LONDON—The Mobile Entertainment Forum announced a new board of directors and created two regional branches in Asia and the Americas to further growth in the regions.The new board includes executives from industry players, such as Vivendi Universal, Universal Communication Platform, PacketVideo and Purple Software....
LONDON—Digital Bridges, a mobile entertainment services provider, purchased the software assets of GR8, a supplier of mobile ring tones and logos.Financial details were not disclosed.Digital Bridges said the purchase gives the company a delivery methodology for wireless downloads and further enhances its ability to...
SAN FRANCISCO—Multimedia mobile delivery company Mazingo Network is offering a subscription service that allows users to access rich-media content from hundreds of channels.Included in Mazingo's channel line-up are classic movies, television shows, daily radio programs from the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and CNET, short...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Comverse Technology announced its enhanced messaging services will operate on Texas Instruments' OMAP platform for 2.5- (2.5G) and third-generation (3G) wireless devices, a combination the companies believe will allow for more rapid deployment of applications, including mobile e-mail, multimedia messaging,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse and Texas Instruments Inc. announced Comverse's enhanced messaging services will operate on TI's OMAP platform for 2.5 and 3G wireless devices.By combining Comverse's platform with TI's OMAP processors, device manufacturers and operators can reduce deployment time of applications including mobile e-mail, multimedia...
PALO ALTO, Calif.—The mobile-commerce industry gained yet another standards body, the PayCircle consortium, which is aimed at creating interfaces that will allow all m-commerce applications to work with various proprietary payment systems and processes. In today's m-commerce market, the m-commerce applications from most vendors...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse's VoiCD music portal product.Comverse said its portal allows users to listen to music tracks, download ring tones and send music...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Dutch wireless carrier Dutchtone, a subsidiary of Orange Group, continued to flesh out its wireless music service by purchasing Comverse's VoiCD music portal product.Comverse said its portal allows users to listen to music tracks, download ring tones and send music tracks to friends."Today's...
Handsets/wireless devicesSonySony Electronics unveiled its CLIE handhePEG-T415 ld with reduced profile, featuring a slim design with aluminum case and enhanced infrared port for controlling audio and video equipment. The company also...
LONDON—Mobile entertainment company Cash-U Mobile Technologies released the second-generation versions of its products, the Pecan mobile entertainment platform and the Pistachio software developers kit.The company said the new versions incorporate, among other features, support for J2ME client/server applications, portal management capabilities and integration with...
NEW YORK—Fans of Wu-Tang Clan and Mobb Deep will get a sneak peak at the groups' new upcoming albums through a partnership between Loud Records and mobile entertainment portal Zingy.The singles "Hey Luv" and "Burn" from Mobb Deep's upcoming album are available now at...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.—YourMobile/PWS has been awarded a publishing license for the Quincy Jones Music catalog, a compilation of jazz, pop and rhythm & blues hit songs by Quincy Jones and other artists.YourMobile said it will make data clips from the song catalog available to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-After all the publicity, time and money spent obtaining third-generation (3G) licenses, European mobile operators are keeping plans strictly to themselves about what mobile applications they might launch to take advantage of this spectrum.This reluctance to discuss what innovative applications are being...
NEW YORK-Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd. will provide two of its wireless games, Wireless Pets and Steve Jackson's Sorcery!, to AT&T Wireless for its PocketNet subscribers via the carrier's "Sink or Swim" wireless games commercial trial.The limited-time trial site allows customers to try...
NEW YORK-Unplugged Games Inc., founded last year with $2 million in venture financing, made public May 15 an agreement reached last month to supply AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Digital PocketNet customers with interactive games for multiple players.The New York-based start-up began offering "a limited...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Streaming video is a technology that is often mentioned in conjunction with third-generation (3G) networks, but users may see its possibilities sooner than 3G network rollouts.Streaming media is the ability to receive video alerts, wireless games, short video clips, and news and sports...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Mobile entertainment provider Digital Bridges Ltd., has teamed with Sprint PCS to provide its interactive wireless games on the Sprint PCS Wireless Web, which subscriber can access through Sprint PCS Internet-ready phones.The games offered include single player games, Fours, Roulette, Higher/Lower,...
PARIS-Personal digital assistants become even more personal as Aspiro introduces its new Dating Game service, developed by the UK's lomo ltd, at the Mobile Entertainment 2001 show in Paris.The service allows users of mobile WAP-enabled devices to create virtual versions of themselves by answering...
HANNOVER, Germany-The wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp., and T-Mobil, which provides mobile telecommunication services in Germany, announced they will conduct trials of PacketVideo's end-to-end wireless multimedia technology over T-Mobil's advanced General Packet Radio Service network.T-Mobil engineers will test PacketVideo's interoperability with T-Mobil's infrastructure and...
GroupServeGroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup's first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
TAIWANChunghwa Telecom Labs (CHTTL), the technology development group of Taiwan's state-owned telecommunication operator, has selected Nokia to conduct its third-generation trials. Nokia will provide CHTTL with the core and radio network, network management system and technical consultancy services. Then based on the trial results,...
LONDON-BT Cellnet has signed an agreement that allows Nortel Networks to develop its GPRS networks with initial focus on mobile entertainment and business applications.Both companies plan to work together with suppliers and subscribers on developing these applications from the "idea stage through testing and...
Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun.The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to "transform wireless devices into personal entertainment terminals...
DENVER, United States-Qualcomm and Ford Motor Co. perpetuated the marriage between wireless communication and mobility, creating a new company called Wingcast, which will develop and deliver wireless mobility and information services to cars and trucks, and give Qualcomm a means to main line new...
