NTT DoCoMo Inc. has purchased remaining interest in PacketVideo Corp. to gain full control of the mobile software development company from NextWave Wireless Inc. (WAVE). The Japanese company acquired a 35% stake in PacketVideo for $45.5 million barely a year ago to jointly develop...
A handful of forces appear to be shaping a year to come that is likely to include numerous device launches featuring the fledgling Android operating system. Whether that will spell success for the license-free, Linux-based, open source OS is far from assured, though at...
SAN DIEGO—PacketVideo Corp. hopes to increase its European presence with the acquisition of Berlin-based software developer TwonkyVision GmbH. Terms of the deal were not announced.PacketVideo produces multimedia software for mobile phones and counts the world’s 10 largest manufacturers among its customers. Key to the...
TOKYO-PacketVideo Corp. said it will work with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to bring mobile music to the Japanese market using Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile Media technology. The companies are introducing Windows Media capabilities-including Microsoft's digital rights management offering-into NTT DoCoMo handsets through Universal pvPlayer, PacketVideo's...
LAS VEGAS-The much-hyped "year of mobile music" started off with a bang here at last week's 2006 International Consumer Electronics Show. But whether wireless consumers will sign on-and where mobile operators will fit in the value chain-is still very much in question. Verizon Wireless...
Mobile-phone news continues its frantic march, with Siemens announcing major new support for global push-to-talk services.Siemens Mobile said it will make its entire product range-from infrastructure to handsets-capable of push-to-talk services. Indeed, the company said more than 10 mobile operators in the United States,...
Sprint PCS' Video Mail launch is just the latest in a series of wireless video moves in the United States, a market that is still very much in its early stages but one that is evolving quietly and rapidly."I think it will be more...
European carrier Orange announced it will offer wireless streaming video services starting early next year through a new deal with PacketVideo Network Solutions, which was purchased by Alcatel only a few weeks ago.Orange said it will install PacketVideo's pvServer and pvAuthor products in its...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming-video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."Video...
Wireless infrastructure company Alcatel announced it purchased the network division of streaming video company PacketVideo Corp., a move Alcatel said will bolster its video offerings to include video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing, video streaming and video downloading. Terms of the deal were not...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced it will use a streaming video player from RealNetworks Inc. in upcoming mobile phones, including new phones using its Linux/Java operating system.The move is notable on several levels. First, it marks Motorola's plans to support streaming video, a technology that...
SAN DIEGO-Streaming video company PacketVideo Corp. said it will sell a new product directly to consumers that will allow them to translate various video file types into a format that can be played on mobile phones.The company's new Recorder product is available on the...
CANNES, France-Wireless streaming video company PacketVideo Corp. announced it teamed with Austrian technology company Kapsch CarrierCom AG to create a wireless multimedia service for Mobilkom Austria's newly launched UMTS network.The service is based on PacketVideo's pv3 Mobilmedia System, and allows users to view pre-recorded...
SAN DIEGO—Wireless streaming media company PacketVideo Corp. said it will cut an unspecified number of jobs in order to realign itself with the sluggish economy.Fernando Corona, the company's senior vice president of marketing, said PacketVideo had 225 employees before the layoffs, but he wouldn't...
TEL AVIV, Israel—Wireless streaming media company Emblaze Systems Ltd. released its financial results for last year, showing net losses of $29 million and no relief in sight for at least the next year."2001 will be remembered as a year of significant global economic downturn...
LONDON—Ananova, the virtual personal news assistant owned by Orange plc, and PacketVideo announced a partnership to deliver Ananova's real-time news service to personal digital assistant users. Ananova is trialing PacketVideo's wireless multimedia software for a potential launch of its service on PDAs, the companies...
LONDON—Mobile-phone manufacturer Sendo selected PacketVideo Corp.'s mobile multimedia player software as an application for its Z100 GPRS Smartphone, enabling users to access media applications including video messaging, interactive games, and news and sports highlights.The tri-band Sendo phone operates on GSM 900, 1800 and 1900...
LONDON—U.K. mobile-phone maker Sendo today announced it will use PacketVideo Corp.'s mobile multimedia player software as the streaming video application base for the company's new Z100 GPRS smart phone.The Z100 is Sendo's first data phone and is based on Microsoft Corp.'s smart phone operating...
SAN DIEGO-Now that wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp. has set up deals with many of the world's major chipset makers, mobile-phone manufacturers and carriers-and is a technology standard for the Third Generation Partnership Project-the company is turning its eyes toward a new link in...
LAS VEGAS-Symbian, a provider of software platforms for next-generation mobile phones, made several announcements at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 show last week in Las Vegas and at CeBIT in Germany. Symbian unveiled its 2.5G platform, Symbian platform v6.1, a fully...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. signed a multimillion dollar deal with PacketVideo Corp. to deliver full-motion video and audio content to mobile devices.The content will include news, sports highlights, movie trailers and video e-mail for Java-enabled wireless devices like wireless phones, smart phones, handheld devices, wireless...
LAS VEGAS-The computer industry is ready to stake its claim in the wireless market, evidenced by a range of announcements at this year's Fall Comdex show.Various PDA manufacturers and service providers made significant announcements at Comdex. And while wireless was but a footnote for...
CHICAGO-Video content may be the new show to watch on the wireless Internet.Content is the name of the game in the wireless Internet evolution going forward. And while it is by no means a new concept, companies are paying more attention to the wireless...
SAN DIEGO-Zucotto Wireless Inc. and PacketVideo Corp. announced they will work together to port PacketVideo's wireless streaming video technology to Zucotto's Xpresso Java microprocessor, together allowing enhanced delivery of video content over wireless networks.During the initial phase of integration, the companies will port PacketVideo's...
