Auto shopping and information site Vehix.com is expanding its Web content to cable TV and mobile phones-and to underscore its multimedia capability, is dropping "dot-com" from its name.The new Vehix, which is partly owned by cable giant Comcast, intends to sell advertisers on integrated...
Yahoo Inc. has tapped Chicago's Novarra Inc. to provide transcoding technology for its oneSearch offering.Novarra, which powers mobile Internet services for a handful of wireless services providers-including bankrupt mobile virtual network operator Amp'd Mobile Inc.-will provide technology that customizes Web pages for mobile phones....
Mobile television and video subscription revenues grew 198% year-over-year to $146 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to data from Telephia Inc. Approximately 8.4 million wireless customers now subscribe to some form of mobile video, representing nearly 4% of all U.S. mobile...
Several Hollywood studios have tapped AdMob Inc. to lure customers to big-screen blockbusters this summer.The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup announced deals with Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. to deliver banner and text ads on mobile Web pages. Users can click the ads...
Mobile television and video subscription revenues grew 198% year-over-year to $146 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to the latest data from Telephia Inc. Approximately 8.4 million wireless customers now subscribe to some form of mobile video, representing nearly 4% of all...
Google Inc.'s search supremacy online continues to be handsomely carried over to mobile, according to the latest rankings of mobile Web companies from research and analysis firm M:Metrics.Google was visited by 62.5% of smartphone users in the United States in April, and by nearly...
Mobile payment startup Obopay Inc. announced a distribution deal that secures space on the deck of Verizon Wireless, the nation's No. 2 carrier.The Redwood City, Calif.-based payment company unveiled a BREW-enabled version of its flagship application that allows users to send and receive money...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our new Tuesday feature, Mobile Content and Culture. This weekly e-mail service will cover the most important mobile content news of the week, and will also include contributed columns by big names in the industry, application and service reviews by...
Microsoft Corp. overhauled its MSN Mobile portal, adding services and simplifying the user interface.The software giant said the new site, mobile.msn.com, incorporates MSN services such as Hotmail, Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces and Live Search. The portal features one-click access to e-mail and other...
InfoSpace Inc. scored another carrier customer for its wireless Web service even as it continued to beat a retreat from the content space.The Seattle-area company expanded its relationship with Verizon Wireless, agreeing to provide hosting, infrastructure and subscription management services for the operator's Mobile...
InfoSpace Inc. scored another carrier customer for its wireless Web service even as it continued to beat a retreat from the content space.The Seattle-area company expanded its relationship with Verizon Wireless, agreeing to provide hosting, infrastructure and subscription management services for the operator's Mobile...
I've seen the future and it is advertising on cellphones.A bit dramatic, perhaps? Yes, but during a panel discussion with a group of college students from Northwest University at last week's Mobile Marketing Forum in New York City, these young cellphone aficionados gave the...
The Internet is rapidly evolving from a desktop experience into a multi-platform phenomenon available on the go and around the world. Carriers, publishers and marketing firms are just hoping advertising doesn't get lost in translation. The wireless Web remains a nightmarish territory, fraught with...
As companies seek to extend their brands into the mobile space and take advantage of its one-on-one, personal connections, they face the challenges of a medium that can look like television or the Internet but is not quite the same as either. Companies are...
Google.com topped the list of the most popular mobile Web sites in the both United States and the United Kingdom for the second month in a row, according to M:Metrics. Search, news and social networking sites dominated the list during March. In the...
There's no shortage of companies looking to cash in by placing billboards on the mobile information superhighway. But a few of them are also working to smooth the surface of the road itself.Quattro Wireless is the latest player in the wireless advertising game, coming...
Two former executives from m-Qube are joining the crowded mobile advertising field with startup Quattro Wireless.The new company, which was founded late last year but came out of stealth mode this week, hopes to help publishers create mobile Web sites that offer compelling content...
Mbile software developers are coping with the headaches of the small screen by-strangely enough-cramming it with as much information as possible.Instead of forcing users to scroll through seemingly endless lists and drill through more layers than an archeologist could manage, developers are packing the...
Nokia Corp. has joined the mobile widget bandwagon.The handset maker said it initially will use the icon-based applications on its S60 platform, providing one-click access to mobile Web sites via icons on the phone's screen instead of requiring users to launch a browser and...
Crisp Wireless and Internet Broadcasting have formed a partnership to launch 29 different mobile Web sites delivering breaking news, weather conditions, forecasts, live radar, sports scores and other content from local TV stations."One of the largest categories of mobile Web consumption is local news...
Japanese wireless carrier KDDI Inc.'s American operation has moved closer to launching a mobile virtual network operator in the United States, targeting Japanese speakers in America.The carrier opened up a Web site over the weekend showing some teaser information about the service that appears...
ORLANDO, Fla.-If smartphones aren't the proverbial "overnight success" that results from years of toil, they've acquired added cachet in the industry because the players are focused on growth. Operators seek to sell more data, handset vendors seek healthier margins, operating-system providers seek market share....
ORLANDO, Fla.-What would a CTIA Wireless event be without lots of carrier news. Sure, the big operators typically garner the limelight, but smaller players were also in the house and making news of their own.Virgin Mobile USAVirgin Mobile USA L.L.C. said it plans to...
Editor's Note: Lowell McAdam took over as president and CEO of Verizon Wireless in December, as Denny Strigl moved on to head Verizon Communications Inc.
