Internet technology company Conk! launched a network of local online communities designed specifically for mobile-phone users, the company announced Wednesday. The Conk! Network launched in 22 major U.S. markets, featuring 60 categories of updated news, local weather, classified ad listings and community discussion boards....
NEW ORLEANS-M-Qube and Major League Baseball Advanced Media, the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, launched mobile Web storefronts for all 30 MLB teams to bring fans club content for their wireless phones. The announcement was made at the CTIA show.M-Qube...
Following a rather uneventful holiday season in which wireless operators favored handset subsidies over aggressive rate-plan changes, the new year has seen numerous adjustments. Industry observers note that the changes could reflect operational trends within the operators as well as showing that despite fewer...
LAS VEGAS-The slow rollout of high-speed wireless data networks continues as CDMA-based carrier Verizon Wireless last week said it will expand its BroadbandAccess network to 12 additional markets on top of the 20 metropolitan areas already launched. Rival Sprint PCS reported that it plans...
WASHINGTON-Online wireless service and device retailer InPhonic Inc. reported a two-year agreement to provide subscriber management systems in support of AT&T Corp.'s launch of wireless voice and data services to enterprise customers. AT&T's wireless service, which is expected to launch later this year and...
When it comes to mobile music, few people have the perspective of Thomas Dolby Robertson. The singer/songwriter-turned-software developer used last week's MobileMusiCon to launch his latest offering, a Web-based software application for ringtone creators and wireless carriers. RetroFolio 1.0 allows music producers, copyright owners...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. launched Motorola Inc.'s V710 handset, which includes a 1.2-megapixel camera and flash, video recorder, MP3 player and Bluetooth wireless technology. The handset also supports Alltel's Axcess Picture Messaging application and BREW-based Axcess Mobile Web 2.0 service.The handset, which was initially...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and mobile developer Opera Software will team to offer a BREW-based shopping Web browser for handsets.The product will offer wireless users content and applications based on their preferences. For instance, a consumer searching for a basketball score via his device could...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions appointed Michael E. Luna chief technology officer where he will lead all engineering, architecture and product development initiatives for the company.Luna most recently was with Openwave. Luna also has served as chairman of the WAP Forum Interoperability Executive Committee, a...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless and Yahoo! have teamed up to offer a solution suite featuring e-mail, mapping, news and weather-information applications to Verizon subscribers through the Verizon Wireless Mobile Web 2.0 service."Verizon Wireless' new offering of Yahoo!'s leading services deliver innovative features and cutting-edge technology...
LONDON-iAnywhere Solutions Inc. said it is working with Sony Ericsson to provide AvantGo mobile content to users of the new Symbian-based P910 smart phone.Sony Ericsson smart-phone users now can synchronize hundreds of mobile Web sites containing news, weather, sports and entertainment using either their...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless users can browse restaurant recommendations, read reviews and get driving directions with a new service launched Tuesday.Verizon teamed with software developer Vindigo Studios, location-based services provider MapQuest and travel and lifestyle Web site Gayot.com to offer the application, which is available...
Wireless carriers and content providers around the world are salivating over potential revenues from adult content, which is expected to generate $1 billion annually within the next few years, according to a study by the Yankee Group. But already, governments, concerned citizens and wireless...
European content provider Acotel is going to Athens to target American consumers. The 12-year-old Italian company is taking the Olympic Games wireless, delivering updates and images to U.S. handsets via a combination of multimedia messaging service, short message service and pay-per-download offerings. Services will...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless has partnered with Leapstone Systems to deploy high-speed data services and improve customer service response times.The nation's largest carrier announced that it has begun using Leapstone's Communications Convergence Engine "contentmanager" platform, which will enhance consumers' abilities to download data services, including...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. announced EDGE contracts, underlining the increasing traction of the technology in the Middle East and around the world.Motorola said it signed its first commercial EDGE contract in the Middle East with Mobile Telecommunications Co. in Kuwait.The network will allow...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. announced EDGE contracts, underlining the increasing traction of the technology in the Middle East and around the world.Motorola said it signed its first commercial EDGE contract in the Middle East with Mobile Telecommunications Co. in Kuwait.The network will allow...
Verizon Wireless launched its Mobile Web 2.0 service, which the carrier said would provide customers easier access to news, tools and information content and the ability to read and send e-mail messages from their wireless handsets.The service, which builds on the carrier's original Mobile...
Microsoft Corp. continues to play in the wireless arena in fits and starts, as the company quietly released a trial version of its Pocket MSN application after a delay of about six months.Microsoft announced early last year it plans to release its Pocket MSN...
NEW YORK-Internet company Maxplanet Corp. announced it will acquire wireless Internet design firm Wireless Ink L.L.C. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."This acquisition will provide new life to Maxplanet and enable shareholders to be part of the wireless portal boom the same way...
SAN FRANCISCO-The Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on an open federated identity standard, said it formed new relationships with six global alliances including the Network Applications Consortium, Open Mobile Alliance, Open Security Exchange, PayCircle, SIMalliance and WLAN Smart Card Consortium.PayCircle is working with Liberty...
SAN FRANCISCO-The Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on an open federated identity standard, said it formed new relationships with six global alliances including the Network Applications Consortium, Open Mobile Alliance, Open Security Exchange, PayCircle, SIMalliance and WLAN Smart Card Consortium.PayCircle is working with Liberty...
REDMOND, Wash.-Former Microsoft Corp. pointman Juha Christensen again popped into the limelight, this time as an appointment to the board of directors for wireless technology company Action Engine Corp."We are delighted to have someone of Juha's caliber step into this role at Action Engine,"...
LOS ANGELES-Following on promises to release additional information on their plan, Microsoft Corp. and Vodafone Group plc offered further insight into their Web services plan. Specifically, the companies released their Web services white paper at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference."To jump-start standardized mobile Web...
