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 operator and THQ Inc. The deal comes just a week after RCR Wireless News...
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 services, announced the carrier's intent during the CTIA Wireless I.T. show earlier this week in...
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 defines mobile entertainment categories and makes financial forecasts for the sector for the next five...
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 application download service.Faith West said its new ring tone/animation service will launch with music...
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 industry is growing at a tremendous rate, and a lot of consolidation has occurred over...
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 Shukri Shammas, Macrospace's managing director. "It will allow us to further extend our leadership in...
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 to beat the drums for its N-Gage mobile-phone/video-game device.Nokia reported further details about the...
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 are announcing new products and new deals.Indeed, wireless gaming will likely be a big...
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 Americas and will offer games developed for Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW platform and the Java 2...
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 and a high degree of integrated features, along with the ability to drive the...
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 Palm OS licensees, a new deal with wireless e-mail company Research In Motion Ltd.,...
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 of 16-cord Midi ringtone song titles, which the company said provide richer, fuller sounding compositions...
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 first quarter 2003, Sony Ericsson phones sold in the Americas will come with up to...
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.Meanwhile, wireless application publisher Moviso L.L.C., a wholly owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal Net USA,...
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 graphics, voice messaging and greetings and other services."MSN has attracted a very progressive and...
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, wireless carriers, media companies, Web portals and Internet service providers."Java is the next significant...
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 wireless content distributor in EuropeThe move coincides with a new report identifying mobile gaming...
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 and now plans to upgrade to version 2.0."This is the first repeat order to our...
LONDON-Wireless entertainment company Cash-U Mobile Technologies said it expanded its catalogue of mobile entertainment applications by signing a partnership with Indiagames, under which the company will sell Indiagames' Java-based Goom Attack, Soccer, Catapult Charlie, Chopper Rescue, Digital Derby and Strip Poker through its Pecan...
CHESTERFIELD, Miss.-While industry leaders have knocked around the idea of a killer application in wireless for years, a new report from Datacomm Research Company and Phoenician Ventures pegs it squarely on mobile games and handsets with color screens."Colorful mobile games, polyphonic ring tones and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Technology giants IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both continued to reinforce their wireless data offerings through new resale and licensing agreements, a strategy the two companies have been employing a great deal recently.HP licensed Pixo Inc.'s Mobile Download Server for wireless Java...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Cellular operators need to market mobile entertainment applications more aggressively if many more games applications developers are not to go out of business. This is the view of international telecommunications consultancy BWCS, which claims developers will be forced under unless operators are more...
ALISO VIEJO, California, United States—SMS Media Group said it signed a deal with European mobile entertainment company Jippii Group that enables SMS Media to provide its subscribers with a large selection of ring tones. SMS Media plans to launch later this month a new...
LEDBURY, United Kingdom—Cellular operators must do more to promote their gaming services or risk stunting the growth of the mobile entertainment market, according to a new study from international telecommunications consultancy BWCS.By 2007 there will be more than 200 million mobile subscribers regularly playing...
