Signal ReachNational Cellular and Signal Reach introduced a new antenna coupler the companies said can attach to any mobile phone and improve the phone's signal reception. The coupler attaches to the phone with Velcro and then can be plugged into an external antenna or...
LUXEMBOURG-Internet telephony provider Skype expanded its premium offerings, launching voicemail and phone access services Friday for users in eight countries including the United States.The Voice over Internet Protocol company unveiled SkypeIn, which allows users traveling worldwide to receive inbound calls to their Skype client...
MUNICH-Siemens announced a partnership with printer company Canon to allow Siemens camera-phone users to print their images to Canon printers. The partnership falls under the Mobile Imaging Printing Consortium, a group of handset and printer manufacturers developing guidelines for interoperability between mobile phones and...
LONDON-Technology company ROK Player and music portal Ministry of Sound announced plans to release a multimedia memory card (MMC) for handsets that can hold 20 songs with corresponding music videos.The offering, which comes to market next week, will be pre-loaded with content from artists...
LONDON-Mobile software developer Amplefuture unveiled a new offering that allows music providers to market and deliver tunes directly to wireless users.Amplefuture said it will market Pocket Player to companies looking to launch their own branded digital music download services to handsets and PCs. The...
The number of households that use mobile phones is increasing, but levels of customer satisfaction are on the decline, according to new research from Forrester Research Inc.Two-thirds of U.S. households have at least one mobile phone, according to the survey, which polled 5,600 households....
WASHINGTON-Challenges to a Federal Communications Commission decision extending truth-in-billing to mobile phone carriers-without banning line-item regulatory recovery fees-are now pending in two federal appeals courts. The Vermont Public Service Board is contesting the FCC's truth-in-billing order-which also pre-empted state regulation of line-item fees-in the...
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J.-The idea of using mobile phones for payment at physical points of sale is receiving increased interest, according to a new report from the Smart Card Alliance. The report, "Mobile Payments at the Physical Point-of-Sale: Assessing U.S. Market Drivers and Industry Direction,"...
ANDOVER, Mass.-Mobile music provider Groove Mobile announced plans to deliver a personalized music service to 14- to 24-year-old wireless users. The offering, which will launch in Europe this summer, will target young music fans and offer music choices based on user preferences, tastes and...
NEW YORK-Mobile application publisher Vindigo strolled onto the gaming playground Tuesday, announcing its intention to release a "broad selection" of adventure and casual games this year.Infinite Ventures' "Shadowgate," a fantasy graphic adventure game based on the noted franchise, is the first title slated for...
A federal appeals court reinstated Nazomi Communications Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit against processor company ARM Holdings plc. Nazomi claims ARM's Jazelle microprocessor for mobile phones infringes on one of its patents."Nazomi is confident, given the extensive guidance in today's Federal Circuit opinion, that the...
BOSTON-MobileLime, which provides mobile shopping solutions, said it has integrated its POSitouch product at Big City, a bar and restaurant in Boston. The POSitouch product allows retailers, restaurants and other establishments to deliver loyalty and marketing programs to customers' mobile phones and reinforce their...
TURKEYTurkish carrier AVEA Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S. selected Nokia to supply a commercial Push to Talk over Cellular solution. The deal also includes Nokia's Presence solution. The vendor will provide installation, commissioning and project management services, in addition to consulting work to integrate PoC to...
LONDON-As election campaigns kick off for the May 5 election in the United Kingdom, the Liberal Democrats are making the most of mobile technology to reach out to younger, technology-savvy voters. Voters in the Greater Reading area, which has a high concentration of high-tech...
BANGALORE, India-Motorola Inc. announced it will open a research and development facility in India, a move that ups the company's investment in the country."Motorola Labs' India research center joins the Labs' global team in creating the technology, applications and the unifying architecture to realize...
ARLINGTON, Texas-National Cellular and SignalReach introduced a new antenna coupler the companies said can attach to any mobile phone and improve the phone's signal reception. The coupler attaches to the phone with Velcro and then can be plugged into an external antenna or cellular...
DUEBENDORF-ZURICH, Switzerland-Java virtual machine vendor Esmertec announced it scored a majority stake in eValley Inc., which sells Java technology for mobile phones in Japan. Esmertec teamed with Tokyo-based eValley in 2002 and took a minority stake in the company in 2003."The equity investment in...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry asked the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments in class-action headset lawsuits sent back to various state courts by a divided three-judge panel last month.Wireless carriers and manufacturers said the Richmond, Va.-based federal appeals court's 2-1 decision...
NEW YORK-Nearly half of the nation's 10- to 18-year-olds own mobile phones and a vast majority are interested in handsets that double as music players or cameras, according to a study from NOP World Technology. According to the survey-the fifth in a series of...
Around the world, people are quietly using high-tech to stay in touch with a higher power. While cutting-edge applications like mobile TV make headlines, simpler, religious-based offerings are gaining ground. Jewish users are sending text messages with prayers or requests to Israeli rabbis who...
NEW YORK-The number of wireless Internet users last year grew 29 percent, according to a study from market research firm Ipsos."The Face of the Web" study is based on interviews in 12 global markets with more than 6,500 adult respondents. According to the report,...
WESLEY HILLS, N.Y.-The creators of Answers.com announced the launch of a test version of its Internet search engine for wireless devices. GuruNet Corp., which owns Answers.com, announced Tuesday that users of Web-based devices such as the Treo, BlackBerry and Windows CE-supported handhelds can access...
Video-game behemoth Electronic Arts signaled its long-awaited-and perhaps long-feared-entry onto the mobile gaming playground earlier this month at GDC Mobile in San Francisco, unveiling plans to release as many as 20 titles for mobile phones this year. The world's biggest third-party game publisher began...
WASHINGTON-A nasty legal fight has broken out over control of the U.S.-based roaming group that assigns codes enabling foreign travelers to use their mobile phones in the United States. The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions has sued Edward Hall and others in Maryland federal...
