Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Ecosystems found in nature can be easily destroyed when there is an imbalance. Business ecosystems tend to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Based on the shopping bags I saw this past holiday season, the smartphone industry is posed to...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone, Android. What's next? The public's taste in smartphones seems to change much like...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We've gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.Consumers have a new passion – their personal mobile devices. Whether it's a smartphone, laptop or netbook,...
Mobile marketing types like to talk about cool features like click-to-video, 2-D barcodes and interactive wireless scavenger hunts. But as the economy slows to a trickle and advertisers tighten their belts, 2009 is poised to become the year of SMS marketing.The recession has caused...
Sybase Inc. is looking to expand its m-commerce business with the acquisition of Germany's paybox solutions AG for an undisclosed sum.Paybox was founded 10 years ago and has gained traction in markets including Germany and Austria, where it spearheaded an effort to create operator-led,...
During Tuesday night's presidential election, millions of Americans used their handsets to communicate via text message.Between 7 p.m. and 12 a.m. EST, more than 1.2 billion text messages were sent across the country, according to Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase Inc.Ten minutes after...
Believe it or not, CEOs still tell their I.T. managers to let them use whatever device they fancy, regardless of company standards for security and device management. Works for Apple Inc., which may well have chosen that path to get its foot in the...
Mobile messaging services provider Sybase 365 said it won a deal with Australian stockbroker Bell Direct.Sybase will power Bell Direct's mobile share trading platform, which allows stockbrokers to trade shares by sending a text message. Sybase 365 acts as the gateway between Bell Direct's...
Nearly one-third of the major financial organizations worldwide are planning to launch mobile banking services within the next two years, according to a new survey commissioned by Sybase 365, a subsidiary of mobile messaging services company Sybase Inc.About two-thirds of banks consider mobile banking...
Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, "The MMS disconnect," (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the article has many inaccurate assumptions and misleading statements, and would like to clear the air about several points.MMS interoperability in...
Dear Editor,It is with great interest that we read the article, "The MMS disconnect," (RCR Wireless News, Aug. 13). Sybase 365 believes that the article has many inaccurate assumptions and misleading statements, and would like to clear the air about several points.MMS interoperability in...
Motorola Good Technology Group this week plans to take its first serious swipe at Research In Motion Ltd's dominance of the mobile e-mail space.The Motorola Inc. subsidiary is expected to unveil an upgraded version of its flagship product for road warriors and other high-end...
A Virginian jury ruled in favor of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. in the company's patent-infringement battle with Sybase Inc., awarding TCS a one-time payment of $12.1 million for past royalties. Sybase said it would appeal the verdict.The issue stems from TCS' patent No. 6,985,748, which...
DUBLIN, Calif.—Software developer Sybase Inc. will acquire wireless messaging company Mobile 365 in a deal valued at $400 million. Sybase, which provides large-scale database software and other cross-platform business applications, generated more than $800 million in sales last year. The firm will pay roughly...
Mobile advertising has come a long way since the early days of "American Idol." The hit show is credited with catalyzing text messaging in North America, generating more than 13 million messages during the 2004 season from fans voting via their mobile phones. Mobile...
BOSTON-The wireless enterprise market is expected to move to the mainstream this year, according to a new report from Strategy Analytics. The market is predicted to grow more than 20 percent this year to more than $22 billion in the North America, Western Europe...
Nokia Corp. is hoping to create a framework for Java-based developer tools with this week's expected announcement that it has joined Canada's Eclipse Foundation. Nokia said it will contribute software and developers to a new Eclipse project that seeks to create tooling support for...
Enterprise infrastructure company Sybase Inc. announced it will acquire wireless e-mail company Extended Systems Inc. in a cash deal worth $71.3 million. The move directly pits Sybase's wireless enterprise subsidiary, iAnywhere Solutions, against wireless e-mail vendors like Research In Motion Ltd. and Good Technology...
Shares of Sybase Inc. jumped more than 7 percent Thursday after the infrastructure provider and wireless software developer posted higher-than-expected second-quarter profits.The company said a 21-percent increase in its mobile business helped boost the company to a quarterly net profit of $15.9 million, or...
As the mobile-phone market continues to surpass all forecasts, there are multiple ways those phones end up in the hands of consumers. At the beginning of last year, industry observers expected handset makers to sell around 500 million phones worldwide in 2004. Instead the...
NEW ORLEANS-CellStar and Sybase entered a strategic partnership to incorporate Sybase's mFolio Content Services Solution into CellStar's existing wireless communications portfolio of products and services. CellStar said it will seamlessly provide the mFolio Content Services Solution to wireless carriers via a wide range of...
DUBLIN, Calif.-Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc. launched the latest version of AvantGo Tuesday, updating its free service that delivers Web content to smart phones and personal digital assistants.With the latest version, AvantGo subscribers can browse more than 1,200 Web "channels," including news, business...
