LONDON-U.K. wireless subscribers with camera phones can submit a picture of their hands for a palm reading, a British psychic television channel said Thursday.Your Destiny TV is behind the service, which reads photos of users' palms and delivers text messages with the reading. The...
NEW ORLEANS-Verizon Wireless said it will offer its V-Cast subscribers 26 original mobisodes of the hit TV show "The Simple Life: Interns" starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. The mobisodes will feature never-before-seen footage developed especially for V-Cast. Subscribers will pay $1 to download...
NEW ORLEANS-Verizon Wireless said Monday it will offer its V-Cast subscribers 26 original mobisodes of the hit TV show "The Simple Life: Interns" starring Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.The mobisodes will feature never-before-seen footage developed especially for V-Cast. Subscribers will pay $1 to download...
The nation's newest reality show is set to debut on a mobile phone near you.Sprint PCS announced it will offer a streaming-video application from Cyber Oasys Corp. and V-Star that will follow the antics of five "twenty-somethings" living together in a Santa Monica, Calif.,...
The nation's newest reality show is set to debut on a mobile phone near you.Sprint announced it will offer a streaming video application from Cyber Oasys Corp. and V-Star that will follow the antics of five "twenty-somethings" living together in a Santa Monica, Calif.,...
WASHINGTON-Telecom and high-tech sectors, beaten down and eager for an economic revival, last week found themselves forced to pick and choose among competing tax-cut packages in Congress after the GOP-led House and Senate abandoned the White House plan. Just like that, with votes to...
WASHINGTON-Two U.S. Supreme Court justices seem to hold the fate of bankrupt NextWave Telecom in the palms of their hands.If NextWave is to prevail, Justice Antonin Scalia needs to convince his colleagues that the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) use of the word "automatic" runs...
WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the issue, Senate Armed Services Committee member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quietly directed the General Accounting...
NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect.Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications services. Beyond that deployment, smart-card...
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
As industry spends billions of dollars on spectrum and banks on a future driven by third-generation wireless phones and mobile commerce, there is every reason to believe the serious business of tomorrow is actually child's play.While wireless executives with sweaty palms write checks to...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sprint Spectrum L.P. formed affiliation agreements that will bring Sprint PCS personal communications services to key cities in Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia.Each of the new affiliates will operate and market their Code Division Multiple...
