ISTANBUL, Turkey-Following a similar announcement from its rival Tuesday, Motorola Inc. Wednesday announced a contract to deliver Push to Talk over Cellular equipment to Turkcell, Turkey's leading GSM operator. Motorola said Turkcell's PoC service is available to subscribers using its V400p handsets. "We predict...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corp. said it plans to launch a fixed short message service early this year. Telstra has a branded SMS-capable phone on sale in Australia for the service, it said. "Next year's launch of fixed SMS is set to revolutionize the way Australians...
Forget interactive video, mobile bar-code scanning phones and music-recognition programs. When it comes to mobile marketing, it's still all about text messaging. The coming wave of high-tech mobile applications has marketers salivating, to be sure. But if you're looking to get your product or...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corp. said it plans to launch a fixed short message service early next year. Telstra has a branded SMS-capable phone on sale in Australia for the service, it said. "Next year's launch of fixed SMS is set to revolutionize the way Australians...
ZURICH, Switzerland-Loyalty Gate Ltd. announced Swiss and SN Brussels Airlines have added a new wireless component to their frequent-flyer programs.The SMS Gift Miles program, developed by Loyalty Gate and its technology partner Wirelesspark, allows members of the Swiss TravelClub and Privilege frequent-flyer programs to...
BOSTON-Mobile applications developer Interspot released its InterSMS technology, which allows users to create their own short message service mobile marketing campaigns or instantly communicate via text messaging."With the introduction of InterSMS we are thrilled to be empowering companies of all sizes to harness the...
Recurrent Software Solutions Inc. introduced its VersaBill automated bill formatting system. The product allows companies to streamline their electronic billing in a format that meets their specifications, said the company. Once the electronic format is established, VersaBill creates code to parse the format for...
It's no mystery why so many content and messaging providers are working so hard to pry the lid off the booming Chinese wireless data market. The question is how to do it. According to statistics released by China's Ministry of Information Industry last week,...
SEATTLE-Developer Tegic Communications launched the latest version of its popular predictive text software for mobile devices this week. Tegic unveilled T9 7.2, an embedded program designed to make messaging more efficient for short message service users. The multi-lingual software predicts the words text messagers...
WaveMarket Inc. plans to launch a new location-based social application this week, unveiling the industry's latest effort to prod users to create social networks through wireless networks. Dubbed "Crunkie," the product combines the community-creating features of Internet-based services like Friendster and Meetup.com with location-based...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission that integrating wireless technology into the nation's outdated Emergency Alert System could be more difficult than expected and warned policy-makers that scrapping the current regime would be unwise. CTIA-The Wireless Association said policy-makers should proceed cautiously...
SAN FRANCISCO-The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watchers say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working...
While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided a platform for the launch of several new wireless handsets. Audiovox Communications Corp. led...
The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watcher say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States.The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working Group Friday...
SAN FRANCISCO-Football fans can get short message service updates on their handsets via a new offering from ILoop Mobile Inc.National Football League followers can register for final game scores, quarterly updates on post-season matchups, and weekly injury and insider notes throughout the season by...
NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. launched its iobi Home service in New York City allowing Verizon residential customers to control home phone calls, home voice mail, call lists, directories and calendars from any Web-enabled personal computer or by telephone using a voice-recognition portal. Verizon also...
Google has launched a beta test of a service that allows mobile users to access the Google database from handsets using short message service. Google SMS delivers local business and residential listings via Google Local and price comparisons through Froogle.com. Users also can access...
Depending on your perspective, mobile instant messaging either has taken off like a rocket or is still idling on the launching pad. Like many other applications, IM has been a hot topic in wireless circles for years. And as with many of those other...
Google has launched a beta test of a new service that allows mobile users to access its database from their handsets using short message service. Google SMS, which debuted Thursday, delivers localized business and residential listings via Google Local and price comparisons through Froogle.com....
PARIS-XandMail announced its SMS Access Solution is now available.The carrier-grade solution provides access to personal data, including mail, address book, calendar and photos, from any mobile phone using short message service commands, said the company. The solution is composed of an SMSC Connector that...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Internet Protocol networking vendor UTStarcom launched a service allowing Chinese wireless users to send and receive text messages between carriers, the company announced Monday, furthering the competition between the country's pure mobile carriers and limited mobility providers.The new offering allows Personal Access System...
WASHINGTON-As the Bush administration weathers criticism from Democrats over delays in modernizing the nation's emergency warning system and insists help is on the way, a small GSM carrier in Wisconsin is poised to deploy technology capable of delivering the kind of real-time alerts to...
MONTREAL-Oz has secured $27.3 million in investment capital from VantagePoint Venture Partners, the Canadian mobile instant-messaging provider announced. Oz hopes to expand its presence in the European and Asian markets with the new capital and plans to move into other mobile messaging markets. The...
LA JOLLA, Calif.-Mobile entertainment publisher Dwango Wireless has tapped M7 Networks, a wireless platform hosting company, to deliver short message service "wake-up" functionality to Dwango games.M7's SMS will alert gamers to developments, including initiating a chat session during a game or re-starting a multi-player...
