LOS ANGELES-Music rights giant BMI said Wednesday it has licensed its portfolio to mobZilla for use with the mobile media company's streaming music service.The partnership brings roughly 4.5 million BMI works to mobZilla, which announced the U.S. launch of its monthly subscription in conjunction...
Numbers show that the worldwide mobile-phone market increased to 674 million units in 2004, a 30-percent increase from sales in 2003. The research comes from Gartner Inc. and mirrors similar findings from the likes of Strategy Analytics and IDC."The market exceeded even the most...
WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration today said cell-phone use by drivers is on the rise. In 2004, according to a new NHTSA survey, approximately 8 percent of all motorists in the United States-or about 1.2 million drivers-used cellular phones (both handheld and hands-free)...
KYOTO, Japan-Omron Corp. introduced a face-recognition technology it said can be implemented in personal digital assistants, mobile phones and other mobile devices with camera functions. The OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor is able to recognize and verify the authenticity of device users through face...
MIDDLETOWN, R.I.-TowerStream said it has completed a one-month trial using mobile Voice over Internet Protocol over a Wi-Fi network in Middletown.The mobile broadband provider said it allowed VoIP phone calls to pass seamlessly between Wi-Fi access points without dropping the call. Users in New...
DENVER-The National Basketball Association wants to be on the forefront of technology, be it the Internet, High-Definition TV or satellite radio. And to be on the cutting edge, the NBA also recognizes it needs a wireless presence. "It's important ... that the NBA be...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. said Alltel will use its wireless data connectivity solution to support its high-speed data customers.Smith Micro will customize its QuickLink Mobile and QuickLink Mobile Phonebook software for Alltel's data connectivity kits to support all CDMA2000 1xRTT handsets that...
ST. LOUIS-U.S. wireless operators will slowly migrate from CDMA networks to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology as they move from third generation to fourth generation, according to a report from the Rysavy Research and Datacomm Research Co. The study predicts that wireless local area...
Motorola Inc. leapt into the high-volume, low-cost mobile phone business-a space dominated by the likes of Nokia Corp. and Siemens-with plans to sell millions of new phones in emerging wireless markets like India, Turkey, Pakistan, Thailand and elsewhere. The company said it will sell...
Nokia Corp.'s longtime stranglehold on the U.S. mobile-phone market appears to be broken-at least for now-by a major surge in sales from Motorola Inc. "Motorola products are really just more appealing right now," said Mark Bremer, an analyst with research and consulting firm Stax...
The news that Microsoft Corp. will join Nokia Corp. to deliver a mobile-music platform may have been among the more startling developments at last week's 3GSM World Congress, but it was only the first of a half-dozen mobile music announcements both out of France...
As evidenced by the vast popularity of gadgets like Apple's iPod, the demand for portable digital music is as obvious as it is universal. But how-and how well-the wireless industry will ultimately tap the mobile-music market is far from clear. Music dominated the headlines...
SAN DIEGO-Publisher Random House said it has acquired a minority stake in a startup company called Vocel to offer educational content to mobile-phone subscribers for a monthly fee. To prop up the deal with Vocel, Random House said it has licensed two programs. The...
SAN DIEGO-Publisher Random House said it has acquired a minority stake in startup company called Vocel to offer educational content to mobile-phone subscribers for a monthly fee. To prop up the deal with Vocel, Random House said it has licensed two programs. The first...
AUSTIN, Texas-Samsung Electronics and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. demonstrated a prototype mobile phone that includes ultra-wideband technology."Working with a world leader such as Samsung on this exciting product concept showcases the tremendous possibilities for UWB in cellular products," said Franz Fink, senior vice president and...
TOKYO-MTV Japan and Yamaha said they made available Japan's first music recognition service, MTV Music Finder, to KDDI Corp. subscribers across Japan.In partnership with Shazam Entertainment, a U.K.-based audio recognition company, MTV Japan will work with its local licensee, SystemK Corp., to deliver Shazam's...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Yahoo! has quietly rolled out a service that allows users to send driving directions from computers to mobile phones.After accessing directions through the Yahoo! Maps portal, a wireless subscriber can click on a link and enter a mobile phone number to send a...
Device news continued at a flushed pace with Motorola Inc. releasing details on its iTunes phone, Hop-on announcing a $36 handset, Sanyo Corp. offering an innovative new messaging product, and U.S. mobile virtual network operator Boost Mobile going "old school" with a vintage telephone...
Although it once looked like local Chinese handset players would be able to defend their home turf and control the world's largest wireless handset market, now it appears that size and scale may win out in the end. New research shows Chinese handset makers...
CANNES, France-Mobile entertainment publisher Sorrent Inc. plans to announce an agreement to publish content based on noted urban fashion designer Marc Ecko. Sorrent will develop a suite of offerings based on Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, an Atari title for consoles. Atari...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp. announced it will include Macromedia's Flash technology in its Series 60 platform, which will then be available to device makers building Series 60 handsets. The move marks Flash's latest step into the wireless marketplace. "We are pleased that Macromedia Flash technology...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-The wireless industry continues to try to play Cupid this Valentine's Day with a slew of content and data offerings.Verizon Wireless announced the availability of dozens of love-song ringtones to cash in on the occasion, offering everything from Sonny & Cher's "I Got...
Nokia Corp. announced it will include Macromedia's Flash technology in its Series 60 platform, which will then be available to device makers building Series 60 handsets. The move marks Flash's latest step into the wireless marketplace."We are pleased that Macromedia Flash technology will be...
BOSTON-A new study of United Kingdom wireless users found only 41 percent of respondents say they are confident that new third-generation mobile phones and services will be easy to use. YouGov conducted the survey of 2,000 respondents. The survey also found that 71 percent...
