Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...
Frontline Wireless L.L.C. rejected Cyren Call Communications Corp.'s view that first responders should join forces with a top mobile phone carrier if federal regulators approve new 700 MHz rules for a national public-safety broadband network that the private sector would build and share with...
Major League Baseball is teaming with Scotland's Mobiqa to turn mobile phones into tickets to the ballpark.The companies unveiled Tickets@Phone, an application that allows fans to buy a ticket online and have it delivered to a phone in the form of a readable barcode....
Ask.com announced it will offer a GPS-enabled mobile search application, a move that puts the company in direct competition with the likes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.-and also further crowds the market for location-based services. IAC, parent company of Ask.com, is calling Ask...
British mobile gaming company Cometa Wireless Gaming Systems announced it received nearly $2 million in its first round of funding. Mfusion led the investment."We are delighted to be working with Mfusion. Their commercial experience and knowledge of the gaming and mobile phone industries will...
Jott Networks Inc., a firm that offers a free speech-to-text service, announced it closed its first funding round of $5.4 million. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, with Draper Richards, Ackerley Partners and Atomico Investments also participating."We see a lot of mobile startups that...
Few music companies have pursued mobile as aggressively as The Orchard Enterprises Inc. The New York-based company serves as a kind of digital music aggregator, distributing content from dozens of independent record labels and more than 14.000 artists from Bing Crosby to Bloc Party....
Cyren Call Communications Corp., unable to convince policymakers to divert half of the auction-bound 700 MHz spectrum for a national public safety/commercial wireless broadband system, is exploring various options that could still make it a player long after bidding ends. The strategy pivot could...
As wireless companies and banks seek to move into mobile banking and payments, many are eyeing the global remittance market as a potential source of new revenue. However, some may find that space a bit crowded by remittance giant Western Union Holdings Inc.The company...
The wireless gaming space continued to consolidate, as two major players in the space announced purchases.First up was THQ Inc., which announced it bought Finnish mobile game development studio Universomo Ltd.Universomo offers a game development environment and automated porting solution for all major mobile...
Nokia Corp. is teaming with live music company Live Nation to give mobile phone users access to concert tickets before they are available at the box office.The handset manufacturer said registered users will receive exclusive ticket offers via e-mail or text message, and can...
You'd think leaders of this habitually war-beaten country would have neither the time nor luxury to ingratiate themselves in the kind of palace intrigue over mobile-phone licensing. But sure enough, there's suddenly uncertainty over an Iraqi cellular licensing policy that supposedly was shored up...
Like a kid futilely looking for a sugar fix, mobile advertising companies are struggling to cope with an empty cookie jar.Online advertisers and publishers have long used cookies to make surfing the Web easier. Simple text files that are planted on consumers' hard drives,...
"Alleyways are good except you run into homeless people, and people think you're crazy because you're walking around with a phone," photographer Patrice Elmi said recently at an art gallery showcasing her work. So goes the photographer's newly inspired art form, which she calls...
OULU, Finland-This small city in the cold north, with its combination of cobblestone streets and sleek technology buildings, is integrating wireless service into everyday life as it seeks to compete globally in attracting and supporting high-tech companies. Oulu, home to a Nokia Corp....
There's no shortage of companies looking to cash in by placing billboards on the mobile information superhighway. But a few of them are also working to smooth the surface of the road itself.Quattro Wireless is the latest player in the wireless advertising game, coming...
Airvana Inc. announced it has acquired 3Way Networks, a provider of home base stations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Airvana said it hopes the acquisition will help expand its push into UMTS radio access networks and fixed-mobile convergence. Airvana said it is aiming...
ROK Entertainment Group Ltd. will go public through a reverse initial public offering.The U.K.-based mobile entertainment group agreed to be acquired by CyberFund Inc., a private investment fund manager. CyberFund, which is managed by Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Hammer Capital Management Inc., will give up...
Sonopia Inc. pocketed $12.7 million in a second round of funding led by Cardinal Venture Capital.The Silicon Valley startup serves as a kind of customizable mobile virtual network operator, providing back-end support for companies, schools, charities and other organizations looking to deploy their own...
Juice Wireless hauled in $2.3 million from Qualcomm Inc. and 21 Ventures as part of a second funding round, according to a Juice representative.The New York-based startup is hoping to tap the user-generated content market with JuiceCaster, a cross-platform offering that allows users to...
Key House lawmakers sent Attorney General Alberto Gonzales materials collected in a congressional probe of unauthorized access to wireless and other telecom subscribers' phone records, asking him to determine whether federal laws were violated by a "pre-texting" practice outlawed by Congress last year. "We...
The Illinois House passed a cellphone lemon law, a measure that would allow consumers with defective handsets to break wireless service contracts without penalty. The House bill, approved by a 72-to-43 margin Thursday, now heads to the Senate for consideration."When someone buys a cellphone...
Mobile marketing startup Limbo 41414 pocketed $8 million in a financing round led by Azure Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and New Enterprise Associates.The Burlingame, Calif.-based firm said it will use the cash to expand on its mobile and online entertainment services for both...
The Federal Communications Commission, facing congressionally-mandated deadlines and time pressures to complete 700 MHz rules to give wireless license bidders sufficient time to prepare for the upcoming spectrum auction, suddenly finds itself bogged down trying to balance competition, public safety, broadband and other public...
