Motorola Inc. is the lucky winner of a handset deal with Google Inc. as the Internet giant turns its considerable focus toward wireless. Motorola said it has designed a handset with a Google button that connects users to Google's wireless Internet services. The company...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. is the lucky winner of a handset deal with Google Inc. as the Internet giant turns its considerable focus toward wireless. Motorola said it has designed a handset with a Google button that connects users to Google's wireless Internet services. The...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mobile search technology provider JumpTap Inc. snared $21 million in its latest round of financing.New investor Redpoint Ventures joined existing backers General Catalyst Partners and BCE Capital. JumpTap said it will use the cash to fuel product development, increase staff and expand its...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Nokia Corp. has added a mobile search service by 4INFO Inc. to its U.S.-based Mobile Search Application. Starting tomorrow,Nokia handset users can download the application and use it to query local U.S. directory listings, real-time sports scores, player statistics, detailed movie show...
DULLES, Va.-America Online Inc. launched a suite of services allowing users to shop, search the Web and access local listings from their wireless handsets. The Internet giant unveiled a mobile Web site that delivers content and search results for browser-enabled mobile phones. Users can...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-UpSnap Inc. generated a significant round of funding by going public earlier this week, the company said Thursday. According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, UpSnap issued nearly 12 million shares of common stock for the initial public offering. At...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Mobile search service provider 4INFO launched a service that automatically delivers personalized information including sports scores and stock quotes. With the new offering, registered users can create a profile on the company's Web site to receive automated information on their handsets at...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Mobile search service provider 4INFO launched a service that automatically delivers personalized information including sports scores and stock quotes.With the new offering, registered users can create a profile on the company's Web site to receive automated information on their handsets at regulated...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has established a Mobile Search Working Group that will establish guidelines for a search marketing ecosystem. The group's goal is to develop common business models, operating procedures and technology interfaces that allow operators to offer an integrated,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Mobile Marketing Association said it has established a Mobile Search Working Group that will establish guidelines for a search marketing ecosystem.MMA said the group's goal is to develop common business models, operating procedures and technology interfaces that allow operators to offer an...
NEW YORK-Demand for paid wireless information services remains low, according to new research from JupiterResearch.The company said only one-fifth of consumers are willing to pay for 411 information, and only 7 percent are willing to pay for local search on their cell phones. For...
The mobile-search playground gets even more crowded this week, as an established behemoth expands its offerings and an infant startup tries to get onto the field. InfoSpace Inc. this week should unveil a service that delivers business listings and maps, movie showtimes and other...
Google Inc. looks ready to stroll onto the Wi-Fi playground. Several pages on the Internet search company's site indicate Google is set to launch its own wireless Internet service via Google Secure Access, a downloadable client application in beta-test status. The free software allows...
America Online Inc. is stepping up its move into the wireless industry with the acquisition of privately held software developer Wildseed Ltd., the Internet giant announced last week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Wildseed pursued the highly coveted youth market with intelligent faceplates...
America Online Inc. is testing a suite of mobile search services that would allow users with Web-enabled phones to search the Internet for information, including local business listings, and to compare prices of goods from online retailers. Israeli technology provider InfoGin Ltd. is powering...
America Online Inc. is testing a suite of mobile search services, the Internet giant said Wednesday. The new offerings allow users with Web-enabled phones to search the Internet for information including local business listings and to compare prices of goods from online retailers. Israeli...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Yahoo! added to its mobile search offerings Thursday, launching a short message service-based service and extending services for its mobile Web search service.Like other SMS search offerings, Yahoo! delivers business names, addresses and phone numbers to users who send queries with location information...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. has launched a new search service that delivers results only from Web pages that are customized for the small screens of mobile phones.Google Mobile Web Search indexes sites that use XHTML technology, a hybrid of HTML and XML that is...
ESPOO, Finland-Yahoo! will provide Internet-based services and content to Series 60 devices from Nokia Corp., the companies announced Tuesday. Yahoo! will have a link to its mobile Web site installed on Nokia devices.The portal will provide e-mail, mobile search services and entertainment content including...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. added two new features to its mobile search service, allowing users to access information from its Google Local Web site through their cell phones.With the expanded service, wireless subscribers with XHTML-enabled handsets can find local business listings and access driving...
Internet search engine Ask Jeeves said it will bring its service to wireless devices later this year, joining an already crowded playing field of mobile-search providers. But whether wireless subscribers will use their phones to access search engines-or how they might do it-is anybody's...
Yahoo! added a feature to its mobile search service that allows users to send business listings from desktop computers to mobile phones.The new offering enables users to send text messages from Yahoo!'s Internet search engine to handsets via a PC. It expands on the...
Internet search provider Ask Jeeves plans to launch a search service for wireless devices later this year, the company confirmed Tuesday. A spokeswoman declined to give specifics of the planned service, but confirmed that Ask Jeeves will join fellow Internet search providers in the...
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.-Interchange Corp. launched a localized text-messaging search service that allows wireless users to find products, services and businesses from their handsets. The provider of local and national paid-search services unveiled SMS Local, which accesses listings by product, service, business name and location...
