AT&T Mobility recently announced the launch of ShopAlerts, a voluntary opt-in service that provides mobile promotions, rewards and discounts to AT&T wireless subscribers on their phones when they are in close proximity to a participating store or brand. Subscribers who choose to participate will...
WILMINGTON, Del.-Mobile gaming and gambling company Zone4Play Inc. announced it has acquired a minority stake in MixTV, an Israeli outfit that integrates short message services with TV broadcasts. MixTV plans to launch a fixed-odds gambling application with the U.K. Poker Channel in mid-April, and...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Siemens AG said it is collaborating with Comverse Technology Inc. to provide GSM-R services like voice and short message services to leading Scandinavian railways in Norway and Finland.GSM-R is a wireless system adapted to specific railway needs, which include guard/conductor to driver communication,...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Siemens AG said it is collaborating with Comverse Technology Inc. to provide GSM-R services like voice and short message services to leading Scandinavian railways in Norway and Finland.GSM-R is a wireless system adapted to specific railway needs, which include guard/conductor to driver communication,...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it launched a color-screen version of its Danger Inc.-produced Sidekick device, as well as introduced new rate plans for the wireless voice and data device.The color Sidekick is scheduled to retail for $299, which is $100 more than the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-T-Mobile USA Inc. said it will launch a color-screen version of its Danger Inc.-produced Sidekick device June 6, as well as introduce new rate plans for the wireless voice and data device.The color Sidekick is scheduled to retail for $299, which is $100...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—In the event of a terror attack on London, the government said it is planning to swamp cell-phone users with short message services (SMSs) in the style of a high-tech air raid warning. According to a civil servant, the technology exists to...
MANILA, The Philippines-The Chairman of the House committee on transportation and communications of the Philippine Congress is reported to have said he will block any move to impose taxes on short message services (SMS), more popularly known among Filipinos as "text messaging." This came...
TOKYO—Cybird, a leading mobile content provider, announced that it tied up with China.com for content distribution services in China.Upon the contract, Moeasy, a subsidiary of China.com, will distribute fortune-telling content to mobile users in Beijing and Shanghai with charges. Cybird did not disclose the...
ROME—The market for messaging services continues to lead the development of the worldwide wireless data industry, as shown by several news announcements.First, the GSM Association released figures showing the massive and continuing success of short message services throughout the world. According to the group,...
BEIJING—Motorola Inc. said it has demonstrated the first high-speed audio and data call through a live, completely integrated end-to-end UMTS system in several locations in China."During the demonstrations, visitors were able to experience real-time videoconferences, play online games, enjoy high-speed Internet browsing, e-mail and...
ADDISON, Texas—Messaging provider CMG Wireless Data Solutions won a major contract to provide virtually all of Hutchison 3G's messaging products, from short message services to unified communications to multimedia messaging.U.K. carrier Hutchison will use CMG's unified communications products, its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre, its...
BEIJING—Nokia has partnered with Chinadotcom to launch a platform for short message services (SMS) and other wireless services such as ringing tone download, picture message download and operator logo."Owners of the Nokia 3330 and the new 3350 phones are able to select a range...
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands-KPN Mobile began tests of i-mode-like services with a small group of users on Dec. 20. The carrier said it will commercially launch the service in the second quarter of 2002. NEC will supply the first i-mode handsets to KPN users....
BEIJING, China-Amid slowing subscriber growth worldwide, China still shows a healthy increase in mobile-phone users. The country's two mobile-phone operators are each offering new services-one General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the other CDMA. Handset manufacturing is also soaring, with domestic suppliers narrowing the still...
DENVER, United States-With AT&T Wireless Services' announcement it will overlay its existing TDMA-based network with a GSM network supporting General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), the pressure is on other TDMA carriers, specifically the largest U.S.-based TDMA carrier Cingular Wireless, as to its future technology...
With AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s announcement that it will overlay its existing TDMA-based network with a GSM network supporting GPRS, the pressure is on other TDMA carriers, specifically the largest U.S.-based TDMA carrier Cingular Wireless, as to its future technology choice. Will the company...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Although cellular telephony client bases doubled last year in Uruguay and Paraguay, at this point it seems only Paraguay will be able to achieve this objective again in 2000.Uruguay's strong cellular growth has slowed during the year, with a lack of competition...
NEW ORLEANS-Glenayre Technologies Inc. introduced a two-way wireless communications module called @ctiveLink for the Visor handheld computer from Handspring Inc., the first ReFLEX-based two-way wireless data solution for a Palm operating system device.The module is designed to snap into the Springboard expansion slot on...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-A seasonal increase in demand caused by an influx of visitors is a familiar phenomenon to many cellular network operators. But the increased demand is rarely overwhelming and usually is spread out in both time and space. Not so in Saudi Arabia....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its first two products supporting the Wireless Application Protocol at the GSM Asia-Pacific Congress in Singapore.The products are the WAP Gateway and a WAP Service Developers' Kit for service and content providers.The WAP Gateway was created for Global System for...
Paging carriers and industry analysts alike believe one of the biggest struggles facing the industry is that it needs to change its image in the mind of the consumer.For years, paging carriers marketed themselves as a cheap communications tool. Today, they want to market...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $200 million framework agreement with Telecommunicaciones Movilnet in Venezuela to expand its wireless network using Time Division Multiple Access Interim-136 technology. Movilnet is the only operator in the country offering digital wireless services. The carrier already has introduced digital...
