SAN FRANCISCO—Telephia Inc. will acquire Mspect and add the company's short messaging service QoS monitoring capabilities to the Telephia Wireless Data Network and Application Performance (Wireless DNA Performance) service, which helps carriers measure and improve the speed and reliability of data services.Wireless DNA Performance...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Swedish cell-phone operator Telia plans to offer consumers a free three-month trial of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) in an attempt to reverse the ongoing negative image that the mobile Internet continues to attract. The company will be the first in Sweden...
TORONTO—In a major joint announcement, four of Canada's wireless carriers said they are joining forces in an effort to stimulate short messaging service (SMS) use by creating an interoperable messaging service.Under the deal, subscribers of Bell Mobility, Microcell Connexions, Rogers AT&T and Telus Mobility...
TAMPA, Fla.—China Unicom signed a contract with Telecommunication Services Inc. to provide CDMA international roaming services, allowing China Unicom customers to roam on a number of CDMA networks across the Asia Pacific region, North America and Latin America.TSI said it will provide clearinghouse services...
LONDON—AdreAct said Dunkin' Donuts Italy is using its technology for a wireless marketing campaign for its stores in Rome. The campaign is focused on outdoor wall ads located throughout the city from late October through the end of the year.AdreAct's mobile marketing solution deploys...
HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as Nokia, Ericsson, Benefon and Europolitan.In 1985, Nokia's main claim to fame was as one...
Audiovox CommunicationsAudiovox Communications introduced the Maestro, a Pocket PC that uses Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002 software. The product features 32 MB of SDRAM and 32 MB of Flash Rom and an Intel Strong ARM 206 MHz processor. It also includes built-in CFR...
STAMFORD, Conn.—SmartServ Online Inc. announced it will provide its SmartServQ wireless SMS application to a major wireless service provider in Hong Kong.SmartServQ provides subscribers with services including access to equity quotes, personalized alerts, customizable watch lists, and financial news for North America, Europe and...
WOBURN, Mass.—Boston Communication Group Inc. signed a contract with Dobson Cellular Systems to expand its Prepaid Wireless Service in Dobson's markets.BCGI said its prepaid offering includes nationwide roaming, a distribution technology replenishment program supporting 75,000 recharge locations, real-time rating, SMS billing, mobile commerce and...
LONDON—According to the GSM Association, about three-quarters of a billion short message service (SMS) messages are sent out every day, a soaring number for the simple wireless application."GSM Text is a global communications phenomena—but SMS has helped create a new global language," said Robert...
NIEUWEGEIN, The Netherlands—Philippino mobile operator Globe Telecom contracted with CMG Wireless Data Solutions for additional storage and a forwarding facility for its popular short message service (SMS).Globe's SMS volume reached more than 70 million messages each day in the first half of 2001, a...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The 20 million users of Hotmail e-mail services in Europe might shortly be able to receive their messages via short message service (SMS) following a deal between MIGway, a new joint venture between TDC Mobile International, a Denmark-based cell-phone operator, and CMG...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.—Two new studies show a huge market potential around the world for messaging services, and, according to Probe Research, U.S. wireless carriers are missing out."U.S. carriers could be leaving as much as $6 billion on the table each year by neglecting short...
WOODBURY, N.Y.—Enhanced messaging company Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced the sale of its Intelligent Short Message Service Center to two South American wireless carriers, news that comes just a day after Merrill Lynch downgraded its expectations for the company, sending Comverse's...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—In an effort to offer businesses a seamless messaging and billing service, MobileSys is adding TSI Telecommunication Services' short message service (SMS) manager technology to its data platform. The companies said the platform will allow business users to send SMS...
BEIJING—Twenty million of China's 123 million mobile-phone users regularly use short message service (SMS) to send each other text messages. China Mobile, the country's biggest operator, predicted that 10 billion messages will be sent this year.Sending an SMS is four times cheaper than a...
BEIJING—Moxze released a new interactive short message service (SMS) game for Chinese mobile users, hoping to tap into the potentially huge Chinese mobile market.Moxze's game, Sheiya, which means "Who is it?" in Mandarin, allows players to attack friends or strangers through SMS messages, thereby...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The 50 short message service (SMS) content channels being offered by the German cell-phone operator D2 Vodafone are being seen as the precursor for other service providers looking to encourage mobile data traffic use. The Yankee Group claimed that D2 is the...
BEIJING—Moxze Ltd. released a new interactive short message service game for Chinese mobile users, hoping to tap into the potentially huge Chinese mobile market.Moxze's game, Sheiya, which means "Who is it?" in Mandarin, allows players to attack friends or strangers through SMS messages, thereby...
TAMPA, Fla.—TSI Telecommunications Services announced Venezuelan wireless operator Movilnet has agreed to test the company's short messaging service (SMS) Message Manager Solution.TSI said the product provides SMS routing and interoperability translations between disparate networks.
PRAHA, Czech Republic—Eurotel Praha on 14 September began offering all of its Eurotel GSM banking customers access to bank services through a mobile telephone. New, more up-to-date and safer multibanking technology used by Eurotel GSM allows access to up to 10 various bank accounts,...
NEW DELHI—Saboori Communications launched SaMoSa, which it called the world wide web of short messaging service (SMS). It is the first user configurable SMS service with micro-billing support. The SaMoSa system will enable businesses and establishments to set up their own SMS service without...
They go by all sorts of names-clearinghouses, hubs and gateways-and they represent companies' attempts at nailing down the precise formula for a business model aimed at nurturing the wireless Internet marketplace. This business model, the companies say, will tear down the wall between carriers...
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...
