Long-distance carrier Elephant Talk Communications Inc. announced it purchased Chinese wireless messaging company General System Technology Ltd., known as WestSMS. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."SMS is the most exciting and cost-effective direct marketing and advertising method available to business. It can be...
SEATTLE-Venture capital firm eFund L.L.C. announced the launch of its new Mobilopia wireless marketing company, which is the result of a merger among Mynamics Inc., eFund's portfolio companies Txt Talk and Knowledge Point Solutions, and privately held BoomerangBack L.L.C."Mobilopia's mission is to use state-of-the-art...
With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb and flow of multimedia traffic.Its platform, known as GX-MMS, will serve not only as...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Messaging company InphoMatch Inc. announced it delivered almost 2 billion text messages in the first quarter, up from 650 million messages in the first quarter of last year. The company said it delivered more than 4 billion intercarrier short message service messages last...
OBERHAUSEN, Germany-Killer marketing concepts, not killer applications, will help mobile operators reach potential mobile content customers, according to a new report from multimedia messaging company conVisual and consulting company ISI.According to the report, 300 billion SMS messages were sent in 2002, and 450 billion...
ATLANTA-Wireless application and technology company Air2Web announced it acquired European wireless software company Wokup SA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are very excited about the merger with Wokup," said Sanjoy Malik, Air2Web's president and chief executive officer. "Air2Web is already providing significant...
ATLANTA-Wireless application and technology company Air2Web announced it acquired European wireless software company Wokup SA. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."We are very excited about the merger with Wokup," said Sanjoy Malik, Air2Web's president and chief executive officer. "Air2Web is already providing significant...
COLOGNE, Germany-T-Mobile said it will offer a voice-driven "infotainment" portal for its German subscribers through a new deal with Net Mobile AG and VoiceObjects AG. The service combines the playback of real voice recordings with appropriate background noises together with SMS and MMS messaging...
Are state legislatures beginning to over-legislate? It seems when states are not busy addressing hands-free legislation, they are trying their collective hands at laws that restrict the types of pictures people can take with camera phones. I'm not necessarily against this type of legislation,...
COLOGNE, Germany-T-Mobile said it will offer a voice-driven "infotainment" portal for its German subscribers through a new deal with Net Mobile AG and VoiceObjects AG. The service combines the playback of real voice recordings with appropriate background noises together with SMS and MMS messaging...
Wireless technology took its place in the election process last week.I am not referring to Motorola's Rock the Vote Mobile campaign either.Still worth noting, Rock the Vote Mobile aims to use wireless technology to raise young adult involvement in the election, by polling views...
LOS ANGELES-Rock the Vote, a non-profit, non-partisan group aimed at engaging young adults in the political process, and Motorola Inc. will launch Rock the Mobile Vote today, in conjunction with Super Tuesday. Through the program, young adults will be polled on their views on...
CANNES, France-Thanks to Comverse Technology Inc., the interoperability gap between GSM and CDMA may soon become history.At this week's 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, the company, using its Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), demonstrated multimedia-messaging interoperability between both wireless networks. "This demonstration marks...
PARIS-European mobile operators are set to enjoy a revenue increase of 7.5 percent this year and annual growth of 6.6 percent until 2006, according to a new report from consulting firm Arthur D. Little and independent brokerage firm Exane. The majority of the growth...
VACOUVER, B.C.-Yangtze Telecom Corp. said China Mobile Communications Corp. has authorized it to offer SMS services nationwide to China Mobile's 180 million subscribers. Yangtze already offers SMS services to China United Telecommunications Corp.'s (China Unicom) 90 million subscribers. In order to get authorization from...
OBERHAUSEN, Germany and LONDON-Two wireless carriers in Thailand made enhancements to their messaging services.German messaging company ConVisual said Thailand's largest mobile operator AIS has launched its VisualTXT mobile messaging service, which turns short messaging service messages into graphics and animations with sound.AIS launched the...
Although mobile-phone marketing is relatively new in the United States, a new survey of more than 400 marketers reports that a majority already highly rate its potential as a marketing medium. Forty-six percent of those polled rate the viability of mobile phones for marketing...
LONDON-U.K.-based wireless messaging company mBlox announced it acquired Swapcom SMS, the French text messaging transmission business of Swapcom. MBlox said the move will help it gain a foothold in the French market, and that it will continue to support the Swapcom short messaging service...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
MEXICO CITY-Mexican mobile operator Grupo Iusacell said its customers can now send short message service messages to rival operators Telecel's and Unefon's handsets in the United States, Canada and Peru. Iusacell said subscribers of its SMS service, called ReK2, can send text messages to...
MUNICH-Women, as well as men, are optimistic about the future of UMTS, according to the results of a survey conducted by Siemens AG of 3,000 consumers in Germany, France and Great Britain.The survey showed an equal number of men and women currently own mobile...
SEATTLE-Mobile application company Mobliss announced two new marketing campaigns around its mobile services. Fox Broadcasting Co. will offer premium SMS and downloadable services called "Joe 2 Go" that promote its new TV show "The Next Jo Millionaire: An International Affair." Depending on carriers and...
SEATTLE-Mobile application company Mobliss announced two new marketing campaigns around its premium short message service and downloadable mobile services. Fox Broadcasting Co. will offer premium SMS and downloadable services called "Joe 2 Go" that promote its new TV show "The Next Jo Millionaire: An...
LAS VEGAS-Digit Wireless said its Fastap technology was used by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association at its keynote session at the I.T. show in Las Vegas.The company said CTIA Chief Executive Officer Tom Wheeler used a Panasonic GD87 demonstration model with the Fastap...
