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MILAN, Italy-Content aggregator Buongiorno Vitaminic SpA will spend as much as $42 million to acquire Freever, a European mobile community builder, the companies announced Wednesday. Buongiorno said it has committed …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Internet Protocol messaging solutions company Mobeon released a third-generation video-messaging interface that includes three-dimensional animated avatars. The avatars, called mobile buddies, replace traditional voice and text-based instructions with an …

PLAINFIELD, Ind.-Brightpoint Inc. entered the mobile content space via an agreement with InProdicon AB, which distributes digital content in the Nordic region. The agreement between Brightpoint Sweden AB and InProdicon …

LONDON-Mobile-entertainment company Player X and Vodafone Group plc announced plans to release a cell-phone companion called Space Boy in August. The character “lives” inside customers’ mobile phones. Space Boy is …

Carriers and content providers increasingly are targeting younger users in a scramble to push revenue-generating content and applications into one of the few remaining growth market segments. But marketing to …

Verizon Wireless said it added an industry-record 1.9 million subscribers during the second quarter, which was a 25-percent improvement compared with the 1.5 million customers the carrier added during the …

LONDON-Mobile entertainment company Player X and Vodafone Group plc announced plans to release a cell-phone companion called Space Boy in August. The character “lives” inside customers’ mobile phones. Space Boy …

WASHINGTON-A California-based consumer group last week filed formal complaints with state regulators against Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and Sprint PCS, accusing the No. 1 and No. 3 mobile-phone operators of charging …

Moviegoers with Bluetooth-enabled handsets can download movie trailers, ringtones and wallpapers at three Loews Theatres this summer. Twentieth Century Fox is providing kiosks at theaters in Los Angeles, New York …

WASHINGTON-A California-based consumer group said it filed complaints with state regulators today against Sprint PCS and Cingular Wireless L.L.C., accusing the mobile-phone operators of charging subscribers for unwanted text messages …

LOS ANGELES-Moviegoers with Bluetooth-enabled handsets can download movie trailers, ringtones and wallpapers at three Loews Theatres this summer. Twentieth Century Fox is providing kiosks at theaters in Los Angeles, New …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. will target young Cricket Clicks subscribers with urban-themed content from BlingTones, the operator announced Tuesday. Cricket users can access ringtones and images from Lil’ Jon …

ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless subscribers can buy a ringtone version of a single by country star Gretchen Wilson before the tune makes its radio debut, the carrier said Friday. Cingular released a …

DENVER-Brickhouse Mobile will team with Falcon Studios to develop and distribute gay adult content, the companies announced yesterday. Falcon, which has made gay adult films for more than 30 years, …

RICHMOND, Va.-Mobile Streams announced it has partnered with Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. to provide mobile content, including ringtones and backgrounds, to Dobson Cellular’s 1.5 million subscribers in 65 rural and …

NEW YORK-BlingTones, a wireless record label, announced its BarrioMobile brand designed to serve the urban Latin community. BarrioMobile will provide exclusive ringtones in popular Latin genres including reggaeton and hip-hop …

NEW YORK-Wireless and broadband Internet will account for a large portion of total spending growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to PricewaterhouseCooper’s “Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: …

SAN FRANCISCO-The Liberty Alliance standard group said it plans to develop specifications that would withhold users’ phone numbers from wireless content providers. The group said its new interface specifications would …

Faced with increasingly crowded shelf space on carrier decks, content providers are gaining traction by marketing directly to U.S. consumers with Web-based storefronts of their own. And carriers are slowly …

My niece was caught in a rainstorm last week while at an out-of-town cheerleading camp. The torrential rain soaked her to the skin and drowned the wireless handset in her …

NEW YORK-Wireless and broadband Internet will account for a large portion of total spending growth in the global entertainment and media industry, according to PricewaterhouseCooper’s “Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: …

SAN DIEGO-Mobile virtual network operator Amp’d Mobile Inc., which is set to launch a youth-oriented service using Verizon Wireless’ CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network later this year, selected M7 Networks to …

SAN DIEGO-Macromedia will distribute Flash-based applications for BREW-enabled wireless handsets under an agreement announced Friday at Qualcomm’s 2005 BREW Conference. The San Francisco-based developer said it has signed on as …

ATLANTA and NEW YORK-Cingular Wireless has added Gwen Stefani to its portfolio, offering several new ringtones including a 30-second master tone from the singer’s hit “Hollaback Girl.” The carrier will …

Mobile virtual network operator Amp’d Mobile Inc., which is set to launch a youth-oriented service using Verizon Wireless’ CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network later this year, selected M7 Networks to create …