ATLANTA—Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) has joined with mobile Internet IP solution provider Parthus to integrate ART's speech and handwriting recognition engines to Parthus' InfoStream platform.For its platform, Parthus has chosen ART's smARTspeak NG, which offers voice-enabled features including name dialing, menu navigation and...
TOKYO—The number of mobile Internet users in Japan exceeded 50 million riding on the country's i-mode boom. The Telecommunications Carriers Association, an industry association, on 7 March announced the number of users of mobile Internet services, including NTT DoCoMo's i-mode customers, as of the...
LONDON—Short message service (SMS) company Logica said it scored two multimedia messaging contracts and is trialing the product with five additional wireless carriers. The company did not name its customers.Analysts have questioned whether Logica, which controls a vast amount of the SMS industry, can...
WASHINGTON—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association held the first meeting of its Wireless Internet Caucus Leadership Council last week.The council said it will address hurdles facing the U.S. market in wireless data and mobile Internet products and services. In its first day-long workshop, the...
SEOUL, South Korea—Microsoft said it has agreed to jointly develop a wireless Web browser with KT Freetel Co., using Microsoft's Mobile Explorer or wireless application protocol."The new browser is expected to help cell-phone users to use mobile Internet more easily and more often," said...
CANNES, France—SchlumbergerSema introduced its INService solution for managing mobile carriers' prepaid and postpaid subscribers.The solution integrates a rating engine for real-time rating across a carrier's pre- and postpaid subscriber base.The company also announced the SchlumbergerSema and Mobile Economy alliance, which was selected by the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—A new Swedish company announced its formation to vie for the fourth GSM license that Sweden's telecom regulator PTS plans to award by mid-2002. Edge Mobile said it will use GSM, Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) and wireless local area network...
TOKYO—Three Japanese carriers and three industry associations are going to set up an organization to evaluate mobile Internet content on 28 February. The organization, called Mobile Content Evaluation System Association, will work out a system to evaluate mobile Internet content and discuss the cost...
LONDON—General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based mobile Internet services are being rolled out across the Middle East, with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) leading the way.Jordan's largest mobile-phone operator, Fastlink, announced the commercial launch of its GPRS service six months after successful testing...
BOULDER, Colo.—GlobalDining, mobile location-based restaurant directory and reservation network, announced it reached more than 1.5 million WAP page views in the three month period beginning November 2001.The company said it attracts more than 75,000 visitors a month to its online site and has partnered...
TOKYO—Kyocera, a leading telecom vender in Japan, and Hanaro Telecom, a leading carrier in Korea, reached an agreement regarding the next-generation high-speed mobile data business, Kyocera announced on 22 January. Based on the agreement, Hanaro plans to launch a high-speed mobile Internet service in...
BUCHAREST, Romania—The Romanian cellular operator Telemobil launched on 7 December a nationwide voice and high-speed data network in its 450 MHz spectrum based on CDMA technology. Telemobil will initially introduce service in 30 major cities and towns, with nationwide coverage by 2003.The new system...
REDWOOD CITY, California, United States—SkyGo has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky, J-Phone's mobile Internet service.J-Mobile, a wireless marketing company formed as a joint venture between J-Phone and Japan's Internet advertising company...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Telia announced a new initiative to offer an open interface to content providers for mobile Internet services. The initiative is based on a mobile service platform by BlueFactory and includes billing.Telia said it will introduce a new payment model for content providers along...
HELSINKI, Finland-LPG Innovations announced that as a result of a recent partnership agreement with IBM, its fixed and mobile Internet service brokering platform, sBroker, will be integrated into IBM's WebSphere product family.Using sBroker, operators, service providers and corporations can manage third-party services, gather usage...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—SkyGo Inc. has been chosen to provide Japan Mobile Communications Inc. (J-Mobile) with the wireless marketing technology to deliver advertisements across J-Sky, J-Phone's mobile Internet service.J-Mobile, a wireless marketing company formed as a joint venture between J-Phone and Japan's Internet advertising company...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Three Spanish mobile operators are expected to make an appeal before Spain's National Court over a government-imposed fee for using cell-phone spectrum. The three firms, Vodafone's Spanish unit Amena, Xfera and Telef
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says Finnish transport and communications minister Olli-Pekka Heinonen has placed "the first inter-continental UMTS phone call' to Finland."This was the first of its kind between two operators' 3G networks, the NTT DoCoMo network in Japan and the Sonera network in Finland,"...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Nokia Corp. launched a joint action plan to accelerate the development of the open mobile architecture initiative announced by wireless companies earlier this week. The two companies will cooperate in promoting open mobile architecture for W-CDMA-based third-generation services in areas...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Swedish cell-phone operator Telia plans to offer consumers a free three-month trial of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in an attempt to reverse the ongoing negative image that the mobile Internet continues to attract. The company will be the first in Sweden...
BEIJING—Nortel Networks said it won an approximately US$18 million contract to provide optical long-haul backbone networks to enhance the speed of China Mobile's GSM coverage and speed."China Mobile plans to use the increased speed and capacity that these new optical backbones will provide to...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Comverse Technology Inc. said it will collaborate with Qualcomm Inc. to bring enhanced wireless services, such as multimedia messaging, voice solutions and mobile Internet solutions, to Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless-enabled devices."As a result, users worldwide will get a next-generation user experience—one that...
