mobile entertainment

NEW YORK-InfoSpace Inc. said it scored a deal with Major League Baseball to offer ball club logos to mobile-phone users. The deal will allow users to personalize their phones with …

CANNES, France-Alcatel scored several new mobile video deals, including an agreement with Hutchison 3G Austria for its video gateway product. Alcatel said it will offer video-streaming services for Hutchison 3G …

CANNES, France-Alcatel scored several new mobile video deals, including an agreement with Hutchison 3G Austria for its video gateway product. Alcatel said it will offer video-streaming services for Hutchison 3G …

NEW YORK-Ring-tone powerhouse Zingy announced a major expansion in its deal with recording company BMG. The company said it scored the licenses to BMG’s master recordings, which means that Zingy …

PRINCETON, N.J.-Wireless gaming startup Kayak Interactive announced it scored a substantial $11.75 million in Series A venture funding. VantagePoint Venture Partners led the round. “Our own view of the significant …

LONDON-EMI Music, Downplay, In-Fusio, Omni Entertainment, MmO2, Qualcomm Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. are among the newest members of the Mobile Entertainment Forum, the group announced. The organization said the …

Premium text messaging is now a reality in the United States-essentially creating a new market in the U.S. wireless industry. Most of the nation’s wireless carriers have installed the necessary …

Customers of Vodafone Group plc in Europe, Australia and New Zealand will have access to content from the TV show “The Simpsons” under a new deal announced between the global …

LAS VEGAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to relaunch its mMode wireless data offering in November, although details of the carrier’s plan are unclear. Andre Dahan, president of AT&T Wireless’ multimedia …

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.-Global Information Inc. has released “Mobile Entertainment Applications & Markets: Key Mobile Data and Revenue Drivers,” a new report on mobile entertainment published by ARC Group. The report …

SAN FRANCISCO-Content provider Faith West Inc. announced a new service that combines ring tones and animations and said it will sell several such offerings through Verizon Wireless’ Get It Now …

Consolidation on the wireless content front continued its unrelenting pace, with gaming company Iomo purchasing rival Covert Operations Ltd. for an undisclosed sum of cash and stock. “The mobile entertainment …

LONDON-Mobile entertainment company Amplefuture said it invested an unspecified amount of money in fellow wireless gaming company Macrospace. “This investment represents a great vote of confidence in our business,” said …

Wireless watchers were inundated with news on the wireless gaming front coming out of the Electronic Entertainment Expo video game trade show, with Nokia Corp. in the lead and continuing …

LOS ANGELES-The wireless industry is looking to make a major show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the main trade conference for the video game industry. A range of wireless players …

RALEIGH, N.C.-Wireless software company Summus Inc. announced it will resell wireless games from Chinese mobile entertainment company Magus Soft. Summus will act as Magus Soft’s primary distribution channel in the …

AUSTIN, Texas-Tapwave Inc. said it has selected Motorola Inc.’s i.MX family of applications processors for its mobile entertainment products. “The i.MX processor has the best balance of performance, battery life …

SAN MATEO, Calif.-PalmSource, the operating system subsidiary of personal digital assistant company Palm Inc., made a range of new announcements in conjunction with its annual developer’s conference, including two new …

NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a deal with mobile entertainment provider Zingy to supply polyphonic ringtones for Nextel customers using Motorola Inc.’s i95cl and i90c handsets. Zingy will offer hundreds …

LONDON-Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications America and the Sony Music Mobile Product Group have aligned to offer ring tones based on popular music on Sony Ericsson mobile phones. Beginning in the …

Record industry giant Sony Music Entertainment bought wireless entertainment company Run Tones, and will use the acquisition to create a new Mobile Products Group within Sony’s Music Digital Services division. …

NEW YORK-Zingy, a New York-based mobile entertainment provider, has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide MSN members with access to content that includes ringtones, screen logos, group …

LONDON-Wireless entertainment company Digital Bridges announced it is embarking on a major Java rollout, a move that will include selling a wide array of downloadable Java applications through retail outlets, …

DUBLIN, Ireland-Mobile games aggregator nGame has been acquired by its U.S. partner Mforma. The Cambridge, U.K.-based company will become part of what its new owners claim will be the largest …

LONDON-Italy’s Vodafone Omnitel plans to upgrade its gaming platform through its deal with mobile entertainment company Cash-U Mobile Technologies. Omnitel currently uses the first version of Cash-U’s Pecan entertainment platform …