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Gaming companies partner on multiplayer games

HONG KONG-The Mobile Media Company AS and Viva la Mobile announced a partnership to provide third-generation multiplayer games to wireless carriers worldwide.Viva la Mobile, an Australia-based mobile-game developer, will offer games such as "Badlands," which is a Java-based tank battle game. Under the partnership,...

Sky Mobile, Sonim gain funding

SAN DIEGO-Investors continued to show their faith in wireless Tuesday with two new funding announcements. Sky Mobile Media Inc. announced it has raised $6.25 million in Series A financing, with Enterprise Partners Venture Capital leading the round. The mobile software developer said it will...

Mobile Media acquires TV content provider

OSLO, Norway-The Mobile Media Co. announced the acquisition of Cee.tv Format, a developer of interactive television shows and mass marketing applications.Mobile Media said it will use content from 4-year-old Cee.tv to increase its multimedia message service offerings to consumers to Europe, Asia and North...

Airborne Entertainment buys Tira Wireless’ publishing unit

Tira Wireless has sold the rights to its mobile publishing division to Airborne Entertainment in a move Tira said will allow it to focus solely on developing mobile technology. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Airborne acquired rights to all of Tira's games,...

Airborne Entertainment buys Tira Wireless’ publishing division

Tira Wireless has sold the rights to its mobile publishing division to Airborne Entertainment in a move Tira said will allow it to focus solely on developing mobile technology.Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Airborne acquired rights to all of Tira's games, applications,...

Community enhancement, not revenues, goal of many Wi-Fi deployments

ATHENS, Ga.-The majority of Wi-Fi systems springing up across the United States were created to enhance the communities being served rather than to generate revenues, according to recent research from the New Media Institute and the Mobile Media Consortium at the University of Georgia.For...

Mforma uses funds to buy FingerTwitch

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Flush from two recent successful rounds of funding, Mforma Group Inc. has acquired FingerTwitch, Inc., a San Francisco-based company that adapts games and other applications for wireless use.The mobile entertainment company will use FingerTwitch technologies to develop applications across a broad range of...

Mforma uses recent funding to buy FingerTwitch

Flush from two recent successful rounds of funding, Mforma Group Inc. has acquired FingerTwitch, Inc., a San Francisco-based company that adapts games and other applications for wireless use.The mobile entertainment company will use FingerTwitch technologies to develop applications across a broad range of handsets...

Mforma scores new funding round

KIRKLAND, Wash.-Mforma Group Inc. may score up to $40 million in its latest round of funding, the mobile content provider announced Tuesday. The announcement comes on the heels of a $44 million funding round in June.Mforma has already closed on $19 million in the...

Business Briefs

Mobile-game publisher In-Fusio raised $27 million in its latest round of financing. U.S.-based venture-capital firm Insight Venture Partners led the funding round, joining existing investors Banexi Ventures, Partech International, BPSA and Innoven Partenaires. The 6-year-old gaming firm will use the capital to build on...

They're playing our song

At the advent of every new industry, people simply cannot predict how the industry will evolve. VCRs were supposed to be used only to record missed TV shows. Today every parent watching their daughter's piano recital has a camcorder attached to a hand to...

CellStar partners with content company

CARROLLTON, Texas-Handset distribution company CellStar Corp. and European wireless content company Buongiorno Vitaminic SpA announced an innovative partnership to increase their respective sales opportunities. CellStar said the deal would allow it to add content like ring tones and games to its handsets for sale...

InfoSpace hits profitability on strong wireless revenue

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Internet and wireless technology vendor InfoSpace Inc. reported $48.1 million in revenues, up 59 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The company also scored net income of $5.4 million, a turnaround from the $1.9 million net loss it reported in the...

Fujitsu announces upgraded MMP, others build for telematics

FRANKFURT, Germany-As the mobile-phone sales increase, the world's chipmakers continue to look to take advantage of the market opportunity.For example, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe released its new Mobile Media Processors, which the company said incorporate MPEG-4 and JPEG hardware encoding and decoding functionality. The chips...

Ipsh technology to be used in marketing Starsky and Hutch

ATLANTA-Wireless content and technology company Ipsh said its new picture-rendering technology will be used in a mobile marketing campaign for Warner Brother's new "Starsky and Hutch" movie."We are growing at a remarkable pace and our latest 'dynamic hand-setting MMS' tool is yet another example...

Cameraphone summit planned in Maui

MELVILLE, N.Y.-Pulver.com and Next Generation Ventures announced they will launch their inaugural Cameraphone Summit: The Conference on Cameraphones and Convergent Mobile Media April 27-30 in Maui, Hawaii.Executives from Nokia Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. will offer keynote speeches, and the summit will cover issues from...

Wireless content deals play on music, TV

NEW YORK-Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space.First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. customers with Nokia Corp. 3300 music phones. The application...

Wireless content deals play on music, TV

Music and TV fans will soon have new outlets for their tastes through a series of new announcements in the wireless space.First, Crisp Wireless announced a new music application for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. customers with Nokia Corp. 3300 music phones. The application features...

Alcatel purchases PacketVideo network division

Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming-video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Video...

Alcatel purchases PacketVideo network division

Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not...

Chippendales men coming to mobile phones

ORLANDO, Fla.-ClearSky Mobile Media Inc. announced a partnership with Chippendales Entertainment L.L.C. to feature the men of Chippendales on mobile phones.With the service, wireless users can access Chippendales men as screen savers and wallpaper and send them as electronic greeting cards and as part...

Motorola announces partnerships with mobile video players

LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced it will use a streaming video player from RealNetworks Inc. in upcoming mobile phones, including new phones using its Linux/Java operating system.The move is notable on several levels. First, it marks Motorola's plans to support streaming video, a technology that...

Wireless data arena consolidates with two separate acquisitions

LAS VEGAS-Two new acquisitions highlight the potential of the wireless data market, as well as the growing valuations for the players involved. First, wireless data mainstay InfoSpace Inc. announced it purchased mobile media company Moviso from Vivendi Universal Net USA for $25 million in...

Legend Mobile enters agreement with LogoManager

ANN ARBOR, Mich.-Legend Mobile said it has entered into an agreement with LogoManager of Cambridge, United Kingdom, for the development of branded mobile products based on certain properties under license to Legend. The first product expected from the new agreement is AlphaMobile MB based...