DALLAS-New research shows the worldwide market for wireless "infotainment" services will grow from $1.5 billion in 2005 to $7.2 billion in 2008, but such massive success will be contingent on efficient billing models, effective content and improved security and privacy measures.According to a new...
NEW YORK-The market for personal digital assistants should level off to only 20 million in the United States by 2008, with population penetration around 7 percent, according to a new report. "Basic PDAs with excellent PIM functionality will continue to make up the majority...
Former Microsoft Corp. executive Juha Christensen dumped his plans for a wireless startup and instead will helm the wireless and mobile devices business of Internet software company Macromedia.Christensen has long been at the forefront of the wireless industry, first as a co-founder of operating...
After almost four years of waiting, Jason Devitt believes the time is now.Packet-switched networks are online. Mobile phones feature color graphics. And-perhaps most importantly-carriers can bill for third-party applications."None of those things existed when we started the company," said Devitt, chief executive officer of...
Even as some are predicting the impending demise of WAP, others are betting their futures on it.One such player is Obigo, a longtime participant in wireless data that is hoping a new name and face will energize its sales.Obigo was founded as AU-System, and...
A savvy Amazon.com shopper can find Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P.'s color-screen T616 camera phone with service from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. for -$150. That's right: Buyers will actually receive $150 for purchasing the phone.Is Sony Ericsson giving away its phones in a desperate...
BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Deutschland became the first German operator to offer television on mobile phones through an agreement with n-tv news channel signed earlier this year. The news channel programs can be transmitted to mobile handsets via T-Mobile's GPRS network as live streams. Customers must...
Two of the world's top five handset makers said they will flood the wireless market with push-to-talk mobile phones, a move that could turn PTT into a worldwide wireless necessity-much like voicemail and text messaging-in just a few short years. Siemens last week announced...
LONDON-U.K. telecom agency Oftel sent its proposals for reducing the prices of mobile calls to the European Commission for comment. The proposals are in line with recommendations the agency made in May. The proposals include setting controls to force wireless carriers to reduce the...
BONN, Germany-T-Mobile Deutschland Friday became the first German operator to offer television on mobile phones through an agreement with n-tv news channel signed earlier this year. The news channel programs can be transmitted onto mobile handsets via T-Mobile's GPRS network as a live stream....
WASHINGTON-President George W. Bush Tuesday signed the CAN-SPAM Act, which includes a move toward prohibiting wireless spam.The bill includes language seeking to ban transmissions of unsolicited commercial e-mail to mobile phones without prior consent of subscribers. The amendment sponsored by Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.),...
There are plenty of contentious questions in the operating system business. Will Microsoft Corp. dominate the mobile-phone field as it has done in the desktop computer business? Will Symbian manage to escape Nokia Corp.'s shadow and entice broad support? Will PalmSource Inc. translate its...
Could we, dare we get optimistic? There are signs. The Dow topped 10,000. People are beginning to believe the economy is rebounding.Wireless carriers continue to dodge one bullet after another. While Washington, D.C., is taking up the distracted-driving cause, it doesn't have the teeth...
SEOUL, North Korea-Hewlett-Packard Co. said it has entered into a wireless Internet alliance with KT Corp., South Korea's biggest fixed-line and broadband firm.KT said the alliance will enable both companies to jointly develop handsets that converge broadband Internet and mobile telecommunications. The services will...
As the holiday season approaches, the industry's mobile-phone players are working to gear up for a quarter most predict will be gangbusters.First up is Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which announced it will sell its SGH-x426 through AT&T Wireless Services Inc. The phone features a...
DALLAS-Worldwide revenues from gambling on mobile phones could reach $16 billion by 2008, according to a new research report from Alexander Resources.The research firm expects 2.5- and third-generation wireless technologies and phones to promote the growth of mobile gambling, noting they will allow for...
He is permanently disabled, his medical practice long gone. He is now divorced, but can spend time with his kids. He was crushed in court. He has a few bucks left. He is dying.So what. The $80-billion mobile-phone industry wants its money. Specifically, the...
The Mobile Marketing Association trade group announced its new code of conduct for wireless advertising campaigns, a move that comes shortly after the launch of universal short codes and on the heels of a bill in Washington designed to outlaw unwanted wireless spam."One of...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Although the automotive Bluetooth market has largely stalled due to a lack of Bluetooth-capable handsets, new research shows the market is poised for significant growth.Research firm Allied Business Intelligence predicted that close to one-third of all new mobile phones will include Bluetooth...
The Mobile Marketing Association trade group announced its new code of conduct for wireless advertising campaigns, a move that comes shortly after the launch of universal short codes and on the heels of a bill in Washington designed to outlaw unwanted wireless spam."One of...
Jon Tetzchner wants to kill WAP. And he's not alone."It makes no sense to have two systems," said Tetzchner, chief executive officer of Internet browsing company Opera Software ASA.Tetzchner is hoping to kill WAP by making it obsolete. He's got company-Nokia Corp., Sony Ericsson...
It may not be the toys for the little tykes marked "some assembly required" that are the cause of beneath-the-Christmas-tree consternation this year. Many of the 31 percent of Americans who are "highly tech savvy," according to a recent survey from the Pew Internet...
Although there are numerous complexities in selling music over wireless, mobile-phone maker Siemens announced a new offering designed to give the world's carriers a quick and simple way to jump into the market. European carrier MmO2 took the first plunge with its O2 Music...
