CHICAGO-Dobson Cellular Systems Inc. said it has tapped VeriSign Inc. to provide content and messaging interoperability services for the carrier's 1.6 million subscribers.VeriSign will offer its library of more than 50,000 ringtones, images, games and community services under the deal, and will supply interoperability...
SEATTLE-Multimedia messaging service activity continued to grow at an impressive clip in April, with nearly 8 percent of U.S. wireless users sending photos from their handsets to another phone or e-mail address, according to mobile usage measurement firm M:Metrics.The latest figures from the company's...
SAN DIEGO-Rural carrier Eloqui Wireless plans to offer One Voice Technologies Inc.'s MobileVoice service to its customers, according to a multiyear agreement the two companies signed. The MobileVoice service incorporates One Voice's voice technology to provide group conference calling, reading and sending e-mail, and...
WASHINGTON-South Korea's National Emergency Management Agency said it will expand cell-broadcast disaster alerts to cover the whole country.NEMA said the initiative has enabled mobile-phone subscribers to get information on typhoons, tsunami and other disasters on a real-time basis with the support of wireless carriers...
Twentieth Century Fox Television (TCFTV) unveiled a new division to create and distribute content exclusively for wireless devices. Fox Mobile Entertainment will expand on the network's efforts to bring content from its TV shows to wireless devices. The network already has distributed 100 one-minute...
"The Spot" hopes to celebrate its first birthday by going even more high-tech. A weekly Web-based program that combines elements of both a soap opera and a reality show, "The Spot" complements its program daily with brief slide-show broadcasts to wireless handsets that allow...
IRVINE, Calif.-AnyDATA Corp. said its DTG2000 CDMA module has been approved for use on Verizon Wireless' network. Features of the DTG2000 include GPSONE, Mobile IP/Static IP, a functional internal TCP/IP stack and a small footprint. The company said the module can transmit and receive...
Taking advantage of new technologies, peer-to-peer companies, otherwise known as dotcoms, are porting services to wireless subscribers without operator consent. Through handsets, personal digital assistants, laptops and other mobile devices, end users can enjoy services such as music downloads and file sharing, video on...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-The Pacific Newspaper Group Inc. is using wireless marketing in an effort to drum up readership and revenues for The Province Newspaper.The media group is publishing a weekly "Mobile On Demand" page with games, prizes, coupons and free content that can be...
LAS VEGAS-One Voice Technologies Inc. said Rural Cellular Corp. will test its MobileVoice service. The MobileVoice service includes voice dialing, group conference calling, reading and sending e-mails, voice-to-text short message service messaging and voice-driven phone book applications, said One Voice.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Suntel Ltd. have signed a sole supplier agreement for a turnkey islandwide CDMA2000 1x network for voice and data services in Sri Lanka. Under the agreement, Ericsson will provide its CDMA2000 1x network solution, including core and radio; value-added applications,...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless together with Telescope Inc. announced a new premium short message service chat function for fans of the television show "American Idol." The companies are offering two chat services during this season of "American Idol." The first, Idol Chat, allows fans of the...
MIAMI-Motorola Inc. released a trio of new phones featuring digital music players, although the company's long-anticipated iTunes-capable device was not in attendance. Motorola executives have said the company will unveil its iTunes phone in the first half of this year, shortly before it is...
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-Orion Information Services and Agito Systems ApS announced plans to collaborate on a location-based marketing application.The companies said they will focus on specific events and locations, such as night clubs, bars and sporting events, for location-based marketing and guerilla marketing campaigns.According to...
Motorola Inc. released a trio of new phones featuring digital music players, although the company's long-anticipated iTunes-capable device was not in attendance.Motorola executives have said the company will unveil its iTunes phone in the first half of this year, shortly before it is commercially...
TORONTO-Canadians sent more than 710 million person-to-person text messages from their mobile phones in 2004, up from 352 million during the previous year, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The group said Canadian text messaging volumes reached 95.5 million, or more than 3.4...
DALLAS-Quick, a daily news and entertainment tabloid produced by The Dallas Morning News, partnered with Chevrolet on a short message service contest aimed at reaching younger adults.The contest, which ran from Feb. 16 through March 2, garnered 5,541 entries to win a 2005 Chevy...
Sprint PCS' bundled voice plans topped Analysys Research's list of the world's top 10 wireless services based on its ability to produce unmatched levels of voice usage and twice the voice average revenue per user achieved by operators in Western Europe. Analysys Research said...
ATLANTA-This year's "American Idol" text-message voting will likely surpass last year's groundbreaking campaign, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s 49 million subscribers can take part in the short message service offering for the first time. Last year's marketing effort, which allowed AT&T Wireless Services Inc. subscribers...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. has rolled out a movie-search service for wireless subscribers, allowing users to access showtimes and theater locations and phone numbers via handsets. The offering expands on the Internet portal's local short message service search service, which was launched late last...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Google Inc. has rolled out a movie-search service for wireless subscribers, allowing users to access show times and theater locations and phone numbers through their handsets. The offering expands on the Internet portal's local short message service search service, which was launched...
ATLANTA-This year's "American Idol" text-message voting will likely surpass last year's groundbreaking campaign, as Cingular Wireless' 49 million subscribers can take part in the short message service offering for the first time.Last year's marketing effort, which allowed AT&T Wireless Services subscribers to vote for...
FAREHAM, United Kingdom-Jeff Wilson, chairman of text and voice infrastructure developer Telsis, said he expects text-messaging volume and revenues will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.Wilson said industry observers who are predicting a fall-off in texting volumes are ignoring six growth drivers: favorable...
WASHINGTON-Global Resource Enterprises L.L.C. and British company Eazytext Communications Ltd. will market a wireless emergency alert solution in the United States and Middle East. Global Resource Enterprises said next month representatives of Eazytext-which developed the city alert text system (C.A.T.S.) with the help of...
