Inc.'s...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Openwave Systems Inc. announced its software has been deployed for PCS Vision applications from Sprint PCS, allowing users to send and receive alerts through Openwave's Push technology as well as downloading new games using the Openwave Mobile Browser and Openwave Download Manager."Openwave's...

TORONTO—Canada's Bell Mobility launched the country's first 1x wireless network in the greater Toronto area, with plans to extend the coverage throughout the year to cover most of the country.Bell Mobility said the new network will deliver "cruising speeds" of up to 86 kilobits...

Nine months after investing an initial $33 million into its mobile Internet services development company Microcell i5 Inc., Canadian wireless operator Microcell Solutions Inc. introduced its i.Fido wireless data services to its Fido personal communications services customers.Microcell's wireless Internet offering will face stiff competition...

NEW YORK-Bell Mobility, Toronto, plans a series of initiatives this year to expand its data and Internet services and move toward third-generation wireless, Pierre Blouin, president and chief executive officer of the company, said Jan. 11 at a press conference.Under an agreement valued at...

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. has teamed with Bell Mobility of Canada to make Bell Mobility's Mobile Browser service accessible via Wireless Knowledge's WorkStyle Server.The combined solution will allow business users to use their Mobile Browser service to get work-related e-mail on their wireless phones...

TORONTO-Bell Mobility Inc.'s new Mobile Browser is providing plenty of new options to customers who want access to online services from their digital personal communications services phones.GetThere.com Inc., a provider of Internet-based business-to-business travel booking systems, will team up with Bell Mobility, a wireless...

In its second major acquisition since going public last spring, Phone.com Inc. signed an agreement to acquire voice portal technology provider @Motion Inc. for $285 million.Phone.com said it hopes to integrate @Motion's Internet voice portal to add voice-recognition services to its MyPhone Wireless Application...

NEW YORK-The astounding success of NTT DoCoMo's mobile Internet access service is a resounding note of affirmation to proponents of wireless Web services, said Crispin K. Vicars at the Yankee Group's conference Nov. 8.By the end of September, DoCoMo's wireless Internet service had 1.7...