PLANO, Texas, United States—A new study shows short message service (SMS) chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming a mainstay among adults age 35 and over.The latest Mobinet study, which covered 2,400 mobile-phone users in...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California, United States—Walt Disney Internet Group today announced two major content distribution deals—moves that come just one week after the company announced a distribution agreement with Taiwan Cellular Corp.—proof Walt Disney is moving rapidly into the worldwide wireless Web industry.Walt Disney Internet...
PLANO, Texas—A new study shows short message service chatting, embraced by European youth as the new cool way to communicate, is now quickly becoming a mainstay among adults age 35 and over.The latest Mobinet study, which covered 2,400 mobile-phone users in six countries, was...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.-Walt Disney Internet Group today announced two major content distribution deals-moves that come just one week after the company announced a distribution agreement with Taiwan Cellular Corp.-proof Walt Disney is moving rapidly into the worldwide wireless Web industry.Today, Walt Disney Internet Group...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-For years, countries in Southeast Asia have achieved tremendous growth in cellular phone services. However, when economic turmoil hit the region in 1997, network buildout was deferred and even stopped in some countries due to plummeting local currencies. Although many operators in the...
BUCHAREST, Romania—GSM Kazakhstan announced that it has the largest mobile communications subscriber base in Kazakhstan with 330.000 subscribers. The company, operating under the brand name K'cell, is one of the largest investors in the field of telecommunications in Kazakhstan. At the end of 2000,...
NEIUWEGEIN, the Netherlands—TDC Mobile International and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced their plans to create a pan-European revenue-sharing WAP gateway, which the companies said will give content providers a simple, unified method to offer their services to Europe's 320 million mobile customers.The situation now,...
Advertisers, like everyone else, want the biggest bang for their buck.They want to reach as many people as possible without a lot of expense, and they want to get those people to see and understand their ad. Advertisers want to own the eyeballs of...
PLEASANTON, Calif.-FunMail Inc. said it will support the Picture Messaging format from Nokia Corp. within its wireless messaging system.Under the system, users could simply type a short message service message that would trigger the use of a Nokia Picture message that would be sent...
By The wireless application developer community is suffering, according to WirelessDeveloper.com President Konny Zsigo. "Fifty percent of the content developers have either left the space or gone out of business," he said. "You're going to have to be smarter now than before."The reason, he...
WOODBURY, New York, United States—Wireless technology is entering the home, as evidenced in Comverse's announcement that its interactive TV platform, which provides messaging and unified communications services for cable television, has been selected by Matav Digital, a cable television provider in Israel.Matav Digital said...
TABY, Sweden—Aspiro has agreed to deliver GlobalDining's mobile restaurant directory and reservation network to its customers throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.According to Aspiro, the agreement, which is subsidized entirely by participating restaurants, will for the first time provide it with a revenue...
SYDNEY, Australia—Telstra Mobile said it launched the first short message service (SMS) game in Australia. The game is based on the television program "Who Wants to be a Millionaire."Telstra said its customers send more than 70 million mobile messages a month. It plans to...
BEIJING—China's second-largest mobile operator, China Unicom, launched its Uni-Info wireless data service on 1 August. The carrier will charge customers a connection fee and will transfer a content fee to the service provider offering the content, such as China's top three portals Sina,...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—A year after initiating its operations outside the Buenos Aires metropolitan area (AMBA), Movicom BellSouth announced it has 200,000 new users in 10 cities of Argentina. Using its personal communications services (PCS) at 1900 MHz, the carrier is providing value-added services, such...
BUCHAREST, Romania—Slovenian mobile operator Mobitel announced the first Slovenian mobile payment service called Moneta. The system can be used for paying for contents on the Internet, as well as paying for services and products.Mobitel's subscribers register via their mobile telephone numbers and receive a...
Republic of GeorgiaMagticom said it has completed its first GPRS call within its wireless network in the Republic of Georgia with Motorola's end-to-end solution. Motorola said it hopes to launch the services commercially to Magticom's 140,000 mobile subscribers in the near future.PortugalL.M. Ericsson said...
DENVER-Instant messaging company Jabber Inc. and Antepo Inc., a mobile messaging provider, announced a partnership to bundle Antepo's short message service and WAP gateway components with Jabber's platform.
If GSM plus TDMA equals GAIT, some software providers want to ensure that the calculus makes sense.Last week, Schlumberger Sema and Sonera SmartTrust said they had received an order to provide a GAIT Over-The-Air solution for Cingular Wireless networks.GAIT, which stands for GSM/ANSI 136...
While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and other, more advanced wireless...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunication Systems Inc. announced the first customer for its Short Message Service Center and Wireless Internet Gateway products, which the company said allows text messages to be sent from any network to any network.Telecom Mobile Ltd., a New Zealand wireless operator, is in...
The bad news for Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. continues to mount following the filing of a second complaint by Ericsson Inc. against the mobile satellite communications provider, claiming Globalstar failed to buy the number of phones from Ericsson agreed to under contract.In May, Ericsson accused...
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-After all the publicity, time and money spent obtaining third-generation (3G) licenses, European mobile operators are keeping plans strictly to themselves about what mobile applications they might launch to take advantage of this spectrum.This reluctance to discuss what innovative applications are being...
